Podcasts about orchard platform

In this episode we chat with Angela Ceresnie, the CEO of Climb, which is an innovative student lending platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable.  The company is driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile. Angela first joined Climb as the Chief Operating Officer in 2016 and quickly helped shape the operations, culture, and future of Climb, earning her the role of CEO in 2018. Prior to Climb, she co-founded and was COO/CFO of Orchard Platform — a provider of software and data products offered to institutional investors to purchase loans from marketplace lenders.  Orchard was acquired by Kabbage. Earlier in her career, Angela spent nine years running credit risk analytics teams at American Express and Citibank. We hope you enjoy the show.

Zac Prince is the Chief Executive Officer of BlockFi. Founded in 2017, BlockFi provides trade execution services for institutions and opportunities for retail investors to earn a yield on their bitcoin holdings. In January 2018, BlockFi launched its first product: USD loans backed by cryptocurrency for cryptocurrency holders allowing them to offer their bitcoin, ether or litecoin assets as collateral for a loan. In 2019, BlockFi launched its second major product to retail customers, a crypto-funded interest account. With this account, customers deposit bitcoin, ether or litecoin with the company for the assets to accumulate cumulative interest every month. BlockFi has previously advertised 6.2% annual interest, compounded monthly. The firm has $10 billion in outstanding loans, $15 billion in total assets and has been operating profitably for several months.Prior to starting BlockFi, he led business development teams at Orchard Platform, a broker dealer and RIA in the online lending sector, and Zibby, an online consumer lender. He graduated Cum Laude from Texas State University with a BA in International Business and minor in Spanish.—————————————————————— Registration for SALT New York is now open! Join us September 13-15, 2021 and sign up at https://register.salt.org/event/411f76d9-c215-4719-9bc4-8dfac6cfacdd/summaryFor podcast transcripts and show notes, visit https://www.salt.org/Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-3RA72CIki0Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC. 

Zac is the CEO and Founder of BlockFi – a leading wealth management firm for crypto investors. Prior to starting BlockFi, he led business development teams at Orchard Platform, a broker dealer and RIA in the online lending sector, and Zibby, an online consumer lender. In this podcast, we discuss: The three use case of crypto – store of value, new commerce, and new payments system. Stablecoins are underappreciated. What is decentralized finance (defi). How you can earn interest on crypto assets. How to manage crypto lending books. Breakdown of market players. How to hedge your portfolio. Regulatory trends in crypto finance. Future of NFTs. Books that influenced Zac: The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Horowitz) and Zero To One (Thiel). Books Zac has recently read: No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Hastings) and Shantaram (Roberts).

About this nugget: This nugget was pulled from episode 219 from an interview with Matt Burton,  One of the partners at QED. This nugget is on how to actually get your foot into a VCs door.   Subscribe to Bank On It podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio and you’ll get these nuggets delivered every Wednesday morning. Matt Burton has had successful exits to Google, Facebook and Kabbage.  His last exit was with Orchard to Kabbage and post exit he joined QED as a partner.  As a successful operator turned VC he has a unique perspective on the decision making process in which VCs use to invest.  Most founders spin their wheels pitching investors incorrectly. Matt said the essence of a pitch deck is a poor way to get your foot in the door and there’s actually a much better way.  In this clip he shares some potent ways to do so. Coming from a partner at QED, a powerful nugget to soak in and act on.  What is a nugget of the week?:  The host John Siracusa has recorded over 280 episodes as the host of the Bank On It & Before the A fintech podcasts where he interviews founders building the future of fintech and the VCS/Angels who fund them.  With each interview there’s this wow moment when the person interviewed has shared something really special, unique or a reminder on how founders or investors should think. So, here we are delivering those moments to you in the form of a bite sized nugget. About Matt Burton: Matt is a partner at QED and has spent his career creating technologies and businesses that have transformed industries. In digital advertising he helped build, scale and optimize the Internet’s top advertising exchanges at Google, Admeld and LiveRail, which collectively handled trillions of transactions. As employee number seven at AdMeld (which was acquired by Google for $400M in 2011), Matt played a central role in all aspects of the company, from product development to sales to operations. After Google, Burton joined LiveRail (which was acquired by Facebook for $500M in 2014) where he continued to focus on programmatic exchanges. After transforming online advertising.  In 2013 he founded Orchard Platform where he and his co-founders combined their expertise in auction dynamics and bidding behaviors, extensive knowledge in credit risk and underwriting analytics to reimagine the future of credit. Orchard was sold to Kabbage in April 2018.   About the host:    John, is the host of the ‘Bank On It’ podcast recorded onsite in Wall Street at OpenFin, and 'Before the A' podcast recorded onsite in Flat Iron at Barclays/Techstars Rise NYC.   He’s a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.  Stay in the fintech know by subscribing to ‘Bank On It’, ‘Before the A’ 

