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Hello and welcome to Episode 8 here on the GMC Global Millennial Capital Podcast Channel. In this episode, we feature Zain Zaidi, Founder & CEO of TransCrypts.  Also joining us in this episode is our very own Andreea Danila, General Founding Partner of Global Millennial Capital.

About Zain Zaidi, CEO and Founder of TransCrypts

Zain is a blockchain-focused executive, entrepreneur, and investor. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of TransCrypts, a B2B2C platform focused on redesigning digital documents through the blockchain. Zain has been featured as an Under 25 entrepreneur by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. He has also been featured on publications such as MarketWatch, and local affiliate channels of Fox and NBC News.

Whilst studying his Masters at Harvard, Zain and Ali, his co-founder  invented a blockchain technology which would serve as a plug & play platform to be able to verify any type of document aimed at solving a billion dollar problem relating to automation and cost savings across various industries especially employment identification, contract identification and further on KYC documentations.

More information on Zain Zaidi on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zainzaidi99/

Visit the website of TransCrypts at: https://www.transcrypts.com/

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We would like to welcome you all to this 7th episode on our GMC podcast channel!

Global Millennial Capital is delighted to present Envel, one of the companies in our growing investment portfolio as well as introduce the Founder & CEO of Envel, Mr.Steve Le Roux, to our audience in the Middle East in this podcast episode.

Envel has launched their investment round to the public via WeFunder on March 28,2022 and GMC's General Founding Partner, Andreea Danila shared her lead investment recommendations for Envel on their investment round at WeFunder:

"I am super excited to be investing in Envel. Here is why are we investing: The entrepreneur and management team, one of the best in the industry with Steve Le Roux leading innovation, product development and growth. More than 35,000 users growing at double digit m-o-m growth rate.Founded at Harvard and backed by MIT with patented AI solution. Based on our data analysis of the neo-banking and AI verticals, using our proprietary rating model assuming a scale up factor model on funding and user growth, we believe Envel has the potential to reach a valuation in the range of USD70 M to USD100 M in the coming months with a potential to become a #unicorn."

-Andreea Danila, GMC General Founding Partner

Visit the investment round of Envel at WeFunder:https://wefunder.com/envel/

About EnvelEnvel is a Harvard-founded financial technology company that leverages AI and behavioral science to optimize people’s finances in real-time and automate their budgeting, savings, and investments. Funded by the MIT Sandbox Program, angel investors, and crowdfunding, Envel is on a mission to make banking and investing easier and more simple for tens of millions of people. Visit their website at: https://www.envel.ai/

About Steve Le Roux, CEO and Founder of Envel

Steve is a visionary, innovator and FinTech/Tech Entrepreneur with 2 exits and has been successful leading game changing innovation within Government, financial Services, NGOs and FTSE 100 companies. He founded an SaaS based Tech company back in mid 2000s that was red hot in the city of London, but lost the race to Salesforce.

Whilst studying towards a Masters in Finance at Harvard, Steve invented a new way of banking based on the intersection of ethics and Artificial Intelligence to fully address behavioral economic challenges. Steve recently graduated from Oxford Saïd Business School’s Fintech Programme.

Steve was proud to have been awarded an Honors by the British Virgin Islands Government in 2012. He currently serves as Advisory Board Member to Lafferty Group International Retail Banking and Fintech Council. He Received an Innovation Award from a FTSE 100 company in 2015.

Steve has a rich cultural family background consisting of those from the Arts, Politics and the infamous 19th century romantic English poet John Keats, just one of many in the family that left a legacy to inspire and profoundly impact the lives of many generations.

Get the latest updated from Envel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/envelbank

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We would like to welcome you all to this 6th episode on our GMC podcast channel !

Global Millennial Capital is the first venture capital investor from the middle east to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) in the investment process. GMC invests in global scalable, tech-enabled and highly transformational consumer-centric early-stage opportunities in Silicon Valley.

The first female-founded global investor from the Middle East, established by Andreea Danila in 2019 backed by 70 HNWI and family offices with a high growth portfolio of American technology companies with a significant exposure to innovations and solutions within the fintech space.

The emerging venture capital fund provides access to the latest and most on demand deals from Silicon Valley to the investors in the Middle East. Some of its investment case studies include Rocket Dollar, Envel, Unifimoney, Financial Choice, just to name a few.

Global Millennial Capital is delighted to present Pathbooks, one of the companies in our growing investment portfolio as well as introduce the Founder & CEO of Pathbooks, Mr.Jorge Louis Caballero, to our audience in the Middle East in this podcast episode.

About PathbooksPathbooks is one of the companies in the growing GMC Portfolio and we are proud of their success in achieving more than 1 Million downloads globally. Visit their website at https://www.pathbooks.app

Pathbooks is the the first interactive reading platform for schools founded by Jorge Louis Verne Caballero. This inspiring firm is reinventing the concept of reading and has already achieved over 1 Million Pathbooks downloads on 5 continents.

