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Early Stage #Investor | ex-Founder, MEDICI...Exit to Prove. #Angel #FinTech #startups . US Patent Holder. 💙 0to1

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Amit Goel

11 months

After more than 2 years of leading Prove in India (US Unicorn), I have decided to move on to pursue new opportunities in the investment space (VC), fund mgmt, and startup advisory. Last Friday was my last day at Prove and I am grateful for the opportunity and my time there.

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Amit Goel

1 month

This is the CEO of the largest bank in the world (mkt cap) - JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon praises Prime Minister Modi for his achievements in India. He talks about how tough it has been to lift the country and when some of western liberal media beats him down .. we don't hv the

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Amit Goel

3 years

Hard to believe 🤯 that it’s been just 5 years of #UPI @UPI_NPCI 👶 Launch Apr 2016 🚀 🌱 0.42 Billion trnx 2017 🪴 3.74 B trnx 2018 🌳 10.78 B trnx 2019 🌳🌳18.88 B trnx 2020 At the rate it’s going 🚀🚀expect ~32B++ trnx in 2021 @dilipasbe 🙏 @NandanNilekani @NPCI_NPCI

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Amit Goel

6 years

@narendramodi cracked an amazing #fintech #funding joke. He said “if you want 10% higher funding say you are a platform, if you want 20% more say you are a fintech #startup . But if you want to empty investors pocket say you are using #blockchain ” 😂 At Singapore Fintech festival

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Amit Goel

8 years

Bank of the "future"? a modular construction housing array of #FinTech startups each servicing a spec #banking need

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Amit Goel

3 years

Define a neobank more precisely w #memes

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Amit Goel

5 months

@nikhilkamathcio So true. Really nice 🙌 and quiet beaches in coastal Karnataka #karwar

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Amit Goel

3 years

FinTech Twitter - U have seen data aggregators & API providers but you hv to see AA of 🇮🇳 to witness a 1st of its kind “consent manager” tht enables consent-based data sharing which was not possible bfr enabling 100s of use cases. This ushers India into a true #OpenFinance era

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Amit Goel

9 years

Everything you wanted to know and learn about #blockchain in one simple & exhaustive page. #Fintech & non-financial http://t.co/PbiokcEjRl

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Amit Goel

5 years

To all the naysayers — here is the real impact of FinTech. not just funding or vanity metrics. We are taking away “market share” now. @remitly @zerodhaonline @Klarna @monzo @TransferWise @Alipay @WechatPay #Fintech #Banking #Finserv #Techfin

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Amit Goel

1 year

@ErikSolheim "The British Empire was built on exploiting the resources and people of colonized countries. The legacy of colonialism continues to have a devastating impact on many nations, including India." - Kofi Annan

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Amit Goel

3 years

Why is no one talking abt this? The bank that powers many FinTechs @IDFCFIRSTBank is going to offer select #CreditCards customers low (v low) interest rates and 45-day interest free cash withdrawal 🙀🔥 @sandeepssrin @onlymadhoo @trramach @bankonbasak @salilrav @vbansa views?

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Amit Goel

3 years

@itstatamic @btsvotingunite @Twitter #taehyung I think you have tagged my handle by mistake 🙏. I am nowhere related to Twitter infact bunch of kids in our apt are BTS fans ❤️ :)

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Amit Goel

3 years

3yrs of using @PaytmBank FD product. I think it’s the best in 🇮🇳 👏 - elements of self driving money (creation & Mgmt) - great ux/ui = great exp/views - high int rates (6.5%) - immediate withdrawal; no penalty Abt 2/3rd of my FDs I have moved here. #OGneobank @vijayshekhar 👍🙏

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Amit Goel

3 years

FinTech crushed it in 2020 especially in Asia. We all know #Fintech apps tend to be better at keeping users engaged. But did u know 🤯😳 tht top fintech app sessions outperformed the best banking apps by a factor of 5.4x in India 🇮🇳 and 8.9x in 🇰🇷 and so on (Source: @appannie )

