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Miguel Armaza interviews Charles Moldow, General Partner at Foundation Capital, a 30-year old venture capital firm with $3+ billion in AUM. Charles joined Foundation in 2005 and over the last two decades has led early-stage investments for many companies, 14 out of which either went public or were successfully acquired. Some of his investments include Lending Club, DOMA, Rappi, Rover, and OnDeck Financial.I learn a lot every time I talk to Charles and I hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did.We discuss:Why data is the new gold and a framework on how to invest in the sector. The reason why different market dynamics require different types of founders to succeed. Thinking selectively about credit-driven fintechs. Valuable portfolio and liquidity management lessons… 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? Check out the Fintech Leaders newsletter and join 65,000+ readers and listeners worldwide!Miguel Armaza is Co-Founder and 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/3jWIp

Charles Moldow, a general partner at Foundation Capital, shares his remarkable journey from being a Wall Street analyst to becoming an entrepreneur and eventually transitioning into his current role as an investor over two decades ago. His captivating anecdotes leave you eager for more, whether he's recounting stories about his father's wisdom on the internet or recalling a memorable encounter with an exceptional entrepreneur. Charles also delves into the exciting market trends within insurtech and offers valuable insights into the areas to focus attention for fruitful opportunities.In this episode, you'll learn:[2:20] Charles Moldow's early entrepreneurial ventures during the dynamic evolution of the internet.[7:58] The role of a VC in sometimes discouraging founders to protect them from their own pitfalls.[13:01] The revealing nature of a founder's personal life story, showcasing their unique abilities.[19:54] "Don't prepare to impress me. Just share your authentic truth." - Charles Moldow[23:43] The importance for entrepreneurs to explore the vast array of promising opportunities for leveraging technology in the insurance industry.The non-profit organization that Charles is passionate about: safespaceAbout Charles MoldowCharles Moldow is a general partner at Foundation Capital. At Foundation, he identifies technology trends and new user experiences that will change the financial services landscape. His thesis investing has him focused on fintech, insurtech and proptech opportunities with a crypto overlay to everything he evaluates. Since he joined Foundation Capital in 2005, he's made seventeen successful investments, five of which have gone public and twelve have been acquired. Charles' public portfolio includes early-stage investments that have led to notable IPOs with DOMA (IPO 2021), Rover (IPO 2021), LendingClub (IPO 2014), OnDeck (IPO 2014) and Everyday Health (2014). Fun fact: Charles moonlights as AAA Little League coach and family vacation planner.Learn more about Charles here.About Foundation CapitalFoundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital firm that's dedicated to the proposition that one entrepreneur's idea, with the right support, can become a business that changes the world. The firm is made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders. Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures in the areas of consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, financial technology, and marketing technology. These investments include AdRoll, Beepi, Bolt Threads, DogVacay, Kik, ForgeRock, Lending Home, Localytics, and Visier. The firm's twenty-six IPOs include Lending Club, OnDeck, Chegg, Sunrun, MobileIron, Control4, TubeMogul, Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks.Subscribe to our podcast and stay tuned for our next episode. Follow Us:  Twitter | Linkedin | Instagram | Facebook

