https://simplecast.com Future of Fintech A podcast for the sharpest minds in fintech. Join us on Clubhouse on Tuesdays at 6 PT. Brought to you by Mercury - banking for startups. 2021 - Mercury en Fri, 18 Mar 2022 19:26:45 +0000 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 19:26:55 +0000 https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com Future of Fintech https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/d4e19474-2aa7-4981-86ba-79e51dacb238/f2e4af60-ecd1-4cf9-9a43-a6e782bd349f/3000x3000/fof-3000px.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com episodic A podcast for the sharpest minds in fintech. Join us on Clubhouse on Tuesdays at 6 PT. Brought to you by Mercury - banking for startups. Mercury no https://feeds.simplecast.com/H5ncl56_ finance, fintech, startups, technology Mercury seriestea@mercury.com 754b266a-35da-4614-b6a8-cf24086d00b1 Fintech VCs on Fundraising in 2022 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 19:26:45 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/fintech-vcs-on-fundraising-in-2022-NC0aoym_ Fintech VCs on Fundraising in 2022 Mercury 01:00:22 Discussing impact from public market valuations, fed rate changes, learnings from 2021, trends for 2022, & much more. Guests include Alex Rampell (a16z), Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Frank Rotman (QED Investors), & Immad Akhund (Mercury). Discussing impact from public market valuations, fed rate changes, learnings from 2021, trends for 2022, & much more. Guests include Alex Rampell (a16z), Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Frank Rotman (QED Investors), & Immad Akhund (Mercury). no full 13 53d68435-5738-409e-bd7d-ea1c49ee1560 The Future of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) This episode of Future of FinTech is on the future of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), and will cover why BNPL works where other consumer lending ideas haven’t, why millennial consumers are the driving force behind BNPL, what makes a great BNPL merchant, and untapped BNPL opportunities outside of ecommerce.

Future of FinTech is hosted by Immad Akhund, founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures.

Guests this week include:

  • Lawrence Lin Murata, founder of Slope
  • Bobby Tzekin, founder of Wisetack
  • Dana Stalder, General Partner at Matrix, Director at Afterpay
]]> Fri, 8 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Dana Stalder, Sheel Mohnot, Immad Akhund, Bobby Tzekin, Mercury, Lawrence Lin Morata) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-buy-now-pay-later-bnpl-iOflMNAK This episode of Future of FinTech is on the future of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), and will cover why BNPL works where other consumer lending ideas haven’t, why millennial consumers are the driving force behind BNPL, what makes a great BNPL merchant, and untapped BNPL opportunities outside of ecommerce.

Future of FinTech is hosted by Immad Akhund, founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures.

Guests this week include:

  • Lawrence Lin Murata, founder of Slope
  • Bobby Tzekin, founder of Wisetack
  • Dana Stalder, General Partner at Matrix, Director at Afterpay
]]> The Future of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Dana Stalder, Sheel Mohnot, Immad Akhund, Bobby Tzekin, Mercury, Lawrence Lin Morata 00:27:44 This episode of Future of FinTech is on the future of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), and will cover why BNPL works where other consumer lending ideas haven’t, why millennial consumers are the driving force behind BNPL, what makes a great BNPL merchant, and untapped BNPL opportunities outside of ecommerce. This episode of Future of FinTech is on the future of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), and will cover why BNPL works where other consumer lending ideas haven’t, why millennial consumers are the driving force behind BNPL, what makes a great BNPL merchant, and untapped BNPL opportunities outside of ecommerce. square, entrepreneurs, slope, matrix, visa, consumer financing, finance, klarna, startup, paypal, founder, revenue, fintech, merchants, platform, mastercard, afterpay, bnpl, unsecured credit, credit, ecommerce, wisetack, buy now pay later no full 12 c961cc16-219e-4d94-b14e-e39dd5d612d8 The Future of Private Equity Funding This week's Future of Fintech is on the future of private equity funding, discussing why PE has become such a hot space recently, how to reduce friction in PE so that more people can become venture investors, the challenges of innovating PE, regulating the PE space, positives and negatives from the crowdfunding experience, the types of businesses that typically do well on crowdfunding platforms, and much more.

Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures.

Guests this week include:

  • Nick Tommarello, Founder & CEO of Wefunder
  • Elizabeth Yin, General Partner at Hustle Fund
  • Avlok Kohli, CEO of AngelList Ventures
  • Sahil Lavingia, Founder & CEO of Gumroad
]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-private-equity-funding-KyXZx47I This week's Future of Fintech is on the future of private equity funding, discussing why PE has become such a hot space recently, how to reduce friction in PE so that more people can become venture investors, the challenges of innovating PE, regulating the PE space, positives and negatives from the crowdfunding experience, the types of businesses that typically do well on crowdfunding platforms, and much more.

Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures.

Guests this week include:

  • Nick Tommarello, Founder & CEO of Wefunder
  • Elizabeth Yin, General Partner at Hustle Fund
  • Avlok Kohli, CEO of AngelList Ventures
  • Sahil Lavingia, Founder & CEO of Gumroad
]]> The Future of Private Equity Funding Mercury 00:27:53 This week's Future of Fintech is on the future of private equity funding, discussing why PE has become such a hot space recently, how to reduce friction in PE so that more people can become venture investors, the challenges of innovating PE, regulating the PE space, positives and negatives from the crowdfunding experience, the types of businesses that typically do well on crowdfunding platforms, and much more. This week's Future of Fintech is on the future of private equity funding, discussing why PE has become such a hot space recently, how to reduce friction in PE so that more people can become venture investors, the challenges of innovating PE, regulating the PE space, positives and negatives from the crowdfunding experience, the types of businesses that typically do well on crowdfunding platforms, and much more. no full 11 179b676a-e0d9-4310-9042-2028067d20a8 The Future of Insurtech This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of insurtech, discussing MGAs vs full insurance carriers, how to drive better underwriting, where to get a cost advantage, and much more.

Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures.

Guests this week include:

  • Kyle Nakatsuji, Founder & CEO of Clearcover
  • Sean Harper, Co-founder & CEO of Kin Insurance
  • Stephanie Choo, General Partner at Portag3 Ventures
]]> Wed, 4 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-insurtech-dXwQTWjU This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of insurtech, discussing MGAs vs full insurance carriers, how to drive better underwriting, where to get a cost advantage, and much more.

Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures.

Guests this week include:

  • Kyle Nakatsuji, Founder & CEO of Clearcover
  • Sean Harper, Co-founder & CEO of Kin Insurance
  • Stephanie Choo, General Partner at Portag3 Ventures
]]> The Future of Insurtech Mercury 00:26:50 This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of insurtech, discussing MGAs vs full insurance carriers, how to drive better underwriting, where to get a cost advantage, and much more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: • Kyle Nakatsuji, Founder & CEO of Clearcover • Sean Harper, Co-founder & CEO of Kin Insurance • Stephanie Choo, General Partner at Portag3 Ventures This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of insurtech, discussing MGAs vs full insurance carriers, how to drive better underwriting, where to get a cost advantage, and much more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: • Kyle Nakatsuji, Founder & CEO of Clearcover • Sean Harper, Co-founder & CEO of Kin Insurance • Stephanie Choo, General Partner at Portag3 Ventures no full 10 447ac430-71a6-4bc1-99da-8cb956c6b128 The Future of Payfac This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of payment facilitators, discussing how to build a payfac, how to choose between using different payfac, opportunities in this space, and much more.

Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures.

Guests this week include:

  • Peter Berg, VP of Business Development & Strategy at Very Good Security
  • Caleb Avery, Founder & CEO of Tilled
  • Matthew Janiga, General Counsel at Lithic
]]> Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-payfac-clDcLe7b This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of payment facilitators, discussing how to build a payfac, how to choose between using different payfac, opportunities in this space, and much more.

Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures.

