Round Treasury

👋 Say hello to Ryan Cassidy, our new Founding Engineer! 🚀 We are thrilled to welcome Ryan Cassidy to our team as our new Founding Engineer. Ryan brings invaluable experience from early-stage startups, having been through the Y Combinator program, as well as fintech scale-ups like Novo, a hyperscale US SMB Neobank. At Novo, he played a pivotal role in launching and scaling their innovative lending products. Ryan will play a key role in driving our product forward and contributing to the exciting initiatives we have in the pipeline. And that’s not all! Our team is still growing, and we’re on the lookout for exceptional talent. If you’re passionate about making a difference, send us a DM! 🚀

Money20/20, we might need a mic ban for Pac O'Shea next time. He went totally off script (sorry Melissa), with wild hand waving and somehow made “treasury management” and “sexy” coexist in the same sentence. 🤷♂️ Pac joined a lively panel discussion with seth m phillips, CEO of Bound, on why treasury management is so broken. 🔥 Hot take: "Banks don't talk to their customers" Thanks to Melissa D. (Notion Capital) for hosting a great panel and to everyone who attended and made it such a memorable event. PS: We're hiring! 📣

Is Treasury Management Really That Broken? Fantastic to see Notion's Melissa D. take The Na.i.ture Stage stage at Money20/20 to moderate a panel discussion with Pac O'Shea, CEO and Co-Founder of Round and seth m phillips, Founder and CEO of Bound. They talked about the need for treasury post collapse of SVB, whether treasury is actually sexy? And what startups need to think about in the current climate 🚀 #money2020 #fintech #m2020 #treasury

Notion Capital at Money20/20 Europe 🇳🇱. We are excited to see our team in full force at Europe's largest fintech conference. Say hi to Itxaso del Palacio, PhD, General Partner, Melissa D., VP, and Sebuh Mesfin, Head of Digital Marketing...alongside portfolio companies such as Bound, Griffin, GoCardless, m3ter, Cledara, m3ter. Make sure to follow Notion Capital to stay updated on everything! 🚀 Day 1 saw Itxaso del Palacio, PhD talk with Cledara CEO Cristina Vila Vives on 'people think you have it all' where they shared some inspiring and honest insights on managing life as successful investors and founders, and what it really entails. You can expect to see Sebuh Mesfin hosting the 'Horizon Stage' during the afternoon of day 2, as well as Melissa D., seth m phillips and Pac O'Shea discussing treasury management on the final day. #money2020 #fintech #m2020 #notioncapital

Love hot takes? Ever wake up at 3 AM thinking, "Why is treasury management so broken?" 😅 I'm thrilled to join Melissa from Notion Capital and seth from Bound to dive into all things #treasurytech next week at Money20/20. If you're at M2020 and want to know what will separate the winners from the losers in this market, join us for a wild 20 minutes! We promise it’ll be more exciting than your last budget meeting. Or drop me a dm and let's grab a coffee ☕️ #Money2020EU #Fintech #TreasuryManagement

What's one thing you wish you knew before raising your Series A? Last night, Round, in partnership with Odin, hosted an intimate dinner with a Michelin Star private chef and 10 of the top Seed stage founders preparing for their Series A. The highlight of the evening was a Q&A session with serial entrepreneur and investor Alex Macdonald. Alex's advice: “The dynamic of the board seat at your Series A matters more than you might think. This board seat will significantly influence your business's trajectory more than any other seat to day. Building a strong relationship with your potential board member before raising is crucial, so invest time in getting to know them and do your research.” A big thank you to sequel for hosting us in your beautiful new offices, to our valued customer yhangry for providing us with such an exceptional chef, and to all who joined us for the memorable evening! 👇 Mary Lin I Hayyaan Ahmad I Neil Shah I Emil Fristed I Kosta Kolev I Amber Michelle H. I John Bertolaso I Jonathan Bean I Freddie Fforde I Alex Boyce I Vijay Anand PS. - if you're interested in joining the next dinner drop me a DM! 👊

Thinking about fundraising? Round is teaming up with Odin to bring you a series of intimate Founder Dinners where you'll get to sit down with people who've been there and done that. Our first event, on raising your Series A, will be with special guest Alex Macdonald, who has raised more than $40m in venture capital, successfully exiting to US bank Capital One for a reported $297m in 2023. Link to apply for this and future events in comments :-)

Update 👇 We’re really excited to welcome Yiannis Papadopoulos, CFO at Ladder.io, to our Customer Advisory Board 🎉 Ladder is a one-stop shop for growing your business across all marketing channels and funnel stages and work with incredible customers like Monzo Bank, Meta and BlockFi. Yiannis brings extensive insights as a CFO, angel investor, and startup mentor. He previously worked at Rocket Internet SE and also serves as a Growth CFO consultant. With his expertise, he understands the challenges that startups face at different growth stages and has extensive knowledge in building financial products at scale. This knowledge will be invaluable to the development of Round. At Round, we’re committed to solving real problems for real businesses. Welcome to the family Yiannis! ❤️

We experimented with a four-day workweek and failed.. We trialed it for 2 months, hoping to increase productivity and work-life balance. Here’s a breakdown of how it went 👇 == Initial thoughts == 👍 The team loved it, and, at first, it gave the founders a dedicated time to reflect. 👎 But pretty quickly, we realised the whole team had reverted to a 5-day work week. == Here’s why it wasn’t working == ❌ Founders were working Fridays, setting a bad example. ❌ Squeezing more in less time while managing work, customers, and meetings. ❌ Startup demands, things go wrong when you least expect. == So what did we do about it? == We all agreed it wasn't working. So we let the team decide how they wanted to work. We now do a ‘hybrid’ 4.5-day workweek. Here’s how we structure it: ✅ Every Friday we have no meetings after lunch, your calendar is blocked. ✅ If you get through all your goals for the week, you can take the afternoon off. ✅ If you don't want to take the afternoon off, you can use the time to work on anything important but not urgent in your backlog. == Impact == Our team now has the freedom to choose when they finish work on Fridays, prioritizing productivity and goals instead of simply being busy 👏 We've also already seen that by giving them this flexibility they're more committed and willing to put the time in when it's most crucial. == Learnings == 📣 Lead by example - don't expect your team to adopt something you don’t adopt yourself. 🎯 Figure out what works best for you - it's not a choice between two extremes. 🤝 Involve our team more in decision making - we are now collectively more motivated to achieve our goals vs. being busy and we challenge the norm. === Our approach now resembles Google's '20% time' more than a 4-day workweek 👌 Rather than blindly following trends, I encourage other founders to evaluate what genuinely benefits their teams Has anyone else tried something similar? PS - By the way, we’re hiring! 📣

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 We’re so thrilled to welcome Antigone Coté, the Head of Finance and Operations at Abatable, to Round's Customer Advisory Board 🥳 Abatable is a market intelligence platform specifically designed to assist companies in navigating the complexities of voluntary carbon markets. Antigone and the Abatable team has raised over $16 million to date from investors like Y Combinator, Blue Bear Capital, and Global Founders Capital 🚀 She brings some serious experience and has sat at multiple sides of the table from her previous roles at Love Ventures, Appyway, Rora, and Founders Pledge 💡 Her inclusion on our Customer Advisory Board shows our commitment to solving real problems for real customers 👊 Antigone's involvement will be crucial in realising our vision of ‘self driving money’ for businesses. Welcome to the fam Antigone! 👏