Miguel Armaza sits down with Charles Moldow, General Partner at Foundation Capital, a legendary Venture Capital firm founded in 1995 that has raised nine funds, received over $3B in committed capital, has seen 28 IPOs, and over 80 acquisitions from their portfolio companies. Charles has been at Foundation since 2005, having led impressive investments like Uber, LendingClub, OnDeck and Rappi. Before Foundation, he lived the startup journey and was part of the founding team of two high-profile startups with successful exits in 97 and 2006. He is also a proud alum of our amazing Wharton School! We discuss: - Charles experience as an operator and entrepreneur through the dotcom bubble and why he eventually transitioned to the investing side - Thought process behind his investment strategy and reflections on some early mistakes as a venture capitalist - All things Fintech, including trends he’s most excited about - Foundation’s impressive track record and their secret behind this success - Why he’s particularly excited about the entrepreneurial scene in Latin America - And a lot more Charles Moldow Charles current portfolio contains fintech breakouts and emerging direct to consumer businesses. Fintech investments include StatesTitle, HealthIQ, LendingHome, Auxomoney, OneFinance, Hatch, Branch, Canopy, Agentero, Deepfraud and Decent. Direct to consumer businesses include Rappi, Rover, NextRoll and Clubhouse. Charles has seen four portfolio companies go public with Uber, LendingClub, OnDeck and Everyday Health. He has also managed nine companies through acquisition: Powerset by Microsoft, Motif by Schwab, Coverwallet by Aon, Finxera by Stonepoint Capital, Xoopit by Yahoo!, CloudOn by Dropbox, Zoomer by GrubHub, Refresh by LinkedIn and Bureau of Trade by Ebay. In 2016, CB Insights listed Charles among The Top 100 Venture Capitalists, and Forbes named Charles to the Midas List for the second time—citing among other factors his deep experience in all things marketplace lending. Charles attended the 2016 White House FinTech Summit, one year after publishing “A Trillion Dollar Market by the People, For the People,” which became the authoritative must-read on the potential of and challenges facing the marketplace lending industry. The paper has been downloaded more than 30,000 times and has frequently been cited by leading thinkers in finance and the media. Charles is an alumnus of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Harvard Business School. Charles moonlights as a AAA little league coach and family vacation planner. Foundation Capital Foundation Capital was founded in 1995. As an early-stage venture capital firm, Foundation has lived through the emergence of the World Wide Web, the IT war of the 90s, the dot-com bubble, Web 2.0, the mobile revolution, the Great Recession, the rise of Big Data, software’s ascension to the cloud, and the birth of blockchain. The wisdom of those experiences remains with the company, transmitted to each successive generation of partners. Two-thirds of VC firms never make it past their first fund; only 10 percent survive beyond their fourth. Foundation is 25 years and nine funds strong, with over $3B in committed capital, 28 IPOs, and 80+ acquisitions to their name. Their fintech, enterprise, and consumer investments have reinvented industries and defined new markets, with companies that include Lending Club, Sunrun, TubeMogul, Chegg, and Netflix. For a quarter of a century—through boom and bust, prosperity or calamity—Foundation Capital has endured, evolved, and thrived. Building companies is in their bones. For more FinTech insights, follow us below: Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech Miguel's Twitter: twitter.com/MiguelArmaza Miguel's Substack: https://bit.ly/3jWIpqp

#013 Charles Moldow, General Partner at Foundation Capital. Foundation Capital has a portfolio including LendingClub, LendingHome, AdRoll, Health IQ, and CoverWallet. His current portfolio includes AdRoll, auxmoney, BlockCypher, Finxera (formerly Bancbox), HealthIQ, LendingClub (IPO 2014), LendingHome, Motif Investing, On Deck Capital (IPO 2014), Rappi, and States Title. In all, he’s made sixteen successful investments since joining Foundation Capital in 2005. Of those investments, LendingClub, OnDeck, and EverydayHealth have gone public. In 2016, CB Insights listed Charles among the Top 100 Venture Capitalists, and Forbes also named him to the Midas List for the second time—citing among other factors his deep experience in all things marketplace lending. Before joining Foundation Capital, Charles served on the founding team of two high-profile startups. He is an alumnus of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Harvard Business School. https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

#012 Charles Moldow, General Partner at Foundation Capital. Foundation Capital has a portfolio including LendingClub, LendingHome, AdRoll, Health IQ, and CoverWallet. His current portfolio includes AdRoll, auxmoney, BlockCypher, Finxera (formerly Bancbox), HealthIQ, LendingClub (IPO 2014), LendingHome, Motif Investing, On Deck Capital (IPO 2014), Rappi, and States Title. In all, he’s made sixteen successful investments since joining Foundation Capital in 2005. Of those investments, LendingClub, OnDeck, and EverydayHealth have gone public. In 2016, CB Insights listed Charles among the Top 100 Venture Capitalists, and Forbes also named him to the Midas List for the second time—citing among other factors his deep experience in all things marketplace lending. Before joining Foundation Capital, Charles served on the founding team of two high-profile startups. He is an alumnus of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Harvard Business School. https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

