Roundtable Recap: December 14 – Discussions of Some FinTech Ideas

During this week’s roundtable, we discussed two FinTech ideas.

Dinio

First, we had Richard Carrion in Puerto Rico pitch Dinio, a digital bank for Puerto Rico.

Safemultiple

Then Dayanand Menashi from Connecticut pitch Safemultiple, a valuation service for tech startups.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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