About this Event
A free monthly mentoring programme for FinTech startups and scaleups.
Our programme is designed to connect FinTech founders with industry experts to support entrepreneurs on their start-up journey.
Our mentors are carefully selected from our FinTech community. They have expertise in a range of areas, including marketing, legal, business development and more.
Please apply by clicking 'reserve a spot'. We will be in touch approximately 10 days prior to the event to let you know if your application is successful. Mentoring slots last for 30 minutes and will take place between the specified event timings.
Please note, this event is in person and will take place at Rise London, 41 Luke Street, EC2A 4DP.
April Mentors
- a Fintech professional with 10 years’ experience across commercial banking, payment services products and innovation. Brindley’s work is focussed on strategy, insight and developing commercial propositions and partnerships for Barclays in conjunction with entrepreneurs and emerging technologies. Brindley works within the Group Innovation Office at Barclays where he has responsibility for exploring emerging business models across Fintech verticals and reaching deep into customer trends and problems. Day to day you’ll find Brindley working with business leaders to create customer focussed strategy and integrate promising start-up and scale up Fintechs into Barclays group build-buy-partner strategy.
- lead communications and external affairs at digital bank Zopa, the tech Unicorn founded in 2020 that raised £500 million from the early investors of Uber, Slack and Alibaba to build Britain’s best bank.
In 12 months Lucas established Zopa as the UK’s #1 most mentioned digital bank in the press and quadrupled (4x) its media coverage.
Lucas also crafted Zopa’s new narrative as it transitioned from a P2P lender to a regulated bank, managed a $300 million funding round from SoftBank, and mobilised a 50-strong coalition to combat the cost-of-living crisis at pledge2025.org.
Lucas has 20 years on-the-record media experience as a reporter, political aide, and most recently at Milltown Partners advising some of Silicon Valley's most iconic technology businesses.
Experience includes working for Google, Facebook, Microsoft, WhatsApp, Dropbox, Plaid, and the Obama-Biden presidential campaign.
In his last in-house role Lucas was Global Communications Director across 150 countries at online money transfer firm WorldRemit (15m users, $400m revenue, $10b transactions). In 3 years I launched WorldRemit in 45 countries, increased media coverage +40% and scaled transactions 5x.
- is an expert on Entrepreneurial Governance - how to make your board an engine of Growth - as well as Board Advisor and Non-executive Director.
He has almost 40yrs in FS at senior levels, has been immersed in the startup and scaleup worlds for a decade, formed his own Fintech in 1998 and is founder and host of the longest-running European Fintech Podcast - the London Fintech Podcast.
He researched entrepreneurial governance by interviewing some 80 unlisted Board members, principally Founders but also Chairmen, Angels, NEDs, VCs and so forth.
His book "The Realpolitik of the Unlisted Board - Making Your Board an Engine of Growth" is based around 400 quotes from this research and currently gets 18/18 5* reviews on Amazon.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rise London,, 41 Luke Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00