Scaling Enterprise FinTech— in Europe & beyond. Insights on nailing go-to-market, sales, internationalisation and fund-raising from the founders, investors and financial institutions behind Europe’s leading Enterprise FinTech scaleups.
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I am Italian, I studied in a French Business School and I live in London since 2017. I was previously working in Investment Banking at Citi covering […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. I am Teo Blidarus, CEO and co-founder of FintechOS. We allow banks and insurers to create customer-centric digital financial products and services using our digital on top and lean core […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Family man and proud member of the venture building team at FIS to create new compelling businesses that improve our customers way to transact, pay and invest […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. In 2015 me, Mikael Eliasson, Emma Rozada and Joel Rozada founded Bokio. Since then, our AI-powered bookkeeping and accounting software has grown rapidly. We’ve expanded to the UK and our […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. I am the Chief Growth Officer of Billon – the fintech scaleup which created the Unified Enterprise DLT System. What makes Billon special is that it saw weaknesses in the […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. I was born and grew up in South Africa to a German household. I started my first company when I was 16, selling computer hardware, and went on to study […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company I have a bit of an unusual background, having been born on a piece of tin in the jungle of Papua New Guinea. Respect to my mother, who is an […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. I grew up in Germany and started working for Deutsche Bank after finishing school in 1988. Soon after I joined banking, I developed an interest in transaction banking and payments […]
Mark Watters, CCO & Co-Founder (LEFT) Dinos Daborn, COO & Co-Founder (RIGHT) This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. We, Mark and Dinos, met when we worked together at Bloomberg in London. Later we got in contact […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. Sandipan is the founder and CEO of SONECT that introduces sharing economy in cash logistics. After spending 12 years at Credit Suisse as a Senior Program Manager and delivering some […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. Zelros is a software editor specialized in artificial intelligence for the insurance industry. After working at AXA Data Innovation Lab and Datarobot I cofounded Zelros together with Damien Philippon and […]
Interviewed by FinTech Forum Co Founder Frank Schwab. Elevator Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital Entity of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI). Its primary focus is on early stage and growth investments in fintechs and related enabling technologies in Central and Eastern Europe.
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. A year since the first lockdowns- is this is a good time to be building or scaling an Enterprise FinTech (/ InsurTech) firm in Europe? Yes. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalization throughout industries by a couple of years. This […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. At the age of 17 I founded my first company – reBuy.com. Today, Germany ́s leading re-commerce platform employing over 500 great people and exceeding $ 200 million in annual […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. A year since the first lockdowns- is this is a good time to be building or scaling an Enterprise FinTech (/ InsurTech) firm in Europe? As a preamble, let me point out that it’s never a one-line straight answer. […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. I’m Samuel, CEO of Akur8. I started my career at IBM, where I spent 15 years in various international sales and sales management positions before joining Insurtech Shift Technology as […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. My name is Christopher Oster and I am the founder and CEO of CLARK, a leading digital insurance manager. Our CLARK app makes it easier, simpler, and faster for consumers […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. A year since the first lockdowns- is this is a good time to be building or scaling an Enterprise FinTech (/ InsurTech) firm in Europe? In the first stage of the fight against COVID-19, the most pressing problem was […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. A year since the first lockdown – is this is a good time to be building or scaling an Enterprise FinTech firm in Europe? Good but with challenges! Digitization has had the shot in the arm and an acceleration […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. I’m Nicolas Blanchard, co-founder of Apiax which is a tech compliance solution that makes it radically simple for companies to comply with global regulations. Apiax’s technology is designed to embed compliance […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. A year since the first lockdowns- is this is a good time to be building or scaling an Enterprise FinTech (/ InsurTech) firm in Europe? Big economic shocks usually open the way for new chances and extremely successful starts […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. ELEMENT Insurance AG is a white-label product supplier for insurance solutions and a leader in insurance digitalisation. We are licensed as a direct insurer for non-life insurance, which enables us […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. A year since the first lockdowns- is this is a good time to be building or scaling an Enterprise FinTech (/InsurTech) firm in Europe? Despite all the difficulties that 2020 has brought for entrepreneurs, some sectors have also benefited. […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. Railsbank is the leading global Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. It enables banks, businesses and brands to define the future of consumer and SME finance. Marketers, product managers, developers, CEOs and founders […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. A year since the first lockdowns- is this is a good time to be building or scaling an Enterprise FinTech (/ InsurTech) firm in Europe? Yes, generally it always is, as long as there is a strong value proposition […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company. I joined PayKey in March 2020 after years of working as a chief executive at a variety of public and private tech companies in the advertising and gaming industries. Throughout my […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. Samarth: Hi Marcus, before we get started with the questions, it would be great to share a bit about yourself- both at work and at leisure. Marcus. Sure. I’m a tech industry guy who became VC 13 years ago, so […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Give us the backstory- what were you up to before starting up, how did you get the founding idea? In 2012 Nicolas Christiaen & Bart Claes sank their teeth into a mutual project dealing with Working Capital management at […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Give us the backstory – what were you up to before starting up, how did you get the founding idea? The idea behind TransFICC came from my two prior job roles. I was leading sales at LMAX, an FX […]
This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. 1. Give us the backstory- what were you up to before starting up, how did you get the founding idea? I had personally been around data in financial services since I finished my PhD in Computer Science – on complex […]
Hans de Back, Managing Partner of Finch Capital | Photo by Gina Bullwinkel. This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. — Samarth Shekhar Hi Hans, good to meet you. About a year and a half since we last met. Let’s get right on with the interview. Tell […]
Eugene Danilkis, Co-Founder & CEO of Mambu | Photo by Gina Bullwinkel. This interview is part of Scaling Enterprise FinTech | The Handbook, launched in partnership with SixThirty Ventures. — Samarth: Hi Eugene, good to see you – about a half a year since we last met I think, although we do keep in touch often via email or […]