MoneyNeverSleeps

By Pete Townsend | GP at Norio VenturesTechnology

MoneyNeverSleeps episodes

May 30, 2019048: The Juggler | Paul Nunan and Entrepreneurial Tendencies
Paul Nunan from Link Asset Services joins us on the show to talk about entrepreneurial tendencies...and his love of juggling!
Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment

Link Asset Services is part of Link Group's Asset Services division and works in partnership internationally with almost 7,000 clients including asset managers and investors, business managers, asset owners, trustees, issuers and borrowers.Â We provide the infrastructure through which assets are secured or deployed in both regulated and unregulated markets.

The 3,000+ members of our team deliver over 70 closely aligned services, helping capital flow through the financial markets by processing £45bn of payments annually; and protecting and safeguarding more than £600bn held in funds, entities and other instruments. We build longstanding relationships and our clients rely on us to provide robust and agile technology, combined with relevant, accurate and timely industry knowledge and expertise.

We have partnered with some clients for generations; and the average tenure of our relationship management team often exceeds ten years. We are excited by the challenge and opportunity of helping our clients flourish as market dynamics play out; shifting regulatory frameworks, the search for investment alpha, the digitisation of the customer interface, the infrastructure funding shortfall, the pensions 'time-bomb' ¦and of course the socio-economic implications of Brexit and the broader geopolitical landscape.

Our unique proposition enables us to connect the different aspects of the capital and financial markets and how they interact, helping enable businesses, individuals and institutions to fulfil their roles and objectives. Furthermore, our consultative client centric approach means we deliver tailored solutions. We help our clients to:
Create sustainable returns by increasing end-to-end efficiency leading to less value leakage, faster speed to market and ultimately enhanced IRR

Effectively manage financial resources by reducing administrative burdens, giving them more time to focus on value adding activity

Mitigate market, regulatory, competitive and operational risks by applying compliance, legal, governance, audit and processing best practices, and safeguarding assets

Improve decision-making and navigate the markets by providing access to our expertise and resources, helping them to achieve their business goals and investment strategies.
26 min
May 24, 2019 047: Book Of Rhymes | Matthew Le Merle and Angel Investing
Matthew Le Merle joins us on the show to talk about angel investing, venture investing and why he's written a few books!

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment

Matthew Le Merle is a superangel investor, board director, author, and advisor to leading companies including Alphabet, Google, PayPal, Shanshan and Talkweb. He is managing partner at Fifth Era and Keiretsu Capital based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has penned several books with his co-author and wife Allison Davis. Check them out here on Amazon.com.

Matthew Le Merle is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era (www.fifthera.com) and of Keiretsu Capital - the most active early stage venture investors backing almost 200 companies a year. He is also Chairman of Linqto, Securitize (Europe) and CAH and an advisor at Warburg Pincus.

Matthew is an expert on corporate growth, innovation and business transformations having advised leading companies including Amazon, Cisco, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, PayPal and many others on growth and innovation-related issues. Matthew is also an expert in economic value creation including revenue, cost and capital productivity programs – for example he drove annual savings of over $2 billion at a leading retailer and $1 billion at a leading bank.

Matthew’s career has spanned being a global strategy advisor, professional services firm leader, corporate operating executive, private equity and venture capital investor, and board director. His board work has included Chairman or Non-Executive Director roles in 15 companies and active Advisory Board roles in a further 10. Matthew’s board experience includes a broad range of industries including Business Services, Consumer and Retail, Digital Content, eCommerce, and Fintech.

Matthew has advised sovereign and regional economic entities on issues of innovation, entrepreneurialism and cluster growth. Clients have covered the globe from China, the EU, and the UK to the US including in his home state of California and the Bay Area/Silicon Valley.

Earlier in his career, Matthew spent 21 years as a strategy, operations and corporate finance advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, boards and executive teams with McKinsey & Company, and as a practice leader with A.T. Kearney and Monitor Group where he led both firms’ West Coast practices and at Booz & Company. He was also a corporate executive at Gap Inc. where he was SVP strategy and corporate development and SVP global marketing.

