The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 25: Interview with Raaj Rayat, AirTree Ventures
“FinTech is massive and Australia punches above its weight,” says AirTree’s Raaj Rayat
“FinTech is starting to permeate everything,” says Raaj Rayat, investor at AirTree Ventures, adding “we see it as the 4th platform.”
Listen to this episode (42 minutes) to hear AirTree discuss their Thesis on FinTech, plus details of their FinTech investments and the FinTech / Web3 Fund.
The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 25: Interview with Raaj Rayat, Investor, AirTree Ventures
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1643860/episodes/11383543
https://fintechsummit.com.au/the-fintech-report-podcast/
Raaj Rayat is an early-stage venture investor with AirTree Ventures. Prior to AirTree, Raaj launched Lendable in Nairobi (Kenya), London and Sydney. Lendable is a FinTech that uses data science to expand fair access to financial services in emerging markets. Raaj helped scale Lendable from $0 to $200m+ invested across 10+ countries in 4 years
AirTree is a venture capital firm with a mission to back the most ambitious Australian and Kiwi founders, building the iconic technology companies of tomorrow. AirTree pride themselves on saying they are “right by a founder’s side, right from the start, often investing pre-product and pre-revenue to support startups from the earliest stages of their journey”
AirTree has a portfolio of 80+ companies, and has been an early investor in many breakout tech companies, including: Canva, Go1, A Cloud Guru, Pet Circle, Immutable, Employment Hero, and Linktree, and a number of other exciting fintechs
In this episode, Raaj and Glen Frost (Podcast host) discuss:
- AirTree’ s fintech investments
- Raaj’s thesis on fintech?
- What excites AirTree in fintech?
- We are in a funding ‘winter’ – what impact is this having?
- What does AirTree want to invest in?
- What do you look for? Founding team, idea, traction, customers, ability to scale etc
- AirTree web3 investments
- Future of fintech – Thoughts on DeFi and Blockchain
