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

Mason Borda, CTO/CoFounder GenLife #chinafintech

February 25, 2024March 13, 2017 by Pemo Theodore

Mason Borda CTO/CoFounder Gen Life, a digital insurance startup based in Hong Kong and Palo Alto, focused on bringing blockchain and AI to the insurance industry. He is a blockchain technology professional with a record of building and scaling innovative technologies. Mason speaks to and advises Fortune 500 enterprises on many aspects of blockchain solutions, including architecture, security, and scalability.

Cathryn Chen, CEO/CoFounder MarketX #chinafintech

February 25, 2024March 11, 2017 by Pemo Theodore

Cathryn Chen CEO/CoFounder MarketX. MarketX is an online investment management platform helping connect a generation of mass affluent investors with alternative financial products and independent wealth managers. We offer a spectrum of investment products from single house lending projects, car & consumer luxury goods loans, to pre-IPO company shares in high growth technology companies. We are the first online platform to facilitate direct investments in alternative financial markets between the U.S. and Asia. Previously, Cathryn worked at Deutsche Bank, Rothschild in London, and JP Morgan in Hong Kong, where she contributed to dozens of IPOs and private placements including Alibaba and Xiaomi. Prior to the Twitter and Alibaba IPOs, she witnessed first-hand the pent up demand for pre-IPO shares which led her to found MarketX. She also worked at EverString, an ad-tech startup backed by Lightspeed and Sequoia, bringing predictive analytics to sales & marketing at Fortune500 enterprises. In college, she co-founded MoneyThink LA, a White House-recognized, 501(c)3 non-profit that provides financial education to urban high school students. Cathryn graduated from UCLA and the London School of Economics.

FinTech in China Investors and Founders #chinafintech

February 25, 2024March 10, 2017 by Pemo Theodore

DISCUSSION: Tom Ding, CEO/CoFounder String Labs; Mason Borda CTO /CoFounder Gen Life; Mike Belshe CEO Bitgo; Melody Li, CFA, former Principal InnoSpring Seed Fund; Lilly Huang, Senior Director Silicon Valley Bank (SVB); Cathryn Chen CEO/CoFounder MarketX; MODERATOR: David Spark Tech journalist/Founder Spark Media Solutions Learn why Globally China accounted for 46% of all FinTech investments in 2016!

Vivek Ganesan, CoFounder Zyudly Labs #cybersecurity

February 25, 2024March 6, 2017 by Pemo Theodore

Vivek Ganesan, CoFounder Zyudly Labs, is a seasoned technologist with a strong background in big data and analytics. He has worked in applying Big Data and Analytics to deliver business value in the Financial Services and Cybersecurity domains. He has more than 20 years of experience in applying analytics and data-driven thinking to solving security problems. Vivek has worked on complex data security solutions at Cisco as well as driving analytics and cloud security solutions at Intuit. He has also applied his hands-on data-centric skills to good use at several consumer startups such as FanIQ, ListenLogic, and Syfto. He is currently serving as the co-founder and CEO of Zyudly Labs which is building a data-driven deep learning solution to discover data breaches and improve network security for the financial services industry.

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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.