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What's next in fintech? In this high-signal episode, Sheel Mohnot (GP at @ Better Tomorrow Ventures) shares deep insight into the future of financial services, AI's impact on SaaS, and how VC is evolving in 2025.

In this episode Rex chats with Sheel Mohnot from Better Tomorrow Ventures. Sheel shares his journey of living on a dollar a day in India, founding and selling multiple companies (including one sparked by a chance meeting on a train), and even hosting nine weddings—one of them sponsored by Taco Bell in the metaverse. They dive into Sheel's evolving personal finance stack, from traditional banks to Robinhood's gold credit card, and discuss why consumer fintech is suddenly exciting again. Sheel also unpacks how AI-driven solutions are transforming bookkeeping, mortgage operations, and more. From vertical SaaS insights to San Francisco's culture of radical experimentation, this conversation is a whirlwind tour of where fintech is headed.00:00:00 - Introduction00:01:00 - BTV Office & Life Above Work00:02:46 - Microfinance & Typhoid Stories00:04:01 - Half-Billion Domain Startup00:05:13 - Nine Weddings & Taco Bell00:06:28 - Building a Modern Finance Stack00:08:14 - Credit Cards & Margin Lending00:10:24 - Bank Inefficiencies & Chime's IPO00:11:33 - Consumer Fintech: Lessons & LTV00:15:50 - B2B Focus & Early-Stage Strategy00:19:15 - AI in Services: Accounting & Mortgage00:23:07 - Vertical SaaS & Embedded Finance00:31:10 - AI's Impact on Low-Margin Services00:33:34 - Doing More with Less & Moats00:40:01 - Regulatory Shifts & SF's Future

Every founder's journey is a unique blend of ambition, resilience, and lessons learned the hard way. Yoseph West embodies this entrepreneurial spirit, having navigated the complexities of building, scaling, financing, and successfully exiting multiple startups. Yoseph's latest venture, Relay, has attracted funding from top-tier investors like Bain Capital Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Amaranthine, and Industry Ventures.

Sheel Mohnot is the Co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, an early stage fintech focused fund leading rounds in pre-seed and seed-stage companies.Our conversation weaves through Sheel's two decades of building and investing in fintech, starting BTV, and why they started a fintech-focused accelerator, The Mint.Fun facts on Sheel, he was a contestant on the Zoom Bachelor during COVID lockdowns, in a Justin Bieber music video, got married in the Taco Bell Metaverse, and was once banned from Uber.We talk lessons competing against Stripe before selling his first company, common fintech startup pitfalls, and the trick every VC should use when fundraising.Timestamps:(00:00) Intro(03:13) Why fintech makes disproportionate positive change(07:49) Most interesting opportunities in fintech today(09:09) The accountant shortage(12:59) Common early fintech startup pitfalls(16:09) Building Fee Fighters to cut payment processing fees(21:15) Lessons competing with Stripe(21:57) Getting acquired by Groupon and adding $600m in market cap(25:11) Biggest first-time startup mistakes(29:21) Getting $10k in Uber credit via paid Google ad(32:13) Investing in Flexport(36:19) Navigating hot vs underhyped rounds(43:39) Sheel's domain auction company(53:18) How he started angel investing(54:57) Spotify acquiring his podcast “The Pitch”(59:55) Why accelerators succeed and fail(01:06:07) The Mint, BTV's fintech-focused accelerator(01:09:56) Camp BTV in the Santa Cruz Mountains(01:11:41) Early days of NerdWallet(01:14:55) Raising $75m BTV Fund 1 with Jake to fill a gap in the market(01:18:36) Understanding Fund of Funds incentives(01:22:15) Importance of references in VC fundraising(01:24:02) $150m BTV Fund 2(01:27:13) Importance of following-on when leading roundsReferenced:BTV: https://www.btv.vc/ The Mint: https://www.themint.vc/ Fee Fighters: https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/23/feefighters-launches-payment-gateway-samurai/ Follow Sheel:Twitter: https://x.com/pitdesi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smohnot/ Follow Turner:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovak Subscribe to my newsletter to get every episode + the transcript in your inbox every week: https://www.thespl.it/ 

We've had a lot of cool people on the pod, but Sheel Mohnot is our first guest to achieve this trifecta: 100X an investment, have a founder in his portfolio go to prison, and have his wedding sponsored by Taco Bell. He invests at the pre-seed and seed stages into startups in the financial technology (fintech) space, and he's quick to tell you that just about everything is fintech. Through his fund, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Sheel writes $500k to $3M pre-seed and seed checks into fintech companies. He came by to talk about that time he got defrauded by a company, how he sparked a bidding war that led to him returning most of his fund, and why speed of execution is one of his favorite traits in founders. Highlights:Sheel is beginning to think that pre-seed is the new seed, and seed is the new Series A. He unpacks these thoughts and outlines what he needs to see in order to believe in a founder at the early stages.Secondaries and early exits and two ways investors can realize an outcome in a shorter time frame than an IPO. Sheel explains how he did this with two companies, Flexport and Indio, and how he feels about his decisions retrospectively. Major companies like Toast and Shopify are synonymous with fintech, but there is a vast network of less-thought-of companies making transactions happen in nearly every imaginable space. Hair salons, golf clubs, and garbage trucks are just a few of the places where Sheel is seeing fintech potential and why he believes that everything is fintech and fintech is everything.Sheel could've saved himself some trouble (and money!) if he would've heeded the warnings of fellow investors about a deal. However, he learned his lesson and now he doesn't invest unless he thoroughly vets the founder through someone else in his network.(00:00) - FIFU 16 - Sheel Mohnot (01:25) - Sheel's early days as a founder and consultant (09:58) - Why invest and why invest in fintech (12:09) - Ideal Founder Profile: Who and what Sheel is looking for (14:43) - Lessons From the Worst Investment: How to spot a fraud (21:10) - Lessons from the Best Investment: Knowing when to take chips off the table (34:03) - Sheel's thoughts on the expansiveness of the fintech market (38:00) - Speed of execution is one of Sheel's favorite traits to find in founders (43:31) - Speed round