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Amit Goel

15 days

Yash Dayal - what a bowler. Kohli's batting/fielding/passion is obviously great. Captain's batting and catches by Plessis. But this left arm fast bowler from UP and his effort should not be overlooked 👏

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Amit Goel

3 years

We hv been tracking global #FinTech funding for ages now…never hv we seen such amts invested monthly used be $3-4 B monthly on an avg. 💥 $8B in Apr to $9.9 B in May 🚀 Usual chartbusters payments/lending hv been surpassed by #wealthTech #InsurTech last month

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Amit Goel

3 years

Extremely honored 🙏 to feature in the "The 100 Most Influential People in #FinTech " 🌐⚡️ Many leaders/experts I look up to/ friends r on list Tracking Global FnTh fr 8yrs w extreme focus/depth & building Bloomberg of FinTech is hard bt cn b rewardng

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Amit Goel

4 years

Elon musk says “I am starting an Internet bank” and “and we are going to transform banking” That’s like such a cliched thing to say these days 😀 but that was 1999 #neobanks #Internetbanks Also listen to the first thing he says in the video = now in 1000s of FinTech pitches

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Amit Goel

3 years

Had tears in my eyes. colleague badly needed oxygen in Kanpur. They tried & we tried all d Covid resources but no Prove Mgmt had given us go ahead to do whatever it takes so our team bought an oxygen concentrator (1.35 L) in Chennai & put it on a plane may have saved a life 🙏

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Amit Goel

2 years

David Velez of @nubank hired a banker early on in his startup. His rationale “you need someone with the inside knowledge” Hiring bankers/bfsi folks in FinTechs is still an underrated, under-appreciated move

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Amit Goel

3 years

🚨🚨 @gomedici is now a part of @ProveIdentity family 🔥🚀 #Exit #FinTech #Identity Watch our journey ❤️(industry leaders speak) Read more about the acquisition

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Amit Goel

7 years

Warren Buffet BH as largest shareholder in #banks . So Q. for #fintech - if World's best investor heavy on banks r they getting disrupted? 🤔

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Amit Goel

15 days

@udupendra Good obsv. Also Yash seems to be a great bowler

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Yash Dayal - what a bowler. Kohli's batting/fielding/passion is obviously great. Captain's batting and catches by Plessis. But this left arm fast bowler from UP and his effort should not be overlooked 👏

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Amit Goel

2 years

His smile & energy is infectious @vijayshekhar 😄 at the amazing #GlobalFintechFest 🇮🇳 #AligarhBoys

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Amit Goel

3 years

Happy to share (now tht we can) 😀 💥 @BimaPeBharosa had raised pre-seed round from top investors after YC W21. Unlike others they were in no hurry to announce 😜 Congrats @Rahul_J_Mathur & team. It’s been a gr8 journey seeing u build this from -180 days

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Amit Goel

3 years

@itstatamic @btsvotingunite @Twitter no worries ! hope your issue gets resolved

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Amit Goel

5 years

CRED experiences r awesome 👏. my 1st time. And I realized they don’t just give u an entry to some event but they actually curate the entire thing end to end with venue/etc. partners. You really feel like a member of a special club. My daughter & I at Lavonne academy @kunalb11

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Amit Goel

3 years

I was looking at all the investments @stripe has made into startups. Interesting pattern I saw on our startup scanner platform. A thread..🧵 #️⃣ 22 rounds and 14 cos (uniques) ✨ 🕰 they started invt in 2014 (stellar found) then a gap. But Since 2017 they have been on fire 🔥

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Amit Goel

3 years

If you have invested in US stocks from India using any of the 🇮🇳 apps (Vested, INDmoney, etc.) chances are an #Infra co @DriveWealth was involved behind the scenes (my fav type of cos) It’s an embedded investing infra provider tht just raised $450 Mn at $2.85 Bn valuation 🚀

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Amit Goel

4 years

Phone has been buzzing 🔥 since we launched “India FinTech Report” Thanks every1 🙏 4 d msgs. My fav is from a founder “You are doing GOD’s work” The most respected bankers, VCs, top FinTech founders msgd. I am told 100s of WA groups😅 got exec sum PDF My LinkedIn post stats

