Gianluca Carrera

Simudyne is an established, high growth simulation technology company based in the City of London. Simudyne gives organizations and governments a new way to test drive their decisions and drive growth. Our scalable, enterprise ready platform is used by global banks, regulators and exchanges to optimise market execution, financial crime analytics and risk management.

Emerging market consumers have long suffered from a lack of accessible and affordable financial services, leaving 3.5 billion consumers unbanked and underserved. We are solving this. Wala is a best-of-breed financial platform built on the blockchain. Our mission is to help emerging market consumers reach financial prosperity by eliminating their barriers to banking. Wala achieves this by closing the gap that exists between consumers and financial service providers, increasing the accessibility of the financial system.

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. To learn more about Yahoo, please visit yahooinc.com.

Simudyne is an established, high growth simulation technology company based in the City of London. Simudyne gives organizations and governments a new way to test drive their decisions and drive growth. Our scalable, enterprise ready platform is used by global banks, regulators and exchanges to optimise market execution, financial crime analytics and risk management.

Emerging market consumers have long suffered from a lack of accessible and affordable financial services, leaving 3.5 billion consumers unbanked and underserved. We are solving this. Wala is a best-of-breed financial platform built on the blockchain. Our mission is to help emerging market consumers reach financial prosperity by eliminating their barriers to banking. Wala achieves this by closing the gap that exists between consumers and financial service providers, increasing the accessibility of the financial system.

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

We power the best bank customer engagement programmes in the world! We occupy a unique space between retailers and banks helping them to get closer to customers driving incremental sales and lasting loyalty. For Retailers, we combine purchase insights and loyalty tech in a way that helps them to understand spend behaviour and target personalised messages and to the customers they specifically want to reach – driving independently verified incremental sales uplift. For Banks, our modular technology solution powers some of the largest loyalty programmes in the UK, driving customer engagement at scale, creating deeper relationships and lasting loyalty. We process in excess of 2.5billion transactions annually, awarding customers based on retail spend, direct debit transactions and more. There is a perfect storm of regulation, technological disruption and shifting consumer habits that are collectively changing the worlds of retail and banking forever. Getting businesses closer to customers is key, we’re the experts! - visit www.rewardinsight.com for more information.

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. To learn more about Yahoo, please visit yahooinc.com.