Allard Luchsinger's guest appearances

Allard Luchsinger

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Brian Anderson

Mark Zuckerberg

Jason Njoku

Ray Youssef

Oliver Bullough

Charles Murray

Paul Kent

Chris Skinner

Judith Okonkwo

Charles Ojei

Joel Macharia

Helen Anatogu

Sara Oon

Tunde Kehinde

Ido Sum

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For the fifth episode of Fintech Cappuccino - a podcast on fintech and more! - Brian van Wachem and Conny Dorrestijn are joined by Allard Luchsinger, currently partner at Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures. Investing around the globe, Allard brings a broad view on the fintech industry and so much more. His resume reads like a “Wonderful Life of Allard Luchsinger" as he literally looked at business from every possible angle. He founded Zecco in the US and Tradingcars in The Netherlands. Zecco sold well, Tradingcars went bust and so he rebooted his career as a strategy consultant. Next he turned to investing and he is now leading investments in Europe, US, Africa and Asia. Buckle up for the ride!

Ken Njoroge

A couple of hours before the recent #VillageDiariesAmsterdam event went down, Andile Masuku managed to land a sit-down with Cellulant Founder and CEO, Ken Njoroge, and Director of Private Equity at Velocity Capital, Allard Luchsinger, in order to glean insider perspectives on what went into closing Cellulant's historic round of funding. A few weeks ago, digital payments firm, Cellulant, announced the close of a $47.5 million investment round led by TPG Growth— a deal which included Endeavour Catalyst, Satya Capital as well as Velocity Capital. Listen in to hear Ken explain why landing investment is a demanding full-time job, shed light on the toll fundraising has taken on him and his team, and most importantly, how Cellulant plans to deploy the fresh funds they've reeled in.

A couple of hours before the recent #VillageDiariesAmsterdam event went down, Andile Masuku managed to land a sit-down with Cellulant Founder and CEO, Ken Njoroge, and Director of Private Equity at Velocity Capital, Allard Luchsinger, in order to glean insider perspectives on what went into closing Cellulant's historic round of funding. A few weeks ago, digital payments firm, Cellulant, announced the close of a $47.5 million investment round led by TPG Growth— a deal which included Endeavour Catalyst, Satya Capital as well as Velocity Capital. Listen in to hear Ken explain why landing investment is a demanding full-time job, shed light on the toll fundraising has taken on him and his team, and most importantly, how Cellulant plans to deploy the fresh funds they've reeled in.

Cellulant's Ken Njoroge & Velocity Capital's Allard Luchsinger on 2018's biggest fintech deal so far

Allard Luchsinger is the Director for Private Equity at the Dutch VC firm Velocity Capital Private Equity.Allard supports all of Velocity’s portfolio companies as an active board member for TradeKing, an innovative US online brokerage firm; 8 Securities, Asia’s next-generation online broker based in Hong Kong; Five Degrees, a progressive banking software provider from The Netherlands; as well as Cellulant, a leading mobile commerce and payment technology provider from Kenya.He joined Velocity Capital in 2011, after co-founding and serving as the COO of the groundbreaking San Francisco-based online brokerage firm Zecco. At Zecco, Allard drove all operations, growing the firm’s client base to more than 250,000 accounts. In 2012, Zecco merged with competing brokerage firm TradeKing in 2012 to create the industry’s sixth largest online broker, TradeKing Group Inc.Previously, Allard served as associate partner at the Dutch strategy-consulting firm Boer &amp; Croon, as well as co-founder and CEO of TradingCars.com, an online B2B marketplace for the trading of new passenger cars. He also co-founded Wannahaves.nl, an online lifestyle platform in the Netherlands. Allard started his career at Gemini Consulting as a strategy consultant.In this conversation, Allard chats to Andile Masuku about what motivated the team at Velocity to land their very first African investment and he comments on some of the challenges he's encountered in terms of seeking out investible prospects to fund.

Allard Luchsinger is the Director for Private Equity at the Dutch VC firm Velocity Capital Private Equity. Allard supports all of Velocity’s portfolio companies as an active board member for TradeKing, an innovative US online brokerage firm; 8 Securities, Asia’s next-generation online broker based in Hong Kong; Five Degrees, a progressive banking software provider from The Netherlands; as well as Cellulant, a leading mobile commerce and payment technology provider from Kenya. He joined Velocity Capital in 2011, after co-founding and serving as the COO of the groundbreaking San Francisco-based online brokerage firm Zecco. At Zecco, Allard drove all operations, growing the firm’s client base to more than 250,000 accounts. In 2012, Zecco merged with competing brokerage firm TradeKing in 2012 to create the industry’s sixth largest online broker, TradeKing Group Inc. Previously, Allard served as associate partner at the Dutch strategy-consulting firm Boer &amp; Croon, as well as co-founder and CEO of <a href="http://TradingCars.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TradingCars.com</a>, an online B2B marketplace for the trading of new passenger cars. He also co-founded <a href="http://Wannahaves.nl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wannahaves.nl</a>, an online lifestyle platform in the Netherlands. Allard started his career at Gemini Consulting as a strategy consultant. In this conversation, Allard chats to Andile Masuku about what motivated the team at Velocity to land their very first African investment and he comments on some of the challenges he's encountered in terms of seeking out investible prospects to fund.

Allard Luchsinger of Velocity Capital Private Equity talks making sound bets on African startups