Piero Nunez del Risco, Founder & CEO at Pana (YC S22), Semilla VC Interview

On episode 6 of Semilla.VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Piero Nunez del Risco, who is the founder of Pana (https://joinpana.com/); a neobank where he is seeking to revolutionize personal finance and remittance sending for the United State's 62 Million Latinos.

He is also a member of Forbes Technology Council. Piero spent 12 years at Dominican Financial Services giant Grupo Universal before joining Scotiabank as head of Digital Banking for the Caribbean, Central America, and Uruguay. He was also previously Vice President of the board at the Dominican Financial Technology Board.

In this episode you will learn:

✅ How Pana got into Y Combinator and the nerve-wracking way Piero found out they were accepted.
✅ How the Dominican Republic's Venture Capital & Technology ecosystem has grown in the past 5-10 years.
✅ How Web3 will play a role in the future of remittances.
✅ Why the Caribbean is often overlooked by VCs, but how it's positioned to take off.

and much, much more!

Follow Piero on Twitter @Piero09 & linkedin.com/in/yanpieronunez

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