500 Startups

Jan11

Christina Brodbeck: Angel Investing & Startups

Video interview with Christina Brodbeck, CoFounder The Icebreak, a fun and new service that helps couples to create more rewarding relationships with snack-sized activities that take no more than two minutes a day. Facebook is for friends, dating...

Jun12

Interviews Venture Capital

Dave McClure, 500Startups: Sexuality is a Bias Issue in Funding

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Dave McClure, Founder 500Startups & Prerna Gupta CEO khu.sh; Jennifer Chin & Elizabeth Yin CoFounders of Launchbit

Jun08

Interviews Venture Capital

Dave McClure, 500 Startups:Taking Advantage & Arbitrage of other Investor’s Disinclination

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Dave McClure, Founder 500Startups & Prerna Gupta CEO khu.sh; Jennifer Chin & Elizabeth Yin CoFounders of Launchbit

Apr22

Interviews Venture Capital

Wendy Tan-White, Moonfruit: Ups & Downs of Fund Raising

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Wendy Tan-White, Founder of Moonfruit

FinTech Silicon Valley

FinTech Silicon Valley podcasts are focused on educating and highlighting FinTech in Silicon Valley to the global community both through video and audio. These podcasts are short and fun, one on one interviews by FinTech Silicon Valley journalists with experts and investors on how they are contributing to the community and what their perspective is on the future of FinTech.

Alex Marquez launched Experian Ventures in 2016 and is currently the Global Managing Director and a member of Experian’s Investment Committee. As a leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to our clients around the world, we invest in data/analytics, information security, healthcare, automotive and the broader financial services ecosystem. We have invested more than $225m across the globe since inception. Alex was Managing Director with USAA’s Corporate Development Group and a member of USAA’s Executive Management team where he built USAA Ventures into one of the most active FinTech CVC after his first year. Alex created USAA’s Blockchain Working Group and investment thesis in blockchain [according to CBInsights, USAA was recognized as the first bank/insurance company to invest in blockchain technologies] and was responsible for the group investment in Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Saffron (acq by Intel), and CafeX, ExpectLabs (acq by Cisco), while establishing USAA’s venture brand in Silicon Valley. Alex was a Director with Intel Capital, the world’s largest corporate venture group having invested over $14B globally. In addition, Alex was co-founder and CEO of AppScotch, which brought transparency to paid mobile advertising. AppScotch was acquired by AppAnnie in 2016. Alex received his BS Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Semi-Conductor Physics from UNLV and received his MBA from Purdue University.