This episode is another in an ongoing series on this show where we talk to some of the leading investors in the financial technology space. This week’s guest provides an interesting perspective we haven’t really heard from yet — Kevin Bhatt is a partner at Long Ridge Equity Partners. He and his firm are growth stage investors — typically coming in a bit later in a company’s growth cycle than some of our other guests on the Tradestreaming Podcast: guys like Phin Upham of Thiel Capital, Caribou Honig of QED, Charles Moldow of Foundation Capita and Canaan’s Dan Ciporin . Those guys are frequently the first institutional capital into a young company while Kevin’s firm comes in after a company has a product in the market and is generating millions of dollars of revenue. I think you’ll find our conversation interesting as we talk about investment opportunities in financial services that you probably haven’t thought of. Kevin’s an astute analyst of the financial services ecosystem with a long term view on organic themes and changes in the industry. We talk about some of his investment themes, discuss some of the investments he’s made and where he’s looking to deploy more capital. You can get this episode and over 120 episodes in our archive on our website, www.Tradestreaming.com. We’re also available on iTunes and SoundCloud. If you head on over to our website, make sure you sign up for our daily and/or weekly newsletter. It’s a go-to resource for thousands of financial professionals to identify and understand the impact technology is having on the business of money. Here’s my interview with Kevin...

We’ve explored various themes on investing in financial technology on this show. We’ve interviewed Caribou Honig at QED Investors. We’ve also spoken to to Foundation Capital’s Charles Moldow. If you were to put together an all-star team of fintech investors, you’d also want to include Dan Ciporin from Canaan Partners. He was the first institutional investor in Lending Club and has a portfolio that includes CircleUp, Orchard, borro, and direct match. You can see the marketplace finance and marketplace lending theme played out in his investments. Dan joins us on this week’s episode of the Tradestreaming Podcast. We talk about a variety of different things: first and foremost, we talk about his investments, why he made them, and what he’s looking at investing in in the future. We talk about his background — how being the CEO of Shopping.com and selling it to eBay and his previous experience at MasterCard influenced his perspective on consumer credit and its investability. It’s a great episode and glad you’ve joined us. Now, here’s our interview with Dan Ciporin of Canaan Partners.

We’ve spent the past couple of weeks of this show talking to leading early-stage investors in financial technologies -- guys like Charles Moldow of Foundation Capital and Caribou Honig of QED Investors. These are the same guys that have invested in some of the biggest names in the financial technology space. Companies like Lending Club, Credit Karma, Motif Investing, OnDeck Capital, Prosper, and Zopa. What makes many of these companies different from their incumbent competitors is that they’re bringing technology solutions to financial problems. That’s not to say incumbent financial institutions don’t use technology -- they certainly do, a whole lot of it. It’s just that this generation of fintech company is exactly that fin - tech -- they’re technology companies at their core and their solutions to financial problems -- whether lending to people without credit history or remitting money more cheaply and quicker across global banking borders -- they’re technological in nature. Some of the most interesting things we’ll see in the future is machine learning applied to the stock market. We know human beings’ biases when it comes to investing and even the world’s best investors fall prey to our own shortcomings, our own humanity. It’s entirely possible machines can do it better. Our next guest, Richard Craib, is working on a machine learning solution to the stock market much in the same way Netflix turned to top external algorithm developers to improve its own recommendation engine -- by offering prizes. Richard’s company, Numerai is an amazingly ambitious undertaking. He’s offering top investing systems developers cash prizes in return for using his firm’s encrypted data set to build alpha-producing strategies. Sitting on top of it all is Numerai with its own big data solution that’s investing its own nostro account, trying to optimize allocating capital between strategies. It’s a black box of black boxes but crowdsourced from some of the world’s smartest data scientists. As I talked with Richard, I kept thinking to myself -- What does this spell for the future of investing? People like Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch -- two of my favorite all-time investors -- seem so, so...antiquated when you start thinking about AI’s potential to participate in investing. Will future episodes on CNBC profile -- not today’s celebrity cowboy stock picker -- but tomorrow’s PhD touting data scientist who builds software for a living? Interesting. You can get this episode and over 120 episodes from the archives on our website, Tradestreaming.com. While you’re there, make sure to sign up for our weekly fintech newsletter that thousands of professionals read every week to stay on top of the business of finance. We’re also available on iTunes and SoundCloud.

