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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Infima Founder and Chief Scientist Kay Giesecke (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Do you price per analyst or some other way?

Kay Giesecke: We have a matrix for the pricing scheme. One layer of this is size of the company. If you have an asset manager like mutual fund, how big is the asset under management? That’s one factor. Another one would be the use case. Are they using it for research purposes? Are they using it for trading purposes? Are they using it for reporting purposes? We have a per use case charge. The more use cases, the higher the annual charge. It’s a subscription model, typically with multi-year contracts.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Hotelplanner.com to $20M with Intelligent Financial Engineering

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page.

Tim Hentschel, CEO of Hotelplanner.com, built an excellent company with quite unorthodox financial engineering decisions that have played out very well for him. Read on to learn about some out-of-the-box thinking.

Sramana Mitra: Where are you from? Where were your born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Tim Hentschel: I was from the West Coast originally, from as far as Hawaii where my family owns some hotels and also a large tour operation company. I left Hawaii when I was 13 to move to Carmel, California where I went to high school. Then, I moved east to New York where I attended Cornell University for hospitality management.

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Infima Founder and Chief Scientist Kay Giesecke (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You built this model at Stanford and then you spun out a company on top of that model. What is going on with bringing this to market like commercializing this? What is the business model? What is the go-to-market strategy? Is it selling to banks?

Kay Giesecke: If you take that mortgage slice, you can divide it into different customer segments. If you want to start at the lifecycle of the mortgage, it always is the bank. What happens then is that the banks collect bundles of mortgages, take them over to a government agency, and they turn these bundle of mortgages into securities that are then bought up by investors and banks. That’s the full lifecycle.

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Infima Founder and Chief Scientist Kay Giesecke (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What are some of the nuggets that you’ve learned?

Kay Giesecke: We learned that the behavioral patterns are very complex. Let’s just focus on homeowners. There are the lenders. They look at applications for mortgage loans. They need to decide if this person is creditworthy enough for a home mortgage that’s backed by a specific home that they’d like to purchase. They have to assess the chance that this person is going to be able to repay the mortgage on time over the term of the mortgage.