Alpha Beta Launch | Fintech Founder Stories

The Idea for this company came from when Jeff Spencer pitched a March Madness style fundraising technique to his kids’ school PTA. It got rejected... That pushed him to come up with his own strategy that now fundraises for all kinds of nonprofits. When working as a technology consultant for nonprofits, he witnessed their struggles firsthand. His vision was to automate the fundraising process to make it easier and less awkw...

The Troperial Story: Over the past years, we have witnessed a large disruption in mobile international money transfers. Transacting business got easier, although at a high cost to individuals. This is where Troperial says 'I'm here to help'. Troperial was created to reduce high transaction costs and to provide a personal trading experience. Troperial offers an ever-evolving payment experience designed to foster quicker and...

In this episode we talk with Ricardo Sims, CEO of Constitution Lending. Real Estate credit opportunities can be very lucrative, but are usually restricted to few market participants. Constitution Lending was founded by a team and advisors with Wall Street experience and a track record of generating returns across asset classes. Their vision is to  introduce sophisticated techniques to an unsophisticated market. Hear from C...

This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical element for companies whose software has to integrate with the US banking system and blockchain quickly, securely, and in full compliance with US regulations. To learn more visit silamoney.com. #PoweredbySila 

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https://www.fabrica.land/

https://twitter.com/fabricaland

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fabricaland/

Website for Services

https://www.fabrica.land/

This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical element for companies whose software has to integrate with the U...

This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical element for companies whose software has to integrate with the US banking system and blockchain quickly, securely, and in full compliance with US regulations. To learn more visit silamoney.com. #PoweredbySila 

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One out of 4 Americans has a student loan, is a co-signer, or is affected by one in other ways. That’s roughly 45 million people. These are individuals like Bryan Harris, CEO and co-founder of SLOAN. He noticed that while it had gotten way easier to get paid (Zelle, Venmo, others), paying down a debt has remained very difficult as if debt collectors preferred it that way. Bryan had been looking for years for a company that...

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https://www.facebook.com/funneldash

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/funneldash.com/about/

https://www.instagram.com/funnel_dash/

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https://www.funneldash.com

This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical elemen...

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https://www.facebook.com/flipfactoryapp/

https://twitter.com/flipfactoryapp/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/flipfactoryapp/

https://www.instagram.com/flipfactoryapp/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1L1_R-aj22CowsSJzgQnCA/videos

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https://flipfactoryapp.com/

This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that pr...

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https://www.facebook.com/qyontech

https://www.linkedin.com/company/qyon/

https://www.instagram.com/qyontech/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFdoDwF_N2LvJPUkmGiCU0A

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https://www.qyon.com/en/

This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical el...

As a child, Fabien saved money in a piggy bank and already donated some of it to charities. Now an adult, realizing that online fundraising could be made better, he founded bunny.money, the better way for nonprofits to raise money in that it lets them keep 100% of their donations. Unfortunately, it’s common for nonprofits to have to pay between 3 and 11% in processing fees to get access to what is theirs. Listen to this po...

Welcome back to Season 2 of Alpha. Beta. Launch - Fin Tech Founder Stories, launching Tuesday March 1! This season we interview even more incredible Founders with industry shaping companies. Subscribe and rate the show today!

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Victor Unda, Co-Founder & CEO: https://okyapp.com/

If you live and work in one country but your family resides in another, sending money is how you stay in touch and support them. Sending money is expensive, so you do it in a lump sum once a month. Transfer fees are high. You have no control over how the money is spent. Loved ones might have to travel somewhere to even receive it. OKYapp changes all that. You pick a br...

Podcast Episode x Season 2 - Eden 

David Wolfenden, Founder & CEO

David was always perplexed by the fact that most of his peers could talk for hours about video games and get really excited in the process, but showed no interest in discussing investment strategies and wealth building. Even though the latter will have an oversized impact on their lives. So he had the idea to make wealth planning fun and addictive by c...

Podcast Episode x Season 2 - BluePallet 

Patrick Salome, co-Founder & CEO

Patrick always thought that e-commerce doesn’t live up to its potential because of a lack of trust about who’s on the other side of the deal. He had started his own companies but finally saw an opportunity to realize his vision through a merger with another firm; negotiating, collaborating, merging, and launching during a worldwide pandemic. An...

Stephen Lemon, Co-founder, VP, Strategic partnership and corporate development.

With Currencycloud having been acquired by Visa late in 2021, you know this episode is going to be different. Hear from Stephen how he co-founded the company and the early-day struggles that he and his team had to overcome. Even after many financing rounds, “there is always something” as he put it. Building a company is never done. There is alwa...

Podcast Episode x Season 2 - Wedge.us 

Billy Roberts, co-Founder & CEO

When the two co-founders had the idea for what would eventually become Wedge.us, they were convinced a Google search would tell them of other companies already doing it. It took a while to sink in that their idea was a novel one. Hear how they built their business out of a garage of all places. Why their first hire was a chief legal officer. And how ...

Podcast Episode x Season 2 - Lithic 

Bo Jiang, Founder & CEO

Bo started Lithic with 2 childhood friends in a basement. Hear how the pandemic came just as they were scaling from 25 up to 100 people. While it was very stressful, moving out of a shared office and transitioning to a remote work environment forced the firm to be crisper in communication and more deliberate in how they communicated as a team. Hear him talk ab...

Podcast Episode x Season 2 - getBamboo 

Blake Cassidy, CEO

getBamboo’s mission is to make crypto investing as easy as possible by using round-ups to the next dollar to feed your crypto portfolio (“micro investing”). They are a successful business in Australia, about to launch in the US. Hear from Blake Cassidy about how different the regulatory environment is in these two countries and how they learned to deal with that. Wh...