About Jorge Louis Caballero, CEO and Founder of Pathbooks

Jorge is a writer, speaker and entrepreneur. He has been an entrepreneur in Google Silicon Valley California and a successful businessman on the television show Shark Tank and Meet the Drapers.

He was an engineer at the largest television station in Latin America for seven years, and he is writer and director of short films that won a film festival.

Jorge is an award-winning entrepreneur of the year in 2018. He is the creator of Pathbooks, one of the most important interactive reading platforms in the world. With his books that include decisions and multiple endings, he is helping thousands of students to love reading. Many students are reading more than 20 books every year thanks to Pathbooks.

With this platform, he is promoting reading and demonstrating that reading is a fundamental part of the development of any person and any country.

Visit their website at https://www.pathbooks.app

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We would like to welcome you to the GMC podcast channel for our 5th episode!

Global Millennial Capital is the first venture capital investor from the middle east to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) in the investment process. Invests in global scalable, tech enabled and highly transformational consumer-centric early-stage opportunities in Silicon Valley.

The first female-founded global investor from the Middle East, established by Andreea Danila in 2019 backed by 70 HNWI and family offices with a high growth portfolio of American technology companies with a significant exposure to innovations and solutions within the FinTech space.

The emerging venture capital fund provides access to the latest and most on demand deals from Silicon Valley to the investors in the Middle East. Some of its investment case studies include Rocket Dollar, Envel, Unifimoney, Financial Choice, just to name a few.

Global Millennial Capital is delighted to welcome KingsCrowd to its investment portfolio as well as introduce the Founder & CEO of KingsCrowd to our audience in the Middle East in this podcast episode.

About KingsCrowd

KingsCrowd is made up of a team of financiers, venture capitalists, technologists, founders, and industry experts on a mission to democratize private market investing.

KingsCrowd aims to empower everyone to invest in startups confidently through a platform-agnostic suite of EC support products including research, recommendations, data analytics, and financial products.

Visit their website at https://kingscrowd.com

About Chris Lustrino, CEO and Founder of KingsCrowd

Chris is the CEO and Founder of KingsCrowd, the First Ratings and Analytics Platform for Online Private Markets and also the latest addition to the GMC company portfolio.

Chris is a Boston College Eagle for life, and he is on a mission to democratize startup investing for all people at KingsCrowd, with a passion for FinTech, investing, social impact, doing well and doing good, and an avid runner, cyclist and writer.

Prior to founding KingsCrowd, Chris served as a Consultant at L.E.K. Consulting, where he focused on private equity due diligence. Before his time at L.E.K., he ran finance ops at Freebird, a travel tech startup. He also founded Simple.Innovative.Change, a FinTech publication focused on alternative investments and lending and was a finalist for the 2018 LendIt FinTech Journalist of the Year. Chris graduated from Boston College with a Business degree in Operations, Info Systems, and Marketing.

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This podcast is Part 2 of the Webinar: Global Founders, Global Ideas and FinTech Perspectives, which was presented at the Global Millennial Capital Annual Investor Forum. It featured the best-in-class global founders bringing into the FinTech market revolutionary ideas across robo-advisory, wealth-tech and neo-banking.

The Global Millennial Capital Annual Investor Forum is an extraordinary event which was attended by more than 40 C-level executives and decision makers from the Middle East including CEOs of banks, family offices, private placement agents, investment funds, and others.

The forum was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in DIFC under the leadership of Global Millennial Capitals Chairman, Mr. Hamad Al Attiyah.

PART 2 of the Webinar featured Mr.Craig Bond, Executive Chairman of Envel. This Webinar was moderated by Ms.Andreea Danila, Global Millennial Capital General Founding Partner

ABOUT Ms.Andreea Danila | Global Millennial Capital General Founding Partner

Andreea is an award-winning entrepreneur and venture capitalist. She is the Founder & General Partner of Global Millennial Capital, the first investor from the Arab world to introduce artificial intelligence into its investment origination process, and an investor and board member of various portfolio companies in Silicon Valley including Rocket Dollar, Envel, Unifimoney, Elly Health, Blue Studios, PathBooks among others.
Prior to starting Global Millennial Capital, Andreea was an M&A advisor with Ernst and Young where she advised sovereign wealth funds, investment banks, and technology companies on strategy, M&A, and market entry strategies for billions of dollars. She brings extensive experience in launching and scaling private equity and venture capital funds in the middle east, and has been a founding member and Director with a middle east USD 1 Billion private capital fund. She holds close and strategic relationships with most of the institutional investors from the Middle East for the last decade in the region.

Andreea is a Harvard Business School alumni with a degree in General Management and holds a post-graduate diploma from MIT Sloan School of Management, Artificial Intelligence.

