Startups

When I was a child, my parents and I had left Vietnam and came to the United States as refugees. It’s hard to get a job in America if you don’t speak English. In order to support our family, my parents started a series of small businesses, and that really was my first taste of entrepreneurship.

Pedro Conrade is CEO and founder of pioneer Brazilian fintech, Neon Pagamentos, which today has over 2 million users and is backed by blue-chip funds such as Monashees. In this interview, he discusses the key reasons behind Neon’s success, its greatest challenges and its plans for the future.

Trevor Sumner is an entrepreneur and investor who has spent the last 15+ years working as a product and marketing executive, building innovative tech companies, products and teams. He’s currently serving as the CEO of PERCH, one of the leaders in physical and digital marketing for retail brands like Macy’s, Estee Lauder, and Coty.

Kasha is an international E-commerce company in Kenya selling women’s health and self-care products. Founded in Kigali Rwanda in 2016, the fast-growing company aims to break the stigma associated in getting access to products/services in line with menstrual care, contraceptives and HIV self-tests.

In the freelancing world, work can be very lonely or boring. Remote roles especially experience the little human interaction on a daily basis. Some freelancers experience burnout from the lack of socialization, and with the wide variety of odd jobs or small-scale projects that the gig economy has to offer, freelancers often have trouble attributing meaning to their work.

Built by founders for founders, Vouch Insurance is a new type of insurance company serving early stage startups with proprietary insurance products and risk assessment tools designed specifically for high growth companies.

I have over 20 years of experience in the IT market, in technical and managerial positions of many IT projects and companies. Currently, in the position of Global Chief Executive Officer of the IT Services Competence Platform, I’m participating in the most exciting project in my professional life.

E-commerce strategy for small merchants is becoming quite complicated with Amazon becoming a giant player in the space. This interview cuts through a lot of that complexity.

We started our journey in 2014 with the obsession of making data access as simple as searching for a restaurant on Google. We are radically changing how people can interact with data on a daily basis. In order to do that we have to overcome different technical challenges from Data Science and user experience points of view.

Oradian is a financial inclusion company that enables financial institutions in the emerging markets to know and control better their portfolios by digital transformation. Its cloud-based financial software provides access to capital for over a million impoverished people.