New York is the epicenter of the financial markets and has been so since the end of World War II. It’s home to the two largest stock exchanges in the world, handling hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions daily. Half of all wages paid in Manhattan are in the finance realm. 16+% of the workforce is in finance, employing over 300,000 workers according to the NYCEDC.
The city is also one of the fastest growing hubs of innovation, only second to the Valley. New York is often dubbed the place for ‘hyphen-tech’; where startups and entrepreneurs tackle the challenges facing the established industries in the city. Given the growth in innovation and the city’s positioning as global leader in finance, it’s not a surprise that FinTech is at the forefront.
Today, we shine a spotlight on some of the key people in the ecosystem that are driving growth, progress, and innovation in the FinTech space.
Click Here to See The 30 People in the New York FinTech Scene You Need to Know About
Founder’s note: AlleyWatch does not have a financial relationship with any of those included. This list is in no particular order nor is it a ranking. In fact, the =RAND() function on excel was used to determine order.
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David Klein, CEO and Cofounder, CommonBond
David Klein is the CEO and cofounder of CommonBond, the online lender that is revolutionizing the borrowing costs of student loans. Klein specializes in setting strategy to create a superior borrower experience and it’s working. Under Klein’s leadership, the startup founded in 2011 has raised over $1B in funding across both equity and debt. In the last year alone, the company has financed over $500M in loans, established close to 100 employer partnerships with organizations like Betterment, WeWork, and Mercer, and increased revenue over 3x year-over-year. The idea for CommonBond came to Klein from his own personal experience financing his business school education at Wharton.
Prior to CommonBond, Klein worked in consumer finance at American Express, and as an analyst for McKinsey & Co. Klein was recently named to the 40 Under 40 by Crain’s in 2016 and was selected as a New York City Venture Fellow the prior year.
Simply put, his long-term goal is to “change the face of finance,” as the company has plans to move beyond student loans in the future.
Snapshot:
Name: David Klein
Title: CEO and Cofounder
Company: CommonBond
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Scott Galit, CEO, Payoneer
Scott Galit is the CEO of Payoneer, the payment platform that facilitates cross-border payments for commerce transactions. Galit and Payoneer employ over 600 individuals worldwide and the company powers the payment infrastructure for blue chip organizations with Amazon, Fiverr, Rakutenn, 99designs, Upwork, Airbnb, and NewEgg; allowing them to transact in 200+ countries and 150+ currencies. Payoneer has raised $90M in funding including a $50M round in 2015 that was led by Wellington Management.
Galit previously served as SVP for MasterCard and EVP for Meta Payment System.
Snapshot:
Name: Scott Galit
Title: CEO
Company: Payoneer
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Lowell Putnam, Cofounder and CEO, Quovo
Lowell Putnam is the founder and CEO of Quovo, an account aggregation and data analytics platform that centralizes and digitizes the wealth management industry. “There’s even more opportunity today than there was two years ago, because the incumbents are looking for change,” Putnam said, referring to large financial institutions looking to adopt technological solutions to replace their present practices.
He is an advisor to Refine Method and previously was an associate at Lehman Brothers on the trading floor prior. Putnam is a Harvard graduate and the great grandson of the founder of Putnam Funds.
Snapshot:
Name: Lowell Putnam
Title: Cofounder and CEO
Company: Quovo
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Atish Davda, Founder and CEO, EquityZen
Atish Davda is the founder and CEO of EquityZen, the startup that provides an exchange connecting shareholders in private tech companies and interested investors. The liquidity platform provides a solution for startups employees to gain value from their equity compensation prior to any formal liquidity events like an exit or IPO. In the current environment of minimal IPOs, Davda’s company has already completed close to 1000 investments in over 40 companies.
Davda, a graduate of Wharton, previously served as product lead at Ampush, an advertising-technology firm, and founded Knolsoft, an education-technology firm. He began his career at ACQ Capital, a Greenwich-based investment firm with $159.2B in assets under management.
Snapshot:
Name: Atish Davda
Title: Founder and CEO
Company: EquityZen
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Jon Zanoff, Founder & CEO, Empire Startups and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Techstars
Jon Zanoff founded Empire Startups in 2011 and is the current entrepreneur-in-residence at Techstars.
Often dubbed at the “Mayor of Fintech” in NYC, Zanoff has spent 15 years galvanizing the NYC FinTech community. He runs the largest FinTech meetup in the country, serves as a mentor to countless FinTech startups, and often serves as a judge for a number of fintech competitions. Empire Startups hosts succesful annual conferences in both New York and San Francisco, where the FinTech community converges to discuss the emerging issues facing the space today.
