S8 E3: Not Fintech Investment Advice: Niva, OatFi, Tapi, and Aven

Simon Taylor’s back in action and ready to break down some of the hottest up and comers in the fintech world with Alex.
 
First, he and Alex discuss Niva, the global business identity platform using AI to help lenders and fintech companies onboard business customers through a Know Your Business (KYB) process. Focused primarily on growth in Brazil and Mexico, the platform claims it can bring the onboarding process for business customers down to 10 minutes. KYB growth is hot in the US— but can KYB hold the same growth velocity in Latin America?
 
Then, it’s the company that sounds like a milk alternative, but we promise isn’t. Meet OatFi, the embeddable Lending-as-a-Service platform for capital loans. Not everyone has a Shopify-sized business to build their own lending process— so how is OatFi’s API helping smaller B2Bs to underwrite their capital loans?
 
Plus, Alex and Simon also discuss Tapi, the Stripe for Latin American countries. How is Tapi filling a major wedge in the LATAM market? And how much does brand really matter when you’re trying to tap into market like this? They also discuss Aven’s series D funding and explain how the company is helping to refinance debt at a lower rate using home equity, before manifesting a few fintech ideas. Isn’t there a better infrastructure where regulatory insights can be shared? Alex and Simon mull over the challenges of confidential data sharing.
 
02:36 Niva
16:37 OatFi
26:36 Tapi
36:06 Aven
49:24 Manifesting Fintech Ideas
 
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