In The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 51, Glen Frost interviews Cathy Lyall, a Director of fintech startup Liquidise.
https://fintechsummit.com.au/the-fintech-report-podcast/
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Cathy Lyall is keen about creating and rising Australia’s fintech ecosystem and markets infrastructure. As a Founder, Investor, Adviser and Director of a number of startups and monetary providers enterprises each within the UK and Australia, Cathy has lived the founder and startup expertise and journey for shut on three many years.
Cathy co-founded Seismic Foundry within the UK in 2017, a agency that specialises in investing in capital markets fintech. Since transferring again to Australia has develop into a associate in Seed House Enterprise Capital and a Non-executive Director of listed fintech Wisr. Cathy can be Govt Director of RedBelly Community, a blockchain community developed by the College of Sydney and CSIRO.
Cathy’s experiences as a Founder, Supervisor and Investor have been an enormous driver in creating Liquidise – she realises how necessary it’s for workers in startups and rising personal firms to really have a method to realise their ESOPs.
Liquidise permits personal firms to commerce their shares on an unbiased platform. Australian regulated, and that includes on the spot settlement and proof of possession, Liquidise unlocks personal firms fairness for shareholders, promotes capital stream (liquidity, therefore the identify) and provides traders entry to unlisted personal firms.
Now platforms for personal firms share gross sales aren’t new. Nevertheless what Liquidise is doing is offering a assure of money for distributors – in different phrases liquidity – for all transactions undertaken on their platforms. Its this assure of liquidity – or the pricing of personal firms liquidity – that the Liquidise workforce are hoping will permit their platform to catch on, and their distinctive level of distinction.
On this interview we cowl:
- What’s the story behind Liquidise? Who wants Liquidise?
- What’s your imaginative and prescient?
- Your level of distinction. What do you do that’s over and above others?
- Who’re your shoppers? Typical consumer or all completely different?
- What personal firms are utilizing Liquidise … Pipeline?
- Traders?
- Liquidise: self funded or Cash raised thus far, numerous rounds, which VCs / angels?
- Progress up to now and subsequent steps/objectives? By yr finish?
- Will you be world? What are the most probably offshore markets?
- Will you be taking a look at tokenising belongings and equities?
- Regulation: who regulates you?
- Staff measurement, construction
- Assist from different companions?
