Brian Gloede

Through our embedded lending infrastructure, we enable platforms to offer capital to their customers in Latin America. R2 has partnered with some of the regions most iconic companies, including Rappi and Clip, to power their capital arms. We are backed by Gradient Ventures (Googles AI-focused fund), General Catalyst, Y Combinator, 166 2nd, Soma Capital, Femsa Ventures, PayU, and other global investors.

Fin Frontier LLC offers consulting services from a seasoned investor and strategist with experience across a wide range of industries and a focus on supporting the global transformation of the financial services industry.

Banyan is the item-level receipt data platform powering innovation in commerce. Our unique data infrastructure helps our partners securely and collaboratively unlock and activate item-level receipt data faster and easier to power commercial and consumer applications. We provide merchant partners with new opportunities to drive customer engagement, revenue, and profitability through collaborations on our platform with their receipt data, all with complete transparency and control through our privacy-by-design architecture. Banks, fintechs, and their partners on our platform benefit from more efficient and effective access to item-level transaction data, enabling greater product and servicing experience personalization as well as differentiation to support growth and operating efficiency.

Through our embedded lending infrastructure, we enable platforms to offer capital to their customers in Latin America. R2 has partnered with some of the regions most iconic companies, including Rappi and Clip, to power their capital arms. We are backed by Gradient Ventures (Googles AI-focused fund), General Catalyst, Y Combinator, 166 2nd, Soma Capital, Femsa Ventures, PayU, and other global investors.

Motive Partners is a private investment firm exclusively focused on financial technology and technology-enabled business services companies, ranging from early-stage ventures to growth equity and buyout, primarily based in North America and Europe. The firm invests across five primary subsectors: Banking & Payments; Capital Markets; AI, Data & Analytics; Insurance; and Wealth and Asset Management; and Motive Partners portfolio companies benefit from the firm’s fully integrated, proven Investor, Operator, Innovator (IOI) model, which brings together world-class fintech leaders and capabilities with deep industry knowledge, insight and experience. With offices in New York City, London, and Berlin, Motive Partners delivers differentiated expertise, connectivity, and capabilities to create long-term value in financial technology companies. More information on Motive Partners can be found at www.motivepartners.com.

Fin Frontier LLC offers consulting services from a seasoned investor and strategist with experience across a wide range of industries and a focus on supporting the global transformation of the financial services industry.

The Endless Frontier Labs (EFL) is a nine-month, goal-oriented mentorship program at NYU Stern School of Business designed for early-stage science and technology startups worldwide (no NYU affiliation required). EFL helps transform breakthrough scientific and technological innovations into high-impact businesses. Participating startups receive mentorship from an elite network of successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, and scientists, drawn from New York and beyond. EFL is a unique, “founders first” program and does not charge fees or take equity in startups, and participating startups are drawn from all over the world.