The Fintech Investor Podcast Series: Interview with Ted Benson

The Fintech Investor Podcast Series: Interview with Iyin Aboyeji

Iyinoluwa is CEO and Co-founder of Flutterwave, a payments infrastructure company connecting Africa to the global economy with digital payments infrastructure that helps banks and businesses build more seamless and secure payments experiences for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African payments, technology and banking veterans from Standard Bank, Google Wallet, Andela and PayPal amongst others, Flutterwave has grown to be one of the fastest growing payments technology companies in the world. Since inception, Flutterwave has processed close to $2 billion in payments across 25 million transactions in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa and has attracted significant investment from experienced players in the global payments arena such as Y Combinator, Greycroft, Green Visor Capital, Omidyar Network and Glynn Capital, amongst others. In 2017, Flutterwave was named Africa's Best Fintech Company by AppsAfrica. Prior to helping to co-found and lead Flutterwave, Iyinoluwa co-founded Andela - Africa's largest engineering organization with over 500 software engineers which has received investment from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures, amongst others. Iyinoluwa who holds a bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo, is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree and a member of Nigeria's Industrial Policy and Competitiveness Advisory Council. Simon Yoo is a venture capitalist, and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Green Visor Capital. Based in San Francisco, he and his colleagues are on a mission to help re-invent the financial services industry for the 21st century — one startup at a time. The Green Visor team looks to back passionate entrepreneurs, in the US and abroad, that challenge the status quo — to better promote inclusion, transparency and efficiency — through the innovative use of technology. Simon received his MBA from Cornell University and BA from Kenyon College, where he also served as a Trustee for six years. On this episode of The Fintech Investor Podcast Series, Simon Yoo sits down with Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (E), Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave, to discuss 1) E’s background growing up in Nigeria 2) starting and growing Andela 3) E’s experience starting Flutterwave and going through Y Combinator and 4) current investment opportunities in Africa. https://www.flutterwave.com/ http://greenvisorcapital.com/

The Fintech Investor Podcast Series: Interview with Ted Benson

Ted Benson handles machine learning and product strategy for Instabase, a platform for solving and automating complex, organization-spanning data problems. Prior to Instabase, he was the founder and CEO of Cloudstitch (Green Visor; Y Combinator; acquired by Instabase). Ted graduated in 2014 with his Ph.D. from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (“CSAIL”). During his time in CSAIL, Ted was advised by David Karger, and worked with other such computer science luminaries as Rob Miller and Tim Berners-Lee (one of the creators of the World Wide Web). Ted was also a member of MIT's Natural Language Processing group. Prior to CSAIL, Ted worked in Industry, including a stint at Google. Ted received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. Simon Yoo is a venture capitalist, and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Green Visor Capital. Based in San Francisco, he and his colleagues are on a mission to help re-invent the financial services industry for the 21st century — one startup at a time. The Green Visor team looks to back passionate entrepreneurs, in the US and abroad, that challenge the status quo — to better promote inclusion, transparency and efficiency — through the innovative use of technology. Simon received his MBA from Cornell University and BA from Kenyon College, where he also served as a Trustee for six years. On this episode of The Fintech Investor Podcast Series, Simon Yoo sits down with Ted Benson to Discuss 1) Ted’s background and experiences in MIT’s CSAIL program and founding CloudStitch 2) Ted’s work at Instabase helping companies ingest their data across various stores of information and make sense of it 3) Ted’s views on machine learning today and 4) valuing ideas in the free market vs. academic settings. greenvisorcapital.com/

The Fintech Investor Podcast Series: Interview with Shift Payments

Meg Nakamura began her career as a management consultant at Promontory Financial Group, a strategy, risk management, and regulatory compliance consulting firm focusing primarily on the financial services industry, after graduating from Princeton. After Promontory, Meg co-founded 3taps and is currently an investment partner at Hard Yaka and a co-founder of Shift Payments. Greg Kidd began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton after receiving his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his MBA from Yale. After his time at Booz Allen Hamilton, Greg founded Dispatch Management Services Corporation. Upon leaving Dispatch Management Services, Greg spent two years and the Federal Reserve Board and then nine years at Promontory Financial Group. He then assumed the Chief Risk Officer position at Ripple Labs. Currently, Greg is the CEO of GlobalID as well as a co-founder of the investment group Hard Yaka. Adam Neff received his undergraduate degree from Occidental College and began his career at the Chief Operating Officer of Essembly, LLC. After Essembly, Adam held Consultant, Product Manager, Head of Commercial Products, and Head of Growth + Monetization roles at .Tuenti. Adam currently serves a the Chief Strategy Officer at Shift Payments. Simon Yoo is a venture capitalist, and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Green Visor Capital. Based in San Francisco, he and his colleagues are on a mission to help re-invent the financial services industry for the 21st century — one startup at a time. The Green Visor team looks to back passionate entrepreneurs, in the US and abroad, that challenge the status quo — to better promote inclusion, transparency and efficiency — through the innovative use of technology. Simon received his MBA from Cornell University and BA from Kenyon College, where he also served as a Trustee for six years. In this episode of The Fintech Investor Podcast Series, Simon Yoo sits down with Meg Nakamura, Greg Kidd, and Adam Neff, collectively of Shift Payments, to discuss 1) each team member's background and experience in the payments space 2) the current payments infrastructure and how they are building their vision for an entirely new, cloud-based infrastructure for credit and debit card issuers 3) developing partnerships between fintechs and incumbents 4) risks associated with the payments space and 5) advice for founders. http://greenvisorcapital.com/ https://www.shiftpayments.com/