Alessandro Hatami
Managing Partner @ Pacemakers.io
London, United Kingdom
Alessandro Hatami is a seed investor at Pacemakers.io in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Alessandro is Managing Partner at Pacemakers. They provide independent advice to executive teams on selecting the right partners in order to convert digital strategies into commercial success. Previously, he was Group Innovation Director & COO Digital Banking at Lloyds Banking Group; MD of PayPoint.net, Director Large Merchant Services atPayPal & European Marketing Director at GE Capital. He is also a Board Advisor at CashPlus. He is a mentor of several FinTech start-ups working with Techstars, Seedcamp and Startupbootcamp. He is also an investor in several early stage companies.
- Total investments:
- 4
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Industries Alessandro Hatami invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (100%)
- Financial Services 3 (75%)
- Payments 2 (50%)
- Apps 1 (25%)
- SaaS 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (25%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
Investments
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Kore is a cloud-enabled, SaaS solution for digital product governance in the financial services industry and the first-ever PRM (Product Relationship Management) application.Our turn-key digital service aggregates, organises, visualises and analyses product data throughout the entire product lifecycle, from idea generation to retirement. Weprovide a complete digital audit trail of events and decisions related to a financial product. Crucially, we build corporate memory, with product events and historical information retrievable at the touch of a button and stored in a uniform format.We accommodate all regulated financial product types including investments, savings, lending, payments, and insurance – both for small businesses and large enterprises. Our solution is fully configurable, modular and acts as a digital layer that sits above legacy systems. Implementation can be staggered and needs no big bang data migration or heavy systems integration.Kore enables:1. True product governance oversight, allowing senior managers to meet their regulatory obligations2. Controlled and cost-effective cross-product management for product specialists3. Intuitive and consistent product information for the front-line | Seed / Aug 05, 2021 | |
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Trilo is the simplest way for people to pay people | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2021 | |
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Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015. | $10M / Series A / Jul 11, 2017 | |
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All the partners and collaborators of Pacemakers have one characteristic in common: they are experienced practitioners of their trade. In the years we have spent in large corporates, we have yearned to work with advisors that were able to realise that the theory and practice of change are not the same thing. To paraphrase Peter Drucker,"Implementation eats strategy for breakfast."So we set up Pacemakers firstly to provide no-nonsense strategic advice based on experience and rigour. Secondly to provide insight on a much wider selection of build options normally available to our clients (be it in-house, by partnering or through acquisitions). Finally to help our clients choose the right option for them considering not only their aspirations but also their capabilities. After all, to get to your destination you need to choose the road that is right for our clients. | Seed / Jan 05, 2015 |
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About Pacemakers.io
All the partners and collaborators of Pacemakers have one characteristic in common: they are experienced practitioners of their trade. In the years we have spent in large corporates, we have yearned to work with advisors that were able to realise that the theory and practice of change are not the same thing. To paraphrase Peter Drucker,"Implementation eats strategy for breakfast."So we set up Pacemakers firstly to provide no-nonsense strategic advice based on experience and rigour. Secondly to provide insight on a much wider selection of build options normally available to our clients (be it in-house, by partnering or through acquisitions). Finally to help our clients choose the right option for them considering not only their aspirations but also their capabilities. After all, to get to your destination you need to choose the road that is right for our clients.
Pacemakers.io Contacts
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What does Alessandro Hatami invest in?
Alessandro Hatami invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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