Episode 007 - FOCUS-ON-FINTECH Series - Yuval Brisker, Co-Founder & CEO, ALVIERE

Show Introduction – 

• Welcome to Distilling Venture Capital.  I am your host, Bill Griesinger
• Distilling VC is a visionary podcast that provides an insightful and informed view of the key trends affecting the VC and tech startup world, including Fintech.  My mission is to cut through and go beyond the hype that tends to dominate the tech and VC landscape.  And provide you with information you can use.

Episode Introduction:

• Today’s Episode is another in my Focus-on-Fintech Series where I provide you with a close-up look into the top companies in the Fintech sector that are bringing new innovations to the financial services market
• In today’s Episode, I delve into and distill down new Fintech Company, Alviere, just launched earlier this month.
• Alviere has created and launched a plug-and-play, single-integration SW platform that streamlines and automates delivery of a broad array of financial products and services.
• It is headquartered in Cleveland, OH and Lisbon, Portugal – we’ll get into that aspect of the business a bit more, as well.
• To help me do that, I am pleased to be joined today by Yuval Brisker who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Alviere.  Yuval, thank you very much for taking the time to join me today.   

Today, You Will Learn the Following About Alviere:

• Background behind company’s genesis, development and launch;
• The many “learnings” from Mezu payment app. operations;  highlight experience and pains of taking a payments fintech to market and how it laide the groundwork for Alviere;
• Yuval’s extensive experience/background as a pioneer in the development of B2B SaaS platform tech companies – your first having been acquire by Oracle
• Story behind the Alviere name…?

• Business Model Features & Characteristics
• • Yuval provides details on the HIVE solution and its components;
  • Selected use-case applications, as noted in Press Release info and other stories – examples of business users;
  • Importance of Alviere Financial Institution Partners and related network in delivering the offering;
  • Fact that this product is fully developed, tested and ready for market, as scale; 
  • Discuss Revenue Model - Services, subscription-based revenue model
  • Addressable Market – Your ready for US and Canada;  Mexico by end of 2020;  Other international expansion?
  • Go-to-Market Strategies…
  • Goal is to be the Amazon Web Services offering of the Financial Services sector 

• We also highlight Yuval’s background as a pioneer in the development of B2B SaaS tech companies;  Acquisition of TOA by Oracle (2014), Mezu payment app., now Alivere;
• Plans for Capital to Grow – Yuval discusses his thoughts on capital needs to grow the business;
• Yuval is no stranger to raising capital from Venture and other investors.  Yuval discusses some of the key objectives in that regard with respect to Alviere?
• Roll-out Plan for International Expansion

Competitive Advantages

• Description of the competitive landscape, relative cost/pricing structure and how Alviere leverages its expertise to bring a compelling value proposition to clients
• Other competitive advantages, differentiation – Beyond traditional Banking-as-a-Service offerings;

Closing Remarks:
Yuval, thank you very much for joining me today

Contact Information, Alviere

• Yuval, how can those seeking additional information and wishing to learn more about Alviere contact you or the firm? 
• Website: www.alviere.com  
• Email: [email protected]
• Alviere on Linkedin 

Thank you for joining me for this edition of DVC.  I hope you found today’s discussion with Yuval Brisker and Alviere interesting and it gave you some things to think about regarding rapidly advancing trends in Fintech services.  

I look forward to joining on my next episode of Distilling Venture Capital