Finimize Community Events Vol. 3
The weekly summary of what’s going on in the Finimize Community around the world 🌍 Everything is organised by Finimizers volunteering to curate, organise and run events in their local areas. If you want to get involved apply here.
No matter what country you’re in the Finimize Community has you covered. From start-ups in Silicon City 🇮🇳 To investing mistakes Down Under 🇦🇺
This week Finimizers got together in Sydney, Joburg, Bangalore and Austria.
What to avoid when investing: Sydney 🇦🇺
“Being the financial centre of Australia, there are lots of finance-related events in Sydney. However they’re often put on by fund managers focusing on similar themes.
Our goal with this event was to have a diverse panel, made up of an ethical small cap investor, a robo-advice and behavioural economics expert, and a fintech CEO who’s also an avid self-directed investor. We also invited an accountant along to cover the tax implications of investing — the other half of the equation that is not usually discussed at investing events.”
Angela, Senior Marketing Manager @ Sharesight
Read the full write-up here.
Funding your growth story: Bangalore 🇮🇳
Bangalore has quickly risen to be India’s start-up capital. India produced 4x more unicorns than the UK 2018 (read more here).
The Finimize India Community wanted to understand how start-ups can lay the seeds of future economic development by having a conversation focused on the funding roadmap. Digjay (Finimize Host 💸) invited Bangalore’s top VC’s, angel investors and entrepreneurs to have an open discussion.
“I don’t know why it became the silicon valley of India but the startup culture and the talent in Bangalore is phenomenal. If you are an emerging startup, Bangalore is the city where you will get the best talent to recruit, the best mentors to guide you and the best VCs to invest in you
We believe there is a lot of white space in the ecosystem when it comes to discussions around early stage startups while this is the stage at which most startups fail. It was great to hear from the panel some of the critical aspects for early stage fundraising at our 1st Finimize event in Bangalore.”
Digjay, JP Morgan Senior Financial Analyst and Finimize Host 😉
Consumer Banking, Blockchain and Financial Literacy, Johannesburg 🇿🇦
Ever wondered how consumer banking, blockchain and financial literacy intertwine? The large unbanked population and the high demand for financial inclusion means South Africa is a hotbed for fintechs and banks to consider all three as paramount to the success of the industry. Finimize Community Host Refiloe pulled in experts to give deep insight on each topic.
“A larger than expected turnout made for a night that gave local residents a lot to think about in terms of finance and the impact of digital technologies such as blockchain on investments.” Refiloe, Finimize Host
Investing in Austria Meet-up, Vienna 🇦🇹
The first meet-up in Austria kicked off this week. The gang met to discuss how to solve Austria’s financial literacy issue and the hurdles that remain preventing the nation taking control of their finances. All over a few 🍻
And that’s a wrap.
Next week we’ve got Mumbai, Seattle, Milan and Paris!
For now, you stay classy Finimizers 😎
Team Finimize
