FinTech Academy: Startups Meet Investors

Part of Innovate Finance FinTech Academy, ‘Startups Meet Investors’ is a great opportunity to engage with leading FinTech investors. This session will be lead by Nicole Anderson – Venture Partner 1835i Ventures.

Nicole is a Venture Partner at 1835i, the venture fund and innovation arm at ANZ Bank, focused on UK, Europe, Middle East and Israel. Nicole has worked for the last 10 years as a venture capital investor, venture builder and entrepreneur in FinTech & Digital Assets, Sustainability and Energy. Her passion has always been to challenge the status quo to providing greater inclusion for wealth creation, access to finance for all as well as the preservation of our natural & human resources.

Her work with 1835i involves sourcing and transacting on venture deals that are transformative to the lives of ANZ’s customer whether individuals, businesses, or institutions.
Nicole continues to run her own direct investment and innovation business Redsand Ventures, which specialises in digital asset data infrastructure and specifically Bitcoin mining.

She is an active board member and advisor in FinTech and has achieved the following accolades:
– ‘Top 100 Women in FINTECH’ & ‘Power Women in FINTECH’ (UK, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
– Innovator of the Year 2017, South Africa (SA Chamber of Commerce Award)
– FemTech Leaders 2015/2016
– Nominated as FT’s HERos Women in Business Award 2018
– Editor of The InsurTECH Book
– Multiple times judge for SWIFT Innotribe, The European and African FinTech awards