Bank On It Podcast, December 6, 2018. n this episode the host John Siracusa chats with John McEvoy, Managing Director of Tribeca Angels. John is a successful entrepreneur exiting 3 companies, CrediteX, being one that sold to ICE (NYSE parent) for $625,000,000 in June, 2008. ...
American Banker website on October 31, 2018. By Nathan DiCamillo For produce farmers, the toughest row to hoe is securing a loan against their crops. Financial institutions find produce difficult to collateralize because it generally expires a month after harvest. But one fintech platform is disrupting traditional finance rules in the farm-to-table process and has reaped millions in new funding by doing so. ProducePay provides immediate access to financing for farmers and distributors in the United States, Mexico, Canada,...
Bloomberg Business, August 20, 2015. Insurance for the Agent-Averse PolicyGenius caters to millennials who prefer to shop online PolicyGenius, an online insurance brokerage, is chasing the kind of customer who would rather fill out a detailed profile on a website than open up to a total stranger. A 2014 Gallup poll found that millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are more than twice as likely as other generations to buy their policies online as through an agent. Insurers “still...
The following appeared in WSJ Online, June 15, 2015. Click Here to view the WSJ article Online Insurance Agent PolicyGenius Nabs $5.3 Million Series A The burden of finding health, life, disability and other types of insurance is increasingly falling on individuals. A recently launched online insurance broker PolicyGenius Inc. secured $5.3 million in Series A funds to respond to this trend. “The insurance and employment-benefits space will be individualized,” said Jennifer Fitzgerald, chief executive and co-founder of...
The following appeared in Alley Watch, May 21, 2015. Click Here to view the Alley Watch article This NYC Startup Raised $2.5M to Keep Companies Globally Compliant Last year, 40,000 regulatory compliance updates were introduced worldwide. How are global companies expected to keep up with it all? ComplyGlobal is a SaaS offering that is revolutionizing the way global organizations manage and track their corporate compliance requirements, bringing increased visibility and transparency to an ever-increasing complex regulatory environment –...