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Amit Goel

4 years

Don’t miss @NagShailaz & team #dotpe delivering digitization for merchants in 🇮🇳. I will provide 4 examples of the work they r doing. Seasoned successful entrepreneur w/ practical solutions #O2Ocommerce #FinTech 1) love the WhatsApp ordering @starbucks

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Amit Goel

2 years

In the @a16z piece on the reset, I couldn’t help but notice the craziest line graph is of #FinTech public cos …the decline in rev multiples is 🤯. In 2021, things went crazy up (25x) and now 4x yet to c data hw badly Pvt co. valuations get affected

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Amit Goel

4 years

What We Found Out by Analyzing M&A and Investments done by @Visa & @Mastercard ...a thread! 1) Although there are lot of similarities, Visa is getting slightly more aggressive lately when it comes to M&A and investments done (from beginning 2018 till 27th Mar, 2020)...

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Amit Goel

4 years

World’s biggest IPO ever will be done by a #FinTech company = Ant Group 🐜 Est to be $30 Billion 💥 ...a <thread> 🧵 It will be bigger than the IPO of it’s parent @AlibabaGroup It will be bigger than the IPO of Saudi oil co @Aramco These wr the 2 largest IPOs of the past

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Amit Goel

9 months

In 2017, @dilipasbe said #UPI will reach a Billion trnx/day. Honestly I didn't believe it at tht time. we wr just over a Mn/day With 10B/mo now, will hit it 🔜. True leaders hv the vision to see so far out+ dogmatic in the pursuit🙏 It was around this session on 🇮🇳 at M2020 US

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Amit Goel

3 years

Great news for 🇮🇳 #payments and #fintech cos and their customers. E-KYC allowed for NBFCs and payment cos #digitalOnboarding

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Amit Goel

3 years

Investor memes apart… Huge respect for Sir entrepreneur, FinTech leader @vijayshekhar 🙏 He sees the oppty, climbs up :) and grabs the bull by the horns while most of us were just standing down waiting for things to happen. Huge fan of Paytm products !

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Amit Goel

3 years

Geeking out on fintech with the new Jupiter #neobank @jupiterapp @guptajiten looks gr8 🤩 (Had to take my daughters Android; put my sim :) but love the fresh interface)

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Amit Goel

8 years

🚀 good to be here on this list of 250 global #Fintech Influencers. Many friendly faces 😀🏦💳

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Amit Goel

6 years

Got mine @PaytmBank card. If brits have their Monzo and N26 we have our PayTM neoBank. Incidentally it’s also my first RuPay card #swadeshi from my most used payments app to now my most used bank Acc 👍🙏 @renusatti @vijayshekhar

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Amit Goel

6 months

To wrap up the year, I'm excited to offer an in-depth look into a specific area 👀 of Fintech in India that has: 🤑 Dozens of profitable cos 🚀 Many unicorns and soonicorns 💹 More than 8 public listed cos 💰 a co just secured a $229 million investment (Ser D) from a local

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Amit Goel

8 years

Use #Blockchain in the area of identity, fraud and authentication - Interesting products

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Amit Goel

3 years

Finance app (Banking + #FinTech ) installs grew a lot 🚀 in 2020 And ppl spent a lot more time looking at their finances, managing money & transacting Users installed 4.6B fin apps🌏; spent 16.3B hrs in-app, up 45% yoy🚀 look at 🇮🇳 in abs terms & Brz🇧🇷 in growth @appannie

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Amit Goel

7 years

#robotic process automation by @LetsTalkPaymnts with @money2020 #INFOGRAPHIC #RPA banking

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Amit Goel

2 years

In this week, atleast 50 people told me in-person (at GFF) that they learned so much about FinTech (2013-2021) first time from MEDICI platform, my posts and our blog. It feels so good to have built something powerful that helped people all over the world in their careers

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Amit Goel

4 years

The future of banking and commerce 😅 #siri #Voice #advisory

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Amit Goel

8 years

for the #fintech geeks 🤓. This is a #RegTech example by IBM Watson before and after machine learning (ML improvements) in analysing regdocs