He has an impressive resume with experience in global product strategy and electronic trading markets with roles as Blackrock, Goldman Sachs, Instinet and E-Trade.
Snapshot:
Name: Jon Zanoff
Title: Founder & CEO
Companies: Empire Startups and Techstars
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Alexa von Tobel, CEO and Cofounder, LearnVest
Alexa von Tobel founded LearnVest, the affordable financial-planning platform in 2009, and has raised more than $72 million in funding for the company. Last year, the platform was acquired by Northestern Mutual for a reported sum of $250M; marking it as one of the larger recent fintech acquisitions.
A graduate of Harvard, von Tobel still continues to operate LearnVest as an independent entity under Northwestern Mutual. A recognized expert in personal finance, Alexa is a certified financial planner and the author of New York Times Bestseller, “Financially Fearless”.
Alexa’s foundation in finance is rooted from her trading days on the prop desk at Morgan Stanley. She has gone on to received numerous recognition for her work by organizations such as Ernst and Young, Fortune, Business Week, and several others.
Snapshot:
Name: Alexa von Tobel
Title: CEO and Cofounder
Company: LearnVest
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Barry Silbert, Founder and CEO, Digital Currency Group
Barry Silbert is the founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group, the platform that launches, acquires, and invests in digital currency and blockchain technology companies. Founded in 2015, the company has already made over 75 investments and has 4 exits in its portfolio. Silbert’s tenure in fintech facilitated investment from a number of prominent venture firms including Bain Capital, Firstmark, and RRE in DCG and James D. Robinson and Lawrence Lenihan sit on its investment committee.
Prior to DCG, Silbert founded SecondMarket, the prominent liquidity platform for private company shares that was acquired by NASDAQ in 2015 for an undisclosed sum.
Previously an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin. Silbert is an active angel investor and has invested (outside of DCG) in companies such as 42Floors, Art.sy, BitPay, CoinLab, Eventup, Lenddo, Murfie, RealDirect, Slated, SponsorHub, Tapad, IvyDate, Rewind Me, Lua Technologies, Coinsetter, 500 Startups, Voyat, Vator.TV, TraceLink, Endurance Lending Network, Peek, SendTheTrend, and Gold Bullion International.
Snapshot:
Name: Barry Silbert
Title: Founder and CEO
Company: Digital Currency Group
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Greg Neufeld, Founding Partner and FinTech Investor, ValueStream Labs
Greg Neufeld is the found partner at Value Stream Labs, a venture platform that provides strategic customer and product development for emerging technologies focused on financial services. As a connector, Neufeld has been instrumental in building the FinTech ecosystem locally and beyond.
A native New Yorker, Neufeld has previously worked in asset management, enterprise sales and consumer web industries, all of which have provided a foundation for his work in the FinTech space.
Neufield’s portfolio through Value Stream currently comprises twelve FinTech startups including Estimize, ChartIQ, TickerTags, Syndicated Loan Direct, and Lending Front.
Snapshot:
Name: Greg Neufeld
Title: Founding Partner and FinTech Investor
Company: Value Stream Labs
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Christian Lawless, Founder and Managing Partner, Conversion Capital
Christian Lawless is the founder and managing partner of Conversion Capital, the early stage venture firm that invests in financial services and analogous markets. Lawless specializes in Financial Services, Data Intelligence and related sectors. Conversion has made several fintech investments including LearnVest (acquired), Orchard, Blend, Redowl, Paribus, and Dataminr.
“Seismic change across the financial sector is inevitable. The mainframe, hardware and legacy costs to traditional financial companies could be crippling without innovation to newer more efficient technologies with lower more variable costs. I am looking for new technologies which bridge this gap,” said Lawless recently. Lawless’s previous roles at Lehman, Barclays, and Nomura provides him with some deep insight on the possibility for disruption in the fintech space.
Snapshot:
Name: Christian Lawless
Title: Founder and Managing Partner
Company: Conversion Capital
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Jesse Podell, Managing Director, Startupbootcamp FinTech
Jesse Podell manages the new Startupbootcamp FinTech in NYC, an offshoot of the leading global technology accelerator based in Amsterdam.
Podell spent 13 years working in finance before cofounding TechDay and DevShop. Jesse has been a resource and a friend to the FinTech community; devoting time and resources to ensure the vitality of the FinTech network in NYC.
Snapshot:
Name: Jesse Podell
Title: Managing Director
Company: Startupbootcamp FinTech
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Omar Qari, Cofounder, Abacus
Omar Qari is the cofounder of Abacus, the startup that reshapes how businesses manage their expenses and reimburse their employees. YC-backed, Abacus has developed into a staple for businesses that want to modernize how they pay back their employees and record company finances in real time.