Matthew is an adjunct professor at Singularity University, bestselling author (Blockchain Competitive Advantage, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era, Build your Fortune in the Fifth Era and Second Chance) and keynote speaker. He received a B.A. (Double First) and Master’s from Christ Church, Oxford, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was born in London, UK, and is now a dual US/UK citizen and lives in San Francisco and London, UK with his wife, Alison Davis. They have five adult children.

For more information go to www.matthewlemerle.com
48 min
May 16, 2019 046: Golf Boys | Dean Klatt and Seed Golf
Dean Klatt, founder and CEO of Irish startup Seed Golf joins us on the show to discuss building the next great golf brand from Ireland.
Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment

Dean Klatt is the Founder and CEO of Seed Golf.

Seed Golf Balls - Precision engineered tour-grade golf balls are usually expensive. Seed delivers tour-grade performance at a fraction of the normal cost.

Cheap, not nasty. Look, we’re all going to lose a few balls out there, but it doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice performance or use a secondhand ball to save money. The Seed SD-01 costs 50% less than the comparable market leader without compromising performance so you can play your game.

How is that possible?
We ship direct from the factory to you cutting out 2-3 layers of cost, we don’t pay million-dollar tour pro endorsement contracts and we haven’t spent our R & D money on a large range of golf balls models – just the best performing in each key category.

Our balls are really, really tricky. Premium, professional-quality golf balls are really difficult to make. Our products are developed by a small team of young designers and experienced engineers.

We are obsessed with performance and will make every effort to provide the best possible value for our customers, within an advanced design concept. Rather than offering ten different golf ball models, we focus on the best model for each performance category. This leads to significant cost savings in the development as well as in the production process.

Our design process focused heavily around aerodynamic performance (fluid dynamics more specifically) particularly Magnus and aerodynamic force and the subsequent effects on lift and drag. For a golfer, this is translated into three important performance criteria – launch angle/ball speed, distance and spin/feel. To achieve our performance aims we worked within four key design elements – Core, Mantle, Cover and Dimple Pattern.
34 min
May 10, 2019 045: Connect (v2) | Mihai Alisie and the AKASHA Foundation
The second part of our interview with Mihai Alisie of AKASHA Foundation as he talks about future plans and his skill at poker!
Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment

Mihai Alisie is the founder of the AKASHA Foundation, a non-profit born at the intersection of blockchain and collective intelligence.
We believe that humans are not problems waiting to be solved, but potential waiting to unfold.
This is why we nurture projects helping individuals amplify their potential through open systems that expand our collective minds at local, regional and global scales. If this fires your synapses, we unpack it below and describe the behaviors we’ve adopted for the journey.
46 min
May 02, 2019 044: Connect | Mihai Alisie at the Dublin Tech Summit 2019
Mihai Alisie, Founder of the AKASHA Foundation, joins Pete Townsend on stage at Dublin Tech Summit to talk about collected vs collective intelligence, blockchain and humanity.
Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment

Mihai Alisie is the founder of the AKASHA Foundation, a non-profit born at the intersection of blockchain and collective intelligence.
We believe that humans are not problems waiting to be solved, but potential waiting to unfold.
This is why we nurture projects helping individuals amplify their potential through open systems that expand our collective minds at local, regional and global scales. If this fires your synapses, we unpack it below and describe the behaviors we’ve adopted for the journey.
25 min
April 25, 2019 043: Somebody to Love | Dan Calvert at the Dublin Tech Summit 2019
Dan Calvert, Head of Partnerships at N26, joins us on stage at Dublin Tech Summit to talk about building a bank that everyone loves!
Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment

Dan Calvert is Head of Partnerships at N26

The N26 history

2013 - N26 was founded in 2013 by Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal—reimagining the retail banking experience for today’s mobile lifestyle.

