Philipp Buschmann, Co-founder and CEO, AAZZUR
Philipp Buschmann discusses AAZZUR's embedded finance orchestration platform, recent £2m funding, and why banking must become invisible infrastructure woven into everyday life.
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Alec Miloslavsky, CEO of EIS
Alec Miloslavsky is CEO of EIS, a cloud-native core platform purpose-built for the insurance industry. With a background founding and scaling enterprise software companies, Miloslavsky leads EIS in modernizing legacy insurance systems to enable agile, customer-driven transformation.
Colin Hewit, CEO, Float
Colin Hewit is CEO and founder of Float, a cashflow forecasting platform that integrates with Xero and QuickBooks to provide businesses with daily, weekly, or monthly cashflow projections and Cashflow Intelligence for scenario planning.
Ben Swails, GM Northern Europe, Pleo
Ben Swails is General Manager for Northern Europe at Pleo, a venture-capital-funded business spend management platform offering smart company cards, automated expense reporting, and invoice management.
Lisa Ashford, CEO, Ethex
Lisa Ashford is CEO of Ethex, a UK platform for ethical investment opportunities. With a background in energy policy, carbon markets, and financial strategy from Said Business School, Ashford discusses how she founded Ethex over a decade ago to use finance for positive social and environmental...
Meri Williams, CTO, Pleo
Meri Williams is Chief Technology Officer at Pleo, a European fintech company offering smart company cards and spend management solutions. She discusses her career spanning P&G, the UK Government Digital Service, and various startups, her role leading Pleo's tech strategy and engineering teams,...
Michael Whitmire, CEO & Co-Founder, FloQast
Michael Whitmire is CEO and co-founder of FloQast, an Accounting Transformation Platform created by accountants for accountants. He discusses his background as a senior accountant, the company's unicorn status with over 3,000 customers, and his leadership philosophy of hiring experts and...
Y-combinator wants your FinTech 2.0 ideas
Dalton Caldwell, MD of Investments at Y-Combinator, invites FinTech 2.0 entrepreneurs to submit pitches for the accelerator's Winter 2025 batch, emphasizing that applicants need only an idea, as 40% of funded companies start without revenue or traction.
Joan Medland, Co-Founder, Shoal
Joan Medland is Co-Founder of Shoal, a sustainable savings app offering competitive fixed-term savings with FSCS protection, where savers earn returns while supporting green and social projects globally.
Philipp Buschmann, CEO, AAZZUR
Philipp Buschmann is co-founder and CEO of AAZZUR, an embedded finance provider serving luxury retail, travel, and tourism sectors. He discusses the company's mission to build profitable embedded finance solutions that empower consumers and help businesses expand financial offerings while...
Linda Portnoff, CEO, Tangy Market
Linda Portnoff is CEO and founder of Tangy Market, a fintech platform that enables fractionalised ownership and trading of music royalties globally using machine learning valuation technology.
Jarrad Hubble, CEO of RTGS.global
Jarrad Hubble is CEO of RTGS.global, a next-generation settlement service delivering real-time cross-border payments and liquidity management for the interbank foreign exchange market.