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Behind Venture Building: Key Elements & Solutions for Entrepreneurs | Gary Sheynkman, Further Ventures

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What are the scalable business models to fuel a startup?

Join us for an insightful podcast featuring Gary Sheynkman, Venture Partner at Further Ventures, as he shares his valuable experience in navigating a startup from the ground up to seizing opportunities and challenges during the companies’ market expansion.

🔍 Key Topics Covered:

VC Builder vs VC Studio: key differences in fundamentals
VC studio’s cross-functional approach speeding up startup growth
Strategies and solutions for tech entrepreneurs in RegTech

Buckle up to uncover exclusive insights from Gary’s venture building experience, explore value propositions to initiate a startup, and strategic capital investments optimising companies’ revenue in an era disrupted by technology advancements.

Episode Guest

Gary Sheynkman

Venture Partner at Further Ventures

Gary is a Venture Partner at Further Ventures, MENA largest Venture Studio., where he focuses on launching Fintech and Digital Asset infrastructure businesses. He is a GP at Leyden Ventures and the host of :taco::star: TacoStars, the largest founder social community in the UAE. Gary has previously led the launch and day-to-day management of Techstars Dubai (“TSDXB”) and has sat on the selection committees of 500 Startups (Riyadh), Sber500 (Moscow), WamdaX (Dubai), Techstars Riyadh, and Techstars Abu Dhabi. Prior to VC, Gary was an founder and operator in the video infrastructure industry.

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Podcast hosts

Ronit Ghose

Ronit Ghose is the lead author of Citi’s GPS Bank of the Future and FinTech report series – the first edition has had more than 250,000 downloads making it the most read report ever published by Citi, and one of the most read FinTech reports ever published. Since joining Citi in 1997, Ronit has covered banks in the Americas, Asia and EMEA. He is the Global Head of Future of Finance in Citi Research. He is also an Advisory Board Member at the Centre for Finance, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Ronit previously worked at the British Bankers’ Association and as a research assistant in Parliament. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, a postgraduate diploma from the University of London and is a CFA charter holder.

Gaurav Dhar

Gaurav Dhar is the CEO of the Payments Solution Provider Marshal in Dubai. Gaurav has been working at Marshal for over 19 years now He strives to continually be on the frontier of building FinTech ecosystems and solutions. His personal time is spent on working with and investing directly in innovators, with a view to the future of Fintech both locally and globally via his cache of relationships which include VCs, incubators, accelerators, and start-ups and Angel Syndicates. In his position as a board member of the MENA FinTech Association and several advisory positions to international family offices, start-ups, and funds, he looks to grow the relationships within the FinTech and start-up ecosystem to contribute towards the education of budding disruptors and eventually the growth of economies and the job market where possible in the MEA Region and abroad.

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