Digital Innovation Chat

Ep. 045: Brian Hosie - Building the largest small business lending platform in the US at Lendio

Brian Hosie is a VP of Engineering at Lendio, which is a free online marketplace that helps business owners find the right lenders and secure loans within minutes. Lendio was founded in 2011, now the company employes 474 team members and raised a total of $108.5M in funding. In this episode, we're gonna talk about: - How to get a loan with Lendio. - The growth of team size from 100 to 400 team members. - How do they structure teams to make each team autonomous. - Why Utah is a growing tech hub in the US. VisitCleevio.com [https://www.cleevio.com/] to learn more.

Ep. 044: Emanuele Blanco - CTO of Moneyfarm on building of the largest digital wealth management companies in Europe

Emanuele Blanco is the CTO at Moneyfarm, an app-based investment platform and one of the largest digital wealth management companies in Europe. It aims to make investing easy, accessible, and cheap. To this day, Moneyfarm has secured $127.3M in total funding, and in this episode, we're gonna talk about: - How does Moneyfarm disrupt traditional financial advisors? - Mobile vs Display: Where do most of the users come from? - What is next in their product roadmap? - The revenue model of Moneyfarm?

Ep. 043: David Werner - How Exporo became the leading German real estate crowdinvesting platform

David Werner is a Head Of Engineering at Exporo, an equity crowdinvesting platform for real estate in Germany. Exporo allows private investors to start investing in attractive real estate projects with a starting amount of 500€. Since its foundation in November 2014, Exporo has financed around 200 real estate projects, and raising a total of €59.2M in funding over 3 rounds. In this episode, we're gonna talk about: - An emerging trend of digital real estate investing. - How does blockchain technology allow them to lower costs and dependencies. - What is the average return on crowdinvestments into real estate? - How did they simplify the traditional real estate investment process in Germany? -What is the revenue model for Exporo?

Ep. 042: Karin Tsai - How Duolingo grew to over 300 million learners and became a unicorn from Pittsburgh

Karin Tsai is a Director of Engineering at Duolingo, is the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world, with more than 300 million users. In December 2019 Duolingo was valued at $1.5 billion, making it Pittsburgh’s first startup to reach "unicorn" status. Visit Cleevio.com [https://www.cleevio.com/] to learn more.

Ep. 041: Matthew Kramer - How VenueNext became a leader in mobile commerce technology

Matthew Kramer is the VP Of Engineering at VenueNext, which is a leader in point-of-sale, mobile commerce, and loyalty solutions and is used by every major professional sports venue around the world – transforming the way fans shop, order, and pay. To this day, VenueNext has secured $24M in total funding, and in this episode, we're gonna talk about: * The ways how VenueNext is redefining experiences for the sport fans * How "IOS 14 App Clips" is pushing the new vision for the app industry * How COVID-19 transformed their industry