Hi Everyone,
Welcome to our FinTech Open Mic Night series in New York. Please join us for our monthly mixture of presentations, skype-ins, fireside chats and shout-outs plus plenty of networking.
This monthly session is designed to provide an opportunity to catch up with your peers, to see what's going on in the New York and International FinTech scenes and to tell us all about yourself and your own work.
This month we're hosting a Shark Tank, the familiar Shark vs Entrepreneur pitch. Each Entrepreneur gets to pitch to our Sharks who each have $1Million in virtual money to invest, whoever gets the greatest total investment wins the event.
If you're a seed stage FinTech company looking for funding then you will definitely want to pitch at this event, please drop one of the Organisers a line if you'd like a slot.
Agenda
Please be aware that the agenda is updated on a regular basis
6:00pm - Doors open
Refreshments and networking opportunities
7:00pm - Session starts
-> Welcome address
</a><a href="http://www.meetup.com/NewFinanceNewYork/members/61157672/">Ashish Singal, NewFinance New York Chapter Organiser
-> Shark Tank
Investors:
Matt Perlman, Principal at Fenway Summer Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on promising early stage financial services companies
Alex Tarhini, Associate at Point72 Ventures
Eric Gouin, CEO of Pentalabbs, a Strategic Industrial Investor in Services for Equity that gives to start-ups power of technology and digital marketing for their acceleration
Meghan Cross, Managing Director of Red Bear Angels, the angel group that invests in early-stage ventures founded or led by Cornell University alumni
Adi Levanon, Director of Investments at FinTech Collective, investing in early stage Fintech companies with a focus on banking, lending, payments, capital markets, wealth & asset management, insurance and blockchain based technologies
Entrepreneurs:
Melanie Smith, Founder/CEO of KaChing, a mobile app designed to foster investing habits and financial mindfulness in teenagers
Rob Koyfman from Koyfin.com, a web based terminal that provides investors with research and visualization tools to analyze stocks, fx, macro and economic indicators
Marcus Estes, CEO of Chroma, a securities exchange for the private markets economy.
Gregg Jackowitz, Founder & CEO of PaidEasy, a mobile payments application that allows users to seamlessly sync with a merchants Point of Sales system.
Joo Menano, Founder and head of business development of CrowdProcess, Consumer credit modeling software for risk officers
Shuo Zhang, Co-Founder & CEO of ModernLend, an online lender that uses alternative data metrics to lend to creditworthy international citizens
8:00pm - Closing
Shout-outs, communications, feedback and thanks
Further networking opportunities
9:00pm - Session ends
For those of you who would like to continue networking we'll retire to a local bar.
Cheers
Eddie
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Thank you to our Partners:
Rise New York is a global community of startups and corporates creating the future of commerce and fintech by helping startups and entrepreneurs connect, co-create, and scale innovation. In partnership with Barclays, we listen, nurture and oxygenate through our international network of Rise hubs. Rise New York also houses a world-class event space and is home to the U.S. cohort of the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars.
