Evan Thorpe is principal for Asia Pacific at SixThirty Ventures, a venture capital firm that backs fintech companies as they support the needs of financial services institutions.
Thorpe spoke with DigFin‘s Jame DiBiasio about the changing landscape for VC and what that means for startups. He described SixThirty’s approach of helping integrate fintech into banks’ and insurers’ processes.
He also discussed his take on investing in China, in artificial intelligence, and how these themes play out in the fintech space to tackle the biggest problems among large institutions.
Timecodes:
0:00 – Evan Thorpe, SixThirty Ventures
2:11 – Changes int the VC industry
5:14 – And its impact on startups in fintech
7:20 – How SixThirty works with LPs and FIs to create impact
14:17 – Aligning interests among FIs, startups and VCs
18:34 – How startups use funding from Six-Thirty
20:13 – Evan’s investment theses for fintech in Asia
27:04 – Is China investible?
29:43 – Investing in AI and its impact on fintech
33:42 – The big problems FIs face that fintech can help solve