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Amit Goel

7 years

#FinTech in last couple of yrs +way fwd across segments #digitalID #blockchain bitcoin #RegTech , AI #RPA #payments

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Amit Goel

5 years

MEDICI was founded in 2013 when this was a nascent industry. it was lonely! Aditya & me w/ nerdy paymentTech stuff🤓 -we were Let’s Talk Payments! Just took 6 yrs for #FinTech to become national agenda in many countries, 50k++ entrepreneurs, much more #GoogleTrends @gomedici

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Amit Goel

6 years

Asia is rocking it 🚀 in #FinTech #Funding by VCs, now two months in a row. You are seeing MEDICI @gomedici charts based on proprietary data on 12k FinTechs. Checkout

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Amit Goel

2 years

India lending oppty is so big, its beyond imagination. we can potentially hv 1000s of strong nbfcs (& fintechs). but some hv failed & many can't scale! hard to scale profitably+ NPAs in chk. eg. small biz lending is difficult in Tier3/4/5 But this co 👌🚀: Five Star Biz Fin..🧵

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Amit Goel

2 months

Advice for startup founders, particularly those in B2B software, to consider a different path than the standard VC funded trajectory. Consider the potential of an SME IPO in India. Think about it, it's time. 🇮🇳💼 Imagine a sequence like this: 1️⃣ You establish a co with a B2B

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Amit Goel

5 years

India pioneered open banking (without label) at scale with UPI interoperable payments via any bank/tech app (bank acc access & Trnx with consent). Now it’s doing it for all finserv - Securities, mutual funds, insurance, etc. to enable wealthTech, InsurTech, PFM, etc at scale 🚀

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5 years

A new era has begun. Thanks to #AccountAggregator and other digital infrastructure that we have, India will become a leader in empowering individuals and small businesses with their own data!

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Amit Goel

4 years

a Bank of America corporate client made a $1.6 billion payment trnx 😲 by mobile phone using their app How many other banks allow customers to do this ? On Apple Watch as well CashPro app allows upto $500 M trnx. Last yr at an event they talked abt it. Have followed up well 👏

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Amit Goel

4 years

So Galileo is being acquired by @SoFi for $1.2 B. Earlier Plaid got acquired by @Visa for $5.3 B 🤯 What is this space/market = “Financial Infrastructure APIs” tht can enable any co to be a #FinTech co. #BaaS What do these cos like @Plaid and Galileo do? See @gomedici diagram

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Amit Goel

2 years

In good company of the “Giants”, you always progress! Payments nerd talks with @amrishrau are so damn good. #SFF . Have learned a lot from him over the years 🙏

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Amit Goel

1 year

Hard to believe 🤯 that it’s been < 7 years of #UPI @UPI_NPCI 👶 Launch Apr 2016 🚀 🌱 0.42 Billion trnx 2017 🪴 3.74 B trnx 2018 🌳 10.78 B trnx 2019 🌳🌳18.88 B trnx 2020 🌳🌳🌳38.74 B trnx 2021 🚀🚀 🚀 74.04 B trnx in 2022 1B/day not far @dilipasbe 🙏 @NandanNilekani 🙏

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Amit Goel

3 years

Today Sensex crossed 50,000. Congrats India 🇮🇳 ⚡️ Sensex grew 5 times in 15 yrs. The benchmark closed for the first time above the 10,000 mark in 2006, above 20,000 in 2007 and reached 30,000 in 2017. And now 50k+ 🚀

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Amit Goel

5 years

The Great Rebundling Has Started in #FinTech . From point Soln to a one-stop shop Many Grown-up FinTechs r becoming #Banks . The Institu. they wanted to disrupt @wirecard @Klarna @Zopa @PaytmBank @acorns @FairFX @MoneyLion @Stash @tyropayments ...so on

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Amit Goel

4 years

Not many ppl talk about this 5 yr old #FinTech called Jumo from #Africa - lending, savings & insurance for 15 mn customers - disbursed $1.8 b in loans - raised $147 m so far incl from Goldman S, Leapfrog, Goog L, Anthemis - in Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia. Next...

