Episode 237: Fintech4Good – How Banks Collaborating with Startups can Improve the Lives of Farmers

July 15, 2024 Elizabeth Kleinveld Breaking Banks Europe 0:29:42 Comments Off on Episode 237: Fintech4Good – How Banks Collaborating with Startups can Improve the Lives of Farmers

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In the latest episode of Breaking Banks Europe, host Elizabeth Kleinfeld delves into the intersection of fintech and agriculture, focusing on how innovations are transforming the lives of farmers. Joining her are Trevor Sieck from Rabobank’s FoodBytes and Jake Joraanstad, CEO of Bushel.

Jake explains how Bushel’s software digitizes the grain supply chain, enabling seamless financial transactions and better data management for farmers. Trevor highlights the broader impact of such technologies, including improved sustainability and efficiency in the food sector. They discuss how fintech solutions like electronic payments and loan management are modernizing traditional agricultural practices, making it easier for farmers to access capital and manage their operations.

Tune in to discover how agri-tech and fintech collaborations are driving positive change in the agricultural sector!

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Meet the guests:

Trevor Sieck: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-sieck-a27513131/

https://www.foodbytesworld.com

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Jake Joraanstad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakejoraanstad/

Software for Ag – Bushel
About the Author
Elizabeth Kleinveld is an ecosystem builder linking various parties in the Financial Services value chain from startups and scale-ups to regulators, investors and large corporates. She spent twenty years in the tech and banking sectors in the Netherlands, working first with ABN AMRO and then Holland Fintech before joning Startupbootcamp's Global Fintech Accelerator in 2016. There she’s helped over 150 international startups scale their business from Payments, RegTech, InsurTech, PensionTech, Investing, and Trade Finance companies etc. She is passionate about helping female and minority founders and likes to see solutions that increase financial inclusion, giving the underbanked opportunities that they didn’t have before. Kleinveld is very active in the ecosystem and has hosted a number of panel discussions at various conferences, including Money2020, Fintech South, European Women in Tech, and Financial Services Cybertech Forum. Kleinveld has invested in over 40 startups, is on the Board of the Israeli-Dutch Innovation Center and is a Founding Partner of Great Stuff Ventures. Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-kleinveld-1493ab X: https://twitter.com/EkleinveldSBC Website: www.greatstuffventures.com Provoke: https://provoke.fm/author/elizabeth-kleinveld/
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