Relevant Founders

A first for the Relevant Founders Podcast: an episode featuring two guest speakers and friends of Relevant Software, Jessica and Nicole of 55th Degree, creators of the upcoming app FISK.

Jessica Dawson, CEO of 55th Degree, and Nicole Powers, COO of 55th Degree, shared with us: - the challenges of breaking into the fintech world - the transition from friends to business partners - what it's like to work with Ukrainians.

Our next guest is Eric Simone, CEO, and co-founder of enterprise IoT software company ClearBlade, and he has all the details. We had a great conversation with Eric on the Relevant Founders Podcast about his winding path to success and why ClearBlade is at the top of what they do.

This time we spoke with Martin Sokk, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightyear, about why the company is truly taking off.  Lightyear combines multi-currency accounts with unlimited access to global markets, allowing customers to invest freely and without hidden fees.  

We discuss: 

The MVP of Lightyear The difficulties of expanding at an impressively exponential rate 

The technical challenges of expanding into Europe for an investing platform, as well as how each country presents its own set of challenges and opportunities 

And Lightyear's funding success formula.

On Relevant founders, Eric Satz, Founder and CEO of Alto Solutions, joins us to discuss Alto's mission to unlock alternative assets for all. We speak about the importance of hiring and how each stage of the process comes with its own set of challenges you must be prepared for, the largest tech issue Alto has encountered due to those crafty hackers, and why they say no to outsourcing—topped off with Eric's greatest advice for other founders out there.

Leroy Lawrence, CEO at Quadron Capital & founder of Pigee - a Revolutionary app for traveling shopaholics. Listen to this episode to find out:  - Behind the story of Pigee, and how you should never imagine you're the only one doing what you're doing;  

- Competitors can enter the market at any time, what you should do;  

- Advice on investing, how you often need 30% more money than you originally realize, and the power of self-study.

Cecilia Tamez, Chief Strategy Officer at Euronet's Money Segment, is our next guest on Relevant Founders In this episode of Relevant Founders, we discuss Dandelion, which Cecilia describes as the world's most extensive real-time course payment money system. We touch on how COVID has forced incredible amounts of innovation, how startups will fail if they are creating, not solving problems.   And how competition is giving way to 'co-opetition' with companies realizing they don't have to build everything themselves. Learn from Cecilia and take a listen to her Fintech journey.

In this episode of Relevant Founders, Fatima Zaidi discusses all things Quill & CoHost, how podcasting is a recession-proof industry, how hiring for technical skill sets has been the most difficult challenge in her founder's journey, work-life balance, and the unconscious biases against men in the tech world, and much more.

Eric Solis, CEO and Full Stack Entrepreneur of MOVOcash, a financial services company specializing in P2P Payments, Mobile Banking, Fintech, and Finserv, is the latest guest to join us on Relevant Founders. After many twists and turns, Eric believes MOVOcash is on the right track, on the 'lean, mean good stuff' building a product that is changing the lives of millions, but there is still much to be done.

Brian Spector, CTO, and Co-founder of Qredo have been involved in what he calls a 'little dark art of mathematics' known as cryptography since his high school day, which led him to help establish Qredo, a cybersecurity company that provides a platform for decentralized custody of digital assets.

Today we sit down with LaKeisha Turner. Co-founder & CTO/VP of Engineering at AlgoPear. AlgoPear is a marketplace that connects everyday financial investors to AI technology. Its mission is to empower retail investors and help them beat the market on automation.