Wharton Fintech Podcast

Neha Goel chats with Patricia Kemp, General Partner at Oak HC/FT. Patricia focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities exclusively in financial services technology. Since Oak HC/FT’s launch in September 2014, Patricia has led the fund’s investments in Fastpay, Feedzai, Insureon and Trov among others, and sits on the boards of each. She is also a Board Observer on Poynt. https://twitter.com/_patriciakemp https://twitter.com/oakhcft http://oakhcft.com/

Uday Seth interviews Jeff Stewart, Founder and Chairman of Lenddo. Founded in 2011, Lenddo leverages non-traditional data for credit scoring and social verification. Lenddo partners with financial institutions and other firms so its customers can use data from social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo, and Twitter to prove their identity and creditworthiness. Before founding Lenddo, Jeff served in advisory, investing, and operating capacities. He also served as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Draper Fisher Jurvetson and founded two companies: Urgent Group and Mimeo. https://twitter.com/UrgentSpeed https://twitter.com/lenddofriend https://lenddo.com/

Wharton FinTech President Uday Seth interviews Phin Upham, Wharton MBA and PhD alumnus and principal at Thiel Capital. Phin has spent the last 8 years at Thiel Capital working on investments in the specialty finance and financial technology space. He has extensively researched disruption in the banking sector. The main theme of this interview is the “unbundling” of banks and the disaggregation they face. The views expressed in this podcast are Phin's; they do not represent the views of Thiel Capital. https://twitter.com/phinupham http://thielcapital.com/

Matt Applegate chats with Hardeep Walia, Founder and CEO of Motif and Wharton MBA ’01. Motif offers baskets of up to 30 stocks or ETFs intelligently weighted to reflect an investment theme, market insight, or innovative trend. Hardeep shares his view on customers, competitors, growth opportunities, market trends, innovation, and lessons he’s learned during his career. https://twitter.com/hardeepw https://twitter.com/MotifInvesting https://www.motifinvesting.com/

Matt Applegate chats with Alex Sion, President and Co-Founder of Moven - a company that's reinventing retail banking for the mobile age. Moven provides a digital bank account, paired with an innovative app, to help consumers track finances in real time and make informed decisions about spending and saving smarter. https://twitter.com/asion1 https://twitter.com/getMoven https://moven.com/

Matt Applegate chats with Asad Ramzanali, Manager of the Financial Solutions Lab at the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI). CFSI's Financial Solutions Lab, in partnership with JPMorgan Chase, sponsors a series of competitions for social entrepreneurs to identify and enhance tech-enabled innovations that address consumer financial health needs. https://twitter.com/asad09 https://twitter.com/CFSInnovation http://www.cfsinnovation.com/

David Klein, CEO and Co-Founder of CommonBond by Wharton Fintech Podcast

Daniel sits down to chat with Leigh Drogen, Founder and CEO of Estimize, to hear what it's like launching a venture in the FinTech space and what Estimize is doing to help fix a broken financial system. Estimize crowdsources earnings and economic estimates from more than 7,000 hedge fund, brokerage, independent and amateur analysts. https://twitter.com/LDrogen https://www.estimize.com/

Daniel sits down to chat with Drew Kese, Managing Partner at MissionOG, to talk the early stage FinTech landscape, the history of finance in technology, and where the biggest opportunities are for blockchain technology. MissionOG provides human and financial capital to early and growth stage B2B technology companies, including those in the FinTech space.

Nikhil Srivastava talks with Gautham Sastri, CEO of iSENTIUM - a NYC-based FinTech startup that measures sentiment in Twitter data to predict stock prices. Nikhil and Gautham discuss iSENTIUM's technology and business model, as well as Gautham's views on FinTech entrepreneurship.

Daniel McAuley chats with Doug Nelson from F-Prime Capital Partners, Fidelity's venture capital group. F-Prime invests in healthcare (formerly Fidelity Biosciences) and in technology (formerly part of Devonshire Investors). Daniel and Doug discuss the themes and ideas that the F-Prime team is exploring in FinTech and some of the investments they have made around those trends.

Daniel McAuley sits down with Sarah Millar to discuss financial inclusion and the entrepreneurial ecosystems in Latin America. Sarah Spent her summer working with both Petsy.mx and IGNIA in Mexico and is heading back into impact investing after Wharton.

Daniel McAuley sits down with Matt Carey and Nimish Shukla of https://www.myabaris.com/ to discuss InsuranceTech, the experience of being student founders and what the startup has in store to disintermediate the U.S. annuities market.

In this pilot episode of the Wharton FinTech podcast Eva Wei, Sasha Dobrolioubov and Daniel McAuley chat about startup recruiting at Wharton and share their experiences working at FinTech startups in the Bay Area over the summer.