Qari previously worked on payment partnerships and mobile distribution at Foursquare and focused on the FinTech at private equity and venture firm Abraaj Capital. The Wharton graduate serves as a mentor to Techstars.
Snapshot:
Name: Omar Qari
Title: Cofounder
Company: Abacus
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Jenny Fielding, Managing Director, Techstars
Jenny Fielding is a Managing Director at Techstars, the accelerator that has made over 800 investments, where she runs the FinTech and Internet of Things Accelerators in New York City.
She joined Techstars after serving 3 years as head of digital ventures at BBC Worldwide. Previously Fielding founded Switch-Mobile, a VoIP company, which was acquired by Via One in 2009 and worked at both Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan prior.
A graduate of Columbia University, Fielding has a diverse background and has specialized in venture capital, strategic partnerships, startup creation, and digital media.
Snapshot:
Name: Jenny Fielding
Title: Managing Director
Company: Techstars
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David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital
Serial fintech entrepreneur and former Bear Sterns investment banker David Teten currently serves as a Partner at ff Venture Capital. A FinTech expert through and through, Teten came on board at ff Venture Capital, the venture capital firm that’s focused on seed and early stage investments, as the third partner in 2011. The ff portfolio includes FinTech investments in Addepar, Clarity Money, Distil Networks, Earnest Research, Fluent, Indiegogo, Ionic Security, Sure, and Socure.
A serial CEO at the intersection of financial services and technology since 1999, David previously has advised clients such as Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Icahn Enterprises, LLR Partners, Birch Hill Equity Partners, and other institutional investors. Teten’s tenure in financial services includes operator roles at Evalueserve, Navon Partners, Nitron Circle of Experts, and Teten Recruiting.
Teten serves as the Founder and Chairman Emeritus at the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.
Snapshot:
Name: David Teten
Title: Partner
Company: ff Venture Capital
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Vince Passione, CEO and Cofounder, LendKey
Vince Passione is the CEO and cofounder of LendKey, the cloud-based platform that facilitates online lending and loans. He drives the company’s vision and strategy. LendKey inked a deal that provides backing for the purchase of loans by Apollo Management for $1B.
Passione has more than 20 years of experience working in finance, and has worked for companies like Citigroup, OnMoney.com and Ameritrade and was the COO of DealerTrack, the largest portal for automotive lending that went public in 2005 .
Passione is a member of the New York Angels and sits on the advisory board of several successful FinTech startups including Lenddo, Tranactics, and EverSafe.
Snapshot:
Name: Vince Passione
Title: CEO and Cofounder
Company: LendKey
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Rachel Mayer, CEO and Cofounder, Trigger Finance
Rachel Mayer is the CEO and cofounder of Trigger Finance, a mobile-first company that helps individual investors make decisions based on event triggers and conditions. Leveraging your smartphone, the platform allows you to eliminate the emotion from the investing process by setting forth rules-based strategies that can easily be programmed without the use of code. Trades can then be executed on your existing your trading platform.
A native of Venezuela, Mayer previously worked as a trader at JP Morgan but left to start Trigger with fellow classmates from Cornell Tech.
Snapshot:
Name: Rachel Mayer
Title: CEO and Cofounder
Company: Trigger Finance
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Dan Ciporin, General Partner, Canaan Partners
Dan Ciporin is a General Partner at Canaan Partners, a venture capital firm focused on early and mid-stage investments in technology startups and healthcare companies. Ciporin joined Canaan Partners in 2007, and is dedicated to supporting startups that engage consumers in meaningful ways using technology and the internet. His investments focus largely on FinTech and ecommerce.
Ciporin was formerly the Chairman and CEO of shopping.com, where be brought the company to IPO in 2004 and which led to the sale of the company Ebay in 2005, following nine years as the Senior Vice President of MasterCard International. He currently serves on the board of CircleUp, Orchard Platform, Borderfree, Lending Club, ShopKeep POS, borro, Gemvara, OpenSky, and JOOR.
Snapshot:
Name: Dan Ciporin
Title: General Partner
Company: Canaan Partners
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Jonathan Stein, Founder and CEO, Betterment
Jonathan Stein is the Founder and CEO of , which was created to reinvent the FinTech industry by providing automated investment decisions. The platform now has over $5B in assets under management and picked up a $100M funding round in the spring.
