Creating A Global Community

From March 18th - 24th, companies from 5 different countries toured across 4 different cities in China: Dongguan, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Beijing to meet with potential investors and business partners in the largest fintech market in the world.


 
Loved my time with InTeahouse, the fintech startup rockstars and other amazing people on the InTeahouse China FinTech tour - a team of people who never met and left 5 days later best of friends - the InTeahouse factor.
— Nigel Verdon, CEO and Co-founder, Railsbank

"The summit itself was the most ambitious such program of InTeahouse to date. Bringing together dozens of innovators and thinkers from around the planet together with Chinese counterparts across four cities in five days."

- Aki Ranin, founder of Bambu Life, summing up his experiences in a fantastic blog post



Attendees

Brian Kerr, Co-Founder

Brian Kerr, Co-Founder

Kava

Kava is a set of protocols and technologies that enable all financial systems and blockchains to inter-operate and transfer value.

 

Summit Representative - 

Brian Kerr, Co-Founder

https://kava.io/ 


Esprezzo

Esprezzo provides future blockchain developers the open-source tools and the high transaction speed necessary to create cryptographically secure applications.

 

Summit Representative  - 

Remy Carpinito, Founder and CEO

http://esprezzo.io/

 

Remy Carpinito, Founder and CEO

Remy Carpinito, Founder and CEO


Alex Cohen, CEO

Alex Cohen, CEO

Birch

Birch helps thousands of people earn more rewards by using the right cards in their wallet on the right purchases and recommends new cards that will earn best with their spending habits.

 

Summit Representative - 

Alex Cohen, CEO

https://birchfinance.com/


Riskifier

We are helping financial institutions to comply with regulations, while educating their clients and gaining valuable insights to offer tailored investment product range.

 

Summit Representative - 

Jelena Jakovleva, Co-Founder and COO

https://riskifier.com/

Jelena Jakovleva, Co-Founder and COO

Jelena Jakovleva, Co-Founder and COO


Laurel Taylor, Founder and CEO

Laurel Taylor, Founder and CEO

FutureFuel.io

FutureFuel.io makes implementation of debt repayment and refinancing easy. Our best-in-breed SaaS platform empowers employers and partners to “turn on” student debt repayment as a new employee benefit — enterprise-wide or for special employee populations.

 

Summit Representative - 

Laurel Taylor, Founder and CEO

http://futurefuel.io


Arca

ARCA is a risk transfer platform for property practitioners. Using the ARCA platform property investors are able to trade Short Term property Market Risk (Beta) management strategies; quickly and at little cost.

 

Summit Representative - 

Charles Ostroumoff, Director

http://arcaprm.com/

Charles Ostroumoff, Director

Charles Ostroumoff, Director


Alan Tien, China Advisor

Alan Tien, China Advisor

Veem

Veem is a next generation platform for business to business payments. We enable businesses to send and receive payments in local currency via a simple and inexpensive manner by using our unique multi-rail technology across several global networks.

 

Summit Representative - 

Alan Tien, China Advisor


Xchanger

Xchanger Financial Solutions Ltd. seamlessly integrates payments institutions within single platform enabling our clients to develop international money transfers applications on top of Xchanger's API. 

 

Summit Representative - 

Monika Kania, Founder and CEO

http://xchanger.io

Monika Kania, Founder and CEO

Monika Kania, Founder and CEO


Paul Bridger, CEO

Paul Bridger, CEO

Big Brook

Big Brook is a new quantamental investment fund.  Its technology combines state of the art data analytics and machine learning with fundamental analysis to choose investments.

 

Summit Representative - 

Paul Bridger, CEO

 


Bambu

Bambu is a B2B technology company, providing solutions for automated wealth management, so-called Robo-advisory. Bambu offers solutions for both customers as well as financial advisors. 

 

Summit Representative - 

Aki Ranin, Co-Founder and CEO 

http://www.bambu.life

Aki Ranin, Co-Founder and CEO

Aki Ranin, Co-Founder and CEO


Speakers

Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize in Economics and Nobel Prize Laureate

Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize in Economics and Nobel Prize Laureate

Sarah Delude, International Business Strategy Manager of Global Affairs for the City of Boston

Sarah Delude, International Business Strategy Manager of Global Affairs for the City of Boston

Hyuk - Jeen Suh, Head of Samsung Ventures East Coast

Hyuk - Jeen Suh, Head of Samsung Ventures East Coast

Robert Bush, Adviser to the European Commission

Robert Bush, Adviser to the European Commission

Nigel Verdon, Co-founder and CEO of Railsbank

Nigel Verdon, Co-founder and CEO of Railsbank

Angel Lorente, Global Treasury Controller for Morgan Stanley

Angel Lorente, Global Treasury Controller for Morgan Stanley

Lawrence Andrews, President and CEO of Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation

Lawrence Andrews, President and CEO of Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation

Shmuel Ben-Tovim, President of TLV International Financial Center

Shmuel Ben-Tovim, President of TLV International Financial Center

Andrea Lo, Financial Adviser for U.C. Berkeley

Andrea Lo, Financial Adviser for U.C. Berkeley

Betty Yu, Head of Investment Banking for China Merchants Bank

Betty Yu, Head of Investment Banking for China Merchants Bank

Lawrence Rufnaro, Executive Director of Advanced Financial Technology Lab for Stanford University

Lawrence Rufnaro, Executive Director of Advanced Financial Technology Lab for Stanford University

Dennis Carlone, Cambridge City Counselor

Dennis Carlone, Cambridge City Counselor

 
Keith Miao, Analytics Manager for Google

Keith Miao, Analytics Manager for Google