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

Adam Carson Operating Partner Point72 Ventures #fintech2020

February 23, 2024March 10, 2020 by Pemo Theodore

Adam Carson Operating Partner Point72 Ventures on the FinTech team based out of San Francisco. Prior to joining Point72 Ventures, Adam worked at JPMorgan Chase as the Head of Digital / FinTech Strategy, Innovation and Partnerships with a focus on advising Chase’s lines of business (Consumer Banking, Business Banking, Merchant Services, Card Services, Auto Lending and Home lending) and functions (Digital, Marketing, Operations, Risk and Technology) through their digital transformation. Earlier in his career Adam worked at eBay, Bain & Company and Morgan Stanley. Born and raised outside of Philadelphia, Adam attended Duke University and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He has lived / worked in New York, London and Hong Kong before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area.

What’s Hot in FinTech Investments 2020 Globally?

February 23, 2024March 9, 2020 by Pemo Theodore

DISCUSSION: Chris McCann, General Partner Proof of Capital; Adam Carson, Operating Partner Point72 Ventures; Michelle Killoran, Principal OMERS Ventures: David Blumberg, Founder/Managing Partner Blumberg Capita; Moderator: Michael Gold, Editor The Economist Intelligence Unit

Sara Nofeliyan Sr Manager Product Management Varo #banktech2020

February 23, 2024March 6, 2020 by Pemo Theodore

Sara Nofeliyan, Sr Manager Product Management Varo: Sara is on a mission to help people make progress with their financial lives with over 6 years of experience in fintech product management. She currently leads growth products at Varo, the first neo-bank to obtain federal bank charter approval from the FDIC and focuses on engaging and growing the core customer segments that Varo provides invaluable, no-fee banking services to. Prior to Varo, she was the first product hire at Acorns, a micro-investment platform that allows millions to automatically invest any amount into a portfolio of ETFs. There she worked on everything from customer experience to broker-dealer tools from the ground up. During her time there the platform scaled to include several product lines and over 2 million users across the US. She holds a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California and is actively learning about how behavioral economics can be applied to financial product design.

Ken Kruszka CEO Snapcheck #banktech2020

February 23, 2024March 5, 2020 by Pemo Theodore

Ken Kruszka, CEO Snapcheck: He is a FinTech and Mobile Payments pioneer, who holds the distinction of being the first person to send $1 around the world by mobile. In addition to being an accomplished executive, leader, and entrepreneur, Ken also advises early-stage companies looking to establish product-market fit and accelerate growth on a global scale (mentoring for UnBank Ventures, INV Fintech, Founder Institute, and MARL Accelerator). Ken leads SnapCheck in revolutionizing business-to-business payments: eliminating $50 Billion in costs, removing $20 Billion in fraud. Previously, as co-founder and CEO of m-Via, Ken grew the company into an industry-recognized leader in mobile financial services and brought the company to cash-flow positive before leading m-Via through an acquisition by Boom Financial. Ken is a Founding Member of the Faster Payments Council as well as a member of the Fed Improvement Project: Business Payments Coalition. Ken has recently been named a Top Innovator to Watch by Bank Innovation, a Top FinTech Innovator by Aspioneer, and a Leading Corporate Digital Transformation Innovator by Databird.

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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.

Yash Patel is General Partner at Telstra Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm that differentiates by generating revenue for its portfolio with strategic channel partners and customer relationships as well as by using data science to drive its investment process. Yash's focus is on the consumer side of fintech, Web3, crypto, esports, gaming, SaaS apps, ecommerce, and marketplace. Some of his standout fintech investments while at Telstra Ventures are companies like Super.com (Super Apps) and Playbook (next-gen wealthtech). Previously, Yash was the Director of Corporate Development & Strategy at Adknowledge and was part of the technology investment banking team at Jefferies & Company prior.