Location: The Vaults (Events Room)

Content of the Keynote:

• My Funding Journey
• What I wish I knew before raising
• Creating a funding plan
• How to avoid the common funding pitfalls

Meet Your Speaker

Brian Norton, Co-Founder of Future Finance and Supply Finance

Brian is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for building new, innovative companies solving real-world issues. After graduating from Harvard and working for a number of Financial Services companies, Brian co-founded investment firm Ridge Road Partners with Adam Jiwan making 8 deals across 3 continents. The two went on to found Future Finance. Together, they raised over €150m to become the first large-scale private student lender in Europe. After scaling operations and teams across Dublin, London, and Chicago, Brian moved on to co-found Supply Finance, a fintech platform providing SMEs the finance tools they need to compete with large corporations. Within the first year of operation, Brian has already secured a €4M Series A round. He continues to lead Future Finance as Executive Vice Chairman and scale Supply Finance to new heights.

About Supply Finance

Brian co-founded Supply Finance with a simple mission to gives Europe's small businesses the same financing tools as the big guys, and then stand back and watch the magic happen. They have built a state-of-the-art system, backed by industrial-grade operations, processing, and capital to bring trade finance to companies of all sizes. To make it all happen, they are partnering with a number of best-in-class trade finance companies across Europe and helping them to expand their offerings to deliver great services and product to small businesses in their backyards.