FUTURE OF MONEY
The second cohort to take center stage was the Future of Money. Scaling business in this sector comes with a level of complexity and regulation. This collab was designed to support CEOs facing those challenges daily.
Martina King joined Featurespace in 2012. Under King’s leadership, Featurespace has become the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Financial Crime prevention software, risk scoring events and preventing fraud and financial crime in more than 180 countries. The company has also raised more than £100 million in funding.
Tim's the co-founder and CEO of Yonder; a consumer lifestyle Fintech that's disrupting American Express. Since its inception in 2021 Yonder has raised over £20m in venture capital funding and over £62m in debt financing. Since launching Yonder has processed over £100m in card transactions with over 40,000 visits to Yonder's partners.
David was previously an infrastructure engineer at companies like Airbnb and CircleCI for almost a decade. He also worked on the core banking system at API banking startup Standard Treasury. Along with Allen, he is the author of Learning ClojureScript.
Richard is the CEO at Allica Bank. Before joining Allica, Richard was group COO at digital bank Revolut. Prior to that he was CEO of OakNorth and held leadership roles at TSB and HSBC.
Growth Gorilla is a team of experts with a proven track record of helping fintech brands go from start-up to scale-up. Shameer also launched the FML podcast, where he explores real-life growth tactics with some of fintech’s hardest-hitting marketers.
Dan's role includes managing MDR lab (the firms incubator and investment programme), creating new products and services for startup and growth clients as well as managing relationships with partners across the early-stage ecosystem.
Kieron is an entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the ICT sector, currently serving as CEO and co-Founder of Wonderful. With a background in technology, BD, strategy, and intentional leadership, he has co-founded and exited nine businesses, including two to NASDAQ-listed companies.
Maeve leads AWS’s engagement effort in FinTech in the UK, Ireland & France. She focuses on customers’ commercial growth, complementing the sales’ teams support of technological growth. This entails supporting go-to-market strategies using Amazon’s vast network, and connecting FinTechs that sell into Financial Institutions. Maeve joined from Revolut.
Mohsin is CEO of ZipZero, Prior to co-founding ZIPZERO, Mohsin was VP of International Sales at Cambridge Mobile Telematics (“CMT”), the world leader in Smartphone-based auto insurance telematics solutions
CEO and founder of Vega, a comprehensive wealth-building platform for modern high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. With a mission to bridge the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
Kaldi is a 'Fintech' working to transform the finances of Gen Z and Millennials having raised over £2.2m in funding including a successful £750,000 crowdfund.
Ren is the CEO and founder of Lightning Reach - a financial support portal which enables access to a range of personalised support (e.g. grants, benefits, help with their bills) - all in one place.
As CEO and founder of EVERYTHING, the UK's first gamified money ecosystem for Gen Z, Michael took the company from concept to a regulated app launch in under 8 months and amassed a 70m social following.
With a background in digital and product marketing, Gosia’s experience spans both large corporations and startups. Previously, she has been a part of marketing teams at Realla and Costar (following an acquisition), Cannes Lions, De Agostini, YMCA, and MDA Designs.
Rostislav is the CEO and founder of Profit.com, a pioneering fintech company reshaping the landscape of trading analytics, financial research, and trading education.
Tred cofounder Will is building the U.K.'s leading green online bank with its first product, a green debit card that helps people make their everyday spending more sustainable
Daniel is a seasoned founder having founded a brand & fashion incubator for influencers and new business models for brands like IKEA. His mission is to bolster financial confidence across all age groups- Doshi provides a crypto wallet targeted to teenagers and parents.
A Kiwi in London. Robert co-founded Plend in 2020 after an eight-year career in finance to build a better way to borrow. The consumer lending platform uses open banking to increase financial inclusivity for borrowers who cannot typically access affordable, long-term credit
Co-founder and CEO of everup – a business focused on prize-linked digital branded prepayments. everup is now a unique gamified shopping experience in the branded prepaid and curated goods market. We help you save money, while bringing entertainment and excitement.
CEO and founder of a FinTech, Sprive which helps homeowners in the UK be mortgage free, faster. 14 years of experience at Goldman Sachs; Managing global teams within Operations with a focus on effective execution, strategy and designing technology solutions.
Benefits to the cohort
WHAT EACH SESSION PROVIDEs
CEO Stories
The unique opportunity to hear from and grill later stage CEOs in fintech who have been there and done it (Series B and beyond).
CEO Strategy
Topic specific deep dive sessions with subject matter experts. From maintaining a resilient & adaptive culture to embedding a competitive strategy, these sessions will provide practical tools to adapt these concepts to early-stage company growth.
CEO Circles
Join a curated community of CEOs in the same sector and at the same stage to share challenges, experiences, and ambitions. You'll learn how to manage your mindset and energise the founder journey.
CEO Wellbeing
A chance to focus on you as an individual: your leadership development and your personal wellness.
VC Office Hours
121 time with our VC partners and a chance to review your pitch deck with an investor.
Tactical Office Hours
One-on-one sessions with the best experts in fields such as legal, finance, HR, PR, and growth & fundraising strategy.
GET A FEEL FOR VENTURECEO
Here's a taste of the our launch event for our first ever cohort, The Future of Health.