Fintech Leaders Bar Geron, CEO & Co-Founder of Balance – Future of B2B Payments, Risks of Landing Big Clients as a Small Startup, & Why Learning is Your Best Currency
Miguel Armaza sits down with Bar Geron, CEO & Co-Founder of Balance, a B2B eCommerce payments company offering an online checkout experience built for businesses.
Launched just two years ago in February 2021, Balance now supports hundreds of B2B merchants and marketplaces, and has partnered with large platforms like Shopify, Salesforce, Magento, and BigCommerce. They raised almost $90 million from Forerunner, Ribbit, Lightspeed, Salesforce, and many more.
We discuss:
- Learnings from his days at PayPal and why some of the best payments companies and fintech founders have a strong background in fraud management
- How Balance aims to transform the Trade Finance space for US and Canadian businesses
- The future of B2B marketplaces and what the industry has learned from the B2C World
- Founder Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs… and a lot more!
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Miguel Armaza is Co-Founder & Managing General Partner of Gilgamesh Ventures, a seed-stage investment fund focused on fintech in the Americas. He also hosts and writes the Fintech Leaders podcast and newsletter.
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