A Harvard and Columbia Business School graduate, Stein has been able to leverage his years of experience as a consulting to some of the largest brokers and advisory firms in the nation. Founded in 2008, under Stein’s leadership, Betterment has reshaped the playing field for the financial advisory business by slashing fees and adding transparency.
Snapshot:
Name: Jonathan Stein
Title: CEO and Founder
Company: Betterment
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Stephen Ehrlich, CEO, Tradier, Inc.
Steve Ehrlich is the CEO of Tradier, Inc., a brokerage platform that provides trading access to US markets through bundled APIs, the first of its kind.
He has worked in finance for over 25 years and previously built Lightspeed Financial into an $80M a year business as CEO and Founder. Prior to Lightspeed, Ehrlich served as the CEO of E*TRADE Professional Trading for four years.
Snapshot:
Name: Stephen Ehrlich
Title: CEO
Company: Tradier, Inc.
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James D. Robinson, Cofounder and Managing Partner, RRE Ventures
James D. Robinson is the Cofounder and Managing Partner at RRE Ventures. Since its start in 1994, the firm has invested more than $1.5 billion into over 200 businesses. Robinson has a talent for recognizing the viability of nascent technologies and is deeply interested in Bitcoin and blockchain technologies and has made investments in the Digital Currency Group, BitPay, and ItBit.
Robinson has more than 30 years of experience in the tech industry. He previously worked for JP Morgan and H&Q Venture Capital.
Snapshot:
Name: James Robinson IV
Title: Cofounder and Managing Partner
Company: RRE Ventures
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Stuart Sopp, CEO, Current
Stuart Sopp is the CEO of Current, a new spin in the crowded payment platform space. Rather than create a standalone application, Sopp is betting that Current’s solution of creating integrated payments in platform that people are already using (Slack, Facebook messenger, Twitter, etc) will win when it comes to P2P payments. Current is backed by Expa Ventures.
Sopp has built 17 years of experience in the financial industry. He previously worked as head of trading at Citi and Morgan Stanley and was a trader for Deutsche Bank and BNY Mellon.
Snapshot:
Name: Stuart Sopp
Title: CEO
Company: Current
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Matt Burton, CEO and Cofounder, Orchard
Matt Burton is the CEO and cofounder of Orchard, an online infrastructure provider for marketplace lending. The platform introduces transparency for institutional investors, loan originators, and investment managers. Since it’s launch in 2013, Orchard has picked up close to $50M in funding from venture firms such as Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, and Canaan Partners.
Burton previously worked positions at AdMeld, Google and LiveRail.
Snapshot:
Name: Matt Burton
Title: CEO and Cofounder
Company: Orchard
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James Waldinger, CEO and Founder, Artivest
James Waldinger is the CEO and Founder of Artivest, the platform that connects investors with investment opportunities in top-quality private equity and hedge funds. Waldinger launched Artivest in 2012 after servicing as the cofounder and co-CEO of Resonance Funds, with a previous role as an Investor at Clarium Capital Management, focusing on macro-economic research. His background in investing and consumer internet inspired him to launch Artivest, which has received $17M in funding from 3 rounds and 17 investors including a rare investment from KKR at the Series A stage.
Snapshot:
Name: James Waldinger
Title: CEO and Founder
Company: Artivest
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Mazy Dar, CEO and Cofounder, OpenFin
Mazy Dar is the CEO and cofounder of OpenFin, an HTML5 desktop program for large financial institutions. Dar’s role includes providing direction and product strategy for the company. With Dar at the helm, 44 sell-side and 250+ buy-side firms are now using OpenFin. In an industry where technology is often used to create walled gardens and proprietary systems, Dar has succeeded in establishing widespread adoption for OpenFin’s open-source solution.
Dar previously held strategic roles at Intercontinental Exchange, Creditex (acquired by Intercontinental Exchange), and UBS.
A graduate of Cornell, Dar is a mentor for Startupbootcamp FinTech and serves on the investment committee of Tribeca Angels, a FinTech-focused angel group.
Snapshot:
Name: Mazy Dar
Title: CEO and Cofounder
Company: OpenFin
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Kelly Peeler, CEO and Founder, NextGenVest
Kelly Peeler is the CEO and founder of NextGenVest, a text-messaging platform that assists college students with financial aid and student loan concerns. Burgeoning student loan debt is a hot topic and NextGenVest sits at the intersection of this pressing issue by providing a mission-focused knowledge platform that’s completely free for students.
Peeler studied History of Financial Crises at Harvard and previously worked as an analyst at JP Morgan. Peeler has received accolades from several notable organizations; she was named a Kauffman Foundation Global Scholar, one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, and a White House #StartTheSpark Ambassador.
