Fintech Leaders

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Latif Peracha , General Partner at M13 , a venture capital firm with over $900M of Assets Under Management, focused on enabling technologies that power the future of consumer behavior.  Latif is in charge of the investing strategy for M13 and leads the Web3 and fintech verticals, with investments in companies like Rho, Lightning Labs, Solana, Nori, Del...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Miguel Armaza brings you a curated selection from the best lessons, reflections, and secrets on how to build and manage an amazing board of directors. Whether you’re a CEO managing a board, an investor who sits on several, an independent board director, or you just want to learn,  we hope you find it helpful. Over the last of last 12 months, one of the common them...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Miguel Armaza heads to sunny Miami for a conversation with Steve McLaughlin , Founder of FT Partners , an investment bank focused exclusively on the financial technology sector, launched from Steve’s San Francisco apartment back in 2001. If you’re in fintech, you definitely know FT Partners and, chances are, you’ve worked with them or have been to one of their ama...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Medha Agarwal , Partner at Redpoint Ventures , a VC with a strong track record in fintech, including portfolio companies like Stripe, Nubank, Ramp, and many more. In addition, Medha is not only a thoughtful fintech investor, but she’s also a content creator consistently putting out great original content through her newsletter, Make Cents , or Redpoint’s website....

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down live at Money2020 Las Vegas, with Amit Parikh , EVP of BaaS at Green Dot , and Ginger Baker , Head of Financial Access at Plaid . They discuss: The evolution of consumer data tech in fintech Importance of providing transparency to customers around privacy and data-sharing practices Key technologies that will be absolutely critical to support the growth of f...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Ben Gleason , Co-Founder of Kamino , a financial hub that powers the operations and growth of Brazilian startups and scale-ups with integrated finance products, services and software. Kamino is backed by Inspired Capital, GFC, Picus, Flourish, QED, and Gilgamesh Ventures among others.  We discuss: The remarkable positive impact that FinTech in Brazil has h...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Katlego Maphai , CEO & Co-Founder of Yoco , a South African payments company that processes billions of dollars annually, and serves hundreds of thousands of small businesses every day. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $100+ million from great investors, including Quona, Dragoneer, Partech, HOF Capital, and many more. In this episode, we discuss...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Patricia Kemp , Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Oak HC/FT , a VC firm investing in companies driving transformation in healthcare and fintech around the world. Founded in 2014, the firm has over $5 billion in AUM and has back fintech companies like Blend, Ocrolus, ClearCo, Rapyd, Pagaya, Aplazo and many more. In this episode, we discuss: Spotting...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with  Matt Harris , Partner at Bain Capital Ventures and one of the Fintech OG legends who started his investing career back in 1995 and has been working with fintech entrepreneurs throughout several cycles. Some of his investments include GoCardless, Orum, Finix, Acorns, and many more. In this episode, Miguel stops by the Bain Capital Ventures office in Ne...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Matan Bar , CEO & Co-Founder of Melio , a B2B payments platform for small businesses. The company has raised over $500 million from a who’s who of fintech investors, including Accel, Coatue, Bessemer, General Catalyst, Thrive, Tiger Global, and more. In this episode, we discuss: Understanding your customer. Prior to writing a single line of code, t...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Hristo Borisov , CEO and Co-Founder of Payhawk , the first-ever Bulgarian unicorn where they’ve built an all-in-one finance platform serving businesses across 32+ countries in Europe and the US. Founded just four years ago, Payhawk now enjoys unicorn status and has raised equity from Greenoaks, QED, Lightspeed, Endevor, Hubstpot, and many more. In this...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Stephanie Choo , Partner at Portage Ventures , a global fintech-focused VC that traces its roots back to Canada. The firm focuses on fintech companies and currently manages over $3 billion in AUM. We discuss: The fintech opportunity in Canada and why most fintech verticals in the country are winner-take-all In light of a looming recession, what are som...

