“We are in the period that I call fintech maximalism,” says the founder and general doctor of chemistry Mark Goldberg. “I understand that companies that have grown up in the last five to ten years in FinTech, those that quietly performed the winter of 2021–2024, appeared as complex in a way that really took my breath away.”
After almost a decade in Index Ventures, where he supported outstanding fintech firms, comparable to Plaid, Persona, Lithic and Pilot, Goldberg left in 2024 to start ChemistryEarly Venture company. Founded together with Kristina Shen and Ethan Kurzweil, a fund with a value of $ 350 million is a part of the growing trend in Venture Capital: experienced investors standing out of enormous platforms to build more concentrated, boutique outfits.
Today, at the capital, Mary Ann Azevedo met Goldberg about what led him to move, what chemistry is about and how the landscape of the undertaking has evolved in the last few years.
Listen to the full episode to hear more about:
- Fintech, the Goldberg sector has long been about why he sees “many more areas than fintech”
- Why those that wait for the wave of fintech IPO will be long
- What he looks at in 2025 and later, from the influence of artificial intelligence on fraud to change the activity of the contract, including reception in mergers and acquisitions
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