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As Senior Vice President of Finance & Operations, Larry directs Flourish Ventures’ investment process, finance, portfolio management, technology, and facilities. Since the launch of the firm’s evergreen fund in 2019, he has built Flourish’s finance and operations structure from the ground up, recruiting a world-class team and supporting a growing...

[Forbes] An Unequal Burden: Measuring Financial Worry In Developing Countries During The Pandemic

Originally posted on Forbes What does financial worry mean for people globally? The answer depends on objective factors such as how much you earn along with subjective perceptions about what constitutes a financially secure life in a particular society. So, it may be correct to assume that people struggling to...

Leading With Authenticity: Healthy Teams Thrive on Clear Communication

The second in our founder wellness series, this blog looks at how CEOs are leading their companies through a challenging environment. With teams more dispersed…

Strong Startups Are Led by Healthy CEOs: Why We're Prioritizing Founder Wellness

As the fintech fundraising landscape shifts from boom times to a more challenging environment, we see the pressure ratcheting up on founders and their teams…

Celebrating Female Fintech Mavericks

We’re halfway through March Women’s History Month and in the spirit of this year’s theme #breakthebias we reached out to Female Fintech Mavericks and asked…

Congratulations to New Flourish Team Members, February 2022

Global Venture Capital Firm Flourish Expands Team and Regional Efforts

New Hires Support Fintech Entrepreneurs in SE Asia, Brazil, India, and U.S. Today, we're thrilled to announced that Flourish is expanding its global investment team with four new hires and building its local presence in Singapore and Sao Paulo, Brazil. With an investment portfolio numbering 70 fintech companies that offer financial services and products to...

Block and Coin

[Fast Company] I'm an advocate for inclusive capitalism. Here's why I'm intrigued by Web3

Originally posted on Fast Company Image credit: Rawpixel From Crypto, NFTs and Web3, the tech world is brimming with enthusiasm for new technologies that will take center stage in the “metaverse.” Banks are starting to get into the digital currency game while policymakers contemplate new regulations. Enthusiasts envision a utopian...

[Video] Celebrating Our Founders 2021

Here's to the founders, partners, and thought leaders who are building a fair financial system to empower people. Watch On-Demand

[Rebank Podcast] Purpose Driven Investing for Financial Return with Flourish Ventures

Originally posted on Rebank Click here to listen to the podcast (49 min) It’s great to be back after taking nearly a year off from regular content to build and launch BELLA. The break wasn’t really planned, but between launching the business, having a son and moving to LA all...

August 18, 2021

The Value and Limitations of Market-Based Innovations for Impact: Three Takeaways After COVID-19

For those of us who work toward economic inclusion in emerging markets, the year and a half since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has…

[EVENT Recap] Fintech Founders in Bangladesh, Egypt & the US Share Customer-first Focus and Offerings

Today, embedded finance is one of the most influential, seemingly all-encompassing technology trends taking place around the world. It involves non-bank companies and fintech start ups offering financial products and services to targeted customers. Many suggest this is the beginning of a transition to fintech 3.0 where a customer’s experience...

Plumbing Event

[Flourish Conversations] Embedded Finance Plumbing

With the pandemic and economic lockdowns, people around the world adopted new habits - work from home, online shopping and online banking. The trend of introducing traditional financial services—such as online payments and online credit—into apps that consumers use daily took off. We think about this technology trend as “Embedded...