Fintech Leaders

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Eynat Guez , CEO and Founder of Papaya Global . She has built an HR and payroll platform that has transformed how companies manage and operate global teams across 180 countries. After having faced over 1,000 rejections from VCs, Papaya has now grown to process $34 billion in payments annually and they've raised significant funding from Insight Partner...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Chen Amit , CEO and Co-Founder of Tipalti , a global fintech platform processing billions in payments and serving over 4,000 mid-market companies worldwide. By focusing on the underserved mid-sized companies, Tipalti has achieved 99% gross revenue retention over 15 years and secured licenses across 50+ jurisdictions. We discuss: Navigating "once-in-a-...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down in NYC with Anré Williams , Senior Executive Advisor at American Express . Anré has spent over 35 years at Amex, rising from summer intern to, most recently, CEO of American Express National Bank (which represents ~60% of the company's revenues). Under his leadership, Amex transformed its banking business into a top 25 US bank by assets. Amex is one of...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza travels to Sao Paulo for an interview with Eduardo Chedid , CEO of PicPay , a Brazilian fintech giant that has quietly become one of the most important financial companies in Latin America. With 60 million customers and handling 11% of all Pix payments transactions in Brazil, PicPay has achieved profitability while maintaining hyper-growth—posting 61% revenue growth...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza stops by the New York Stock Exchange to interview Yoshi Yokokawa , CEO & Co-founder of Alpaca , an API-first brokerage infrastructure company that has raised over $100 million to serve more than 200 financial institutions across 40 countries, with 5 million brokerage accounts on their platform. In this episode, we discuss: Balancing data-driven decisions with ent...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Daniel Vogel , CEO & Co-Founder of Bitso , one of Latin America's leading cryptocurrency platforms serving over 12 million customers across Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil. Bitso processes over 10% of the remittances flowing from the US to Mexico ($6 - $7 Billion), and is pioneering the use of stablecoins for cross-border transactions thro...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Bam Azizi , Co-Founder and CEO of Mesh Connect , a fintech infrastructure company that has transformed from a consumer-focus to a fast-growing B2B platform serving hundreds of corporate clients including Revolut, and Coinbase. After raising nearly $130 million, including a Series B closed in just one month, Mesh is now focusing on serving the stablecoin ec...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Johnny Ayers , CEO and Co-Founder of Socure , a leader in digital identity verification that has transformed the industry using machine learning and graph databases. From surviving a major risk event in 2014 to becoming a trusted partner for the largest financial institutions, consumer businesses, and government agencies, Socure now processes over 15 billi...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Shensi Ding , Co-Founder of Merge , an integrations infrastructure platform that has quickly grown from serving early-stage startups to powering integration layers for some of the largest financial services companies in the world including Revolut, Airwallex, Ramp, Brex and many more. They have raised a total of $75 million from great investors including N...

Send us Fan Mail [Original air date, February 6, 2024]   Miguel Armaza sits down with David Magerman , Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Differential Ventures , an early-stage fund that invests in data-focused entrepreneurs building enterprise technology. In a past life, he spent 22 years in leadership roles at Renaissance Technologies (RenTech), a legendary hedge fund with over $100 billion in A...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Ryan Graciano , Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Credit Karma , one of the most successful fintech companies serving over 130 million customers. Credit Karma was bought by Intuit for $7.1bn in 2020, marking one of fintech’s largest acquisitions ever. Ryan began his journey as CTO after a brief stint at IBM and helped build Credit Karma from the grou...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza welcomes back  Jackie Reses , CEO and Co-Founder of Lead Bank , a pioneering bank reimagining modern financial infrastructure and fintech partnerships. Jackie previously held leadership roles at Square and Yahoo, and served on the board of Alibaba, working alongside visionaries like Jack Dorsey and Jack Ma. In this episode, we discuss: How Lead Bank achieved instant...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews John Waldmann , Founder & CEO of Homebase , a company on a mission to help modernize local business teams in the US. Since launching in 2014, Homebase has grown to support over 150,000 businesses and 3.8 million workers, processing hundreds of millions of shifts annually. In this episode, we discuss: Why founders should have more courage and conviction...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Howard Lindzon , a seasoned investor, entrepreneur, and founder of StockTwits , the largest social network for investors and traders. Howard is also the founder of Social Leverage , a venture capital firm that has backed great companies like Robinhood and eToro. Often called "The Larry David of Finance" for his candid, no-nonsense takes on market...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Ali Hamed , Co-Founder of Treville (formerly CoVenture), a $2 Billion investment firm that's breaking traditional asset class boundaries. Hamed has built one of the most distinctive firms in the industry, combining venture capital, credit, and asset-backed strategies with a uniquely rigorous approach - all starting from cold emails during his college...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Savneet Singh , CEO of PAR Technology (NYSE: PAR) , a company he helped transform from a struggling legacy hardware with a small market cap into a thriving restaurant technology leader now worth nearly $3 billion in the public markets. When Savneet joined PAR's board in 2018, he found a company facing multiple crises - from DOJ investigations and acti...