ABOUT Mr.Craig Bond | Executive Chairman of Envel

Craig is a former CEO of two of Africa’s largest retail and business banks, which are Barclays Africa Group and Standard Bank Africa, and has established an award winning corporate and investment banking advisory business in China, in partnership with one of the world’s largest banks, ICBC. He has also set up two successful Private Banks and run large Visa, MasterCard and American Express businesses, having been a member of MasterCard’s Global Operating Committee and Chairman of its South Asia, Middle East and Africa Board of Directors. He is also a former Chairman of Ford Financial Services ( Pty) Ltd and Woolworths Financial Services ( Pty) Ltd.

Craig is a transformational and turnaround leader with over 30 years of banking, payments and travel and tourism experience, with a reputation for product innovation and business development, across Africa, Asia and the Americas.He is a driven, inspirational and entrepreneurial servant leader who thrives on difficult challenges, having developed a reputation for turning around underperforming businesses and establishing new businesses in difficult African, Asian and American markets.

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This is the podcast version of the live webinar on Global Founders, Global Ideas and FinTech Perspectives that was presented at the Global Millennial Capital Annual Investor Forum.

It featured the best-in-class global founders bringing into the FinTech market revolutionary ideas across robo-advisory, wealth-tech and neo-banking.

The Global Millennial Capital Annual Investor Forum is an extraordinary event which was attended by more than 40 C-level executives and decision makers from the Middle East including CEOs of banks, family offices, private placement agents, investment funds, and others.

The forum was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in DIFC under the leadership of Global Millennial Capitals Chairman, Mr. Hamad Al Attiyah.

PART 1 of the Webinar featured Mr.Henry Yoshida, Founder and CEO of Rocket Dollar and Mr.Ben Soppitt, Founder and CEO of Unifimoney. This Webinar was moderated by Ms.Andreea Danila, Global Millennial Capital General Founding Partner

ABOUT Ms.Andreea Danila | Global Millennial Capital General Founding Partner

Andreea is an award-winning entrepreneur and venture capitalist. She is the Founder & General Partner of Global Millennial Capital, the first investor from the Arab world to introduce artificial intelligence into its investment origination process, and an investor and board member of various portfolio companies in Silicon Valley including Rocket Dollar, Envel, Unifimoney, Elly Health, Blue Studios, PathBooks among others.

Prior to starting Global Millennial Capital, Andreea was an M&A advisor with Ernst and Young where she advised sovereign wealth funds, investment banks, and technology companies on strategy, M&A, and market entry strategies for billions of dollars. She brings extensive experience in launching and scaling private equity and venture capital funds in the middle east, and has been a founding member and Director with a Middle East USD 1 Billion private capital fund. She holds close and strategic relationships with most of the institutional investors from the Middle East for the last decade in the region.

Andreea is a Harvard Business School alumni with a degree in General Management and holds a post-graduate diploma from MIT Sloan School of Management, Artificial Intelligence.

ABOUT Mr. Henry Yoshida | Rocket Dollar Founder and CEO

Henry is the CEO and Co-founder of Rocket Dollar, a web platform that lets people invest tax-advantaged retirement dollars into private alternative investments. He is a Certified Financial Planner™ professional, licensed Realtor®, and has 20 years of experience in finance. In the past, Henry was the founder of venture capital backed robo-advisor Honest Dollar, which was acquired by Goldman Sachs and was the founder of MY Group LLC, a $2.6 Billion AUM retirement plan advisory firm, and spent 10 years at Merrill Lynch.

He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, and has an MBA from Cornell University.

ABOUT Mr. Ben Soppitt | Unifimoney Founder and CEO

Ben is the Founder and CEO of Unifimoney. Born in London, Ben left to work in Asia in 2008, and then moved to San Francisco in 2015. Ben has worked for companies that include Accenture, Visa, Ogilvy & Mather, Fitbit, and Samsung.
Unifimoney is on a mission to help ensure the long term financial success of millions of Millennials who are not getting the returns they deserve from their own money. Unifimoney makes saving and investing as easy as spending. Ben holds a BA from University of Manchester.

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In GMC Podcast Episode 2, we feature Prasshanth Sagar, Global Millennial Capital's Collaborator for the Millennial AI LLC Algorithm. Prasshanth talks about risk and confidence in FinTech and shares the latest insights in FinTech and venture capital investment.

Prasshanth is a passionate learner extensively exploring areas in both quantitative and qualitative economics, supported by a solid footing in finance, mathematics and statistics, alongside a commendable background in regional and international politico-economic studies. 

He is currently an economics and mathematics undergraduate at Northwestern University and a PETRONAS scholar.

Moderated by GMC's Brand Consultant Vanessa Liwanag

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In the first episode of the new GMC Podcast Channel, the General Founding Partner of Global Millennial Capital, Andrea Danila introduces the Dubai-based firm, backed up by AI for their investment analysis. Andreea talks about investing, cryptocurrency, DeFi and gives an insightful forecast for investing and venture capital and many more in this very informative podcast.

Moderated by Vanessa Liwanag, GMC's Brand Consultant. For more updates and the latest news, visit the website and learn more about Global Millennial Capital here - www.globalmillennialcapital.com