This week's Espresso covers news from Stay, Oxpay, Patagon and more!Outline of this episode:[00:27] – Central da Visão raises $1.7M Series A[00:49] – Stay raises $2.6M to expand private pension offerings in Brazil[01:07] – Oxpay raises $3.5M from SRM Ventures[01:21] – Patagon AI raises $1.1M to expand AI-powered sales in LATAM[01:35] – Latii raises $5M to streamline construction materials supply[01:58] – Nubank partners with FINABIEN to expand Cuenta Nu deposit network in Mexico[02:15] – Brota Superfoods raises $630K from Manutara Ventures[02:28] – Plata Card raises $55M through the issuance of bonds[02:50] – Cervello raises $2.2M funding round[03:07] – Multiledgers raises $1M in a round led by Oxygea Ventures and Indicator Capital[03:28] – Interview with Cinthia Merlos, Cofounder and COO of Vexi[03:47] – LatamList's bi-weekly overview of the Latin America startup sceneResources & people mentioned:Startups: Central da Visão, Stay, Oxpay, Patagon.AI, Latii, Nubank, Brota Superfoods, Vexi, Plata Card, Multiledgers, CervelloVCs: HT3 Investimentos, Maya Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, SRM Ventures, OneVC, 17Sigma, Leadout Capital, Manutara Ventures, Oxygea Ventures,  Indicator Capital, E3 InnovationOrganizations: FINABIEN, ScotiabankPeople: Cinthia Merlos

Hoy conversé con Helena Polyblank, cofundadora y Chief Product Officer de Mendel, una plataforma que ayuda a grandes empresas a gestionar y monitorear sus gastos. A la fecha, Mendel es utilizado por más de 350 clientes corporativos y ha levantado más de $70M de inversionistas como Oak HC/FT, Infinity Ventures, Hi Ventures, y Better Tomorrow Ventures.-Este episodio es presentado por:Deel, la única plataforma de HR todo en uno diseñada para equipos globales. Deel te permite contratar fácilmente en más de 150 países. Desde México hasta Australia, explora cómo puedes contratar tanto empleados como freelancers de manera segura y legal.Visita su guía gratuita de contratación aquí: https://rebrand.ly/SDLDSPEP1-Por favor ayúdame dejando una reseña en Spotify o Apple Podcasts: https://ratethispodcast.com/startupeable-Hoy Helena y yo hablamos sobre:Cómo balancear tu vida emprendedora y personalCómo funciona el mercado del gasto corporativo en LatAmCómo crear productos que cumplan con los estándares de corporativosCómo gestionar los ciclos de venta en el sector corporativo-Notas del episodio: https://startupeable.com/mendelPara más contenido síguenos en:YouTube  | Sitio Web -Este episodio es presentado por:- Deel, la única plataforma de HR todo en uno diseñada para equipos globales. Deel te permite contratar fácilmente en más de 150 países. Desde México hasta Australia, explora cómo puedes contratar tanto empleados como freelancers de manera segura y legal.Más información aquí: https://rebrand.ly/SDLDSPG-Distribuido por Genuina Media

In This Episode Jake Gibson, former investment banker, entrepreneur / co-founder NerdWallet, angel investor, now VC founder Better Tomorrow Ventures, who crossed career paths with host Jason Henrichs 10+ years ago, have an honest discussion about the twists and turns of co-founding a boot-strapping start-up particularly when you are young, on to something and quickly have to figure everything out. After years of hard work and being all-in, tough decisions needed to be made as NerdWallet continued to grow quickly. Jake knew it was time to move on, but so hard to do. The arrival of twins and focus on strengths, honesty, lessons learned, and giving advice to others in similar situations, helped Jake figure his calling and path forward, and has enabled him to keep many 'cards in his wallet'. 

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Itai Damti is the Co-founder and CEO of Unit, the platform that helps leading tech companies store, move, and lend money.Unit has raised over $170 million from investors like Better Tomorrow Ventures, Accel, Insight, and dozens of angels. — In this episode, we discuss: The first and second wave of fintech innovation How the second wave brings financial services inside other software How Unit beat the competition and raised $170 million by focusing on product and expanding the market size Itai's framework for leveraging his investors His strategy for prioritizing as a founder How Unit operates with precision And why they haven't built any crypto products — Brought to you by Artie, the real-time database replication solution that sets up in minutes and requires zero day-to-day maintenance. Sign-up for a demo and get two weeks free: https://bit.ly/3uWTzWJ — Where to find Itai: Twitter: https://twitter.com/itaidamti LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itaidamti — Where to find Turner: Newsletter: https://www.thespl.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak Banana Capital: https://bananacapital.vc — Production and distribution by: https://www.supermix.io —For sponsorship inquiries: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebvhBlDDfHJyQdQWs8RwpFxWg-UbG0H-VFey05QSHvLxkZPQ/viewform 

Guess what, the increasing convergence of AI advances mean that in the near future, that “what to watch next” suggestion on your Netflix could soon be possible when it comes to financial services! What will such advances mean for seed-stage startups and what do investors watch out for when deciding which startup to fund?  On this special Singapore Fintech Festival edition of Morning Shot, Sheel Mohnot, Co-Founder and General Partner, Better Tomorrow Ventures shares more. Presented by: Ryan Huang  Produced and edited by: Yeo Kai Ting (ykaiting@sph.com.sg)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He's an OG in the Fintech Space He is the Co-Founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures He got married in the metaverse This week I had a conversation on the podcast with Sheel Mohnot(Co-Founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures) We talked about: 1. Immigrant Mentality and Bias for Action 2. The Mint Accelerator 3. The Pitch Show And so much more Connect with Sheel here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/pitdesi Check out Better Tomorrow Ventures here: https://www.btv.vc/ Check out The Mint Accelerator here: https://www.themint.vc/ The sponsor for today's episode is Akshat Jain Akshat is an incredible resource for those who want to learn more about the VC space Connect with Akshat here: LinkedIn.com/in/akijain2000 Connect with the host Roohi Kazi on the below platforms:Instagram-roohik2LinkedIn: Roohi KaziTwitter: https://twitter.com/roohi_krVisit this link for more listening options/platforms for the Business Podcast by Roohi, and next step groups: https://bop.me/roohikazBusiness Podcast by RoohiWebsite: https://businesspodcast.transistor.fm/Subscribe to the Business Podcast by Roohi newsletter here: https://businesspodcastbyroohi.substack.com/Subscribe to the YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_wI_t2KXX2Oqz0VDDe9sMgIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review of the podcast here on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-podcast-by-roohi-entrepreneur-marketing/id1516165457?uo=4 Follow Business Podcast by Roohi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/business-podcast-by-roohi/

In This Episode Welcome to this week's episode of Breaking Banks where we feature pieces from cohosts and Provoke.fm sister podcasts NextGen Banker and Tech on Reg. First, David Reiling, host of NextGen Banker, interviews Sheel Mohnot cofounder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, discussing Sheel's first foray into the fintech world with a non-profit and why he's dedicated his career to making the consumer experience better. Spoiler alert, they also talk about his recent viral wedding in the Taco Bell metaverse. Then we shift to Biometric Signatures: The Digital Dotted Line, and Dara Tarkowski's conversation with Matthew Gibson Co-Founder of Syngrafii. From virtual signing rooms to remote pens and more, they cover the digitization and compliance of signatures and the changed landscape of biometric signature capabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIg9avTcTS0

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast.Today's episode features Sheel Mohnot, the co-founder and GP at Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $225M fund that helps fintech founders at their early stages.BTV has also recently launched a fintech accelerator, this time under its own roof, called The Mint.In this interview, Sheel and KP uncover Sheel's remarkable journey, sharing their perspectives on topics like:● Intro● What Sheel is most proud of with BTV● Sheel being the most relatable VC ● The definition of winning and levels of wealth ● The dynamic experiences, setbacks and passion of immigrants● What Sheel finds most inspiring about his father's immigrant journey● Lessons learned during his leadership at 500 Fintech Accelerator● Top investments they made at 500 Fintech● Why Sheel loves early-stage companies● The Mint: its mission, vision and how they built it● Patterns and traits that great entrepreneurs have● Time founders should spend on building vs. talking to users● The Mohnots' Taco Bell metaverse wedding● Story behind The Pitch Show● Sheel's request for startups● What he would want to buildBuild In Public Podcast is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons.Thanks for listening! Links:Sheel's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pitdesiBetter Tomorrow Ventures on Twitter: https://twitter.com/btv_vcBetter Tomorrow Ventures: https://www.btv.vc/The Mint: https://www.btv.vc/KP's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisiskp_KP's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KarthikPuvvadaKP 

Nihar Bobba hosts Khalid Meniri, Co-Founder and CEO of Selfbook, a fintech startup bringing modern payments innovation to the world of hospitality. Prior to Selfbook, Khalid built and ran a digital agency, Six, where he and his team combined data architecture, e-commerce infrastructure and digital design expertise to serve clients such as Net-a-Porter, Unilever and Hearst. Today, Selfbook partners with hospitality groups such as Dorchester Collection, Oetker Collection and Auberge Resorts Collection, and includes investors such as Amex Ventures, Tiger Global, Starwood's Barry Sternlicht and Better Tomorrow Ventures. In this episode, you will hear about: - Khalid's journey to America - Why frictionless payments is so important for hospitality - What's next for Selfbook - What Khalid's excited about in Fintech

Before fintech was even a common word, Sheel Mohnot saw an opportunity to be a part of the digital transformation of finance and technology.  Mohnot, the co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, talks about his first foray into the fintech world with a non-profit and why he's dedicated his career to making the consumer experience better. We also dive into his recent viral wedding in the Taco Bell metaverse.

That Sheel Mohnot, Founding Partner of BTV, is a natural storyteller and a good hang, you can just figure that out with his Twitter feed and his track record of creating one of the most popular startup podcasts. That he also happens to be one of the sharpest minds in FinTech investing which makes him an exceedingly interesting guest.This is a wide-ranging conversation that covers Sheel's early days, what he learned as a founder, and how he's grown as an investor. Enjoy!A word from our sponsor:The team at Ripple is always focused on helping our founders and portfolio companies find the best partners to work with within the tech and venture capital ecosystem. And that is why we are so excited to announce our partnership with the incredible team at Torys LLP. When it comes to legal support and advice, the team at Torys is the best in class. Torys is a storied Canadian law firm with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Halifax and New York City. Torys has been around since its founding in 1941.They have always worked closely with players across the emerging startup ecosystem in all aspects of the creation, acquisition and commercialization of businesses. They help founders determine when and how much to fundraise, how to achieve the right economic structure, how to think about board and control issues and how to successfully navigate different stages of growth. They are also advisors to VC funds, strategic investors, private equity funds and other institutional investors on fund formation and shareholder arrangements to buyouts and other exits.In fact, Torys recently acted as counsel to Maverix PE on the transformative $260M  Miovision Technologies growth funding with an advisory team that included Dany Assaf, Konata Lake and Max Schwartz-Labell on that investment.So whether you are negotiating a new business arrangement or developing a new service offering, Torys helps clients seize new opportunities and build creative, market-leading business models in this fast-paced world we live in every day space.Visit torys.com to learn more.About Sheel Mohnot:Sheel Mohnot is a founding partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures. Before BTV, Sheel was a Partner at 500 Startups, running the 500 FinTech Fund and the FinTech track within the San Francisco Accelerator program. His recent startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits – a payments company and a high-stakes auction company. He also created and hosted a podcast called The Pitch.He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and did Microfinance work at the non-profit Kiva. Sheel holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BS from Carnegie Mellon. In this episode we discuss:(02:58) Sheel's journey to becoming a FinTech investor(07:55) How did growing up in India and around the world help shape him(11:14) Sheel's time at Fee Fighters and why they sold to Groupon(13:33) What he learned at Groupon(16:31) How the Pitch Podcast came to be(18:58) Selling the podcast to Spotify(20:58) How Sheel started as an Angel investor(22:24) 500 FinTech as a stepping stone to becoming a VC(25:05) His first fundraising experience(28:30) Investing in BTV's first company before they had finished fundraising(30:18) How his investing journey has evolved(32:22) The importance of being a sounding board for founders(33:20) BTV's investing thesis(35:18) Who Sheel looks up to as investors(36:29) Why VC needs to be collaborative(37:28) The importance of partnership in the VC/Founder relationship(38:56) Concrete things early-stage founders should ask from their VCs(39:37) How power law informs all of VC and portfolio construction(43:14) Lessons from Sheel's anti-portfolio(44:59) His stay with Brian Chesky at Airbnb LAFast Favorites*

Michael Kim is the Founder and Managing Partner of Cendana Capital, a globally renowned "fund of funds", aka the investors behind Venture Capital funds. Cendana Capital are investors in many of the funds of our previous guests including Blackbird VC, Better Tomorrow Ventures and many more well-known funds in the US, Israel, Australia and India. Prior to Cendana, Michael was one of the original partners of Rustic Canyon Partners, a VC firm with $1B AUM. He was born in Morgantown, West Virginia and now lives in San Fransisco, USA. In this episode #131 w Michael Kim, learn about:His sunrise in Morgantown, West Virginia, in the US (a town of just 27,000 people), his cultural influences with his mum born and raised in Japan and Dad from Korea, with a family background in politics.Michael shares how he explored a career in politics and then as he calls it had a “sea change” and went into banking, which then led to a role in a technology M&A team in San Fransisco and eventually Venture Capital.We dive deep into his journey with Cendana Capital, an investment firm referred to as a fund of funds, meaning they are a fund that invests in other VC funds. We cover how he started, building track record and economics, their diligence process for new VCs they back, Investing globally, with Australia and Israel being some examples, thought process changes especially on ownership levels relative to fund size, seed vs pre seed funds, hall of fame LP's and more. 

Jake Gibson, Co Founder of NerdWallet and Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, joins the show to talk aboutFounding NerdWallet, building a public company, and pioneering in the early days of financial services on the internet.The right time to replace yourself in order to help your company scale.Investing in the future of FinTech, embedded FinTech and rethinking the interface of Financial Services.

