Gideon Greenspan, Founder, Coinsciences, Israel

Gideon is the founder / CEO of Coin Sciences Ltd, a company developing a suite of technologies and services for public and private blockchains:

• MultiChain. Off-the-shelf platform for creating private multicurrency blockchains.
• CoinSpark. Integrated solution for asset transfer and notarized messaging over bitcoin.
• Coin Secrets. Displays metadata recently embedded in the bitcoin blockchain.

Coinsilium

Coinsilium believe blockchain technology is going to transform business, finance and much more.  The group invests in and supports companies who are at the forefront of this transformation as well as generating own solutions through in-house development. Coinsilium works to bring blockchain technologies into global mainstream use.

Coinsilium is a 'first mover' in connecting the mainstream public through the public capital markets, with the blockchain/decentralised network technology ecosystem and the opportunities this internet evolution brings.

PORTFOLIO COMPANIES
Coinsilium invest in companies developing products and services that make it easy for everyone to interact with blockchain-driven fintech applications. From Bitcoin to the Internet of Things, from corporate activities to savings accounts Coinsilium are focused on enabling the development of the exciting new technology paradigm. Coinsilium Portfolio includes bitSIM, btc.sx, CoinSimple, Hive, mexbt, rivetz, SatoshiPay, neuroware, the real asset co, factom. 


Bitreserve (TBC)

Bitreserve is a new financial system that makes using digital money secure, instant and free. The company is setting a new standard for transparency in today’s financial system and is pioneering the digital money movement to build a more egalitarian world. Bitreserve enables members to escape bitcoin volatility by holding bitcoin as stable, real-world money, but to still spend their money as bitcoin. Founded by Halsey Minor in 2013, Bitreserve is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina with offices in Braga, Shanghai and San Francisco.

Bitreserve has created a platform for application programming interfaces(APIs) and has signed agreements with partners who are using the service.

It’s the next step in the company’s evolution away from being a Bitcoin-based service to an open platform for the currency exchange and transactions online and on mobile devices.

The API is creating a nexus that will drive functionality and partnerships 1,000 times faster than they would otherwise have been

— Halsey Minor


So far, Bitreserve has raised over $10 million in financing for Bitreserve, from investors including Salinas-Pliego 



More company profiles TBC


Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm Series


Here’s what Londoners say about http://FintechStorm.com the spectacularly successful brand Arifa has built. (http://www.haggerston-times.com/fintech-start-up-storm-discusses-online-payments-asks-if-banks-are-losing-ground-in-the-battle-for-financial-services/).

She is a former investment banker in Private Equity led Leveraged Buyouts Mandate M&A transactions, a seasoned finance, strategy and operations executive based in the city of the London, with over 15 years experience in finance, specialising in Leveraged Finance/ Financial Sponsors Coverage/ Debt Products & Credit. She has worked with two suisse banks Credit Suisse & UBS. She has deep sector expertise in finance, operational insights, and the business acumen to forge big strategic partnerships.

Arifa has independently advised companies of all sizes from pre revenue to deal sizes of GBP300m on venture capital funding, scaling, international expansion, strategy etc. As an investment banker she has executed LBOs of sizes upto several billion USD across Europe across verticals such as Healthcare, Media Telecom & IT, Financial Institutions. She is a thought leader on innovation and disruption in financial services and a sought after speaker on payments and fintech at international conferences such as ICBI’s Payments International in London Mar 17-20, and at Women’s Economic Forum Goa May 7-11. She currently architects Wharton Distinguished Dinner Series for Wharton UK Alumni Club as a Wharton Club Committee Member, and is currently the Chairperson London Chapter for All Ladies League.

Arifa has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras in Chemical Engineering. She is passionate about fintech and Big Data.


Check out our spectacular Payments Special on 15th September 2015 with an unmissable line up of CEOs of Onpex, Invapay, Optimal Payments etc.

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Fintech Storm Series is a spectacular monthly series hosted at Rainmaking Loft for fintech folks by fintech folks. We started in 2014 and have hosted around 10 events featuring over 50 fintech companies so far , by January 2015 including Currency Cloud, Boku, Zapp, Bango, Realex Payments, Sage Pay, Azimo, Kantox, Invest Up, TransferGo, Ixaris, YoYo, iZettle, Blockchain, Blockverify, Skrill, SafeCharge, Open Bank Project etc.