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Wharton FinTech PodcastVictor Fimbres, Co-Founder & CTO of Forage - Building the Stripe for Government BenefitsGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Victor Fimbres, Co-Founder and CTO of Forage, a third-party payments processor which helps grocers accept Electronic Benefit Transfers, or EBT, online. Forage is on a mission to create a world where all families with any budget can afford a meal.
Today over 42 million people receive EBT benefits or food stamps. This is government support to pay for groceries. 14% of all grocery spend is paid with EBT, but only 5% of this was online. When Forage first started there were less than 20 merchants who could process EBT online. Today there are close to 100 merchants — and Forage is...2022-07-0635 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastSteve Fredette, President, Co-Founder of Toast - Helping Restaurants Delight Their GuestsGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Steve Fredette, President, Co-founder and a Director of Toast. Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and hospitality space. Since its inception in 2011 it has helped clients delight their guests, do what they love and thrive.
In this episode you will hear about:
- Toast’s humble beginnings
- What new features better served Toast clients during the pandemic
- What innovation Steve is excited about for the restaurant industry
- All about Toast’s culture
- And much more!
About Steve Fredette
Steve Fredette is Pres...2022-06-2736 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastStartup Special! Wharton's Top Fintech Startups with Gaby Campoverde, John Garner, and Nate SoffioIn today's special episode, Anirudh Singh sits down with classmates and fintech founders Gaby Campoverde, John Garner, and Nate Soffio. They discuss their rising startups, Miren, Card Curator, and Portabl, as well as the impact the Wharton MBA has had on their respective companies.
Gaby Campoverde:
Gabriela Ariana Campoverde is CEO and Founder of Miren. She is currently an MBA candidate at The Wharton School and Masters in Computer and Information Technology at Penn Engineering. Prior to her graduate studies she worked at a WPP agency, American Express and Goldman Sachs. She is passionate about building products for working-class, immigrant...2022-05-1842 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastChristina Keitt Chaney, Head of Sales & Relationship Mgmt at MoCaFi - Closing the Racial Wealth GapGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Christina Keitt Chaney, Head of Sales and Relationship Management of MoCaFi. MoCaFi is short for Mobility Capital Finance, and today the company helps over 70MM clients across the United States open a bank account, build credit, and support local businesses. The company was founded in 2015 with a mission to address social inequities by closing the racial wealth gap.
In this episode, you will learn all about:
- The MoCaFi products which help its clients reach financial empowerment
- How MoCaFi works with local governments to distribute benefits
- MoCaFi’s mission-oriented company culture
- Ch...2022-04-2047 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastHoward Katzenberg, CEO & Founder of Glean - Supercharging Vendor Decision MakingGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Howard Katzenberg, CEO and Founder of Glean, an accounts payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence to drive material savings.
Glean supercharges vendor decision making. This platform automatically detects duplicate invoices and overcharges; receives alerts on billing errors, anomalous spend activity, and available vendor savings; and leverages vendor benchmarking to see what other companies are paying.
In this episode, you will learn about how:
- Howard’s CFO experience inspired Glean
- Glean impacts on client’s profit lines
- Fintechs can disrupt the enterprise software industry
- Howard took his own comp...2022-03-3031 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastBlair Silverberg, CEO & Founder of Hum Capital -- Connecting Great Companies to the Right CapitalGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Blair Silverberg, Founder and CEO of Hum Capital, a funding platform connecting great companies with the right capital for their growth.
Hum believes that every qualified company should be able to raise the capital they need to flourish without bias or friction. On Hum’s Intelligent Capital Market, companies are evaluated on fundamentals and performance, not on who they know.
In this episode, you will learn all about:
- The platform that Blair and his team are building
- How Hum builds an efficient two-sided marketplace
- The current issues companies face when attempting to...2022-03-1635 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastRam Palaniappan, Founder & CEO of Earnin -- Making Any Day Pay DayGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Ram Palaniappan, Founder and CEO of Earnin, which gives people access to their pay directly from their smartphones. No hidden fees, no penalties, no waiting—just access to your hard-earned cash right when you need it. With each transaction users are given the opportunity to pay what they believe is fair.
In this episode, you will learn all about how:
- Ram started Earnin by lending his own money to his colleagues
- Earnin addresses the Earned Wage Access gap
- 66% of users see an increase in their ability to pay bills with Earnin’
- Th...2022-02-2326 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastMike de Vere, CEO of Zest AI -- Making Fair Credit Available to EveryoneGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Mike de Vere, CEO of Zest AI. Zest helps lenders make better credit decisions -- increasing revenue, reducing risk, and automating compliance. The company serves its customers by providing them with custom credit models leveraging more data, better math, and smarter software. Today Mike is leading Zest to fulfill a mission of making fair credit available to everyone.