Last week, we had Caribou Honig of QED Investors on the podcast and I said that his portfolio is one of the strongest in fintech. If I had to name the top investors in the next generation of finance companies, Charles Moldow of Foundation Capital  would definitely be near the top of the list, as well. Charles joins us this week on the Tradestreaming Podcast to talk about his thesis behind why he likes to invest in a trillion dollar industry that, in his words, “doesn’t do a great job servicing its customer base”. His white paper, A Trillion Dollar Market By the People, For the People is essential reading for anyone who wants to know about the marketplace lending space: its size, structure, and potential. We’ll include a link in the show notes to it. His current portfolio includes auxmoney, BTCJam, Finxera (formerly Bancbox), LendingClub [IPO 12/11/14], Lending Home, Motif Investing, and On Deck Capital [IPO 12/17/14] I think you’ll find my conversation with Charles to be thought-provoking -- pay attention to why he prefers to build standalone B2C finance companies as opposed to firms that partner and sell into incumbent financial institutions. Contrarian and a very interesting point. You can find this episode and all the years of our archives on our website, www.tradestreaming.com ***Thanks for joining us on the Tradestreaming Podcast. If you're listening to this episode on iTunes, please give it a ranking and rating so that others know of the value you're finding in it. Thank you ahead of time.****

Institutional Investors View of Real Estate Crowdfunding panel with Tom Capasse, Principal & Co-Founder of Waterfall Asset Management; Thomas D. Christopoul, Senior Partner and Head of Real Estate Investment at Cain Hoy Enterprises; Mark Mascia, President & CEO of Mascia Development; Eric Rosenthal, Real Estate Situations at Garrison; and moderator Charles Moldow, General Partner at Foundation Capital.

What the Arrival of Institutional Investors Means for Europe at LendIt Europe 2014, with Etienne Boillot, General Partner at Shepherd Capital; Simon Champ, CEO of P2P Capital Solutions; Charles Moldow, General Parnter at Foundation Capital; Geoffrey Richard Miller, CEO of GLI Finance; and Matt Burton, Co-Founder & CEO of Orchard.

Session 16 of the Lend Academy Podcast features Charles Moldow, a partner at the venture capital firm Foundation Capital. His firm has made several equity investments in the p2p lending industry, the most notable of which is their investment in Lending Club last year alongside Google. Moldow’s presentation at LendIt 2014 was one of the […] The post Podcast 16: Charles Moldow Discusses the $1 Trillion Marketplace Lending Opportunity appeared first on Lend Academy.

Session 16 of the Lend Academy Podcast features Charles Moldow, a partner at the venture capital firm Foundation Capital. His firm has made several equity investments in the p2p lending industry, the most notable of which is their investment in Lending Club last year alongside Google. Moldow’s presentation at LendIt 2014 was one of the […] The post Podcast 16: Charles Moldow Discusses the $1 Trillion Marketplace Lending Opportunity appeared first on Lend Academy.

Session 16 of the Lend Academy Podcast features Charles Moldow, a partner at the venture capital firm Foundation Capital. His firm has made several equity investments in the p2p lending industry, the most notable of which is their investment in Lending Club last year alongside Google.He recently authored the popular white paper titled A Trillion Dollar Market By the People, For the People. We talk about this white paper and get Moldow's view on the industry and where it is headed.Connect with Fintech One-on-One: Tweet me @PeterRenton Connect with me on LinkedIn Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes