PitchIt Podcast #65: Archie Ravishankar

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PitchIt Podcast #65: Archie Ravishankar


On episode 65 I speak with Archie Ravishankar, Founder, and CEO of Cogni. Cogni is a next-gen platform that mixes banking, commerce, and life-style.

Cogni’s mission is to supply personalised banking merchandise suited to the life of these 18-to-35. Too many banking merchandise speak with a single voice for all clients; Cogni is aiming to vary that dynamic.

Archie and I talk about how he’s constructing a monetary platform that’s suited to folks’s life, why he thinks it’s now extra engaging to construct on web3 than web2, and his imaginative and prescient for the corporate and recommendation to younger entrepreneurs simply getting began.

We additionally contact on financial institution partnerships, decreasing carbon footprints, FDIC insurance coverage, elevating capital, and way more. With out additional ado, I current Archie Ravishankar, Founder, and CEO of Cogni. I hope you benefit from the episode.

Episode dialogue factors embrace:

  • Archie’s journey to Cogni
  • Why constructing for folks’s life is so essential
  • Whether or not or not specializing in 18 – 35-year-olds is a danger
  • How they got here to launch the digital reward card product
  • How Cogni navigated the pandemic to outlive
  • Why Web3 is so engaging
  • The significance of decreasing carbon footprints
  • Whether or not or not FDIC insurance coverage is a must have
  • Classes for fellow founders
  • Elevating capital
  • And way more…
  • Todd is the host of PitchIt: the fintech startups podcast, a weekly interview present that includes rising fintech founders and main enterprise capitalists. He’s chargeable for main the content material workforce which covers fintech by means of each day & weekly e-mail newsletters, editorial, digital occasions, and in-person conferences. He has been overlaying fintech, banking, and enterprise capital for greater than 15 years, together with talking often at business occasions.