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.On today's episode, we have Sheel Mohnot, the co-founder and Partner of FinTech VC fund Better Tomorrow Ventures.Sheel is a career fintech investor and operator. He has built Better Tomorrow Ventures into an active pre-seed and seed stage fintech VC that has grown to over $225M AUM. Prior to founding BTV, he was the GP at 500 FinTech, where he was the first institutional investor in Albert, Kin, Indio, Chipper Cash, Ethic, and others. He was also an early investor in Stripe and Flexport. He also co-founded two fintech startups – FeeFighters, which was acquired by GroupOn, and Innovative Auctions.Sheel and I had a fascinating conversation about the evolution of FinTech, how to build and scale an emerging manager, the challenges of raising a first time fund, and why smaller funds can outperform.We didn't have a chance to discuss the experience of his Taco Bell wedding in the metaverse, but congrats Sheel and Amruta on your marriage and wishing you happiness in both life and the metaverse.Thanks Sheel for coming on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast to share your wisdom and experiences.

Miguel Armaza sits down with Itai Damti, CEO & Co-Founder of Unit, one of the leading banking-as-a-service and embedded finance providers in the US. Launched in 2019, Unit is backed by Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Insight, Flourish Ventures, and many more.Itai is also a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded two companies in the financial industry back in Tel Aviv and Hong Kong.We discuss:Learning from successes and failures of building companies around the worldEmbracing "atomic" problem-solving and why this is incredibly important in product and company managementWhat fintech founders should keep in mind when partnering with banks and financial institutionsFundraising lessons and why you should not ignore investor feedback… and a lot more!Want more podcast episodes? Join me and follow Fintech Leaders today on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app for weekly conversations with today's global leaders that will dominate the 21st century in fintech, business, and beyond.Do you prefer a written summary, instead? Check out the Fintech Leaders newsletter and join 53,000+ readers and listeners worldwide!Miguel Armaza is Co-Founder & Managing General Partner of Gilgamesh Ventures, a seed-stage investment fund focused on fintech in the Americas. He also hosts and writes the Fintech Leaders podcast and newsletter.Miguel on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3nKha4ZMiguel on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2Jb5oBcFintech Leaders Newsletter: bit.ly/3jWIpqp

In this episode you will learn:How does access to credit impact low income countries like India?Why does Sheel insist on a minimum ownership of 10%?What are the reasons for Sheel's reluctance to invest in startups that need to raise a lot of funds?Are both first-time founders and second-time founders equally willing to accept the valuations offered by Better Tomorrow Ventures?Under what circumstances would Sheel stop supporting one of his portfolio startups?What kinds of fintech startups are poised for success in this decade?Do all neo banks face challenges with customer trust and what factors are preventing them from competing with traditional banks?What are Sheel's plans for scaling Better Tomorrow Ventures in the coming years?AboutSheel Mohnot is a Co-Founder & Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, a seed-focused venture capital firm that invests in transformative fintech companies founded by exceptional individuals across the world. With its second set of funds amounting to approximately $225M, Better Tomorrow Ventures is dedicated to investing in innovative ideas that can revolutionize the fintech industry. Sheel's exclusive focus on fintech investment dates back to 2015, following a couple of successful FinTech exits. Sheel has also co-founded the podcast "The Pitch," which was acquired by Gimlet Media / Spotify and attracts around 100k weekly listeners. Additionally, Sheel has co-founded Thistle, a food company that serves tens of thousands of customers every week.

Sheel Mohnot is Co-Founder and General Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, an early-stage fintech VC currently investing out of its $225m second fund.   Sheel is a former founder, having built a tech-first card processor way back in 2010 which was quickly acquired by Groupon.   Since 2014, Sheel has been angel investing and, as of 2016, investing full-time.   Sheel is an incredible Twitter follow and constant source of information, insight and entertainment.   In this conversation, we discuss how fintech VC has changed over the last few years, the state of the early-stage market today, what separates elite seed funds from others, building social capital as an investor, the investment areas Sheel is currently focused on and more.   Thank you very much for joining us today. Please welcome, Sheel Mohnot.

Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.We are officially 100 episodes in! For our 100th episode, we are joined by the founders of Better Tomorrow Ventures, also known as BTV, Jake Gibson and Sheel Mohnot. BTV is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2019. BTV focuses on early investing in FinTech companies, and has $300M+ in AUM. Jake and Sheel initially met at 500 startups, where Sheel worked. They are both seasoned fintech founders and angel investors: Sheel built and sold two fintech companies before starting the 500 Fintech accelerator, and Jake co-founded NerdWallet (now publicly traded).About Jake Gibson:Jake Gibson is a founding partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures. He has been involved in FinTech for over a decade — he started his journey as one of the co-founders of NerdWallet before becoming an angel investor. Today, he is a Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV). Prior to NerdWallet, Jake studied math and quantitative finance at MIT and traded interest rate derivatives at JPMorgan.About Sheel Mohnot:Sheel Mohnot is a founding partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures. Before BTV, Sheel was a Partner at 500 Startups, running the 500 FinTech Fund and the FinTech track within the San Francisco Accelerator program. His recent startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits – a payments company and a high-stakes auction company. He also created and hosted a podcast called The Pitch.He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and did Microfinance work at the non-profit Kiva. Sheel holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BS from Carnegie Mellon. In this episode we discuss:(02:24)  BTV's origin story (06:27)  Handling their first raise at the beginning of the pandemic(11:28)  How their fund construction remained the same despite market conditions(17:27)  Surprises during their first fundraise(19:29)  How Sheel and Jake view fund construction and ownership targets(24:18)  The shift in the market from rewarding Beta to rewarding Alpha(27:55)  How founders are reacting to market conditions(29:28)  What they are seeing in the Series A markets today(32:19)  How VC's dry powder will actually get deployed(34:53)  Making sense of the market segments in 2023(37:53)  Why FinTech is still in the early-stages even though it has been heavily invested in(42:15)  Non-obvious things that it takes to run a successful firm(45:17)  Things they would have done differently at the start of their firmI'd love to know what you took away from this conversation with Jake and Sheel. Follow me @SamirKaji and give me your insights and questions with the hashtag #ventureunlocked. If you'd like to be considered as a guest or have someone you'd like to hear from (GP or LP), drop me a direct message on Twitter.Podcast Production support provided by Agent Bee Agency This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ventureunlocked.substack.com

Sheel Mohnot is an oracle of Fintech. In this episode, we are joined by our first venture capitalist guest - Sheel Mohnot - for a discussion on VC investing 101, early stage investing, current events like FTX, and the future of Fintech.