Guests this week include:

  • Peter Berg, VP of Business Development & Strategy at Very Good Security
  • Caleb Avery, Founder & CEO of Tilled
  • Matthew Janiga, General Counsel at Lithic
]]> The Future of Payfac Mercury 00:20:19 This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of payment facilitators, discussing how to build a payfac, how to choose between using different payfac, opportunities in this space, and much more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: Peter Berg, VP of Business Development & Strategy at Very Good Security Caleb Avery, Founder & CEO of Tilled Matthew Janiga, General Counsel at Lithic This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of payment facilitators, discussing how to build a payfac, how to choose between using different payfac, opportunities in this space, and much more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: Peter Berg, VP of Business Development & Strategy at Very Good Security Caleb Avery, Founder & CEO of Tilled Matthew Janiga, General Counsel at Lithic no full 9 2cae82a7-395c-4774-a9b6-c0263d6a6b6e The Future of Bank Integrations Wed, 7 Jul 2021 15:25:00 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-bank-integrations-mpdCxVi8 The Future of Bank Integrations Mercury 00:22:24 This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of bank integrations, discussing how to build integrations with banks, how bank integrations have evolved, opportunities in this space, and much more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: - Itai Damti, CEO of Unit - Bo Jiang, CEO of Lithic - Jim Brusstar, President of Treasury Prime - Shamir Karkal, CEO of Sila - Wade Arnold, CEO of Moov - Amias Gerety, Partner at QED Investors This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of bank integrations, discussing how to build integrations with banks, how bank integrations have evolved, opportunities in this space, and much more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: - Itai Damti, CEO of Unit - Bo Jiang, CEO of Lithic - Jim Brusstar, President of Treasury Prime - Shamir Karkal, CEO of Sila - Wade Arnold, CEO of Moov - Amias Gerety, Partner at QED Investors no full 8 9094b724-6892-43f3-81fe-8b5047b69363 The Future of Automated Finances Thu, 3 Jun 2021 15:24:08 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-automated-finances-bewh0UIa The Future of Automated Finances Mercury 00:56:38 This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of automated finances, discussing whether people prefer picking investments vs. having it automated, how the pandemic influenced this space, and upcoming opportunities. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: - Maia Bittner, Head of Business Operations at Chime - Chris Hutchins, Head of Financial Operations at Wealthfront - Yinon Ravid, CEO of Albert - Anish Acharya, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of automated finances, discussing whether people prefer picking investments vs. having it automated, how the pandemic influenced this space, and upcoming opportunities. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: - Maia Bittner, Head of Business Operations at Chime - Chris Hutchins, Head of Financial Operations at Wealthfront - Yinon Ravid, CEO of Albert - Anish Acharya, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz no full 7 6cef999f-b4a3-4b91-a655-2ecfd2c79f6e The Future of Credit Scores Mon, 10 May 2021 15:43:39 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-credit-scores-nOYr0xFW The Future of Credit Scores Mercury 01:00:44 Immad Akhund, CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, investor at Better Tomorrow Ventures, host an episode of Future of Fintech on the future of credit scores. Guests include: Ohad Samet, Cofounder & CEO of TrueAccord Maia Bittner, Head of Business Operations at Chime Matt Harris, Cofounder & CEO of Bloom Credit Kristy Kim, Cofounder & CEO of Tomo Credit Misha Esipov, Co-Founder & CEO of Nova Credit Immad Akhund, CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, investor at Better Tomorrow Ventures, host an episode of Future of Fintech on the future of credit scores. Guests include: Ohad Samet, Cofounder & CEO of TrueAccord Maia Bittner, Head of Business Operations at Chime Matt Harris, Cofounder & CEO of Bloom Credit Kristy Kim, Cofounder & CEO of Tomo Credit Misha Esipov, Co-Founder & CEO of Nova Credit no full 6 72dad5ef-3b77-4f99-955b-01a3e7a4c280 The Future of Personal Finance Management Mon, 3 May 2021 14:53:56 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-personal-finance-management-tjB_7RhD The Future of Personal Finance Management Mercury 00:58:51 This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of personal finance management, discussing COVID's impact on personal finance habits, why