In this episode of “Squashing the Market”, host Bill Ullman welcomes FinTech wunderkind Matt Burton to the studio for an animated discussion about start-ups, venture capital investing, the globalization of FinTech and entrepreneurship. Matt is currently a partner at leading FinTech VC firm QED Investors. Prior to joining QED, Matt was the co-founder and CEO of online lending analytics company Orchard Platform, which was recently sold to Kabbage (an online lender based in Atlanta). Matt’s career has been an astonishing rise through the AdTech and FinTech worlds - and now venture capital. Prior to starting Orchard, Matt worked at AdTech pioneers Live Rail and AdMeld, which were sold to Facebook and Google, respectively. A graduate of Sewanee - The University of the South, Matt was a former Texas State tennis champion who now likes to play squash from time to time in NYC. Produced by Sam Swanson, music by Alex Atchley.

Mr. Phillip Rosen, also known as Phill, is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Even Financial, Inc. Mr. Rosen served as President and Chief Technology Officer of Even Financial, Inc. Mr. Rosen served as technical Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Orchard Platform. He helps as an advisor to early stage tech startups. He has been working in startups in NYC for a decade.

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Angela Ceresnie, CEO at Climb Credit.  Climb Credit is a lending company that works with schools that improves the lives of their students and provides specialized student loans to those students. Angela has grown her career at AMEX, then CITI, co-founded Orchard Platform, advised at Even Financial and then joined Climb Credit in 2016.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Mark Casady  from Vestigo Ventures.   About the host: John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

On this episode of the Bounty0x podcast, we speak to Zak Prince CEO of Block FiBlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to cryptoasset owners who collateralize the loan with their cryptoassets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with a registered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in a beta launch, we lend in 35 US states to retail investors and companies. Zac's experience includes leadership roles at multiple successful tech companies. Initially in adtech, where he was a part of two successful acquisitions, Admeld (Acquired by Google) and Sociomantic (acquired by DunnHumby). Prior to starting BlockFi, he led business development teams at Orchard Platform, a broker dealer and RIA in the online lending sector, and Zibby, an online consumer lender. He graduated Cum Laude from Texas State University with a BA in International Business and minor in Spanish.Learn More about BlockFi at https://blockfi.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can Subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Phill Rosen, co-founder & CEO at Even Financial.   Phill was previously a co-founder at Orchard Platform, which was acquired by Kabbage in April 2017.  John & Phill discussed raising money for new ventures, company culture, increasing employee interaction and how banking customers won't use a banking app like BOFA's (as an example) to find the financial service products that they want.  Instead he feels that financial services products are a transactional thing that people engage with in order to get the things that they want to when and where they want to get it. That ecosystem is the transactional transportation money hub and Even Financial is helping banks plug into that ecosystem to continue to play a role in consumer transactions.   Listen in if you want to learn about an omnichannel banking experience and some funny stories on culture.   Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now to hear Tuesday's interview with Dee Choubey from MoneyLion.   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry. Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or Medium

