bank

also referred to as: banks

34 statements across 28 episodes · 3 bullish · 9 bearish · 28 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2016 by Lance Mysyrowicz · across every show →

Everything said about bank, oldest first

Jun 9, 2016
Disclosure
Boost&Co Lends Earlier and in Larger Amounts Than Traditional Banks
“Boost&Co funds early stage High-tech companies through loans. So we lend money to these companies earlier in the development of these companies than the banks, or we lend them more money than the banks. And against that, we get a higher remuneration than the b…”
Lance Mysyrowicz Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 1:45 EP 320: With a $150M War Chest, He Gives SaaS Businesses Friendly Loans
Dec 20, 2016
Assertion Supported
Kreditech Is Not Subject to Specific Bank Capital Requirements
“So we're not a bank. We're not subject to any specific capital requirements.”
Alexander Graubner-Müller Dec 20, 2016 ▶ 16:36 EP 514: $120M Raised, Helping 1m Consumers Get $100m+ In Credit Who Have No Other Choice with KreditTech CEO Alexander Graubner-Muller
Feb 15, 2017
Assertion Supported
DeSena: Banks spent $200B on tech in 2015, 75% on maintenance
“There was a report published that said in, I forgot who published it, but in. 15, two hundred billion dollars worldwide was spent by the banks in technology. 75% of that was basically maintenance.”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 9:00 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena
Feb 15, 2017 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
DeSena predicts Wall Street regulations will ease under the Trump administration
“No, I think things are going to ease up, but that, that's not, that wasn't the rationale for me to put this here.”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 7:39 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena
Apr 2, 2017
Assertion Partly supported
Over 400M Indians apply for loans annually; under 1 in 7 succeed
“In India, over four hundred million people every year apply for loans, and less than one or seven actually manage to get a loan from banks and banks in a non-banking company.”
Monish Anand Apr 2, 2017 ▶ 2:37 EP 617: DataSigns Raises $5.4M, Gives Loans To Indian Credit Borrowers At 1/2 The Rate Money Sharks Do With CEO Monish Anand
May 8, 2017 positive
Opinion
SoFi is a rare exception among consumer fintech startups scaling independently
“So I think people like SoFi are the exception to the rule. Where you're able to, you know, come in with a new product that the, an area where the banks are not paying it, you know, are not working for whatever reason, and then expand to be a big company.”
Maria Gotsch May 8, 2017 ▶ 17:59 653: She Invests $120 Million Into Financial Tech Companies, 39 Graduates, 6-8 New Per Year with New York Partnership Fund CEO Maria Gotsch
May 22, 2017 negative
Opinion
Le Moal: Traditional bank credit scoring only serves the top 1%
“The banks have done this, you know, but all using the same credit scoring model and basically addressing the one percent of the population that actually do not really need credit.”
Laurent Le Moal May 22, 2017 ▶ 4:34 667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal
Aug 20, 2017 negative
Assertion Supported
Paxia: Banks and credit card processors routinely drop cannabis businesses
“The issue is that we're still, you know, the banks are still dropping businesses left and right. Credit card processing companies drop them left and right.”
Emily Paxia Aug 20, 2017 ▶ 12:18 757: She Launched a $20m Cannabis VC Firm After Her Parents Passed Away
Aug 21, 2017 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Di Iorio: Banks hire crypto consultants but refuse them bank accounts
“You have banks that don't want to set up bank accounts for Bitcoin companies because they're scared. Or they're scared because of the compliance thing. And we're saying, well, you're hiring us banks to consult with you about the technology you're funding compa…”
Anthony Di Iorio Aug 21, 2017 ▶ 11:18 758: The Ex-Stock Exchange Brain Behind Ethereum Blockchain
Aug 26, 2017 negative
Opinion
Kirsch: Banks using OAuth 2 for APIs have horrible security
“Whereas most banks are using, for their own APIs, they're using OAuth too, which is Just horrible from a security perspective.”
Steve Kirsch Aug 26, 2017 ▶ 4:26 763: He's Raised $18.5m To Help Banks Use Open API's, Makes Money From # of API Calls
Aug 26, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kirsch: Most Banks Lack Open APIs for Moving Money
“The problem is that most banks don't have an open API where you can do things like move money.”
Steve Kirsch Aug 26, 2017 ▶ 3:01 763: He's Raised $18.5m To Help Banks Use Open API's, Makes Money From # of API Calls
Aug 26, 2017 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kirsch: Token is currently integrated with roughly five banks
“It's a pretty small number. Like five? Yeah, it's on that order.”
Steve Kirsch Aug 26, 2017 ▶ 12:12 763: He's Raised $18.5m To Help Banks Use Open API's, Makes Money From # of API Calls
Sep 14, 2017 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pon: Back-Office Reconciliation Consumes One-Third of Corporate Workforces
“So if you look at any single organization, whether it's a bank, a supply chain company, energy or automotive, one third of the work is on back office reconciliation, figuring out what happened. After the fact. One third of all people.”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 8:51 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
Nov 23, 2017 negative
Opinion
Banks fail at payment tech due to 50% margin targets
“So banks, I think one of the reasons banks haven't solved the problem yet is because they have a margin target, right? Bank wants to make 50%. So they don't want to invest, yeah, at least 50%. So they don't want to invest in technology, right? They're not trad…”
Carla Friede Nov 23, 2017 ▶ 15:18 852: FinTech: Businesses Process $10b+ In Supplier Payments Through NvoicePay
Dec 9, 2018 negative
Assertion Supported
Banks hide 3% to 7% fees in foreign exchange rates
“Typically, banks hide a fee between three, four, five, six, seven percent in the exchange rate.”
Taavet Hinrikus Dec 9, 2018 ▶ 2:53 1233 With 4m Customers, $4b Transfered Every Month, is Transferwise The Cheaper Bank Of The Future?
Jun 6, 2019
Disclosure
MarketFactory charges ARR per module, offering unlimited API calls
“We actually just charge it by functionality module. So let's say a bank typically needs, you know 20 exchanges to start to trade with to begin, but they'll scale up to 35, 40 exchanges. So we'll charge an ARR per exchange per module. Right. And it's unlimited …”
Darren Jer Jun 6, 2019 ▶ 6:44 1412 Passed $12m in ARR, Banks Use This API To Decrease Currency Risk
Jun 6, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jer: MarketFactory customers are 45% banks, 45% funds, 10% brokers
“We're probably like 45% banks, 45% funds, you know, the buy side. And then about 10% brokers.”
Darren Jer Jun 6, 2019 ▶ 8:17 1412 Passed $12m in ARR, Banks Use This API To Decrease Currency Risk
Jul 27, 2019
Insight
Heiser: Once customer deposits move to fintech apps, they rarely return
“And from a bank perspective, once the money moves, it typically doesn't come back.”
Rob Heiser Jul 27, 2019 ▶ 13:20 1463 He's Wealthfront, Robinhood, Betterment Worst Nightmare helping Banks retain deposits
Nov 28, 2019
Assertion Supported
Banks are only assessed for CRA compliance where they have physical branches
“Banks, they're only assessed where they have brick and mortar branches.”
Ben Loehle Nov 28, 2019 ▶ 6:05 1587 Why Banks Pay Him $2k/year To Help Serve Lower Income Community Members
Nov 28, 2019
Assertion Supported
Banks typically allocate 1-2% of Tier 1 capital to CRA investments
“The act does not stipulate an exact percentage, but banks will often look at about to do about a one to two percent of their tier one capital in a community investments to meet their CRA requirements.”
Ben Loehle Nov 28, 2019 ▶ 4:11 1587 Why Banks Pay Him $2k/year To Help Serve Lower Income Community Members
Feb 18, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lappas Notes Partner Banks Restrict Venture Debt to Post-Series A
“Venture debt, the banks that we work with only give you venture debt if you're after a series A.”
Paul Lappas Feb 18, 2020 ▶ 14:37 1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility
Mar 30, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kumar: Revenue from banks accounts for close to 10% of Cropin's total
“Close to 10%.”
Krishna Kumar Mar 30, 2020 ▶ 6:19 1710 Crop Optimization Software Hits $2.4m in ARR, $12m Raised
Dec 26, 2020
Insight
Fintechs and traditional banks will fail unless they actively collaborate
“What we need to do as an industry is collaborate. We keep thinking of this as a competitive game and yes, it's a competitive game, but if we don't collaborate, we're all going to fail.”
Keren Moynihan Dec 26, 2020 ▶ 14:09 BossInsights 2x YoY to 5 Customers Helping Lenders Capture Data
Jan 10, 2021
Disclosure
Hipotecalo avoids residential mortgages to target unbanked agricultural borrowers
“Different because basically the residential mortgages sector is financed by the banks. And we focus on other we detected another niche of for our case, which is the people is not bankrupt as usual because That's the case of the agriculture, for example.”
Jorge Pastine Jan 10, 2021 ▶ 7:23 Hipotecalo Does $15m in Home Buyer Loans, Charges 13% gives investors 7%, they make the spread
Oct 9, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chadha: OnBoard has 600 bank customers
“I have 600 banks as customers today.”
Paroon Chadha Oct 9, 2022 ▶ 7:37 Founder First PE Playbook: Growing from $24m Revenue Bootstrapper to $400m PE Valuation
May 16, 2023 negative
Insight
Singh: Sensor data underwrites restaurants better than bank tax returns
“I always said, I could underwrite a restaurant better than a bank. I don't need your tax returns. Just put a sensor in your restaurant, and I'll track the traffic and be able to lend you better than any bank could, and a bank can't do that, and in a similar se…”
Savneet Singh May 16, 2023 ▶ 15:22 How I'm transforming a $1b+ publicly traded company into SaaS and why
Jul 19, 2023
Insight
Murray: SaaS CFOs need bank partners for treasury and asset management
“CFOs, I think, we're operators you know, we don't know where maybe to place that money, and that's where usually you need to partner with A good bank in their treasury function to help, have that guidance to help you.”
Ben Murray Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 19:38 SaaS Founder Confessionals: Lessons Learned From Raising $500 Million Dollars
Dec 14, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Brad Miller: Bank Capped Initial Acquisition Debt at $1M on $6M Deal
“This company was losing money, so the bank wasn't interested in giving us a big debt check, so they were comfortable giving us a million, even though it was losing money and so we had to fill in the rest, which was another five.”
Brad Miller Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 21:40 Masters of Debt: How I bought a $5m SaaS Company Using Debt, Grew to $20m, Then Flipped for a Huge Gain
Feb 29, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Abujamra: Klooks is prioritizing direct data sales to banks over intelligence platforms
“After a while we started selling it to banks as well. So that's our rush right now to put our data directly into banks and not only in intelligence platforms. That, that's part of our priorities at the moment.”
Alex Abujamra Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 3:24 He Did $1m last year selling South American Business Data to firms like CapIQ
Mar 21, 2024 neutral
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Schwartz: Upcoming 2025 regulations will force unprepared banks to lend to SMBs
“There's going to be some regulation coming out next year where banks are going to be forced to go back and start to lend out to the small businesses, but banks are not equipped to underwrite a small bit.”
Alex Schwartz Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 12:53 Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?
May 21, 2024
Assertion Supported
Buhrdorf: Banks pay up to $500 to acquire a single customer
“For a bank, I know right now I can give you, a bank pays because I don't want a bank board. They pay up to 500 bucks for a customer.”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 15:15 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
Jan 7, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yampolskiy: SecurityScorecard Serves Over 2,800 Customers at $30K-$40K Average Deal Size
“Our security scores are used by over 2800 customers worldwide. Nine of the top 10 banks, governments in 46 different countries, insurance companies, but the average deal size is about 30 to 40 K.”
Alex Yampolskiy Jan 7, 2025 ▶ 1:43 3 Strategies I Used To Scale SecurityScorecard to $70M ARR, 1,700 Customers, & $200M in Cash
Sep 8, 2026 bearish
Insight
Lending Tech Fails If It Keeps Traditional Banks' Low Risk Appetites
“If you keep the bank's risk appetite and build a fantastic product from a text tech and UX perspective, you're still not going to be able to serve the like 70% that we do. You would be declining 90%.”
Oliver Moseni Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 16:27 The Surprising Way This Startup Bank Makes Millions
Sep 8, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Froda Provides Embedded Lending Using Its Own Banking Balance Sheet
“The full embedded lending journey from a first origination window all the way down to balance sheet is on us. So we have the full infrastructure layer. We have the balance sheet. We have the whole regulatory framework required being a bank ourselves to enable …”
Oliver Moseni Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 2:08 The Surprising Way This Startup Bank Makes Millions
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