Such a great chat with Tony Jamous of Oyster® . We talked about the ups and downs of the fintech hype cycles and how to stay focused on your mission, how you should (and shouldn't) think about competition, right timing when starting a company, and how to create team culture in a…

Excited to continue our support of John Waldmann and the Homebase team!

Big Milestone news for @CapstackTech: A strategic investment from Citi Ventures, a new high-profile advisory board & added experienced execs from community and regional banks: finextra.com/newsarticle/43…🚀
#BankingTech #FinTech #FinTech News

🎧Our latest episode of Building The Best with Jillian Williams is out!

This month, Jillian sits down with Karim Atiyeh to hear about the early days of building Ramp.

📻Check it out at This Week in Fintech:

thisweekinfintech.com/jillian-karim/

It's pretty wild how little the Change Healthcare debacle is being discussed.

It's basically the SVB crisis + Experian data breach in one.

Providers can't submit claims (and thus aren't being reimbursed / may have serious working capital issues).

Clinical data on…

100%

Thrilled to share my latest piece for American Banker's BankThink on banking looking past the zero-zum mentality, and embracing collaboration for growth and reduced risk. This is what Capstack Technologies can help with!🚀 bit.ly/49rND7A #FinTech #FinanceInnovation #CommunityBanking

In an uncertain year, Drata delivered 100% growth & 1Ks of new customers✨

EMEA was a BIG new market for us with 4x customer growth🤯

&& we added some exceptional leaders including Conor Nolen, Sydney Sloan, George Bonser, Matt Hillary & Alex Patman💪

drata.com/blog/fy24-mome…

Drata: 100% ARR Growth in 2023, With +52% Headcount

This is how you do it in 2024

Not 100% and 200%+ like 2021

Still in very early stages of what we could see in terms of loss and cost of fraud.

Anyone building tools/infra to prevent & support in this space - would love to chat!

Who is building more tooling in the government space? Would love to spend time for folks thinking about solutions around compliance, cyber security, and accounting tools focused on the gov sector. DM or email me!

Our latest This Week in Fintech episode of Building The Best is out.

This time, Jillian Williams interviews Peter Hazlehurst of Synctera.

thisweekinfintech.com/synctera/

Going to see so much more of this with AI and Cowboy Ventures we are looking to back founders building solutions to combat phishing / fraud attempts

1/ Met this week with someone from the FBI 👀 - not for a good reason - b/c we've been pulled into an impersonation scheme 🙁.

Scammers created fake accounts on various channels (Whatsapp, X, Line, Wechat, FB, Insta, Linkedin...) posing as my 'niece', someone affiliated with…

Looking for a deeper dive on the unicorn analysis, plus some bits on breaking into VC, how the VC industry changed, predictions?

Had fun doing a long convo with @jason on his 'The Week in Startups' podcast, just out... check us out and let us konw what you think :)…

see this starting with Ramp ads taking over the subway!

Proud of all the Kieran Snyder has done building Textio and having Cowboy Ventures along for the journey. Excited for this next step and more to come!