Pemo Theodore

Pemo Theodore is a Media Publisher and a great people connector. She was Founder Silicon Valley TV which served the San Francisco Bay Area for 10 years! She has produced Silicon Valley Events for Investors & Startups for 10 years. Pemo loves to video interview venture capitalists & founders to engage the human behind the success stories.. She has been Executive Producer of FinTech Silicon Valley for 6 years, organizing twice monthly FinTech talks & panels in San Francisco & Palo Alto and audio podcasts. She believes in learning through a great discussion with experts in the domains. Pemo has a talent to bring the right people together and is an incredible networker. Pemo's events have been seen as supporting Venture Capitalists & Angels in sourcing great deal flow from startups who attend her events. Many founders have received funding through meeting investors at her events. Her favored medium is audio & visual media and she has built up a great body of work of videos of panels & interviews and podcasts in Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. She has lived & worked in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, London, Northern Ireland & Silicon Valley. Bio https://pemo.one

Ben Chan, CTO BitGo #cryptocustody

February 24, 2024February 5, 2019 by Pemo Theodore

Benedict Chan CTO BitGo Ben has vast experience developing blockchain and wallet platforms. He founded EtherLi, the world’s first multisignature web wallet for Ethereum. Ben’s interests in the decentralized space include practical scalability, identity, and security.

Matt Zimmerman CEO Base Zero #cryptocustody

February 24, 2024February 1, 2019 by Pemo Theodore

Matt Zimmerman CEO Base Zero Base Zero enables financial institutions to store and use cryptocurrency safely. Matt has more than twenty years of experience in the software industry, and he has played a key management role in many start-ups during that time. Before founding Base Zero, Matt was CTO and CISO of Denizen (BBVA), an innovative and international virtual bank that he helped to develop from its incubator stage. Matt’s leadership was also essential to the launch and expansion of Ubuntu, where he served as CTO.

Crypto Custody panel #cryptocustody

April 8, 2024January 31, 2019 by Pemo Theodore

DISCUSSION: Matt Zimmerman CEO Base Zero; Benedict Chan CTO BitGo; Mason Borda, CEO Tokensoft; MODERATOR: Matthew Le Merle, CoFounder Fifth Era & Managing Partner Keiretsu Capital

Michael Gilroy Partner Canaan Partners #futureregtech

February 24, 2024January 29, 2019 by Pemo Theodore

Michael Gilroy Partner Canaan Partners Michael invests in entrepreneurs building enterprise software and fintech companies. He is interested in talking to founders building the next generation enterprise tools and fintechs solving the structural issues in finance. Deeply passionate about building the entrepreneurial community in fintech, Michael launched Canaan’s FinTech Central in 2015, a quarterly event series covering trends in fintech. Previously, Michael advised technology companies with GCA Savvian and Matrix Capital. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Yash Patel is General Partner at Telstra Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm that differentiates by generating revenue for its portfolio with strategic channel partners and customer relationships as well as by using data science to drive its investment process. Yash's focus is on the consumer side of fintech, Web3, crypto, esports, gaming, SaaS apps, ecommerce, and marketplace. Some of his standout fintech investments while at Telstra Ventures are companies like Super.com (Super Apps) and Playbook (next-gen wealthtech). Previously, Yash was the Director of Corporate Development & Strategy at Adknowledge and was part of the technology investment banking team at Jefferies & Company prior.