8 episodes
The Vestigo FinTech Podcast Vestigo Ventures
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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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 manage investments in financial services technology companies.
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#8 Operating and Investing in Fintech and Defi with Asiff Hirji (fmr. a16z, Coinbase, TPG, Figure)
In this episode of the Vestigo Ventures FinTech Podcast, Frazer had the pleasure of hosting Asiff Hirji on the show. Currently, Asiff 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-based fintech lender. Prior to joining Figure, Asiff was the COO and President at Coinbase, an Operating Advisor at a16z, Chief Restructuring Officer at Hewlett Packard, and President and COO of TD Ameritrade. In addition, Asiff has also held senior leadership positions at TPG Capital, Saxo Bank, and Bain Capital.
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#7 SaaSWorks CEO, Vipul Shah, & CTO, Jim O'Neill
In this episode of The Vestigo Ventures FinTech Podcast, 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
In this episode of The Vestigo Ventures FinTech Podcast, 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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#5 DVx Co-Founder & CEO, Jon McNeill
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
In this episode of The Vestigo Fintech Podcast, Frazer had the pleasure of speaking with Christie Horvath, CEO & Co-Founder of Wagmo, where 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
In this episode of the Vestigo Ventures Fintech Podcast, Frazer had the pleasure of speaking with Tommy Nicholas, 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.