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Amit Goel

3 years

I am amazed that Apple acquires 3 cos a month on an avg 😱🤯 They have acq. 100 cos in the last 3 years 🤫 mostly quietly 🤐 What is even more interesting is tht acquisition decisioning has been led by “engineering teams” most of the times

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Amit Goel

3 years

#FinTech cos raised $12.78 billion 🤯🤯🤯🤯 across 340+ deals in June “highest” ever in the past 3 years 🚀🚀🚀 or as far back as I can remember

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4 years

F*#<ing awesome moment. *BREAKING NEWS* India's crypto community wins the case against the central bank. The Supreme Court strikes down the RBI circular prohibiting cryptocurrencies as unconstitutional

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3 years

Not trying to blow my own horn (it’s a bit embarrassing for me to share) but it’s incredible tht 15000 😀 of you r now following me 🙏 on #twitter am grateful 🙏 for this community and hope you’re excited for more #FinTech insights, hot takes, charts, occasional shitposting &...

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Amit Goel

4 years

We all know that one of the most successful financial product "credit card" 💳 was launched in California via Air Drops by Bank of America [a thread] but what many don't know is that the first launch was a disaster📉 1) Merchants hated it as MDR was 6% + monthly charges...

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Amit Goel

8 years

India's first mobile-only bank @digibank Open acc. in 90-sec, AI assistant, virtualcard, PFM

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Amit Goel

7 years

Standard Chartered (Singapore), Axis Bank (India), and RAKBANK (UAE) now use #RippleNet to process frictionless cross-border payments. @Ripple 👍🚀 enterprise blockchain solutions answering long standing Q around #blockchain implementations (when? If? How? Not happening) 👏

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Amit Goel

3 years

How many #unicorns 🦄can u take in a serving at a big fat Indian wedding? (Aree 🇮🇳 Baraat mein aaye ho yaar kitne bhi le lo 😃)

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8 years

Promising Indian FinTech Startups that Won Investors Confidence and raised money. #fintech

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7 years

This startup reverse engineered most UK bank's mobile apps, written own client for its private #API and exposed it via JSON API 🚀 #TechFin

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3 years

When @balajis was asked wht will banks do then? #web3 #Metaverse

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Amit Goel

8 years

The Most Important Thing in FinTech: #FinTech APIs, #Banking APIs

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8 years

China 🇨🇳 is the new playbook for #finTech ...here is the most detailed article w/ 53 points to support it by Gaurav

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Amit Goel

7 years

New banking #fintech will not just be abt pure Tech but also common sense and experiments. #AI #ML to improve customer relationships+mktg 📲💻

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6 years

Great co. I am a fan! CEO Tim Chen founded NerdWallet with $800 after being laid off in the 2008 financial crisis — now it’s worth $500 million

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Amit Goel

5 years

Thread on #FinTech 🦄 2019: 1) Following FinTechs became #Unicorns this year (next tweet) 2) Notice the number of companies that don't serve consumers directly and serve businesses, banks/FIs or other startups. B2B B2B2C 🚀 3) 8 US, 3 Europe and 3 in APAC - US is killing it.

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Amit Goel

1 year

My bank messaged me “ Stay alert, Stay Safe “ I replied, *"You Too!"* 😕

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Amit Goel

3 years

Who’s ride could this be?

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Amit Goel

3 years

Global #FinTech startups went from $20.5 B in H1 2020 to $53.8 B in H1 2021. Bumper May & June. Payments is evergreen. Wealth & InsurTech benefitted from Covid tailwinds. US is consistently the biggest & killing it in fundraising

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Amit Goel

6 years

Amongst a lot of other “firsts” “disruptive models” “surprises” Crypto assets might also see incumbent upheaval very soon. Called #flippening 📉 #bitcoin share of total at all time low 36% 🔜 altcoins (which ones?) ☑️🔝

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Amit Goel

4 years

I was looking specifically for the #FinTech cos that presented at @ycombinator Demo Day event for its Summer 2020 class. Didn’t find anything summarized well in one place so sharing what I got for day 1 with founder handles, etc. if you need to reach out to them ...a <THREAD>

