Fintech Leaders

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...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Peter Lord, CEO & Co-Founder of Codat, where they are building a universal API for small business data. Founded in 2017, Codat now has more than 200 corporate clients and has raised over $160 million from JP Morgan, Canapi Ventures, Shopify, Plaid, Tiger Global, PayPal Ventures, Index Ventures, AmEx Ventures, and more. In this episode, we discuss:...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Dan Westgarth, COO of Deel, a global payroll platform that helps businesses hire anyone, anywhere. Founded less than four years ago, Deel now serves 8,000 corporate customers in 150+ countries and has raised almost $700 million from a16z, Altimeter Capital, Y Combinator, Coatue, and a long list of great investors. In this episode, we discuss: Joining R...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Sophia Goldberg, entrepreneur and author of the recently published The Field Guide to Global Payments , a great book about the complex and multifaceted payments industry where Sophia gives a great overview of the different payments systems around the world, the players who make this space go round, as well as some of the exciting innovations driving th...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Arjun Sethi, Co-Founder and Partner of Tribe Capital, a firm with over $1.6B in assets under management, focused on using product and data science to engineer N-of-1 companies and investments. They’ve backed some incredible and interesting fintech companies, including Kraken, FTX, Bolt, Carta, Nium, Pipe, and the list goes on. In this episode, we discu...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Jeff Tijssen, Partner and Head of the Global Fintech Practice at Bain & Company, where he advises incumbent players, large fintechs, and some of the top venture capital funds in the world on helping them build products, strategy, and figuring out what’s next in fintech. In this episode, we discuss: Opportunites and challenges of neobanks and how so...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Abby Levy, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Primetime Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund with $50+ million in AUM that backs companies and entrepreneurs transforming the quality of living for older adults. Abby co-founded Primetime in 2020 along with legendary investor, Alan Patricof. Prior to Primetime, Abby was the Founding President of...