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Neta developed a cutting edge system which monitors SaaS, PaaS and IaaS systems around the globe for downtime events, such as cloud outages, network crashes, and platform failures. The millions of data points that the system collects every day are the basis for the company's insurance products which are the first to incorporate the parametric model into tech insurance. Neta has a background i...

Rohit Mittal is the co-founder and CEO of Stilt. A YC-backed fintech company that provides loans to new immigrants and the underserved. Over the past 5 years, Stilt has disbursed hundreds of millions in loans to immigrants from 160+ countries. Stilt has also launched Onbo. An API for companies to launch credit products in weeks. The company has raised $375M in equity and debt since its founding. L...

With innovations cited in nearly 4,000 U.S. Patents, Cormac Kinney has founded four startups acquired by public companies. He is a quant finance pioneer who invented heatmaps, designed more than 100 institutional trading systems, and perfected sentiment analysis, using it to manage $500 million for Tudor and Millennium. Now, as founder of Diamond Standard, Cormac has solved the challenge of creati...

Dov FalicDov Falic, co-founder and CEO of BlockBar, Inc., was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in Panama City, Panama. As part of the next generation of the Falic Group, owners of the largest duty-free operation in the Western Hemisphere, Dov has been immersed in the luxury and retail industry from a young age. Having started in the warehouse ten years ago, Dov went on to serve as the Global Spi...

Matthew is the co-founder of Origin Protocol, a blockchain project founded in 2017. Origin’s mission is to bring NFTs and DeFi to mainstream audiences. Matthew is a serial entrepreneur and has founded several companies previously. He served as co-founder of PriceSlash (acquired by BillShark) and as co-founder and CEO of Unicycle Labs. Earlier in his career, Matthew was an early employee and one of...

Alex is co-founder and CEO of Plug Pagamentos, a LatAm payments platform. For the past 12-years, he's worked with startups around the globe — living in cities such as San Francisco, New York, London, and Madrid. Previous to starting Plug, Alex managed southern Europe for Braintree — a PayPal company, where he saw his best clients attempting integrating multiple PSPs. When not talking about pa...

Over the past twelve years, Will has worked with seven different billion-dollar banking and securities companies. During that time, he witnessed long-time industry incumbents lose market share to FinTech unicorns, as products democratized access to financial markets and minted millions of new investors overnight. Will felt that the industry had prioritized access over education, and in the process...

Chris is a technologist and designer focused on improving the usability of decentralized applications, with the aim of making Web3 available for the masses. In 2014, he founded Cardstack, where he leads a team of open-source contributors to build the collaborative OS for Web3. He previously built the first NFT platform on the Bitcoin blockchain. He also pioneered the use of distributed-ledger tech...

Chief marketing officer of blockchain gaming company Lepricon. Phil has over 30 years of experience across a variety of industries including video games and blockchain. Originally from London, he was worked in the UK, USA and Hong Kong for organisations as diverse as Cable & Wireless to his own start up web development agency which he hold to a publicly traded US corporation. His specialities...

Jake is the founder and CEO of Metalink, where he leads company strategy and brand innovation. Prior to starting Metalink, Jake served as head of activation for Community.com, a software company enabling celebrities and high profile entities, ranging from Barack Obama to White Claw, to directly reach their fans and customers text messages. Udell also founded music management company TH3RD BRAIN, d...

Sushil Prabhu is the CEO and Chairman of Dropp, a pay-per-use transaction platform designed to make it easy for consumers to purchase small-value goods and services via micropayments, securely and without signups. Sushil has been a technology leader, innovator and entrepreneur in the tech field for the past 30 years, with a demonstrated history of assisting enterprise and startups in building digi...

Eran has over 20 years of experience founding and managing software-related companies in the fields of financial trading, insurance, and advertising, with 5+ years in the blockchain ecosystem. Previously, Eran was the CTO of Israel Direct Insurance and co-founded and served as the CEO of an algorithmic trading company. In 2014, he co-founded Meme Video, an algorithmic media tech company (acquired...