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Amit Goel

3 years

To #FinTech folks outside India — you will be amazed to know that an Indian payments app (UPI based) has acquired 300 million users in just 4.5 yrs 🚀 👉 Now offers a host of financial services incld. insurance, investments, miniapps etc. @PhonePe_ 👏 @_sameernigam @rahulchari9

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Amit Goel

5 years

IBM @jesselund Says: 72 countries, 47 currencies, 44 banking endpoints and more than 1081 unique currency trading pairs. IBM Blockchain World Wire for cross border payments with @StellarOrg . What do you think ? #fintech #bigTech

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Amit Goel

4 years

Google praises UPI and recommends it to Federal Reserve for real time payments in the US 👏 @UPI_NPCI @dilipasbe Come see UPI platform and all the Pay apps like Google at India FinTech Festival in Mumbai

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Amit Goel

2 years

I had this unique oppty to meet/speak to >800 FinTech founders in my lifetime 🙏🙏 I worked hard to make sure I meet/speak to atleast 2 founders a week for the last 8 yrs. frm Marqeta, Payoneer, M2P, Open to # of early ones So wht did I learn? which founders/cos win? a thread🧵

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Amit Goel

4 years

This post on LinkedIn made my day :) Imagine growing up reading Ben Thompson @stratechery and learning how to analyze/write and then...there comes a day when someone just puts your article next to Ben’s 🙏🤩🙌

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Amit Goel

4 years

So @amrishrau ’s magic is beginning to show up at @PineLabs that just launched its own app store to help merchants w/ 50 apps (more coming) CRM, GST billing, inventory, staff mgmt, barcode scanning, loyalty programs using Plutus Smart Android #PoS device

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Amit Goel

5 years

Comparing some global #payment #platforms in $$ terms. @PayPal much bigger but UPI is sky rocketing due to its open architecture w/ mutiple apps built on it (Google Tej, Phonepe, bank apps, etc.). Similar bank consortium led payment sys @Zelle has decent growth as well in the US

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Amit Goel

8 years

Ravi Menon @MAS_sg 👍👌keynote at #SGFintechFest talking abt regulator milestones + reg.sandbox + Infra/open architecture / APIs + fin as APIs

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Amit Goel

4 years

1 hour to the launch...🚀 Watch it Live at GFF #GlobalFintechFest

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Amit Goel

4 years

@BeingPractical It’s a vicious (or virtuous) cycle ⭕️

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Amit Goel

7 years

😲😳 This is it #remittances big truth #moneyTransfer saga #Fintech

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Amit Goel

5 months

@aviralbhat You are partially right. It was not founded by a govt body. It was created by a consortium of banks and regulator

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Amit Goel

6 years

Our analysis of 11,700+ #FinTech startups, revealed that two-founder startups had 2X success rate with funding (50.8%) than a one-founder startup (25.6%). likelihood of getting funded continues to grow even further for 3-4 founder startups but that trend changes beyond 5 #charts

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Amit Goel

5 years

It's an honor to be included again in the "Top #global #fintech #influencers u should follow in 2019" list. Thanks, @jaypalter for doing this and for including me and @gomedici in this list with awesome names. Happy to represent India/Asia in this list 👍

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Amit Goel

3 years

In a single trnx, @VitalikButerin donated SHIB tokens worth $1.2 billion to #India #Covid #Relief Fund setup by @sandeepnailwal of Polygon. Buterin donated $600k in ether+MKR in Apr. Crypto assets being put to good use 🙏 Sandeep will be gud to know how u plan to use it?

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Amit Goel

5 years

Charles Schwab ’s momentous decision to charge a flat monthly fee for its robo advisor could have a ripple effect throughout the industry. #wealth #investments #roboadvisor

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Schwab Subscription Move Could Change the Game

The discount broker’s decision to charge a flat monthly fee for its robo advisor could have a ripple effect throughout the industry.

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Amit Goel

8 years

India has ~1 billion people w/ biometric authentication (Retina+finger) Aaadhar 👏🏾 & Banks r launching cardless ATMs

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