🎧 Podcast: New Finance

A conversation with Mike Kelly about payment networks and investing where crypto and traditional institutions collide

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Happy Sunday!

Today a conversation with Mike Kelly, founding partner at New Finance VC.

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Mike is a software engineer with deep founder and operator experience at some very well known fintechs. This is exactly the sort of VC I believe the European ecosystem needs more of. Also, their website is dope.

Mike is building an exciting firm investing in platforms facilitating a more efficient, fairer financial ecosystem and reshaping our world for the better.

Sometimes this means Web3, sometimes it is companies building within the legacy ecosystem. As you’ll see in our conversation, the point where Web3 and “old finance” collide is, in Mike’s opinion, where the magic will happen in the next 20 years.

No long written summary this week - please give the conversation a listen and let me know your views!

Very excited to see where New Finance VC goes. They are currently closing their first fund and doing some occasional deal by deal investing.

If you’d like to get in touch with Mike, you can reach out on twitter or drop him an email.

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Other Stuff

Here are some threads and tweets I enjoyed this week:

Tyler Tringas @tylertringas

What the heck is going on in VC/early stage right now? My theory: Mega funds have found a new product for their LPs that allows them to invest in the same companies with an approach that is completely disrupting VC 🧵

Naval @naval

All the signs of a bubble are there, but it’s hard to imagine an alternative.

Fifi Kara @FifiKara

There were a total of 9 angels involved in our groups' investment into @Groundfloorclub - that's how you make the next generation of angel investors - democratise a previously closed off space. Thanks @JoinOdin for making it happen.

That’s all for today. We’ll have another podcast in two weeks’ time.

We’ll also be doing more regular written content on weekdays, once I’ve settled on the best format.

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