JUL 22

#11 – Zvilo – Kosovo’s leading digital lender, fuelling trade by providing working capital digitally to SMEs

Welcome to the first episode of The Digital Dividend. In this episode we are joined by Zvilo's Founder and CEO Admir Imami. Leveraging the experiences gained across multiple successful exits of previously founded businesses, including a direct lender, factoring company, and asset manager, Admir has built Zvilo into the leading non-bank working capital provider in the Balkans. During our discussion Admir touches on the hurdles he faced along the route of building out a fully digital lend...

31 min

JUN 13

#10 – Plata – Mexican fintech credit card lender soon to be digital bank

Welcome to the first episode of The Digital Dividend. In this episode we are joined by Plata's CEO and Co-Founder Neri Tollardo. Plata was born when a team from Tinkoff Bank, decided to leverage their experience of having built the first, largest, and most successful digital bank and credit card issuer in Russia to do the same in Mexico. Despite having only just launched the business in September of 2022, with lending starting in March 2023, Plata has already ramped up a > USD 7...

46 min

APR 11

#9 – Karmen – French fintech SME lender with a forward-looking approach

Welcome to The Digital Dividend!In this episode we are joined by Karmen's Co-Founder Gabriel Thierry. After seeing first-hand the astronomical growth and success of revenue-based SME lending models in the US, Gabriel and his co-founder Paul seized the opportunity to be the first player to launch a tech-driven RBF lending business in their home country of France. Since launching in 2021, Karmen has provided working capital within 48 hours to over 200 SME borrowers. Through the course of our di...

24 min

FEB 22

#8 – Tilta – German B2B BNPL embedded payment solution provider

Welcome to The Digital Dividend!In this episode we are joined by Tilta's Founder Christoph Nicola. With the goal of enabling B2B marketplaces to provide their sellers the ability to offer extended repayment terms to their buyers via the seamless integration of Tilta in a single line of code, Tilta is a digital payment service provider and lender set to revolutionise B2B sales. Through the course of our discussion, Christoph dives into the approach he took to launching Tilta’s B2B marketplace ...

29 min

JAN 30

#7 – Multifi – UK SME payables finance lender taking a digital first approach

Welcome to The Digital Dividend!In this episode we are joined by Multifi’s Founder and CEO Rob Keown-Boyd. A repeat founder, Rob discusses how lessons learned from a previous digital lending venture helped him when planning and launching Multifi, the UK’s newest SME working capital lender providing a digital-first payables finance solution. In addition to highlighting Multifi’s unique offering, providing cashflow forecasting and insights to SMEs in addition to a near-instant working capital c...

26 min

09/27/2023

#6 - Finiata - Leveraging tech to prudently provide working capital to Polish SMEs at speed

Welcome to The Digital Dividend!In this episode we are joined by Finiata's CEO Anna Kozlowska, who worked her way up to a leadership position by learning the business inside and out after joining the firm as a sales manager in 2018. Through the course of the discussion, Gennaro Crocamo and Matt Kus from Fasanara's origination desk gain interesting insights into the changes that have taken place within Finiata over the last couple of years as the firm pivoted away from the German market to foc...

25 min

07/17/2023

#5 - Flexfin - Greece's first and only licensed non-bank factoring fintech

Welcome to The Digital Dividend !In this episode, Flexfin's co-founders and life-long friends, Dimitris Vranopoulos and Alex Kelaiditis, join Matt Kus and Gennaro Crocamo from Fasanara's origination desk. Dimitris and Alex provide insight into their unique founder journeys, starting with a friendship in elementary school which endured as they both built up careers in finance in London before eventually bringing them together back in Greece to found the country's first and only non-bank factor...

54 min

05/03/2023

#3 - Novicap - Pioneering Spanish digital SME lender

Welcome to Digital Dividend !In this episode, Novicap's Founder and CEO, Federico Travella joins Francesco Filia (Founder & CEO) and Matt Kus (Head of Originations for Developed Markets) from Fasanara Capital. Federico discussed his journey from training in marine biology to founding and scaling up one of the largest non-bank SME working capital lenders in Spain, factoring over 1.5 billion euros of invoices from over 3,000 clients since 2015. We learned why Federico chose to start Novicap...

41 min

02/28/2023

#2 - StashFin - Leading FinTech Consumer Lender in India

Welcome to the second episode of The Digital Dividend.For this episode we have Naman Rastogi from our Fasanara VC team speaking with Shruti Aggarwal, Co-founder StashFin. We spoke at length about the consumer lending landscape in India and learnt how StashFin became a successful FinTech lending company in India. Shruti highlights some of the key milestones StashFin achieved in their journey and how their customer obsession helped them in building products directly addressing the needs of thei...

22 min

12/14/2022

#1 - SME Finance - Largest non-bank lender in the Baltics

Welcome to the first episode of The Digital Dividend. For our inaugural episode we welcomed Mindaugas Mikalajūnas, CEO of SME Finance. We learned how SME Finance started as an idea by three ex-coworkers with 100K of their own capital to the largest non-bank lender in the Baltics with >150 million outstanding portfolio. Mindaugas highlights some of the challenges faced along the way, discusses the trends in borrower needs he has been seeing across their markets, and what is on th...

56 min

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#11 – Zvilo – Kosovo’s leading digital lender, fuelling trade by providing working capital digitally to SMEs

#10 – Plata – Mexican fintech credit card lender soon to be digital bank

#9 – Karmen – French fintech SME lender with a forward-looking approach

#8 – Tilta – German B2B BNPL embedded payment solution provider

#7 – Multifi – UK SME payables finance lender taking a digital first approach

#6 - Finiata - Leveraging tech to prudently provide working capital to Polish SMEs at speed

#5 - Flexfin - Greece's first and only licensed non-bank factoring fintech

#3 - Novicap - Pioneering Spanish digital SME lender

#2 - StashFin - Leading FinTech Consumer Lender in India

#1 - SME Finance - Largest non-bank lender in the Baltics

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