Discussing impact from public market valuations, fed rate changes, learnings from 2021, trends for 2022, & much more. Guests include Alex Rampell (a16z), Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Frank Rotman (QED Investors), & Immad Akhund (Mercury).

This episode of Future of FinTech is on the future of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), and will cover why BNPL works where other consumer lending ideas haven’t, why millennial consumers are the driving force behind BNPL, what makes a great BNPL merchant, and untapped BNPL opportunities outside of ecommerce.

This week's Future of Fintech is on the future of private equity funding, discussing why PE has become such a hot space recently, how to reduce friction in PE so that more people can become venture investors, the challenges of innovating PE, regulating the PE space, positives and negatives from the crowdfunding experience, the types of businesses that typically do well on crowdfunding platforms, and much more.

This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of insurtech, discussing MGAs vs full insurance carriers, how to drive better underwriting, where to get a cost advantage, and much more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: • Kyle Nakatsuji, Founder & CEO of Clearcover • Sean Harper, Co-founder & CEO of Kin Insurance • Stephanie Choo, General Partner at Portag3 Ventures

This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of payment facilitators, discussing how to build a payfac, how to choose between using different payfac, opportunities in this space, and much more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: Peter Berg, VP of Business Development & Strategy at Very Good Security Caleb Avery, Founder & CEO of Tilled Matthew Janiga, General Counsel at Lithic

This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of bank integrations, discussing how to build integrations with banks, how bank integrations have evolved, opportunities in this space, and much more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: - Itai Damti, CEO of Unit - Bo Jiang, CEO of Lithic - Jim Brusstar, President of Treasury Prime - Shamir Karkal, CEO of Sila - Wade Arnold, CEO of Moov - Amias Gerety, Partner at QED Investors

This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of automated finances, discussing whether people prefer picking investments vs. having it automated, how the pandemic influenced this space, and upcoming opportunities. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: - Maia Bittner, Head of Business Operations at Chime - Chris Hutchins, Head of Financial Operations at Wealthfront - Yinon Ravid, CEO of Albert - Anish Acharya, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Immad Akhund, CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, investor at Better Tomorrow Ventures, host an episode of Future of Fintech on the future of credit scores. Guests include: Ohad Samet, Cofounder & CEO of TrueAccord Maia Bittner, Head of Business Operations at Chime Matt Harris, Cofounder & CEO of Bloom Credit Kristy Kim, Cofounder & CEO of Tomo Credit Misha Esipov, Co-Founder & CEO of Nova Credit

This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of personal finance management, discussing COVID's impact on personal finance habits, why PFM is a fit for younger generations, the future of consumer apps as PFM tools, and more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, Founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests this week include: Haroon Mokhtarzada, CEO of Truebill Yinon Ravid, CEO of Albert Aditi Shekar, CEO of Zeta Peggy Mangot, Partner at PayPal Ventures Kanyi Maqubela, Partner at Kindred Ventures

This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of gig work, discussing how big the gig worker market is, how the pandemic changed the market, why fintech for gig workers is particularly important, & opportunities in this space. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests for this week include: Trent Bigelow, CEO of Abound, Sean Engelking, Co-founder and CEO of Starship, Kristen Anderson, Founder & CEO of Catch, Hooman Radfar, Founder & CEO of Collective

This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of proptech, including what it takes to get VCs interested in proptech businesses, changing regulations, and more. Future of Fintech is hosted by Immad Akhund, founder and CEO of Mercury, and Sheel Mohnot, Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Guests for this week include: Brew Johnson, Founder & CEO of PeerStreet, Adena Hefets, Cofounder of Divvy Homes, Jon Dishotsky, CEO & Cofounder of Starcity

Welcome to the Future of Fintech, hosted by Immad Akhund and Sheel Mohnot. This week we're covering the future of B2B lending fintech. Our guests are: - Miguel Fernandez - Jason Garcia - Andrew D’souza - Nellie Levchin

Welcome to the Future of Fintech, hosted by Immad Akhund and Sheel Mohnot. This week we're covering the future of retail investing. Our guests are: - Alex Rampell, a VC at Andreessen Horowitz - Leif Abraham, cofounder and Co-CEO at Public.com - Julie Young, a writer and investor, former product at Snap - David McDonough, cofounder of Commonstock - Howard Lindzon, cofounder of Stocktwits - Aditi Maliwal, a GP at Upfront Ventures