Insights

This month Nyca’s Duncan King sat down with Salman Syed, CEO of Astrada. Astrada is a unified API that lets software platforms plug into real-time card transaction data without having to issue their own cards.

This month, Jiko CEO and Co-Founder Stephane Lintner spoke with Duncan King about how Jiko replaces cash deposits with real-time investment in U.S. Treasury bills—offering institutions a safer, yield-generating alternative with bank-like convenience.

We are delighted to announce the promotion of Jasleen Kaur to Partner and Agastya Gupta to Principal.

This month, Anand Tumuluru, Co-Founder and CEO of Loop AI, spoke with Duncan King about how the company uses AI to help restaurants automate and optimize third-party delivery and back-office operations to improve profitability.

In January, Cyrus Karai, Co-Founder and CEO of CoverForce, chatted with Duncan King. CoverForce is an insurance technology company that provides APIs enabling brokers and carriers to quote and bind commercial insurance digitally.

In our December newsletter, Jimmy Chen, Founder and CEO of Propel, Inc, chatted with Duncan King to talk about how Propel helps Americans access and use their government benefits. This month marks the ten year anniversary of the Propel app being launched!

This month, Duncan King sat down with Ralph Betesh from Coverdash. Coverdash is a company on a mission to make business insurance instant, intuitive, and seamlessly integrated into the platforms growing businesses already use.

This month, Duncan King sat down with Bimal Kadikar, Founder & CEO at Transcend. Transcend provides a platform that helps financial institutions manage and optimize their collateral.

This month, Duncan King sat down with Michael Sanocki at ​​RQD Clearing. ​​RQD Clearing is a tech-first financial services firm that provides clearing, custody, and execution solutions for brokers.

This month, Duncan King sat down with Russell Feldman at IMTC. ​​IMTC is a cloud-native platform that streamlines fixed-income portfolio management for asset and wealth managers.

This month, Duncan King sat down with Kirill Klokov, Truv’s Co-Founder and CEO. Truv’s platform empowers financial organizations with access to consumer-permissioned financial data sources.

This month, Duncan King from Nyca interviewed Daniel Demetri, the founder and CEO of Trellis, the leading omnichannel distribution platform for home and auto insurance.

Last week, we shared a memo with Nyca’s portfolio company founders and CEOs with advice from our Limited Partner Advisors (LPAs) on how to navigate the current environment of economic uncertainty. Here’s what we had to say:

This month Duncan King from Nyca spoke with co-founder and CEO Adam Morvitz from Point.me, a real-time search engine that maximizes the value of your points.

This month Duncan King from Nyca spoke with founder and CEO Ana Mahony from Addition Wealth, a financial wellness platform that makes personalized financial expertise more inclusive and accessible.

This month Duncan King from Nyca spoke with co-founder and CEO Soups Ranjan from Sardine, which enables banks, retailers and fintechs to automate risk decisioning, catch more fraud, detect money laundering, and protect their customers from scams.

This month Duncan King from Nyca spoke with co-founder and CEO Ben Borodach from april, which believes that a personalized and embedded tax experience will help Americans take control of their finances.

This month Duncan King spoke with co-founder and CEO Lior Tibon from Duetti, which purchases tracks from independent musicians and enhances those tracks' earnings!

This month Duncan King from Nyca spoke with co-founder and CEO Ofek Lavian from Forage, which enables companies to accept SNAP payments (fka food stamps) online.

The days of speculation and money laundering are coming to an end, and stablecoin use cases are rapidly taking over.

Findigs’ founder, Steve Carroll chatted with Duncan King about why he started Findigs, what it does, and what is the craziest rental story he has ever heard.

At Nyca, we get excited about the explosive growth in the Office of the CFO space. As former CFOs, members of our investment team have experienced finance teams’ challenges firsthand and understand how innovative solutions can drive sustained growth.

Savi’s two co-founders, Aaron Smith and Tobin Van Ostern chatted with Duncan King about what Savi does, why they founded it and what they tell visitors to see while in DC.

Duncan King sits down with Elad Fouks, co-founder and CEO of Alterya to discuss Alterya's pivot to TradeFi, how the war has affected this Tel Aviv-based startup and much more!

May's newsletter highlights Bequest Finance. Bequest offers a non-custodial digital asset management solution, intended to allow the trusts and estates industry to accommodate all types of digital assets!