This week's Espresso covers updates from Beat, Netpay, Yave, and more!Outline of this episode:[00:28] - Oxio integrates with Telcel in Mexico[00:56] - Mendel closes equity and debt financing round for $60M[01:30] - Beat ceases operations in Latin America[01:51] - Muncher secures a $27M Series B round[02:21] - Liti announces a $4M seed round[02:52] - FEMSA acquires Netpay[03:23] - Yave raises $7.5M in a funding round[03:45] - Agrolend closes $28M Series B round[04:11] - New Crossing Borders episode[04:31] - Event on The Future of WorkResources & people mentioned:Companies & Startups: Oxio, Telcel, Mendel, Beat, Muncher, Liti, FEMSA, Netpay, Yave, Agrolend, Laboratoria, Talanta.VCs, Accelerators, Institutions: Industry Ventures, Infinity Ventures, Victory Park Capital, Glisco Partners, Monashees, Canary, Grão, Norte, Eclipseon, Newtopia, The Fund, Latitud, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Metaprop, Lightrock.People: Mariana Costa.

Twenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Intro Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $225M venture fund for pre-seed and seed-stage fintech companies around the globeEven if you're not a multi-million dollar angel investor like Sheel, his lessons are applicable to the everyday person trying to invest in good companiesHost: Harry Stebbings (@HarryStebbings)Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Sheel Mohnot is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $225M fund that leads rounds in pre-seed and seed-stage fintech companies globally. Sheel and Jake (his co-founder) invested for many years together before founding BTV and wrote checks into Mercury, Flexport, Ramp, and Hippo Insurance to name a few. As for Sheel, before BTV he ran 500 Fintech for close to 7 years, and before that was a founder, founding two companies, both of which were acquired. If that was not enough, Sheel is also a master at measuring the width of swimming pools and making cameo appearances in music videos with Justin Bieber. In Todays Episode with Sheel Mohnot We Discuss: 1.) Entry into Venture: How Sheel made his way into the world of venture having founded 2 fintech companies? Why did no LPs give Sheel money in the early 500 Fintech days? What were some of his biggest lessons from investing in 100s of companies with 500 Fintech? How did BTV with Jake come together most recently? What are the biggest differences to Sheel of being a fund manager vs being an investor? 2.) The Power Law: How does Sheel define "the power law" in venture capital? What multiple of return would be power law status? Given the size of outcome available with these power law returns, how does Sheel approach portfolio construction? Would it not be best to invest in 100s of companies? Who does Sheel believe has done the indexing approach best? Why? 3.) Venture Capital has Never Been Less Collaborative: Why does Sheel disagree with Harry that venture capital has never been less collaborative? Why now, for the first time, are large multi-stage funds taking single-digit ownership? Does Sheel agree with Harry it is moronic to have "guaranteed pro-rata"? How does Sheel approach re-investment decision-making? When does he pay up vs not? 4.) The Biggest Wins and Misses: What have been Sheel's biggest wins from a cashback and a multiple perspective? How did Sheel miss the chance to invest in both Robinhood and Chime early on? What did he not see? How would he have thought differently with the benefit of hindsight? How have Sheel's biggest hits and misses impacted how he invests today? 5.) Emerging and Frontier Markets: Does Sheel share Harry's concern for the removal of capital from emerging markets? Why does Sheel believe that India, South East Asia and LATAM will be fine? Why does Sheel believe Pakistan and Africa are most in trouble? What advice does Sheel give to his emerging markets founders today? Items Mentioned in Today's Episode: Sheel's Favourite Book: Enders Game

Helena Polyblank es cofundadora y Chief Product Officer de Mendel, una plataforma de tarjeta física y virtual que ofrece a compañías la digitalización inmediata de sus gastos corporativos. Helena es ingeniera industrial por el Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires y cuenta con un Executive MBA por la IAE Business School en Argentina.  Comenzó su carrera trabajando con Mercado Libre en el área de producto y fintech buscando soluciones para el mercado de LATAM, después trabajó en Naranja X buscando resolver el tema de la inclusión financiera en Argentina. Al unirse con amigos y colegas del sector financiero fundan Mendel, una empresa que busca a través de su plataforma y tarjeta de crédito corporativa empoderar a los trabajadores mientras las finanzas se mantienen bajo control.  Cuentan con el apoyo de reconocidos inversores y fondos de inversión como ALLVP, Infinity Ventures y Better Tomorrow Ventures. Como CPO, Helena se encarga de diseñar y construir software enfocado en los medios de pagos para la gestión de los gastos y facturación del segmento enterprise en México. En este episodio hablamos sobre: - Tomar las oportunidades cuando se presentan - Formación de equipos diversos - La importancia de contar tu historia - Crecer con el propósito de la empresa - Cómo mantener el foco en lo importante ¡Si te gustó el episodio, no olvides evaluarlo!

A pair of headphones tangling in the spokes of a bike is one of the more unique inciting moments of an entrepreneurial venture. While his entrepreneurial spirit would lead him to Hong Kong and scouting factories in Southern China, it was Sheel Mohnot's experience working in India with Kiva that would greatly influence his career as an investor. Impacted by the individuals he met, Sheel discovered a passion for investing in resilient and tenacious people. Sheel Mohnot is a seed-stage fintech investor, co-founder and GP of Better Tomorrow Ventures, and founder and GP of 500 Fintech. Inspired to “work on hard problems'' by renowned Professor C.K. Prahalad during his MBA at University of Michigan, Sheel has created and led a number of companies and served as a personal angel investor. In this episode, Sheel discusses the key lessons he has learned in fintech investing about dilution, recognizing resilient founders, and the reality of investing in an unsuccessful company. Sheel shares stories of his early ventures and insights into his current projects, including his collaboration with Jake Gibson on Better Tomorrow Ventures. (3:14) – A father's journey (8:56) – High school and beyond (13:10) – Indicorps and Kiva (18:11) – Returning to business school (21:50) – The first entrepreneurial venture (29:36) – FeeFighters (38:54) – 500 Fintech (47:08) – Investing in the jockey (51:41) – Better Tomorrow Ventures Eric Satz—entrepreneur, serial investor, lover of hot peppers— is the founder and CEO of Alto. The idea behind Alto was born out of a problem. Eric found a clear need to give people more control over their investments (and investment opportunities) in a simple, streamlined way and created Alto to make these opportunities available to all investors, not just the ultra-wealthy or institutional investors.  If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Altogether Show with Eric Satz in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps others find the show. Podcast episode production by Dante32

