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Vestigo Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that invests in early-stage technology companies focused on financial services. Its team members, including advisors from academia and the corporate world, are entrepreneurial, highly experienced, and deeply grounded in financial services, asset management, behavioral finance, and growing start-up companies. The complementary strengths of its team members uniquely position Vestigo to identify, make and manage investments in financial services technology companies.
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  2. #8 | Operating & Investing in FinTech and Defi with Asiff Hirji (fmr. a16z, Coinbase, TPG, Figure)

Feb 6, 2023

Asiff Hirji is a Director at Forge (formerly Equidate), one of the largest private company equity marketplaces and custodians, and an advisory board member for Vestigo Ventures and NuBank. Before his current roles, Asiff had a truly remarkable career as a technologist, operator, and investor. Most recently, he was President of Figure, a blockchain-based fintech lender. Prior to joining Figure, Asiff was the COO and President at Coinbase, an Operating Advisor at a16z, Chief Restructuring Officer at Hewlett Packard, and President and COO of TD Ameritrade. In addition, Asiff has also held senior leadership positions at TPG Capital, Saxo Bank, and Bain Capital.