Charlie oDonnell is the sole Partner and Founder at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. His fund makes seed and pre-seed investments and was the first venture firm located in Brooklyn--where he was born and raised.  Brooklyn Bridge invested in the first rounds of Canary, Orchard Platform, Tinybop, Hungryroot, Clubhouse, Ringly, and goTenna among others. He previously had investment roles at Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital. Charlie has a reputation for being early to identifying important companies. Nick Bilton identifies him as an influence on early Twitter investors in his book, Hatching Twitter. Dennis Crowley credits him as having helped kick off the first funding of Foursquare before other VCs had said yes. At First Round Capital, he sourced the firm's investments in Singleplatform (sold to Constant Contact) and GroupMe (sold to Skype).  Charlie discovered GroupMe at the hackathon where the service had been built. He also sourced investments in Backupify (which was an idea he had tweeted to the founder, a friend of his), chloe + isabel, and Refinery29.   Charlie bikes to work, has done four triathlons, the NYC marathon, and runs the kayaking program in Brooklyn Bridge Park.  The longest he has consecutively been outside of the five boroughs of New York City is three weeks.   During This Show We Discuss… What stage of growth a company should consider raising Venture Capital (VC) The common attributes of companies that VCs look for to fund a deal The importance of a business plan when it comes to getting an investment How important the experience of the owner is to obtaining successful funding The amounts of money VCs commonly lend Which industries best attract venture capital How your industry impacts your evaluation What tools and services VCs use to evaluate the value of a company The common mistakes made when founders start their companies The common mistakes business owners make when trying to raise VC Things that are an absolute turn off to lending money The factors that make a company the most attractive to want to lend money The types of systems or processes that should be in place before a company seeks venture capital The percentage of ownership are VCs typically looking for The level of involvement in the company VCs typically want to have How long the process typically takes for a VC investment to take place The metrics and analytics VCs track after investing The changes that take place when a business brings in outside investors

Charlie O'Donnell is the sole partner and founder at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. His fund makes seed and pre-seed investments to startups and was the first venture firm located in Brooklyn, the place Charlie was born and raised. Charlie’s got a particular interest in New York City startups and has gotten involved in the first round of funding for many companies to date, including Canary, Orchard Platform, Tinybop, Hungryroot, Clubhouse, Ringly, and goTenna. On this episode Charlie chats about his approach to choosing startups he is interested in investing in, what he looks for, why he thinks a good team and a great idea carry equal weight, and what he’d like to see happen in the realm of angel investing in terms of diversification.

It has been an extraordinarily busy past couple of weeks as far as industry news goes. So, I wanted to get the perspective of someone who is well connected with both investors and lending platforms on to the show to talk about the recent events. Matt Burton is the CEO and co-founder of Orchard Platform, […] The post Podcast 64: Matt Burton of Orchard appeared first on Lend Academy.

It has been an extraordinarily busy past couple of weeks as far as industry news goes. So, I wanted to get the perspective of someone who is well connected with both investors and lending platforms on to the show to talk about the recent events. Matt Burton is the CEO and co-founder of Orchard Platform, […] The post Podcast 64: Matt Burton of Orchard appeared first on Lend Academy.

Orchard Platform Company Demo

Angela Ceresnie and David Snitkof, co-founders of Orchard Platform step on to the New York Launch Pod to discuss their technology platform that as David describes it "brings together large institutional investors as well as loan originators to transact in an efficient and data-driven and scalable way."

Orchard Platform Company Demo

This episode of the Lend Academy Podcast features Matt Burton, the CEO and Co-Founder of Orchard. Orchard has quickly become one of the leading companies in the marketplace lending space, developing the ecosystem that connects institutional investors with platforms quickly and easily. Because Matt talks to both platforms and investors on a daily basis he has a […] The post Podcast 28: Matt Burton of Orchard Platform appeared first on Lend Academy.

This episode of the Lend Academy Podcast features Matt Burton, the CEO and Co-Founder of Orchard. Orchard has quickly become one of the leading companies in the marketplace lending space, developing the ecosystem that connects institutional investors with platforms quickly and easily. Because Matt talks to both platforms and investors on a daily basis he has a […] The post Podcast 28: Matt Burton of Orchard Platform appeared first on Lend Academy.

This is the next instalment of our series on crowdfunding. Matt Burton, cofounder of the Orchard Platform joins me, Zack Miller, on the Tradestreaming Podcast. Crowdfunding is a huge, transformative trend in investing. Both individual and institutional investors alike are turning to crowdfunding to deploy their monies. Matt's company, Orchard, provides the technology infrastructure of many of these new platforms (what Burton calls the "marketplace lending ecosystem"). Given his ringside seat to what's transpiring in the p2p lending (and broader, in crowdfunding in general) industry, Matt addressed why investors are so interested in this new form of investing, how individual investors and professionals are using these crowdfunding platforms, and more. Visit our Sponsor OurCrowd is a better way to invest in startups. Identify and invest in the next Facebook, Google, and Apple on OurCrowd's investment platform of vetted and diligence of startup investment opportunities. Check out OurCrowd at www.ourcrowd.com ***Thanks for joining us on Tradestreaming Radio -- I'm very grateful for your time. It's awesome learning about these new tools and technologies together. 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.****