A pair of headphones tangling in the spokes of a bike is one of the more unique inciting moments of an entrepreneurial venture. While his entrepreneurial spirit would lead him to Hong Kong and scouting factories in Southern China, it was Sheel Mohnot's experience working in India with Kiva that would greatly influence his career as an investor. Impacted by the individuals he met, Sheel discovered a passion for investing in resilient and tenacious people. Sheel Mohnot is a seed-stage fintech investor, co-founder and GP of Better Tomorrow Ventures, and founder and GP of 500 Fintech. Inspired to “work on hard problems'' by renowned Professor C.K. Prahalad during his MBA at University of Michigan, Sheel has created and led a number of companies and served as a personal angel investor. In this episode, Sheel discusses the key lessons he has learned in fintech investing about dilution, recognizing resilient founders, and the reality of investing in an unsuccessful company. Sheel shares stories of his early ventures and insights into his current projects, including his collaboration with Jake Gibson on Better Tomorrow Ventures. (3:14) – A father's journey (8:56) – High school and beyond (13:10) – Indicorps and Kiva (18:11) – Returning to business school (21:50) – The first entrepreneurial venture (29:36) – FeeFighters (38:54) – 500 Fintech (47:08) – Investing in the jockey (51:41) – Better Tomorrow Ventures Eric Satz—entrepreneur, serial investor, lover of hot peppers— is the founder and CEO of Alto. The idea behind Alto was born out of a problem. Eric found a clear need to give people more control over their investments (and investment opportunities) in a simple, streamlined way and created Alto to make these opportunities available to all investors, not just the ultra-wealthy or institutional investors.  If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Altogether Show with Eric Satz in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps others find the show. Podcast episode production by Dante32

Jake Gibson, the Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, gives a refreshing view of how FinTech is going to touch every part of the world. Jake discusses how the market downturn has impacted startups and gives a FinTech VC's point of view on key Web3 trends.In this episode, you'll learn:1:32 It's way too early to say anything like ‘FinTech is overdone' or ‘FinTech is dead'. 13:50 Does a playbook exist for raising startup capital in the current market downturn?19:48 Web 3: many entrepreneurs following the hype; investors looking for impact23:27 Why ‘move fast and break things' is not a good strategy for FinTech startupsThe non-profit organizations Jake is passionate about: GiveWellAbout Guest SpeakerJake Gibson is the Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV). Jake is one of the most active and most experienced FinTech venture capital investors. He's based in Silicon Valley and invests in very early-stage startups. Previously, he was an active angel investor and before that an investor at 500 FinTech. He is also the co-founder of NerdWallet, which is one of the earliest fintech startups. He served there as COO from 2010 to 2014. The personal finance company went public in 2021.About Better Tomorrow VenturesBetter Tomorrow Ventures (BTV) is a Silicon Valley-based early-stage fintech-focused fund that leads rounds in pre-seed and seed-stage companies globally. BTV is currently investing out of its second fund, driven by the “Everything is FinTech” theme. Companies in its portfolio include Unit, Salsa, Amitruck, Vitt, Creditbook, FarmRaise, CloudTrucks among others.Subscribe to our podcast and stay tuned for our next episode.Follow Us:  Twitter | Linkedin | Instagram | Facebook

Impress investors at your next business pitch (Recorded Live on Clubhouse May 27, 2022)  Sheel Mohnot, Venture Capitalist and co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures joined us and shared his perspective on securing the capital your business needs. We learned what's most important to investors, the metrics they look at, and his non-negotiables when making equity investments.  Speakers: Colin C. Campbell, Michele Van Tilborg, Jeff Sass Guest: Sheel Mohnot Sign up to our email and never miss an update on our special events, guest speakers, and more: https://startup.club/

Unit, a banking-as-a-service startup, has closed on a $100 million Series C round of funding led by Insight Partners. Existing backers Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Aleph, and Flourish Ventures also participated in the financing, which values the company at $1.2 billion.

Sheel is a co-founder of Better Tomorrow, a seed-stage venture capital fund investing in Fintech companies globally. His own startup experience includes 2 successful Fintech exits — a payments company and a high-stakes auction company — and he's GP of the 500 Fintech fund. He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and started his Fintech career at the non-profit p2p lender, Kiva. Read more about Better Tomorrow Ventures here https://www.btv.vc/ or connect with them on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-tomorrow-ventures/. You can connect directly with Sheel on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/smohnot/ or on Twitter here https://twitter.com/pitdesi If you enjoyed this podcast, would you consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify? It takes less than 30 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince new amazing guests to come on the show, and on top of that, I love reading the reviews! Connect with me: Email: hello@andrewsenduk.com Website: https://andrewsenduk.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrew.senduk/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-senduk-1980/

Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi), founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, joins Lucas Bagno (@lucasbagnocv) of Village Global to discuss:- Sheel's reflections on raising a fund and the opportunities he sees in fintech today.- The importance of ownership in seed investing.- How the fintech landscape has evolved over the last year.- Why non-fintech companies are integrating fintech into their business.- Whether banks can be disrupted and the unique regulatory environment that influences the financial market.- The advice he gives to founders on which investors to work with.- Opportunities in fintech globally.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at www.villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.vc/signup

Sheel is CoFounder of Better Tomorrow, a $75M seed stage venture capital fund investing in Fintech companies globally. His own startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits – a payments company and a high-stakes auction company, and he was previously GP of the 500 Fintech fund. He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and started his FinTech career at the non-profit p2p lender Kiva.

Sheel Mohnot is the cofounder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, a fintech focused fund that invests globally in making financial services...better for tomorrow. He is the former head of the 500 Startups  fintech fund and accelerator and has invested in companies you may recognize such as Albert, Chippercash, Unit and Flexport. Before investing and founding two companies, Sheel also launched his own podcast "The Pitch" centered on evaluating new startups à la Shark Tank. Sheel's twitter presence is a treat. As we survived natural disasters we discuss:1. 'Hacking' growth and cutting through vanity metrics as an investor2. How staying 'top of mind' helps winning deals and creating opportunities3. The struggle of investing in and maintaining price discipline in the current investment landscape4. Doing well by doing good: working on hard problems, working in emerging markets and writing about those accomplishments

Jake Gibson is the founding partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures and formerly co-founder and COO of NerdWallet, which he started with Tim Chen back in 2010. Jake talked to us about his professional journey, and what made him pursue a career in startups after spending a few years on a trading floor on Wall Street. As a COO and co-founder of NerdWallet, Jake has built a successful fin-tech business from the ground up. He shared some of the lessons learned along the way, including great SEO and content marketing tips.Jake also discusses how he ended up leaving NerdWallet to eventually take up startup investing full time. This resulted in co-founding Better Tomorrow Ventures, an early stage VC fund focused on fintech companies, along with Sheel Mohnot. Jake talks about their recent investments and details the intricacies of funding overseas startups.As a seasoned founder and investor Jake shares his insights about the common mistakes founders make when they pitch investors at the pre-seed stage, and explains the business model and incentives behind the venture capital funding. Jake also shares tips regarding fundraising pitch tactics and general advice for founders who are just getting started.

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.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:Lawrence Lin Murata, founder of SlopeBobby Tzekin, founder of WisetackDana Stalder, General Partner at Matrix, Director at Afterpay

In episode 355, we welcome our guest, Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures, a fintech-focused VC fund focused on pre-seed and seed companies around the globe.     In today's episode, we're talking with one of the most prolific fintech investors around. We talk about why Sheel's so bullish on the fintech space and focuses so much on the founders at the seed stage.  Then Sheel shares what it was like to raise a fund during COVID with former podcast guest Jake Gibson. He walks through some of the investments he's made to date and what piqued his interest in each.    As listeners know, I'm excited about the future of Africa, so be sure to stick around to hear why Sheel is also bullish on the region.   Please enjoy this episode with Better Tomorrow Ventures' Sheel Mohnot.        -----   Follow Meb on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com   -----   Today's episode is brought to you by Vinovest. Vinovest makes it easy to invest in fine wine. Vinovest's investment platform lets you buy and sell wines that have increased in value like Screaming Eagle and Chateau Lafite. Vinovest provides access, storage, and insurance. All you have to do is sit back, relax, and enjoy a glass of wine. In fact, fine wine has outperformed the S&P 500 over the last 20 years. You can get started in just minutes online. Go to vinovest.co to create an account and invest in fine wine today.

This week, Alexis gets non-technical with Sheel Mohnot, Co-Founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures. They talk about spending ten hours at The Magic Castle, mudflap gifting, Van Cleef cufflinks, being in a Justin Bieber music video, and what else? Bidets.You can find Sheel on Twitter at twitter.com/pitdesi and Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay or instagram.com/yayalexisgay and twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod.This episode is sponsored by Betts Recruiting. If you're looking for your next big opportunity, you can join the Betts network and get connected with the world's most innovative companies hiring go-to-market professionals like you. Learn more about hiring top talent or finding your next role at bettsrecruiting.com/nontechnical

cc: growth journeys from emerging ecosystems to global markets. Sheel led 500 Fintech Fund as its General Partner and launched Better Tomorrow Ventures about 2 years ago. He is laser focused on fintech and has invested in over 100 companies over the past 5 years. His portfolio includes a number of superstars including Albert, Kin, Ethos Insurance and Unit. What's in this episode? 1) Fintech opportunities in the US vs. the rest of the world 2) Importance of fintech infrastructure players and the $T opportunity ahead 3) Framework to spot upcoming fintech trends 4) Unbundling and bundling in the personal finance space 5) Complex insurance value chain, full of disintermediation You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.

In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Sheel Mohnot, co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures about his journey as a founder, angel investor and co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures. 00:00 Intro 01:11 Guest appearance on a Justin Bieber/Ariana Grande music video 03:16 The “pronoia” mindest 03:16 The “pronoia” mindest 05:04 Sheel's background 07:56 The Pitch 12:12 Investing with founder authority 14:16 500 Startups fintech fund 18:25 Fintech thesis and sector evolution 22:09 Fintech backend 23:43 Better Tommorrow Ventures 29:24 Differentiation 32:52 Reserve capital 34:52 The good, the bad and the ugly investments 37:40 Sheel-defining investment 41:10 …the bad and the ugly

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.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:Nick Tommarello, Founder & CEO of WefunderElizabeth Yin, General Partner at Hustle FundAvlok Kohli, CEO of AngelList VenturesSahil Lavingia, Founder & CEO of Gumroad

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 ClearcoverSean Harper, Co-founder & CEO of Kin InsuranceStephanie Choo, General Partner at Portag3 Ventures

Sheel Mohnot is a Co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures - a $75 million seed-stage five-focused venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building transformative FinTech companies globally. He helps design, build, and improve human ecosystems through technology and disrupt financial institutions to enable them to act more efficiently. Sheel has been exclusively investing in fintech companies for the past 6 years and has 2 successful FinTech companies. Sheel also co-founded the podcast "The Pitch,"- which has 100k weekly listeners, and a food company called Thistle.

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 SecurityCaleb Avery, Founder & CEO of TilledMatthew Janiga, General Counsel at Lithic

Jake Gibson is a father, a Founding Partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures, and a startup veteran. In 2013, however, he was a struggling founder of NerdWallet and expectant father who was facing a major fork in the road -- his ambitions, his own performance at his company, and his plans for himself all clashed in a big oh-shit moment. This is his story.

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

In this episode, Jake Gibson talks about early Nerdwallet days, opportunities in Fintech, BTV investment thesis, and much more!

Episode nine of DrinksWithAVC features Sheel Mohnot of Better Tomorrow Ventures, who joins Vik and Bree to talk about his whirlwind year. From becoming a social media phenomenon to launching a $75 million debut fund and earning a top-three spot on Business Insider's seed investor rankings, Sheel's pandemic experience has been anything but ordinary. The trio digs deeper than his Zoom Bachelor fame and Justin Bieber video appearances, exploring his family bonds and his dedication to understanding and improving people's lives. Listen in for Sheel's insights on Miami's burgeoning startup scene, his take on plant-based lifestyles, and a segment that psychoanalyzes him using themes from his favorite book.Links:www.btv.vcwww.twitter.com/pitdesi

In this episode of Money Talks, Hugh interviewed a Co-founder of the startup Pave. Ema Rouf is a cofounder of a new startup called Pave. She is a 3x founder with over 10 years of experience in building and growing startups in the B2B space. Pave is building a Cashflow API that makes it easier for fintech developers to connect their data sources and get clean and unified insights into their customer's earnings, spending habits and financial health indicators. Pave has raised financing from Better Tomorrow Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Village Global. We discussed: 1) Ema's background prior to starting Pave 2) The genesis of Pave, how it works, its value proposition and how it fits within Fintech 3) Ema's overall view of Venture and Fintech 4 How this technology can help entrepreneurs and small business owners. Hugh Meyer - https://instagram.com/hughmeyerofficial https://www.linkedin.com/in/hughmeyer/ Ema Rouf - https://www.twitter.com/emaspeaks