Last year, Peeler took the stage for her own TED Talk on using money wisely that you can catch here.
Snapshot:
Name: Kelly Peeler
Title: CEO and founder
Company: NexGenVest
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Jared Hecht, CEO and Cofounder, Fundera
Jared Hecht is cofounder and CEO of Fundera, a simple business-loan platform that makes lenders compete for business. Fundera has completed three funding rounds totaling nearly $15M with investments coming from prominent venture firms such as First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Lerer Hippeau Ventrures, and Box Group.
Hecht previously founded group-messaging service GroupMe, the startup was inspired by a project at a Hackathon. In a year (actually 370 days) after its launch, GroupMe went on to be acquired by Skype for a reported $80M in total compensation.
Hecht has been an active angel investor with investments in notable companies such as Flatiron Health, AngelList, SweetGreen, Transferwise, and Poptip.
Snapshot:
Name: Jared Hecht
Title: CEO and Cofounder
Company: Fundera
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Peter Lehrman, CEO, Axial
Peter Lehrman is the CEO of Axial, an online financial network for investors, advisors, buyers, and lenders to transact deals both on the financing and acquisition side for private companies. Backed by venture firms like First Round, Comcast Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, and Edison Partners, in 2015 the Axial platform facilitates ~700 deals totaling $1B in aggregate value.
Lehrman previously worked in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and also helped found the Gerson Lehrman Group.
Lehrman, a graduate of Stanford Business School, has also made a number of angel investments in companies that include Artsy, Science Exchange, and Smarterer.
Snapshot:
oName: Peter Lehrman
Title: CEO
Company: Axial
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Leslie Campisi, Chief Marketing Officer, Anthemis Group
Leslie Campisi serves as the Chief Marketing Officer at Anthemis Group, one of the first FinTech focused investment and advisory firms in the world. The Anthemis portfolio includes over 30 investments including positions in Simple, Moven, Artivest, and Betterment. Campisi works closely on the firm’s positioning as well as with the portfolio companies on their marketing strategies.
Campisi joined the company in March after serving as the senior vice president at MSLGROUP, where she ran the PayPal account. She also launched and operated the PR agency Hotwire, which was named the “Best Tech PR Agency in the World” by Holmes.
Campisi mentors at Techstars and is working with current cohort in the fintech-focused accelerator.
Snapshot:
Name: Leslie Campisi
Title: Chief Marketing Officer
Company: Anthemis Group
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Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner, IA Ventures
Roger Ehrenberg is the Managing Partner of IA Ventures, which invests in early-stage companies focused on creating competitive advantages through data. IA Ventures currently manages three funds with a total of $315 Million in capital under management. Prior to IA Ventures, Ehrenburg spent 17 years on Wall Street in M&A, derivatives, and quantitative trading. He currently serves on as a board member of FinTech and data startups Direct Match, Might, Sight Machine, TrasnferWise, Datasift, Metamarkets, The Trade Desk, PlaceIQ, Cognitive, Logic, Signifyd, and MemSQL.
Snapshot:
Name: Roger Ehrenberg
Title: Managing Partner
Company: IA Ventures
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Matt Harris, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
Matt Harris is Managing Partner at Bain Capital Ventures and has a passion for and focus on financial services companies. He previously worked at Bain & Co and Bain Capital private equity before serving for 12 years as Managing Partner at Village Ventures before returning to Bain in 2012. Harris serves on the board of some notable NYC FinTech startups including Billtrust, Digital Currency Group, Chrome River, Novus Partners, and OpenFin.
Harris is a strong proponent of innovation related to payments, lending, capital markets, and insurance is focused on investing around these themes.
Harris also blogs about FinTech and Venture Capital at FinSurgency.
Snapshot:
Name: Matt Harris
Title: Managing Director
Company: Bain Capital Ventures
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Meltem Demirors, Director, Digital Currency Group
Meltem Demirors is the Director of Digital Currency Group, where she works with founders, leadership teams, and partners to network, raise funds, and drive expansion for the DCG portfolio of blockchain-focused startups. Demirors has been labeled the “connective tissue” that unites DCG, which already has 75 investments since its launch last year.
Demirors also serves as an Advisor to the Future Commerce at MIT Media Lab, where she lectures students on entrepreneurial endeavors. A MIT MBA, Demirors has built her expertise in fintech with roles in management consulting, corporate treasury, commodities trading, and supply-chain management. She is a core mentor of the Startupbootcamp Fintech NYC program.
Snapshot:
Name: Meltem Demirors
Title: Director
Company: Digital Currency Group
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