Thought Leader in Financial Technology: DealMaker CEO Rebecca Kacaba (Part 1)

Equity Crowdfunding is evolving. This conversation highlights some of the trends.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to DealMaker.

Rebecca Kacaba: I was a capital market attorney for over a decade before founding DealMaker. The idea for DealMaker was born out of the problems my clients were having in trying to raise capital. It was too expensive and it was taking too long. I wanted to solve these problems for them.

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Sankaet Pathak, CEO of Synapse (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You are talking about US accounts for Indian residents?

Sankaet Pathak: Yes. Their thought process stops there. They’re more focused on how much money leaves India versus what other obligations come as a function of it. Primarily, US regulators are still more relevant.

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. At some level, I feel like you might get some traction if you offer your services to Indian banks that want to provide it to their customers.

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In 2020, Coalition Technologies was still largely a services company, but also had a few products. Co-founder Jordan Brannon shared the company’s well-managed journey.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Jordan Brannon: I was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I grew up primarily in Washington state in a smaller community. It’s about an hour and a half south of Seattle. I have three brothers and we largely stuck to the northwest throughout my childhood.

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Cloud Stocks: Analysis of Microsoft’s EduBrite Acquisition

The macroeconomic uncertainty is hurting big tech. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) recently announced its quarterly results that delivered the slowest revenue growth in the last five years. It failed to meet market expectations for the quarter driven by lower consumer and business spending.

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Sankaet Pathak, CEO of Synapse (Part 1)

Sankaet is building interesting infrastructure products for FinTech. Lots of insights, also, on open opportunities within the field for new entrepreneurs to latch onto.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Synapse.

Sankaet Pathak: I’m the Founder and CEO of Synapse. If you haven’t heard of Synapse, we are what’s considered a Banking-as-a-Service provider based in San Francisco.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Movius CEO Ananth Siva (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There’s a part of your story that I resonate with – having a corporate number that doesn’t move around. Some other employee mans that number. When the customer calls that number, they’re bound to get somebody. That is very compelling.

Permit me to play the devil’s advocate. I think your story is more compelling when you use that value proposition than all this trust and employees combining devices. It’s a very hairy area. The reason you hear me interacting with you to this extent on this topic is that I have worked on a company within our program that went through this issue.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Movius CEO Ananth Siva (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’ve talked to some CEOs who are in that business as well. Key employers are keen to monitor what employees are doing on their time. They want to see what are the activities on the device. You get into this thing about the employees’ devices being monitored by software that the employer is putting in. That’s how employees are getting around that – getting another computer.

Ananth Siva: That’s a fair comment. Fortunately for us, all our customers have seen that we have that ethical wall created, for example in Microsoft InTune, Blackberry Dynamics, and WhatsApp Business from Movius. Enterprise financial services customers have all been able to give their employees the opportunity to have a business interaction that doesn’t cross the wall. This has been validated.