Pemo Theodore

Pemo Theodore is a Media Publisher and a great people connector. She was Founder Silicon Valley TV which served the San Francisco Bay Area for 14 years! She has produced Silicon Valley Events for Investors & Startups for 10 years. Pemo loves to video interview venture capitalists & founders to engage the human behind the success stories.. She has been Executive Producer of FinTech Silicon Valley for 8 years, organizing twice monthly FinTech talks & panels in San Francisco & Palo Alto and audio podcasts. She believes in learning through a great discussion with experts in the domains. Pemo has a talent to bring the right people together and is an incredible networker. Pemo's events have been seen as supporting Venture Capitalists & Angels in sourcing great deal flow from startups who attend her events. Many founders have received funding through meeting investors at her events. Her favored medium is audio & visual media and she has built up a great body of work of videos of panels & interviews and podcasts in Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. She has lived & worked in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, London, Northern Ireland & Silicon Valley. Bio https://pemo.one

Sam Wen, Green Visor Capital #fintechinvestment

February 25, 2024November 22, 2016 by Pemo Theodore

Sam Wen Venture Partner Green Visor Capital & helps the Green Visor team assess emerging technologies, works as an adviser to portfolio companies, and mentors young engineers within the group. Before joining Green Visor, Sam was a founding team member and senior engineer of Square, the revolutionary mobile commerce platform and point-of-sale system for small merchants and individuals. Among his many achievements at Square, Sam was responsible for creating the software algorithm that enables the card reading capabilities of all Square devices on iOS and Android phones and tablets. Sam’s efforts helped lead to 7 issued patents and one patent pending. Prior to Square, Sam worked for Boeing as a munitions systems engineer. Sam holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and is a member of the Founder’s 50.

FinTech Investors #fintechinvestment

February 23, 2024November 21, 2016 by Pemo Theodore

DISCUSSION: Bart Stephens Founder/Managing Partner Blockchain Capital; Michael Walsh General Partner Green Visor Capital; Sam Wen Venture Partner Green Visor Capital; Joe Guzel Crosslink Capital; Adam Draper Founder/Managing Director Boost VC; MODERATOR: Phil Jeudy Director Baywatch Lab

Valerian Bennett, PopChest #fintechmedia

February 25, 2024November 13, 2016 by Pemo Theodore

Valerian Bennett Founder/CEO PopChest. Mr. Bennett is a veteran television producer/editor and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He graduated from USC film and has worked on hit TV shows for E!, MTV, A&E, and many more. As a resident of Los Angeles and native to Silicon Valley, Valerian is perfectly suited to tackle the changing landscape of media distribution by employing cutting-edge blockchain technology. PopChest is the first community-supported video platform. No ads. No subscriptions. Using blockchain technology in our payment-enabled video player, PopChest let’s viewers send a few cents to support the artists they love while giving publishers the ability to make money in a whole new way.

Ryan X. Charles, CEO Yours #fintechmedia

February 25, 2024November 12, 2016 by Pemo Theodore

Ryan X. Charles CEO/CoFounder Yours, a social media content sharing app with integrated smart contract micropayments and is the former cryptocurrency engineer of reddit. He has been in the bitcoin space since 2011, and besides reddit, has also worked as an engineer at BitPay, the world’s largest bitcoin payment processor, and BitGo, the world’s largest bitcoin security provider. He is an ABD physics PhD at Washington University in St. Louis.

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FinTech Silicon Valley podcasts are focused on educating and highlighting FinTech in Silicon Valley to the global community both through video and audio. These podcasts are short and fun, one on one interviews by FinTech Silicon Valley journalists with experts and investors on how they are contributing to the community and what their perspective is on the future of FinTech.

Sankaet Pathak, Founder & CEO Synapse completed a Master’s in electrical engineering at the University of Memphis, where he previously majored in computer engineering, physics and mathematics. A scientist at heart, much of Pathak’s academic work was focused on physics and research related to the solar corona. As a student at the University of Memphis and a recent immigrant to the USA, Sankaet Pathak needed to open a bank account. He was surprised to learn that wasn’t an easy task. Sankaet knew he had to develop a better option not only for himself but for the over 20% of adults in the USA with poor or limited credit history. Sankaet founded Synapse with an eye toward offering a viable alternative to legacy banking systems, while providing operational simplicity, efficiency & ease of integration to perform virtually any banking interaction. Sankaet is launching an AI startup soon called Foundation. Foundation is developing the future of general purpose robotics with the goal to address the labor shortage. Foundation’s mission is to create advanced robots that can operate in complex environments, reducing human risk in conflict zones and enhancing efficiency in labor-intensive industries.