PFM is a fit for younger generations, the future of consumer apps as PFM tools, and more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: Haroon Mokhtarzada, CEO of Truebill Yinon Ravid, CEO of Albert Aditi Shekar, CEO of Zeta Peggy Mangot, Partner at PayPal Ventures Kanyi Maqubela, Partner at Kindred Ventures This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of personal finance management, discussing COVID's impact on personal finance habits, why PFM is a fit for younger generations, the future of consumer apps as PFM tools, and more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: Haroon Mokhtarzada, CEO of Truebill Yinon Ravid, CEO of Albert Aditi Shekar, CEO of Zeta Peggy Mangot, Partner at PayPal Ventures Kanyi Maqubela, Partner at Kindred Ventures no full 5 33172a5d-8d7e-4ffc-b7f8-28676a297500 The Future of Gig Workers Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:24:12 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-gig-workers-V_KujmLw The Future of Gig Workers Mercury 00:54:02 This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of gig work, discussing how big the gig worker market is, how the pandemic changed the market, why fintech for gig workers is particularly important, & opportunities in this space. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests for this week include: Trent Bigelow, CEO of Abound, Sean Engelking, Co-founder and CEO of Starship, Kristen Anderson, Founder & CEO of Catch, Hooman Radfar, Founder & CEO of Collective This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of gig work, discussing how big the gig worker market is, how the pandemic changed the market, why fintech for gig workers is particularly important, & opportunities in this space. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests for this week include: Trent Bigelow, CEO of Abound, Sean Engelking, Co-founder and CEO of Starship, Kristen Anderson, Founder & CEO of Catch, Hooman Radfar, Founder & CEO of Collective no full 4 1db95c15-d884-4163-bd5b-611aac878985 The Future of Proptech Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:38:42 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-proptech-5HuiIFyf The Future of Proptech Mercury 01:05:08 This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of proptech, including what it takes to get VCs interested in proptech businesses, changing regulations, and more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests for this week include: Brew Johnson, Founder & CEO of PeerStreet, Adena Hefets, Cofounder of Divvy Homes, Jon Dishotsky, CEO & Cofounder of Starcity This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of proptech, including what it takes to get VCs interested in proptech businesses, changing regulations, and more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests for this week include: Brew Johnson, Founder & CEO of PeerStreet, Adena Hefets, Cofounder of Divvy Homes, Jon Dishotsky, CEO & Cofounder of Starcity no full 3 0817596e-50d3-433b-bd43-b1945ae455f7 The Future of B2B Lending Fintech Fri, 9 Apr 2021 14:35:06 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-b2b-lending-fintech-yNWkqxuU The Future of B2B Lending Fintech Mercury 01:02:01 Welcome to the Future of Fintech, hosted by Immad Akhund and Sheel Mohnot. This week we're covering the future of B2B lending fintech. Our guests are: - Miguel Fernandez - Jason Garcia - Andrew D’souza - Nellie Levchin Welcome to the Future of Fintech, hosted by Immad Akhund and Sheel Mohnot. This week we're covering the future of B2B lending fintech. Our guests are: - Miguel Fernandez - Jason Garcia - Andrew D’souza - Nellie Levchin no full 2 f1cbed5b-c0c0-4cf4-a07f-b81e42737b0f The Future of Retail Investing Fri, 9 Apr 2021 14:34:56 +0000 seriestea@mercury.com (Mercury) https://future-of-fintech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-retail-investing-z3XppEIj The Future of Retail Investing Mercury 01:13:28 Welcome to the Future of Fintech, hosted by Immad Akhund and Sheel Mohnot. This week we're covering the future of retail investing. Our guests are: - Alex Rampell, a VC at Andreessen Horowitz - Leif Abraham, cofounder and Co-CEO at Public.com - Julie Young, a writer and investor, former product at Snap - David McDonough, cofounder of Commonstock - Howard Lindzon, cofounder of Stocktwits - Aditi Maliwal, a GP at Upfront Ventures Welcome to the Future of Fintech, hosted by Immad Akhund and Sheel Mohnot. This week we're covering the future of retail investing. Our guests are: - Alex Rampell, a VC at Andreessen Horowitz - Leif Abraham, cofounder and Co-CEO at Public.com - Julie Young, a writer and investor, former product at Snap - David McDonough, cofounder of Commonstock - Howard Lindzon, cofounder of Stocktwits - Aditi Maliwal, a GP at Upfront Ventures no full 1