Joshua Goldbard is the founder and CEO of MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency technology company, and a founding partner at Crypto Lotus, a cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund. He really likes sound amplification devices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick Kann is the CEO and co-founder of Papaya, a mobile application that uses computer vision technology to pay any bill in a matter of seconds. Prior to Papaya, Patrick worked at the New Ventures Group at idealab. He previously worked at World Bank, was a Private Equity Executive at Macquarie Group, and held the position of Director of Corporate Development at eSolar. Patrick is originally fro...

Karn is responsible for operations, business development, and investor relations at Cover. Before entrepreneurship, Karn was a management consultant, and he went on to complete his Masters at MIT where he attended as a Fulbright Scholar. His first company, Stylekick, was acquir-hired by Shopify in 2015.The first company Karn co-founded was a mobile e-commerce marketplace called Stylekick, which wa...

Jorge leads the areas of product strategy, design, engineering, and research at Hello Iconic. He has 20+ years of experience launching successful global products with companies like Disney, ABC, AMC, The Walking Dead, Syfy, FX, Suma Wealth, Cyvatar and The Coca-Cola Company. Jorge has also helped early-stage and venture-backed startups with their development needs. Learn more about your ad choices...

Entrepreneur Phil Blows is behind the decentralised finance and crypto platform AQRU, which went from early stage investors to being sold to institutional investors within 10 months. Philip Blows is on a mission to normalise earning interest on crypto. Where many investors let their investments sit in their account in the hope that the value of the currency will increase, AQRU enables simple acces...

Federico Baradello is Founder and CEO of Finalis, a venture-backed NY- and San Francisco-based company building the world’s largest private securities brokerage platform. Federico has an extensive background in M&A. As an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Federico managed M&A deals for blue-chip private equity firms and strategics from term sheet negotiations and auction bids to closin...

Corey Ashton Walters is the Founder & CEO of Here, a revolutionary online marketplace that enables anyone anywhere to invest in vacation rentals online and earn passive income—without ever lifting a finger. Prior to founding Here, Corey, a seasoned entrepreneur, brand builder, and college dropout, has founded multiple successful companies over the last 15 years. Most recently, Corey co-founded...

Nic is the Co-founder and Vice Chairman at Blockchain.com where he is responsible for ensuring we continue to bring new adopters into the cryptocurrency ecosystem. In 2015, Nic was named the European Digital Leader of the year. Nic is the Founding Commissioner of the Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development and Co-Authored The Future is Decentralised. Nic is trilingual, and has a deep pas...

In this episode, Mike Townsend, speaks with Gregory A. Beard who is the CEO and Co-Chairman of Stronghold Digital Mining. During his career, Mr. Beard sourced and managed some of the most profitable deals in the energy private equity sector. He was previously the Global Head of Natural Resources and Senior Advisor at Apollo Global Management from 2010 to 2020, overseeing Apollo’s investment activi...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Rahul who is the CEO of Irreverent Labs, a venture-backed gaming studio with a mission to build insanely fun, highly intelligent, hundred year entertainment experiences on blockchain. Irreverent Lab’s first release, MechaFightClub is described as a hilarious fighting game in which advanced, artificially-intelligent non-player characters battle, breed and...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with the Co-CEO Stephan D. Meyer who is one of the leading Swiss tokenization experts and the CTO Daniel Killenberger who studied Computer Science with a focus on AI, specifically Classical Planning Algorithms. Co-CEO Stephan D. MeyerHe wrote the first Swiss PhD dissertation on tokenization (received the famous Issekutz price)He is leading the blockchain law e...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Tyler Spalding is co-founder and CEO at Flexa, a cryptocurrency payments network making real-world payments more efficient, accessible, and affordable for everyone. Tyler has been founding and investing in various blockchain projects since 2011. He was previously the CTO of Raise, co-founder of two e-commerce startups, and an engineering lead with the Uni...

Amit is the CEO and co-founder of Stader Labs. He has over 8 years of experience in Strategy, business transformation and start-up strategy across a variety of businesses. Most recently, he worked as Special Project Head at Swiggy, where he spearheaded organization transformation and strategic process implementation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices