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Fintech Chatter: Conversations with Fintech CEOs and Founders
350+ episodes. 40+ countries. The podcast fintech leaders actually listen to.
Fintech Chatter is where founders, executives, and investors behind the world's most ambitious fintech companies share what's actually working.
We cover topics like raising capital, scaling internationally, hiring leadership teams, and the challenges of building with transformative technologies across payments, crypto, AI, wealth, insurance. If it's in Fintech we've got you covered.
Hosted by Dexter Cousins, founder of Tier One People, Australia's specialist executive search firm for fintech and transformative technology.
With 17 years placing CEOs, CTOs, CPO's and country managers across the sector, Dexter brings an operator's lens to every conversation.
New episodes biweekly. If you're building, funding, or leading a fintech company - this is your podcast.
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Fintech Chatter: Conversations with Fintech CEOs and Founders
#62 Melissa Widner - Lighter Capital
Dexter Cousins is joined by Melissa Widner, CEO of Lighter Capital, the pioneer and leader in revenue based financing for tech start ups and scale ups. Seattle based Lighter Capital is backed by NAB and Silicon Valley Bank as well as US based VCs.
Previously Melissa was the Managing Director of NAB Ventures, the VC arm of the National Australia Bank and a General Partner at Seattle based SeaPoint Ventures.
She was the founder and CEO of 7Software, a Silicon Valley based enterprise software company acquired by Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR, acquired by SAP). She was also the CEO of Northwest Industrial Supply. Under her leadership, both companies generated over a 10X return to investors.
Melissa is also the co-founder and Chairperson of Sydney based Heads Over Heels, an organisation that supports women entrepreneurs running companies with high growth potential.
Melissa served as a lecturer at the University of Washington's Graduate School of Business where she taught courses on venture capital and entrepreneurship. She was previously on the board of the AIC (AVCAL) and has served on the boards of several venture backed technology companies in both the US and Australia.
For more info go to https://www.lightercapital.com/
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