Send us Fan Mail We bring you a compilation of some of the best and most popular episodes of 2024. The guests of this episode have either founded or held key leadership roles in companies with a $200 Billion combined market cap, including Capital One, Kaspi, Mercado Libre, and Xero. It was an amazing year for Fintech Leaders with 42 new guests from 13 countries. Our interviews were viewed almost 3...

Send us Fan Mail [Original air date, March 21, 2023]   For this Christmas Eve episode, I revisit my 2023 interview with Adam Nash , Co-Founder and CEO of Daffy , a special fintech platform that encourages charitable giving. Giving to charity is a powerful way to create change; even a small contribution to the right cause can transform lives and it’s a chance to make a real difference. As the year...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Daragh Murphy , CEO & Co-Founder of Imprint , a fast-growing and leading fintech in the co-branded credit card space that has raised $200 million from Thrive Capital, Ribbit, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Stripe, and a many more great investors. In this episode, we discuss: Challenges and lessons building Imprint, including pivoting and finding pro...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Kamran Zaki , Partner at ICONIQ Growth and former COO of Adyen . ICONIQ growth is a multi-billion fund that has backed dozens of amazing companies, 27 of which have IPOd and together comprise a market cap of over $1.5T. Some of their fintech investments include Adyen, Chime, Ramp, Robinhood, Monzo and Bill.com. In this episode, we discuss: What it means to...

Send us Fan Mail [Original air date, October 10, 2023]   Miguel Armaza sits down with Josh Reeves , CEO & Co-Founder of Gusto , one of the largest HR & Payroll companies in the US, focused on serving small and medium-sized businesses. In addition to HR, payroll, and benefits, Gusto is a strong player of embedded fintech solutions and in 2023 announced a very large partnership with JPM Chas...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Alan Patricof , Co-Founder of Primetime Partners , Greycroft , and Apax Partners . It’s hard to explain just how important Alan has been for tech and VC. He’s one of the true pioneers in venture capital worldwide, having started his first VC firm in the 1970s, Alan Patricof and Associates, which later became Apax Partners and currently has over ~$80Bn AUM....

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza travels to Alexandria, Virginia for an in-person interview with a fintech legend: Nigel Morris , Co-Founder of QED and Capital One .  QED is a global fintech venture capital firm that has backed numerous amazing companies, including Credit Karma, Nubank, Avant, SoFi, and Klarna. They currently have over $4.0 billion in AUM. Prior to QED, Nigel co-founded Capital One...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Howard Morgan , Chair at B Capital , and also co-founder of Renaissance Technologies and First Round Capital. Howard and Miguel sat down live on stage at Barclays Rise in NYC for the Gilgamesh Ventures Summit, an annual meeting with over 150 Limited Partners, Founders, and Investors for a series of events and discussions about the future of tech and financ...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Jouk Pleiter , CEO & Founder of Backbase , a global fintech that’s modernizing software and infrastructure for banks around the world. Founded in 2003, Backbase was bootstrapped to €200M in annual revenue until they raised a single Private Equity round of €120M from Motive Partners in 2022, valuing the company at €2.5B. They have now grown to over €300...