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Vestigo Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that invests in early-stage technology companies focused on financial services. Its team members, including advisors from academia and the corporate world, are entrepreneurial, highly experienced, and deeply grounded in financial services, asset management, behavioral finance, and growing start-up companies. The complementary strengths of its team members uniquely position Vestigo to identify, make and mana ...
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#19 | Leading Technology Organizations in Financial Services & The FinTech Opportunity Set Today with Kris Hansen - CTO at Sagard
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Ever wondered how to navigate the complexities of FinTech innovation and leverage AI for your startup's success? In this episode, Frazer and Kris discuss: Building and scaling FinTech startups, including strategic leverage, technology adoption, and effective partnerships with banks The importance of measuring and managing complexity within banking …
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#18 | Exploring the Intersection of Growth Equity, FinTech, and AI with Matt Alfieri - Partner at Centana Growth Partners
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Curious about the evolving landscape of growth equity investments in the FinTech sector and the role of AI in shaping the future of finance? In this episode, we discuss: How FinTech and AI are reshaping financial services and investment strategies Opportunities for applications of LLM technologies within financial services Matt’s learnings from bei…
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#17 | AI Disruption: Enterprise Dynamics, The Power of Open Source, and Redefining Geopolitics with Ray Wang - Co-Founder of Constellation Research
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How is AI reshaping geopolitical complexities and the competitive landscape of enterprise? In this episode, we discuss: The complexities of AI markets, from navigating open source versus closed systems to balancing innovation and margins in AI-as-a-service models AI in Enterprise: Scaling Startups vs. Incumbent Giants The geopolitical impact of AI …
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#16 | AI's Role in Shaping Future Businesses & Bringing Artificial Intelligence to the MSP Community with Jimmy Hatzell - CEO of Hatz AI
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What role does AI technology play in shaping the businesses of the future? In this episode, we discuss: What it takes to build an AI business on today’s most cutting edge technology stack The challenges and opportunities presented by the new digital divide Building technology for small business customers Jimmy Hatzell, a seasoned SaaS startup profe…
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#15 | Decoding SaaS KPIs: Marrying Data & Business Tactics with Victor Cheng (CEO Coach) & Vipul Shah (Co-founder & CEO at SaaSWorks)
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Victor Cheng is a CEO Coach and independent board member for founders of SaaS companies. He has been featured as a business expert by major media outlets including MSNBC, TIME magazine, and The Wall Street Journal, Victor is a former McKinsey & Company consultant and has been a senior executive in several publicly owned technology companies. He’s t…
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#14 | Navigating the AI Revolution in FinTech with Vestigo Ventures' Co-Founders and General Partners, Mark Casady & Dave Blundin
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In this exclusive interview from our Annual General Meeting this past October, Frazer Anderson sat down with general partners Mark Casady and Dave Blundin to discuss the profound differences between blockchain and AI, with a focus on the transformative impact of neural networks. The interview explores concrete examples of AI applications in financi…
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#13 | Lessons from Decades of Tech Investing as a Hedge Fund Manager with Scott Alberi - Fc Centripetal, Point72, Eminence Capital
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Scott J. Alberi is a founder of Fc Centripetal and has been an institutional technology investor since 1999. As a professional institutional investor for over 20 years, Scott has researched, analyzed, advised, and invested in hundreds of public enterprise technology companies. His career began at Eminence Capital in 1999, where he spent 19 years fo…
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#12 | Building Trust & Transparency in Venture Debt Financing with John Markell - Managing Partner at Armentum Capital
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John Markell has over 20 years technology industry experience having worked as an engineer, project manager and investment banker. His career in finance began at JP Morgan in New York and he has worked in New York, Toronto, London, and San Francisco as an investment banker prior to co-founding Armentum over 11 years ago. John has an MBA, a degree i…
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#11 | Redefining Payment Terms in Global Markets with Oliver Belin - Founder & CEO at Calculum
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Oliver Belin is a thought leader in Supply Chain Finance with over 13 years of experience in this sector. He is the CEO of Calculum.ai, a company leveraging AI to generate Free Cash Flow by optimizing payment terms. During his career, he worked for leading institutions in Supply Chain Finance, such as PrimeRevenue, GSCF and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking …
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#10 | From Military to Startup: Revolutionizing Compensation Management with Peter McKee - Co-Founder & CEO at Aeqium
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Peter McKee is the co-founder & CEO of Aeqium, a total compensation management platform. Prior to founding Aeqium, he spent his career leading teams as an engineering manager in the tech industry and as a cyber warfare officer in the US Army. He experienced the challenges of compensation planning firsthand as a leader at fast growing companies like…
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#9 | Cyber Protection for MSPs with Austin McChord & Carlson Choi - Co-Founders of Cork
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Austin McChord is a relentless entrepreneur whom many of you will know as the founder and CEO of Datto, which was recently sold to Kasaya for $6.2 billion dollars. He is also a founder at Casana (a medical device company where he is the CEO), Havoc Robotics, Outsiders Fund, and serves on the boards of Zorus and Shelf. Perhaps most importantly for t…
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#8 | Operating & Investing in FinTech and Defi with Asiff Hirji (fmr. a16z, Coinbase, TPG, Figure)
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Asiff Hirji is a Director at Forge (formerly Equidate), one of the largest private company equity marketplaces and custodians, and an advisory board member for Vestigo Ventures and NuBank. Before his current roles, Asiff had a truly remarkable career as a technologist, operator, and investor. Most recently, he was President of Figure, a blockchain-…
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#7 | SaaSWorks CEO, Vipul Shah, & CTO, Jim O'Neill
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Frazer speaks with the founders of SaaSWorks, Vipul Shah (CEO) and Jim O’Neill (CTO), where they each discuss their paths into entrepreneurship and how their experiences drove them to start SaaSWorks.
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#6 | Portage Ventures General Partner, Steph Choo
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Frazer speaks with the General Partner of Portage Ventures, Steph Choo, where they discuss her path into FinTech and how she views the ever-changing world of FinTech.
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Jon McNeill is a former President of Tesla, COO of Lyft, and 7x founder. He is currently the CEO of DVx, a company creation platform that he co-founded. In this episode of The Vestigo FinTech Podcast, he shares what it means to be a company that creates companies, Elon Musk stories, his influences, and what excites him about the future.…
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#4 | Wagmo Co-Founder & CEO, Christie Horvath
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Christie Horvath is the CEO & Co-Founder of Wagmo. In this episode, they discuss her experiences and lessons learned as a founder, from ideation to realization.
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#3 | Alloy Co-Founder & CEO, Tommy Nicholas
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Tommy Nicholas is the CEO & Co-Founder of Alloy, which recently reached unicorn status with a $100M Series C financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, valuing the company at $1.35B.
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Guy Assad is the CEO of Clerkie. In this episode, Frazer and Guy discuss debt-automation, frameworks for company building, and the future of FinTech.
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#1 | Vestigo Managing Partner, Mark Casady
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We sit down with Vestigo Ventures' Managing Partner Mark Casady to discuss his career across financial services and venture capital, and to hear some stories and lessons along the way.
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