Ouça nosso compilado semanal das principais notícias que aconteceram no cenário fintech no Brasil e no mundo! O Boletim conta com o patrocínio da Conductor, plataforma líder na América Latina em meios de pagamento e Banking as a Service. A Conductor atende as principais fintechs, bancos, varejistas e diferentes empresas, permitindo que ofereçam soluções de pagamento inovadoras a seus clientes. Acesse www.conductor.com.br e entenda melhor como transformar o seu negócio! Nesta edição: - A Divibank levantou R$ 20 milhões, em uma rodada liderada pelo fundo Better Tomorrow Ventures; - A Hashdex levantou R$ 135 milhões em rodada liderada pelo Valor Capital Group em conjunto com o SoftBank, Coinbase Ventures e Igah Ventures; - A fintech de pagamentos Cloudwalk levantou US$ 190 milhões em uma rodada series B liderada pela Coatue; - A Méliuz segue ritmo acelerado de aquisições e compra a Promobit e a Melhor Plano; - A Getnet, braço de adquirência do Santander, adquire Eyemobile para expandir suas ofertas; - A Startse torna-se sócia majoritária da Captable, plataforma de investimento em startups; - O Guiabolso realiza parceria com a fintech mexicana Finerio para ampliar sua atuação em Open Banking na América Latina; - A Creditas expande sua atuação e entra no mercado de revenda de automóveis; - As Lojas Americanas expandem sua oferta de Pix para todas as suas lojas físicas; - A fintech argentina Pomelo, focada no mercado de fintech as a service, levanta US$ 9 milhões; - A startup indiana de pagamentos Pine Labs levanta US$ 285 milhões e se torna a terceira maior fintech do país; - O fenômeno das SPACs se expande pelo mundo e veículos focados em fintechs latino americanas são criados; - A fintech norte-americana Brex cria programa de recompensas para empresas focado em criptoativos; - A eBay passa a ofertar empréstimos para vendedores em sua plataforma e o pagamento das parcelas pode ser feita através de um percentual das receitas da tomadora; - Na Alemanha, o banco digital N26 está sendo questionado pelos reguladores a respeito de lavagem de dinheiro; - Hong Kong anuncia próximos passos na implementação local do Open Banking; * Entenda mais sobre revenue based financing e venture debt no artigo publicado por Bruno Diniz no link http://bit.ly/bdnoomid5. * Acesse também nosso parceiro Finsiders e fique por dentro das últimas novidades do segmento fintech! https://finsiders.com.br/ Estamos também no Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn e Spotify! Siga-nos em: https://www.instagram.com/fintechtalksbr https://www.facebook.com/fintechtalksbr/ https://www.youtube.com/fintechtalks https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/fintech-talks/ https://open.spotify.com/show/2AVngeMgLIO7r8cqwGYBPY

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

Jacob Gibson is the Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm investing in the future of Fintech. Before getting into investing, Jacob was co-founder and COO at NerdWallet. He helped develop a world-class team working to build the massively successful personal finance company. Gibson considers in depth risk analysis and unique insights key to forming an investment thesis.Investors want to hear that the founder has actually thought through and mapped out the risks to get a good sense of how to go about tackling those risks.Carefully breaking down the cost of customer acquisition is a critical part of startup strategy.Cold-pitching ideas to investors without researching their areas of focus can harm the entrepreneur's reputation.Develop team and resource capacity for pivoting the startup strategy to succeed in the crowded and rapidly evolving Fintech space.It's just as easy to stagnate as it is to get into Fintech because it's an attractive but crowded area.Non-profit: GiveWell

Sheel Mohnot is a serial entrepreneur, fintech investor, and acquired podcaster — so naturally this was quite the conversation for Simi.A graduate of Carnegie Mellon and University of Michigan, Sheel was formerly a General Partner with the the FinTech Fund at 500 Startups. More recently, he co-founded Better Tomorrow Ventures, a fund leading pre-seed and seed rounds in financial technology companies around the globe. BTV raised a $75 million debut fund in 2020. But before delving into investing, Sheel was a founder — multiple times over. He first founded Innovative Auctions, a provider in auction software and consulting services. Later, he exited FeeFighters, a Stripe-like product that sold to Groupon in 2012, and also a food delivery company called Thistle. He even “exited” his popular podcast, “The Pitch,” a spin on Shark Tank where entrepreneurs pitched investors. It sold to Gimlet Media which was then acquired by Spotify. In this episode, Simi and Sheel chat about why fintech is the future, how he met one of his co-founders on a train in India, and how he landed himself in Ariana Grande's “Stuck With U” music video. Put two startuppers and podcasters in a room? This one is a must-listen.Visit our website southasiantrailblazers.com to subscribe to our newsletter. Follow us @southasiantrailblazers on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Welcome to the Three Good Things podcast. Today I talked about a friend, Sheel Mohnot launching his new $75M fund, Disney+ turned 1 and has had an incredible year of streaming, and Macklemore put out a killer freestyle. Feel free to DM me with any feedback or if you want to be a guest on the podcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sheel Mohnot, co-founder and general partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, has a gut feel about the founders. He gives an insider view using examples of fintech investments.  The role of a VC is a combination of a management consultant and a psychotherapistFintech started in 2014 and is still in the early days of innovationAt the pre-seed and seed stage venture capital investments team is most important Non-profit: Curry Without Worry

In this episode, I'm speaking with Jake Gibson—Alto's first customer, syndicate lead, and now podcast guest. Jake has been involved in the FinTech world for more than a decade, first as a co-founder of NerdWallet, then as a prolific angel investor, and now as a founding partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. There's no question he has been carving his own path towards a better tomorrow. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.  

In this episode, I'm speaking with Jake Gibson—Alto's first customer, syndicate lead, and now podcast guest. Jake has been involved in the FinTech world for more than a decade, first as a co-founder of NerdWallet, then as a prolific angel investor, and now as a founding partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures. There's no question he has been carving his own path towards a better tomorrow. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.  

Welcome to the Three Good Things podcast where I talk about Three Good Things daily. Today we have the amazing Sheel Mohnot on the podcast. Sheel is founding partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $60m seed stage fintech focused vc fund. Previously, he founded several companies including "the pitch" podcast (acquired by Gimlet/Spotify). He lives in San Francisco and is also The Zoom Bachelor! If you want to reach out to Sheel, you can reach him @pitdesi on Twitter and me, @shardulgo across all platforms. Thank you so much for tuning into Three Good Things and I'll see you tomorrow. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sheel is co-founder of Better Tomorrow, a seed stage VC firm investing in Fintech companies globally. His own startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits – a payments company and a high-stakes auction company, and he is GP of the 500 Fintech fund. He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and started his FinTech career at the non-profit p2p lender Kiva. In this episode, we speak about investments, banking and its future. Sheel shares his vast experiences in the field and reveals his strategy behind identifying successful startups. Here is a rundown of the episode, if you want to jump ahead: 01:05 Sheel's own podcast inspired by the shark tank 03:09 Decision-making process of investing into a company 09:45 Future prediction - cases like Wells Fargo 11:55 What BWS stand for 16:15 Experiences of being a part of Groupon and Kiva.org 22:35 What Sheel wish he knew before starting investing You can find Sheel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smohnot/ If you want to find out more about Better Tomorrow: https://www.better.vc/ - - - Banking in Air podcast explores the lives and journeys of founders and technology leaders as they work to overcome challenges while building products in an ever-changing world. Hosted by Marcel Klimo of Vacuumlabs.