financial services

15 statements across 9 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Aug 31, 2015 by Carolina Brochado · across every show →

Everything said about financial services, oldest first

Aug 31, 2015 negative
Opinion
Brochado: Healthcare and fintech are the slowest sectors for tech adoption
“Yeah, I think you know, something like I would say healthcare and probably financial services, particularly in certain sectors, can be slow moving.”
Carolina Brochado Aug 31, 2015 ▶ 14:06 20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado
Nov 20, 2015
Insight
Mitra: Financial tech stagnated between ATMs and alternative finance
“In financial services, per se, bar the ATMs that were innovated sort of mid-nineties, mid-eighties, I believe nothing really has happened, so all the financial engineering that went on was product engineering rather than leveraging technology to actually impro…”
Ayan Mitra Nov 20, 2015 ▶ 5:44 20 VC FF 022: Crowdfunding Is Here To Stay with Ayan Mitra, Founder & CEO @ Crowdbnk
Nov 30, 2018 bullish
Insight
Global financial services can support 1,500 billion-dollar companies
“His hypothesis in financial services is there are probably fifteen hundred billion dollar companies out there in, in financial services around the world. So I think that's absolutely true.”
Tom Blomfield Nov 30, 2018 ▶ 17:17 20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
Sep 8, 2020
Insight
Strange: Financial services is consolidating internally while dispersing broadly
“So it's this consolidation within traditional and new fintech and then dispersion across much, much broader industries.”
Angela Strange Sep 8, 2020 ▶ 27:09 20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
Sep 8, 2020 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Strange: Every consumer and business company will embed financial services
“Similarly, we are going to see, and we are already seeing, an explosion of financial services. Which is new neobanks, new, directly new fintech companies, but then more to the point, all of these consumer companies, all of these business companies are adding f…”
Angela Strange Sep 8, 2020 ▶ 7:59 20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
Sep 8, 2020 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Strange: Consumers favor predictable monthly subscriptions over hidden fees in fintech
“And what consumers are showing increasingly is that for a high-quality product, a personalized product, They're more than happy to pay a predictable average fee per month, and we're seeing that business model move into financial services, which speaks to your …”
Angela Strange Sep 8, 2020 ▶ 9:22 20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
Sep 8, 2020
Insight
Strange: Fintech competition is incumbent innovation versus startup distribution
“The battle between the incumbent and the startup is whether the incumbent can get innovation before the startup gets distribution. And that applies to any industry, but it applies especially to financial services because getting customers is so damn difficult.”
Angela Strange Sep 8, 2020 ▶ 10:56 20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
Sep 8, 2020 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Strange: Lower fintech barriers will increase CAC for new market entrants
“What that will do, though, is it will make customer acquisition more difficult for new entrants, and we can talk more about that later.”
Angela Strange Sep 8, 2020 ▶ 9:03 20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
Apr 20, 2022 bullish
Opinion
Chennapragada: Fintech and crypto represent the next major platform shift
“I'm biased because I'm really, really bullish on finance and intersection of tech as one of those big platform shifts with crypto, but also broadly financial services.”
Aparna Chennapragada Apr 20, 2022 ▶ 6:11 20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
Sep 11, 2023
Disclosure
Velez: Nubank allocates 80% of its resources to core financial services
“We allocate today about 80% of all resources and energy to financial services, so that core continues to have most of the allocation of resources.”
David Vélez Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 33:10 David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 11, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Velez: Financial services holds the largest market cap in Latin America
“Financial services is the single biggest market cap in the region.”
David Vélez Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 13:59 David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 11, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Velez: AI will act as a banker in every pocket, democratizing finance
“We think that AI is now the second platform shift that might actually be able to take it to its final conclusion. And so if the smartphone was the bank in every pocket, AI is the bank and the banker in every pocket. And that really is the catalyst to Enable hu…”
David Vélez Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 44:02 David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 22, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kleinerman: Financial services lead enterprise AI adoption
“And from that perspective, I would say financial services are at the forefront. Most of the financials have figured out for a long time how to organize data and leverage data for competitive advantages.”
Christian Kleinerman Sep 22, 2023 ▶ 9:59 Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 19, 2024 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Gomez: Financial services firms are pulling back from cloud to build data centers
“When I speak to folks, It's super conflicted in financial services. Yeah. People are pulling away from cloud. They're pulling away from cloud. They're building out their own data center capacity. Everywhere else still seems to be, we need to migrate to cloud.”
Aidan Gomez Aug 19, 2024 ▶ 39:01 Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 8, 2025 positive
Insight
Mansour: Compliance and regulation are mandatory for enduring fintech and healthcare startups
“I think in financial services and healthcare, The only way to build something that will last the test of time and that will truly go mainstream is to work with regulators, to do it clean, to do it right.”
Tarek Mansour Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 34:36 Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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