In this episode, you will learn all about:
- How it builds more inclusive underwriting models for its clients
- The loan decision and funding journey
- Zest’s company culture
- Insights on how the le...2022-02-1629 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastRonen Assia, Managing Partner at Team8 -- Co-Founding Transformative CompaniesGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Ronen Assia, Managing Partner at Team8 Fintech Foundry, a venture fund within Team8 that partners with entrepreneurs to build companies in the fintech space. For over twenty years, Ronen has successfully merged technology and design together into useful and accessible products, and defined user experience across various devices and platforms. Most recently Ronen served as eToro’s Chief Product Officer, managing product and engineering, and helped grow the company into a Fintech unicorn serving 13 million users in over 140 countries. eToro pioneered Social Investing, enabling every investor to see, follow and automatically copy the portfolios of...2022-01-1940 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastRaghu Yarlagadda, CEO of FalconX -- Delivering the Crypto Industry's Best Point-in-Time ExecutionGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Raghu Yarlagadda, CEO and Co-Founder of FalconX. The company is a digital assets brokerage that provides a single account connected to global crypto liquidity pools. Asset managers can execute trades at prices routed across liquidity sources, and settle with a single counterparty. Raghu and Prabhakar Reddy launched the company just four years ago, and today it is valued at $3.75 Billion dollars.
In this episode you will hear about:
- How FalconX works with institutional clients
- What it’s like to run a start-up which is live 24/7
- Innovation for cryptocurrency retail investors
- Ra...2022-01-1236 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastHarshul Sanghi, Founder & Global Head of Amex Ventures -- Reflecting on 10 Years of InvestingGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Harshul Sanghi, Founder and Global Head of Amex Ventures. Harshul has over thirty years of operating experience, and for the past 10 years has led the venture arm of American Express and oversees global investment activity across the company. To date, Amex Ventures has invested in 80+ companies and has offices in New York, San Francisco, and Boston.
He has led investments in Abra, Better.com, Bill.com, Boom Supersonic, Boxed, Instacart, Learnvest, FalconX, Finix, Next Insurance, Philanthropi, Plaid, RetailNext, Stripe, Toast, and Turo, among others. Amex Ventures now has a portfolio valued at over $1 billion...2021-12-0139 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastJimmy Chen, Founder & CEO of Propel -- Making America's Safety Net More User-FriendlyGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Jimmy Chen, CEO of Propel, a software company dedicated to helping low-income Americans improve their financial health. Propel’s mobile app provides Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, benefits users with the ability to check their benefit balance -- which was only previously available over a 1-800 number, and more recently offers users a checking account and debit card.
In this episode we discuss:
- Propel’s app which today has 5 million active users
- Propel’s vision to become a one-stop-shop to manage government benefits and other income, side-by-side
- The ways in which...2021-11-2439 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastRyan George, CMO of Docupace -- Modernizing and Digitizing the Back OfficeGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Ryan George, Chief Marketing Officer of Docupace. Founded in 2002, Docupace is a solutions provider focused on digitizing and automating operations in the financial advice and investment industry. For close to two decades, this company has served wealth managers and helped them to work faster, more securely, and with fewer errors.
The platform is composed of client onboarding, document management, advisor transition, and regulation business intelligence features. In this episode you will learn about how Docupace empowers its users to do more in less time, the types of users the company works with, the importance...2021-11-1724 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastMichael Bourque, CEO of LendingHome - Closing Deals, Opening DoorsGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits with Michael Bourque, CEO of LendingHome. Since 2013, LendingHome has offered thousands of real estate investors fix-and-flip bridge loans and rental loans. Today, it is the only company focused on serving real estate investors across the entire lifecycle of a transaction. LendingHome leverages a purpose-built software platform that creates structured data that it uses to help its customers be successful. The company has aggregated over 900 million data points across more than 25,000 completed transactions to date.
In this episode we discuss:
- LendingHome’s award-winning loan origination platform
- Products real estate investors are seeking
- How LendingHome me...2021-11-0327 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastJames Garvey, CEO and Founder of Self Financial -- Empowering Consumers to Build Credit & Save MoneyGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with James Garvey, the CEO and Founder of Self Financial. Since 2015, Self has helped hundreds of thousands of people build a strong financial future. It provides tools necessary for building on-time payment history and responsible use of credit, in collaboration with issuing bank services for those who are new to credit or who might not have access to traditional financial products. Self understands that building a financial foundation is a daunting task for most people, so they’re dedicated to building a product that will help their customers move two steps in the right direction.
