Fintrepreneur

Join Dave and Eli in their latest episode where they sit down with Jason Mullins, the CEO of Goeasy. Over the past 12 years, Jason has transformed Goeasy into Canada's largest B2C lender with a $2B loan portfolio. Tune in as they discuss Jason's journey at Goeasy, the company's recent partnerships and acquisitions, and their long-term vision for the B2C lending market. In this episode,...

Welcome back to Fintrepreneur, where we dive into the fascinating world of fintech and explore the innovative ways that artificial intelligence is transforming the finance industry. In today's episode, we have Peleg Bartfeld, President and CFO of Merchant Growth & Tabit, who will be sharing his insights on how AI is being used to improve financial decision-making and reduce risk. Peleg Bar...

On this week's episode of Fintrepreneur, we sit down with Vlad Sherbatov, the founder of Smarter Loans, to discuss the journey of building Canada's largest financial aggregator. We dive deep into the world of financial aggregators and comparison sites, exploring how they work and the challenges of marketing and customer acquisition in the financial industry.  Vlad also shares his experienc...

Welcome back to Season 2 of Fintrepreneur! Today, we'll be discussing the journey of building our brand new product, Tabit, over the course of 2022-23. We'll delve into the benefits and challenges that come with building a new product alongside an existing business/technology, and how our team grew to address development. We'll also talk about the start of business development and how...

In today's podcast, Dave and Eli will discuss how the pandemic acted as a stress test for many financial services companies, its impact on lending, the pandemic's expedited tech advancements and adoption of open banking and online transactions in the industry over the last two years. To finish off Dave and Eli will chat about the biggest opportunities for fintechs in the future and the les...

Exciting news! The newest season of our podcast is here and we're thrilled to have Andrew Graham, founder of Borrowell, as our guest. Join us as we dive into the world of personal finance and learn valuable tips and insights from one of the industry's top leaders. On this episode, we discuss Andrew Graham and his journey to founding fintech Borrowell, the current macroeconomic situation an...

2022 has been a year of substantial growth and change within fintech. We have seen technology companies come back to reality from a COVID initiated liftoff, we have seen the emergence of new fintechs, and we have seen the rebound of fintechs that had been hit by COVID related implications. As we enter 2023, a year of new ideas and a clean slate, we wanted to reflect on 2022 and what we viewed as a...

Roughly two years have passed since COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns took effect in North America, upending lives and changing the way the world works almost overnight. For VC-backed businesses, that period has been characterized by immense valuation growth, although a handful of companies found themselves on the wrong side of an economic shift that lifted much of the tech world. Of the VC-back...

As with many emerging technology sectors, fintech can be an equivocal concept due to the number of tools, platforms and services that fall under its umbrella.  In episode 8 of Fintrepreneur, Dave and Eli talk about the accelerating focus on digital transformation in finance and how all of these fintech tools, platforms, and services will continue to be built and adopted at a much faster rate than...

From disruptive threat in the early goings to an enabling partner, fintech has entered a new phase of its evolution. In episode 7 of Fintrepreneur, Dave and Eli bring on Kevin Sandhu, Co-founder & CEO of Platypus to chat about the adoption of fintech and how it has played a huge role in the evolution of the way people do financial transactions today. Dave and Eli go on to chat about what servi...

The private debt markets continue to make their way to the forefront as institutional investors have increasingly turned to them as a source of diversified returns.  In episode 6 of Fintrepreneur, Dave and Eli bring on Nelson Chu, Founder and CEO of Percent a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions to chat about the private debt markets and how they continue to evolve and how his compa...

In this episode of Fintrepreneur, Dave and Eli sit down with SVP International at Affirm and ex CEO of PayBright, Wayne Pommen to discuss the future of B2C buy now, pay later (BNPL) and his thoughts on how he believes the industry will evolve. In this episode we cover, Wayne Pommens background and how he got to where he is today, what led to the decision to sell PayBright to Affirm, the biggest ch...

In this episode of Fintrepreneur, Dave and Eli catch up with Co-Founder & President of Rocket Mortgage Canada, Hashem Aboulhosn, to chat about the rebrand to Rocket Mortgage Canada after being acquired by Rocket. They also talk about Rockets plans to become a lender in Canada, along with the current state of the mortgage market in Canada! This episode touches on Rockets plans going forward and...

In this episode of Fintrepreneur, Dave and Eli sit down with Partner & CRO of BioMaxx Environmental, TS Consulting Inc & 4A Capital Partners Alex Benjamin to talk about what he has accomplished, and what it took to build a business and how it all started. We also dive into how he sees the fintech market evolving today both from an entrepreneurial perspective and as an investor along with p...

In this episode of Fintrepreneur, Dave and Eli sit down and talk about the current challenges that B2B businesses are facing today when providing payment options to buyers, how B2B BNPL is shaping the future of payments, and the cool product we are building to solves these issues! Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends. You can conn...

In this episode: We introduce you to our new podcast co-hosted by CEO and Founder of Merchant Growth and new B2B BNPL platform tabit and Eli Beaino Founder of Boolster Capital and current Executive Vice-President of tabit. Today we dive into Fintrepreneur and what we will speaking about going forward. We hope you are excited as we are to get started!