Bio

Samarth heads the EMEA presence of SixThirty Ventures, investing in (pre-Seed -> Series A+) B2B FinTech, InsurTech, HealthTech & InfoSec startups, and working closely with our LPs: category-leading banks and insurers. He is the co-founder of FinTech Forum and the founder of TechFluence, and was recognised by the WSJ/ FN FinTech40 ''40 Innovators Shaping the Future of Finance''. Prior to that, he held Enterprise Sales & BD roles with $25m+ in ARR. Portfolio: AxeTrading (London), Click2Sure (Cape Town), DirectID (Edinburgh), Elucidate (Berlin), Habit Analytics (Lisbon), Imburse (Zurich) -> exit to Duck Creek Technologies, Lama (Tel Aviv), NVISIONx (Santa Monica, CA), Senniors (Madrid), Sonect (Zurich), vlot (Zurich), YvesBlue (New York City). Reach out to Samarth via LinkedIn and- if you are raising currently- via our pre-investment Canvas: https://si52wj6kfwm.typeform.com/to/gWIv0UnK?typeform-source=sixthirty.co FinTech Forum | Europe http://fintechforum.de (co-founded 2013, Frankfurt with Frank Schwab) - ''Scaling FinTech- in Europe & beyond'' - is a community of 18k+ that has brought together 360+ hand-picked FinTech startups with 1800+ investors and corporates via 21+ events. Presenting startups had gone on to raise over $800mn in funding as of end-2018. Prior to SixThirty, Samarth founded TechFluence (2012)- a research, advisory & corporate development boutique at the intersection of Tech, VC and Finance that helped blue-chip financial institutions launch and/ or run their startup engagement programs.