La...2021-10-1333 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastNYC FinTech Women Co-Founders, Michelle Tran & Sasha Pilch -- Promoting gender equality in FinTechGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Michelle Tran and Sasha Pilch, co-founders of NYC Fintech Women, an organization which promotes gender equality through diversity in the fintech community.
Founded in 2017, NYC Fintech Women connects, promotes and empowers women in their professional advancement in the fintech industry. Today, they have over 7,000 members across startups, traditional finance and VCs. They host monthly events in collaboration with fintechs such as Adyen, Stash, and Plaid as well as institutional enterprises such as Deutsche Bank, Google, Shearman & Sterling, and Silicon Valley Bank.
Over the past year, NYC Fintech Women expanded its reach by building an...2021-09-2729 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastSameer Gulati, COO of Plastiq -- Addressing the Working Capital Gap for BusinessesGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Sameer Gulati, Chief Operating Officer of Plastiq, a fintech company that makes it easier for cardholders to earn credit card rewards, tap early-payment discounts, and use cash in the ways that make the most sense for their lives. For small businesses, Plastiq solves day-to-day payments problems for them and helps them get better access to cash flow. Today this fintech is advancing innovative payment solutions to more than 150 countries around the world.
Founded in 2012, Plastiq has processed billions of dollars. It is backed by Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Alumni Ventures Group, among others.
...2021-09-0826 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastNathaniel Harley, CEO and Co-Founder of MANTL -- Expanding Access to Financial ServicesGabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Nathaniel Harley, CEO and Co-Founder of MANTL, a software platform specializing in online account opening and deposit growth strategies for community banks and credit unions.
Founded in 2016, MANTL has helped banks raise more than $1 billion in core deposits -- with the highest performing account opening solution on the market. This past spring, this fintech raised $40MM in a Series B round. MANTL is on a mission to expand access to financial services by challenging the cost structures of traditional banks with its robust APIs, conversion best practices, and seamless user experience.
In this episode...2021-06-2828 min
La Historia De La MedicinaLa medicina y su evolución desde tiempos remotosEn el último capítulo se habla de la evolución que dió cada uno de los países en relación a la medicina.2021-06-2504 minLa Historia De La MedicinaLa Historia de la Medicina- La historia de los médicosEn el penúltimo capítulo, se habla de los médicos ma importantes de toda la historia y sus descubrimientos.2021-06-2505 minLa Historia De La MedicinaLa Historia de la Medicina- Un día en la vida médicaEn el capítulo 8, se ingresa a la vida de los médicos y se adentra en sus vidas, conociendo un poco más lo que es la vida de los médicos2021-06-2505 minLa Historia De La MedicinaLa Historia de la Medicina- La medicina y sus dudas resueltasEn el capítulo 7, se reconoce. La medicina y sus preguntas más frecuentes.2021-06-2505 minLa Historia De La MedicinaLa Historia de la Medicina- Sus descubrimientos médicosEn este capítulo se habla de muchas veces en las que la medicina consigue tener un lugar en la historia.2021-06-2505 minLa Historia De La MedicinaLa Historia de la Medicina- Las pestes que marcaron la humanidadEn el capítulo 5, se tocan las épocas más complicadas para la medicina.2021-06-2505 minLa Historia De La MedicinaLa Historia de la Medicina- La medicina mentalEste capítulo se habla del descubrimiento de la psicología, que vine a ser la medicina o en tal cómo funciona y cómo cambia la vida de las personas que necesitan ayuda psicológica.2021-06-2506 minLa Historia De La MedicinaLa Historia de la Medicina- Su evolución Ben distintas partes del mundoEn el capítulo número 3, la historia recorrer las distintas partes del mundo en donde se habla de cada tradición de la medicina, y cómo se lleva la vida en ciertos lugares2021-06-2505 minLa Historia De La MedicinaLa Historia de la Medicina- Sus ramas descubiertasEn este capítulo se tocan los temas de las ramas de la medicina y sus complejidades, basándose en la perspectiva de médicos de cada una de las ramas médicas.2021-06-2504 min
La Historia De La MedicinaLa Historia de la Medicina- Los Pasos que dióLa medicina fue uno de los descubrimientos evolutivos de la historia del mundo. En este capítulo daremos un paso atrás con su evolución e iremos recorriendo sus descubrimientos y pasos.2021-05-2804 min