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Shwetank Verma is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Leo Capital, an early stage venture capital fund focused on South and South-East Asia. Shwetank leads InsurTech investments at the fund.

We talk about some of Leo Capital’s investments, where the exciting incumbent insurer vs InsurTech markets are, and the outlook for fund raising going into 2024, among other things




Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via podcast@tokyofintech.com



We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/



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Matthew Van Niekerk is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at SettleMint, offering tooling for enterprises, public sector, and technology partners who want to innovate with blockchain and empower their technology organization.


In 2006, Matthew made Belgium his home and eventually worked as the Head of Platform Innovation at KBC Securities Bolero. Under his guidance,
Bolero Crowdfunding was the first bank or broker in Europe to launch a publicly available blockchain application in Europe. In 2016, Matthew co-founded SettleMint.



Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via podcast@tokyofintech.com



We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/



You can also find us on....Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTechMedium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintechYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintechMeetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/


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Yilan Huang leads Global Development across different regional markets at CyberConnect. CyberConnect is web3’s earliest and biggest decentralized social network that enables developers to create social applications empowering users to own their digital identity, content, connections, and monetization channels. Prior to CyberConnect, Yilan had experiences in startups, VCs, and NGOs and studied economics, political theory, and continental philosophy at The University of Hong Kong and University of Warwick.

CyberConnect is web3’s earliest and biggest decentralized social network, that enables developers to create social applications empowering users to own their digital identity, content, connections, and monetization channels. Its latest V3 upgrade introduces a set of powerful improvements to the CyberConnect social network to usher web3 social into a new, multi-chain future. V3 is designed to power the next stage of hyper scalability for web3 social dApps and give users a social networking experience that feels familiar to web2. It has three core components: CyberAccount, an ERC-4337-compatible identity infrastructure; CyberGraph, a censorship-resistant database to record users’ content + social connections; and CyberNetwork, a gas-efficient and scalable network to bring CyberConnect to the world.

Founded by Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneurial team in 2021, there are already over 50 projects that are using CyberConnect to build social features for real-world use cases, such as  community-owned social networks, marketplaces, content curation, discovery tools, and more. As of July 2023, CyberConnect protocol has 1.2M user profiles and 400k monthly active wallets who have conducted more than 15.2M transactions in total. Over 2,400 verified organizations created their CyberProfiles to build web3 native audiences. CyberConnect’s flagship social app, Link3 has 940k monthly active users.



Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via podcast@tokyofintech.com



We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/



You can also find us on....Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTechMedium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintechYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintechMeetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/


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Hugo Phillion is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Flare Network. Earlier in his career, Hugo was a commodity derivatives portfolio manager. When he got bored with traditional finance, he went on to study machine learning at University College London, where he met his two co-founders.



Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via podcast@tokyofintech.com



We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/



You can also find us on....Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTechMedium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintechYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintechMeetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/


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Aaron McDonald is the Chief Executive Officer of Futureverse, a technological and cultural foundation for the open metaverse where creators, companies and communities conjure their future. The Futureverse infrastructure enables companies and creators to deliver the open metaverse experience that they want for their audience. A seamless portal in and out of all apps in the metaverse, Futureverse allows users to travel with a passport, friends, communications, finances and content.



Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via podcast@tokyofintech.com



We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/



You can also find us on....Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTechMedium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintechYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintechMeetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/


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Masako Shiba is a New York base art professional with near two decades of experience, including at Sotheby’s NY, Japan Society Gallery, Asia Society Museum, and Asian Cultural Council where she was inaugural director for ACC Japan Foundation.



Since the pandemic, she has co-founded ONBD, a web3 art & culture platform, also co-founded BEAF an experimental art foundation, and is Chief Artistic Director for SPACETAINMENT PTE. LTD., showcasing art in space and of space. She is also external advisor for Japanese art startup AndArt, mentor for New Museum of Contemporary Art's NEW INC and on the advisory board for HH Dalai Lama official biography art project.



Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via podcast@tokyofintech.com



We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/



You can also find us on....Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTechMedium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintechYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintechMeetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/


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