In immediately’s episode, I’m joined by Katherine Salisbury of Qapital, an app that empowers customers by supercharging financial savings, investing, and budgeting objectives.
Katherine and I cowl a variety of matters, together with:
Katherine’s Background:
After graduating from Cornell Legislation College, Katherine labored as a financial institution finance lawyer at White & Case and at Simpson Thacher. After that, she grew to become VP and Counsel at Jefferies Finance. Beginning in 2009, she additionally ran a sports activities company, Friedman & Salisbury Sports activities Administration LLC, together with her companion George Friedman. Regardless of this profession success, Katherine and George discovered that they weren’t assembly financial savings objectives that they had set out for themselves. Whereas making an attempt to unravel this downside, Qapital was born. Since then, Qapital has helped customers save nearly $3B collectively for his or her private objectives.
Qapital:
Katherine discovered that naming financial savings objectives, reminiscent of “Piano” or “Journey to Kenya” helped her get monetary savings extra successfully. This realization was the primary concept behind Qapital. The workforce has since expanded from the Nordics to the U.S. market. Whereas scaling, Katherine additionally labored intently with a behavioral economist, constructing wholesome financial savings habits instantly into the appliance. The product now detects when customers’ paychecks hit their account, helps automate financial savings, and retains observe of weekly discretionary spending. Moreover, the app consolidates info throughout different banking and wealth administration accounts.
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Katherine Salisbury:
Ten years in the past, Katherine got down to discover a resolution to her household’s cash administration complications — one that really aligned with their motivations, objectives and way of life. A couple of years later, Qapital was born. Immediately, Katherine serves as co-founder and co-CEO of Qapital — an app that empowers customers by placing their private objectives on the core of the product, after which supercharging their financial savings, investing, and budgeting efforts with intelligent ideas and instruments rooted in behavioral psychology. Katherine brings 20 years of finance, authorized, and enterprise expertise to Qapital. She graduated from the College of Chicago with honors, studied worldwide enterprise legislation at Bucerius Legislation College in Hamburg, and graduated from Cornell Legislation College. She started her profession as a financial institution finance lawyer on the top-tier worldwide legislation companies White & Case and Simpson Thacher. From there, she was tapped to function VP and Counsel at Jefferies Finance, steering Jefferies Finance by the early days of the three way partnership between Jefferies and MassMutual. She then based a global full-service sports activities administration company primarily based in Stockholm & New York Metropolis, the place she specialised in brokering worldwide transfers. In her present position at Qapital, Katherine focuses on product, development, and enterprise technique. Underneath her management, Qapital has helped customers save nearly $3 billion collectively for his or her objectives. At present, Katherine lives in Stockholm together with her companion, co-founder, and co-CEO, George Friedman, and their 4 daughters.
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In regards to the Writer:
Anirudh Singh is a second-year MBA Candidate at The Wharton College, the place he’s a part of the Wharton FinTech Podcast workforce. He has a ardour for financial improvement, enterprise capital, monetary companies, and all issues FinTech. Don’t hesitate to achieve out with questions, feedback, suggestions, and alternatives at singhan@wharton.upenn.edu.
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