The F in Tech Podcast
1) Credit Kudos Founder & CEO, Freddy Kelly
When he got his first taste of startup life, in San Francisco, freshly-graduated Freddy Kelly did a few months at culinary school on the side. Little did he know that years later, his baking skills wo...Show More
2) Bankin' Co-Founder & CEO, Joan Burkovic
In its early days, banks tried to block Bankin’. Some set up call centres, warning customers of the danger of using the personal finance app, and encouraging them not to use it. On one occasion, they ...Show More
3) Banxware Founder & Co-CEO, Miriam Wohlfarth
Some people thought launching a fintech during a pandemic was crazy. Then Banxware - a Germany-based, white-labelled SME lending platform - saw its banking partner, Wirecard, blow up. Since then, it's...Show More
4) Alpaca Co-Founder & CEO Yoshi Yokokawa
How Yoshi Yokokawa is enabling the world to have Robinhood-style access to financial markets and crypto, and why the Alpaca co-founder & CEO feels the furry camel cousin best symbolises this ambition.
5) Wakam CEO Olivier Jaillon
How Olivier Jaillon cheated death, and survived the failure of his U.S. startup, to reinvent a 200-year old insurer-turned-insurtech, Wakam.
6) Elinvar Co-founder & CEO, Chris Bartz
How having investors from day one helped wealth management platform, Elinvar, get off to a flying start, and why co-founder and CEO, Chris Bartz, says that doesn’t mean there was any less pressure. Fu...Show More
7) Bitbond Co-Founder & CEO, Radko Albrecht
Aged 14, Radko Albrecht, was one of Germany’s top figure skaters. A child of Slovakian refugees, he was on track to become an Olympian, something that would have required focus, dedication and the abi...Show More
8) iwoca Co-founder & CEO, Christoph Rieche
When Christoph Rieche told colleagues at Goldman Sachs he was leaving to set up iwoca, some of them thought he was crazy. Others were jealous. Ten years later, the second group would appear to have be...Show More
9) Divido Founder & Advisor, Christer Holloman
The buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) space is on fire right now - just look at Klarna's latest funding round, valuing the fintech in excess of $45b, or the $29b Square paid for Afterpay. So it seems as good a...Show More
10) Bunq Founder & CEO, Ali Niknam
How Ali Niknam went all in with more than 100 million euros ($125m) of his OWN money to create an eco-friendly neobank called Bunq (now valued at nearly $2b), and why he doesn’t lose sleep over it - d...Show More