Send us Fan Mail Today we have a special episode, as we bring you the recording from the Vamos Latam Summit organized by Latitud in Sao Paolo, Brazil, where Miguel Armaza sat down in front of a packed audience of 1,000+ people for a conversation with Sergio Fogel , Co-Founder of dLocal and Sergio Furio , Founder/CEO of Creditas – two of Latin America’s largest companies.   They discussed: Providin...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Immad Akhund , CEO and Founder of Mercury , a US-based neobank built for the next generation of startups. Founded almost five years ago, Mercury now enjoys unicorn status and has raised equity from great investors including CRV, Coatue, a16z, and Clocktower. In this episode, we discuss: Why he’s short term pessimistic and how startups should prepare fo...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with the talented Mary Ann Azevedo , Senior Reporter at TechCrunch, where she’s responsible for covering all things Fintech, co-hosts the Friday episode of the Equity Podcast , and recently launched the newsletter The Interchange . In this episode, we discuss: Why she loves covering the startup world and some tips on how to pitch your story to tech reporter...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Julio Vasconcellos, Managing Partner and Founder of Atlantico, one of the largest Venture Capital firms in Latin America that looks to invest in a better future for the region and beyond.  Julio is also a seasoned tech entrepreneur and investor, having been Facebook’s first country lead for Brazil, co-founded Peixe Urbano which scaled to 1,200 people a...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Alfonso (Poncho) De los Rios , CEO/Co-Founder of Nowports , the biggest digital freight forwarder in LatAm, that combines logistics with financial and technological tools to ship cargo around the world. Founded in 2018, Nowports is not only a Latin American company but is quickly becoming a global powerhouse. Nowports has also raised almost $250 millio...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Nelson Chu , CEO/Co-Founder of Percent, a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions that brings transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Founded in 2018, Percent has powered almost $1 billion in transaction volume and has raised equity capital from B Capital, Coinbase, 10x Capital, and many more. In this episode, we dis...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Laura Merling, Chief Transformation and Operations Officer at Arvest Bank, a community-based bank with $26 billion in assets, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. Arvest traces its roots back to 1961, when its predecessor bank was acquired by Sam Walton, also the founder of Walmart. In this episode, we discuss: The digitization of small and medium-s...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with fintech legend, Mike Cagney , Founder & CEO of Figure , one of the fastest growing fintech companies in the US, where they are on a mission to transform financial services through blockchain, bringing speed, efficiency and savings to both consumers and institutions. Founded in 2018, Figure has raised almost $500M in equity from top investors, inclu...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Amanda Abrams , CEO of Fintech Masala , a fintech-focused investment platform and one of the pioneers and most active firms behind several fintech SPACs since 2015. Some of their SPAC transactions, include CardConnect, Payoneer, Paya, and Perella Weinberg Partners. If filing 12 SPACs gets you the title of SPAC King, then Amanda and Fintech Masala Co-Fo...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Anthony Scaramucci , Founder & Managing Partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment fund with several billion dollars in assets under management. Anthony also founded SALT, one of the premier thought leadership conferences in the world of finance, technology and geopolitics. In this episode, we discuss: Navigating a market downturn. This...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Oded Zehavi , Co-founder & CEO at Mesh Payments, a corporate spend platform that aims to empower finance teams at every company. Founded in 2018 out of New York City and Tel Aviv, Mesh now serves almost 1,000 corporations and has raised more than $60 million dollars in venture funding. In this episode, we discuss: His time at PayPal and what he lea...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with two great Uruguayan entrepreneurs, Sergio Fogel and Gonzalo Strauss . Sergio is a fintech legend, having co-founded and bootstrapped multiple fintechs, including dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO) , a company that IPOd on the Nasdaq in 2021 and is currently valued at ~$8 Billion and showing great results.  Most recently, Sergio and Gonzalo teamed up to build Datanom...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Ankur Sinha, Chief Technology Officer at Remitly, a financial services provider for immigrants and their families in 135 countries and one of the leading fintech companies in the remittance space, with offices in Seattle, London, Krakow, Manila, and Managua. Founded in 2011, Remitly went public on the Nasdaq in 2021. We discuss: The long and complex hi...