First Canadian Neo-bank potentially raising funds next year

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It was a pleasure to meet Elena Litani, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Pillar Financial, a Canadian neo-bank for small and medium businesses. She is a Fintech veteran with two decades of experience as payment, product and technology executive in the financial industry. Her previous roles included VP of Engineering at KOHO (Canada neo-bank for consumers), Director of Product at nano-pay (pay-tech), senior Blockchain innovation Product Lead at TD bank and senior pre-sales architect at IBM.

Elena has actively participated in numerous Open Banking consultations; was an elected member of the Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) for Payments Canada as well as an elected member at FinTech Advisory Committee, OSC LaunchPad.

Elena is also a recipient of the Innovation Award from Women in Payments in (2019) and one of 35 women selected globally out of 500+ applicants to Money20/20's first inaugural Rise Up program (2018).

To learn more about Canada's 1st neo bank and latest funding round, click the video :

This year Elena returned to Rise Up as on of the speakers mentoring other founders and sharing her journey.



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Sheela Ursal is the founder and CEO of Fintech Next . She has worked for over two decades in product management and marketing for SaaS payments and e-commerce global enterprises and startups, for the likes of Amazon, Western Union, and Netopia (bought by Google), launching payment products and expanding internationally. In the last four years, her focus has been on advising and investing in Fintech startups and she has been a speaker and presenter at many events and conferences.

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