CEO at @smeFinance__ | Helping SMEs and startups get quicker, smarter loans to grow their business.
🇱🇹 Vilnius, Lithuania
Joined May 2022
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Action-packed day with our 🇳🇱Country Head in Vilnius! Full of insightful discussions and strategic planning!
We wrapped up the day with an epic Vilnius view from the TV tower - a visual treat symbolizing our journey and the heights we're eager to reach! 🚀#SMEFinance #fintech
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Insightful interview with @AuthorityMgzine on "5 Things You Need to Succeed In The Modern World of #Finance & #Fintech"💡
Explored #fintech, crucial skills needed to navigate in the fintech & #SMEFinance journey.
➡️ Check out the interview: shorturl.at/mrxBZ
🎉 Exciting news! SME Finance has launched in the Netherlands to empower SMEs and fuel business growth!
Here is more about the expansion - finextra.com/pressarticle/97…
#smefinance #expansion #fintechnews #Netherlands
🎉 Celebrating 7 years of success at @smeFinance__!
Congrats to our amazing team! 🙌 Together, we've built more than a company - a financing ecosystem, trusted by SMEs across Europe!
Cheers to the incredible journey so far and the exciting future ahead!"
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Cogratulations to Aurimas Valujavičius👏👏👏 for achieving such an incredible milestone! He proved that nothing is impossible when we have the courage to pursue our dreams 🚀
🥇 Lithuanian Aurimas Valujavicius achieved a historic milestone by ROWING across the Atlantic Ocean in 120 days, becoming the 3rd person in history!
His determination is inspiring - Lithuania is proud of his achievement and the international recognition it brings! 💪
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Thanks @invest_LT for sharing! 🙌
The additional credit line will enable @smeFinance__ to put more focus on e-commerce businesses, SaaS companies, and startups, and it brings us one step closer to creating a fintech marketplace for SMEs across Europe.
💰 SMEFinance.eu receives €100 M investment from London-based @FasanaraCapital.
A strong bond and high ambitions for the industry have extended their cooperation. Now the goal is to expand and inspire the next generation of businesses.⤵️
tech.eu/2023/04/13/sme-finan…
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In 2022, the @smeFinance__ portfolio grew by 23%, with financing exceeding €420 million.🚀🚀
Looking ahead to 2023, our goal is to #automate even more processes to make our customer's journey at all stages as simple as possible.
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So honored that @smeFinance__ was featured in @TPhilomaths' weekly newsletter! 🎉
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A sneak peek at @smeFinance__ AI-driven financial technology platform that we are building 🚀
#fintechnews
ain.capital/2023/01/06/lithu…
I spoke to @Fintech_Global about the role of SME lending in the upcoming recession.
SME financing will be key to help businesses survive these tough times.
fintech.global/2022/11/10/as…
#openfinance ecosystems are becoming the core of the world’s digital financial infrastructure🚀
Platformable reports on the growth of #embeddedfinance in #fintech. OF&OB make building APIs easier, in turn enabling fintechs to build new financial products & services.
The financial service infrastructure has reached 1,578 open banking platforms and reach 5,564 #API products, and 2,854 API-enabled fintech apps globally by the end of Q2 2022.
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.@McKinseyDigital did some research on how European countries adopt digitalization - the numbers are outstanding, even those countries that are considered slow adopters are catching up in some of the industries. 🚀
Some conclusions 👀🧵👇
The research shows that #banking, #telcos and #insurance are the sectors with high adoption levels, considering the improvements after COVID-19.
But it also shows that customers are not always satisfied with the digital services and sometimes switch back to the offline options.
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Only the beginning of a great partnership. Watch this space!
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🤖💸Shared my thoughts on @Finextra on how #fintech is reducing bias in the lending process.
For all the concerns about #AI bias, there is another side to the story. I believe that when it comes to new business financing AI reduces prejudice. 🧵 👇
finextra.com/blogposting/225…
Bias is often encountered by entrepreneurs who don’t fit the mould - but would fulfil criteria. AI isn't biased – it‘s banks and VCs. ❌
A research project at @nyustern found that the problem was particularly pronounced at smaller banks — with human bias as the main reason. 👀
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€36.1M – this is how much @smeFinance__ has lent to farmers in #Lithuania🇱🇹 in the past 2 years 💪
In partnership with Žemės ūkio paskolų garantijų fondas, we became one of the main lenders in Lithuania, helping the farmers affront the pandemic 🚜
lrt.lt/naujienos/verslas/4/1…
🇱🇹🏦 Lithuania's biggest business publication @vzinios asked me about the future of #fintech.
In my opinion, in 10 years, finance will be portable and invisible, as it moves further into the background.
vz.lt/inovacijos/2022/06/20/…
What do I mean with this?
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#openbanking is changing the #payments landscape already. It‘s all about data sharing w/ 3rd parties & simplicity for customers.
Next-gen #API's allow to share data between companies and systems & lending to be integrated into any ecommerce.
The buying process 🟰simple & quick
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(1/2) ⚡️ Whole day workshop by Justina Klyvienė w/ my leadership team.
Made me realize again, deeply, how important the people we work with are 🙏
Since the first days at @smeFinance__ , our goal was to build a team of go-getters with fire in their eyes 🔥
Love it! Another great initiative by @smeFinance__ to improve the financial context for SMEs. There is still a lot more we can do to better understand and serve smaller businesses, which after all are the backbone of the economy.
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Check out my article for @Nasdaq on the $66 trillion #SME opportunity missed out on by banks.
SMEs= ~90% of companies globally, contribute ~70% of global GDP. But banks lack agility & motivation to properly service SMEs. #Fintechs don't!
Link 👇
bit.ly/3zstK14