2015 - Since the initial product launch in 2015, over 2.5 Million customers across 24 European markets have signed up for N26—with plans to enter the US in 2019.
2018 - The firm has raised a total of USD 215 million from some of the world’s most well-known investors, including Allianz X, Tencent Holdings Limited, Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures, Valar Ventures, members of the Zalando Management Team, and Earlybird Venture Capital. N26 employs more than 1000 people and has offices in Berlin, New York and Barcelona.
2019 - N26 announces its $300 million Series D funding led by Insight Venture Partners. The round also includes participation from GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and existing investors.
27 min
April 17, 2019 042: Big Bank | Sean Faughnan and The Stealth Startup
Sean Faughnan joins us on the show to discuss his stealth mode start-up, history, Hollywood, politics...and owning a castle!
Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment

Sean Faughnan is CEO for 'Project Salmon', a start-up aiming to become the WeChat of Europe.

Sean brings us on a journey through his career, from a PhD in History in Cambridge through investment banking, writing and directing his own movie, and his role as a senior political strategist for the Irish Government.
46 min
April 11, 2019 041: Racing Stripes | Andrea Reynolds and Swoop
Andrea Reynolds from Swoop joins us on the show to talk about her journey as an entrepreneur, pitching in Downing Street...and her love of Formula 1!
Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment

Andrea Reynolds is founder and CEO of Swoop

About Swoop
We've set up Swoop to help businesses successfully answer the question, "Where do I get access to funding?"

With Swoop, we want to help businesses demystify this problem by showing them the broad funding landscape that currently exists across the UK and Ireland. Through a combination of our funding experience, our matching technology and our 1,000+ providers, we can assess your needs quickly and match you to the right funding solution.

Apply for Financing in One Fell Swoop
We are acutely aware that it takes time to find and apply for all these funding options, so that's where we'll come in to save you the time and hassle.

Swoop's platform only requires you to fill in one super form in a few minutes and we'll be able to assess and match you to providers instantly. Not only that but as your information changes and the market changes, we'll be able to update you in real time with funding solutions that start to appear that best suit your business needs.

Being apart of your funding journey
At Swoop, don't look at us as just a platform. Our team of funding experts have been in your shoes and have been apart of thousands of funding journeys over the years. Pop over to our Team page and drop us a line if you need any help and assistance getting your applications together or advice on what the right path for your business should be.

39 min
March 28, 2019 040: Regulate | Meredith Moss and Finomial
Meredith Moss from Finomial joins us on the show to talk all things RegTech, to share her journey as an entrepreneur...and her love of composting!
Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment

Meredith Moss is founder & CEO of Finomial

Finomial is the leading global Client Lifecycle Compliance platform.

Finomial automates investor servicing from end to end, Finomial is transforming the buy side investment process by automating the manual hedge fund subscription process between investor, fund manager and administrator.
Finomial solves the challenges of data, documents, and forms that impede effective client onboarding, while ensuring rigorous compliance with regulations and delivering transparency.
Finomial’s Client Lifecycle Compliance Platform provides automation and end-to-end workflows that streamlines processes to enable collaboration with managers and investors, helping to deliver a compliant and optimized investor experience that accelerates revenue, all within an integrated, scalable software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.
32 min
March 21, 2019 039: Ultimate Rush | Simon Cocking and Irish Tech News
Simon Cocking from Irish Tech News joins us to talk all things technology...and his love of Ultimate!
Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment

Simon Cocking is Chief Editor for Irish Tech News.

Irish Tech News is an award-winning online publication aimed at keeping you informed of all the latest news from the world of Technology. With the main focus on Irish-based news, we cover a wide range of topics from social media and smartphones to start-ups and SMEs.

Now ten strong, we have assembled a talented team of writers, each experts in their own fields, helping us to cover as diverse a range as possible without losing focus or quality.

At the beginning of 2014, we launched a new Business Showcase section on our site which features all sizes of companies, helping them gain exposure while introducing them to new customers and markets. Feedback has been excellent and there have been some great success stories from the 500+ companies since they’ve been featured.

In October ’14, Irish Tech News won “Best Science and Technology” website at the 2014 Web Awards and we also won Silver in the “Digital and Tech” category at the 2015 Blog Awards and Gold at the 2016 Awards!

Irish Tech News is also the Number 1 ranked Technology News site in Ireland according to the latest Alexa rankings.
32 min

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