Fintech Founders: Recent Episodes
Fintech Cadence
Each week, discover an entrepreneur who built a fintech startup. Learn about their story, their company and their vision for the future of the financial industry.
Chaque semaine, découvrez un entrepreneur fintech. Nous discutons de leur parcours, leur entreprise et leur vision pour le future de l'industrie financière.
Benefi is a financial wellness platform that helps Canadians escape from consumer debt by allowing access to low-interest loans and AI-driven financial literacy.
Learn more here: https://benefi.ca/
QUBER was founded in response to rising consumer debt levels and associated financial stress. Using a combination of gamification, behavioural nudges, and prize-linked savings, they have motivated Canadians to save over $2,000,000 - and they are just getting started! The QUBER mobile app features made-in-Canada, best in class technology that helps individuals of all income categories become mindful of their spending habits and build a much needed emergency fund. QUBER incorporates financial coaching and literacy skills to provide unbiased financial help for a community of like minded savers. Learn more at https://www.quber.ca/
Justwealth is an online portfolio management platform, committed to providing honest, smart and cost-effective wealth management.
CHK PLZ is a contactless payment platform, offering bars and restaurants POS integrated pay-at-table and online ordering solutions. Our pay-at-table solution allows your customers to view your menu & pay from their phones, all while supporting both waitstaff and mobile ordering.
Learn more at https://hq.chkplzapp.com/
Homewise is the easiest way to get a great mortgage - built for the modern consumer. They take the guesswork out of the mortgage process with a simple online application that uses human language, helpful content and access to our tech-powered professionals at every step. Further, they do the work for their users, negotiating with their list of 20+ top tier lenders to find them a transparent, tailored mortgage that meets their unique needs. They always set the goal of saving their users the most money possible.
About Lending Loop
Lending Loop, Canada’s leading small business lending platform, launched a new brand “Loop” (getloop.ca) to support growing eCommerce brands. Loop now offers a new line of credit that is specifically focused on scaling eCommerce businesses who need working capital support to assist with their growth. Loop allows brands to integrate the line of credit with their existing technology in order to provide access to a “real-time credit limit”. Unlike with other finance & lending providers where you typically have to re-apply for funding or wait for an annual re-evaluation, this new offering is a modern approach to funding that offers fast growing direct-to-consumer brands in Canada a dynamic credit limit based on the real-time performance of their eCommerce store.
goPeer is Canada's first consumer peer to peer lending platform. They connects creditworthy Canadians looking for a loan with people looking to invest.
Emma est la première Insurtech à avoir créer une technologie légale pour distribuer de l'assurance vie en ligne. Elle permet à ses clients d'être protégés en moins 20 minutes comparativement à la moyenne de 4-6 semaines du marché. Elle a également bâti son propre produit d'assurance vie avec un assureur bien établi au Canada et le plus grand réassureur au Monde. De plus, il s'agit de la première assurance vie non discriminante pour la femme enceinte dans le monde.
Cryptoworth makes managing, dealing, adopting and working with cryptocurrency easier in order to drive mass adoption of cryptocurrencies in all financial sectors. They offer solutions and consultancy services at the intersection of cryptocurrencies, blockchains, business and people to better-serve the fintech industry.
Flare Systems permet aux institutions financières de surveiller en continu les menaces causéespar des erreurs humaines et des acteurs malveillants pour protéger leur données, leurs ressources financières et leur réputation.
In this episode, meet David Fry, Founder & CEO at Paays.
Paays was founded in 2018 with a simple mission to create more affordability and access to travel.
The Paays Travel Marketplace leverages digital lending technology with travel merchants to offer monthly payments at a lower cost than traditional credit cards.
In this episode, meet Austin Hubbell, Founder and CEO at Consilium Crypto.
Consilium Crypto is a big data company that provides quantitative and qualitative insights to companies in the digital asset space, including funds, family offices and exchanges.
In this episode, meet Scott Satov, Founder & President at Loans Canada.
Loans Canada is Canada's first loan comparison and credit education website, allowing Canadians to research, compare or review lenders, and find the best solution to their credit needs.
Dans cet épisode, rencontrez Eric Mac Nicoll, Co-fondateur & Co-PDG de Kaira Technologies.
Kaira porte l’ambition de donner à chacun, en toutes circonstances, un meilleur contrôle de ses finances personnelles afin de l'aider à réduire son stress et ses anxiétés et à mener une vie meilleure sur le plan financier. Concrètement, leur coach de bien-être financier, assurera sa mission en accompagnant ses utilisateurs dans la résolution de difficultés (endettement, découverts bancaires récurrents, incapacité à faire face à une urgence..) dans la réalisation de leurs projets de vie (préparation de la retraite, désir de voyages, éducation des enfants).
In this episode, meet Mehdi Merai, Co-Founder & CEO at Dataperformers.
Dataperformers is an Applied AI company building advanced and cross-industry technologies and products. Founded in 2013, Dataperformers is one of Canada’s top artificial intelligence companies.
Mehdi Merai, PhD, was named the 2017-2018 AI Leader of the Year at Canada’s prestigious Fintech & AI Awards.
Dans cet épisode, rencontrez Julien Brault, PDG & Fondateur de Hardbacon.
Hardbacon est une entreprise de technologies financières dont la mission est d'aider les Canadiens à prendre de meilleures décisions financière et de s'enrichir jour après jour. Le produit phare est une application mobile qui se connecte aux comptes de banque et de placements, de manière à aider ses utilisateurs à prendre le contrôle de leurs finances personnelles.
In this episode, meet Phil Barrar, Founder & CEO at Mylo.
Mylo makes saving and investing accessible to all. Their app automatically rounds up purchases and invests the spare change, so users can begin investing without any prior investment knowledge or change in spending habits. Since launching in 2017, over 450,000 Canadians have created accounts to save and invest with Mylo, and they are the biggest robo-advisor in Canada by number of users.