In this edition, I speak with Amee Parbhoo, Managing Partner of Accion Venture Lab, a leading global seed-stage investor in inclusive fintech startups. Accion Venture Lab is part of Accion, the pioneering nonprofit that has been investing in financial inclusion for the last six decades. I was excited to speak with Amee because she’s on the front lines of identifying technologies that expand access to capital and financial services. In addition to getting an update on the fintech landscape, ...
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In this edition, I speak with Amee Parbhoo, Managing Partner of Accion Venture Lab, a leading global seed-stage investor in inclusive fintech startups. Accion Venture Lab is part of Accion, the pioneering nonprofit that has been investing in financial inclusion for the last six decades. I was excited to speak with Amee because she’s on the front lines of identifying technologies that expand access to capital and financial services. In addition to getting an update on the fintech landscape, ...
Can Crypto Solve the $4 Trillion SME Financing Gap?
The Portico Podcast
17 minutes
2 years ago
Can Crypto Solve the $4 Trillion SME Financing Gap?
I was recently invited to give a lightning talk on a topic that’s been capturing much of my mindspace of late: whether crypto can be a better technology for capital formation than legacy options, such as banks, capital markets, and non-bank financial intermediaries. I’ve spent most of my adult life working on the problem of access to capital in the so-called ‘emerging’ and ‘developing’ economies. So, I focused my presentation on the $4 trillion financing gap besetting small and me...
The Portico Podcast
In this edition, I speak with Amee Parbhoo, Managing Partner of Accion Venture Lab, a leading global seed-stage investor in inclusive fintech startups. Accion Venture Lab is part of Accion, the pioneering nonprofit that has been investing in financial inclusion for the last six decades. I was excited to speak with Amee because she’s on the front lines of identifying technologies that expand access to capital and financial services. In addition to getting an update on the fintech landscape, ...
