Fireside chat: Steve O'Hear, TechCrunch and Hiroki Takeuchi, GoCardless

Thursday, November 19, 2020, 6:00 – 8:00 PM UTC

TechCrunch's Steve O'Hear will talk to Hiroki Takeuchi (GoCardless). Steve O’Hear is a well-known technology journalist, focusing on European startups, companies and products. Hiroki Takeuchi, co-founder & CEO of GoCardless, a platform that enables small and large companies to accept bank-to-bank payments as an alternative to card payments, processing $13 billion in transactions a year.

Virtual event

About this event

We invited Steve O'Hear and Hiroki Takeuchi, co-founder and CEO of GoCardless for a fireside chat. 

Steve O’Hear is a well-known technology journalist, focusing on European startups, companies and products.

Steve will talk to Hiroki Takeuchi, CEO of GoCardless, a platform that enables small and large companies to accept bank-to-bank payments as an alternative to card payments. 

GoCardless was founded in 2011 by Hiroki Takeuchi, Tom Blomfield and Matt Robinson and went through Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator accelerator. It processes $13 billion in transactions a year and is backed by some of the world’s leading investors including Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Notion Capital, Passion Capital and Salesforce Ventures.

Hiroki is an alumni of Oxford University. He was the Vice president of Oxford Entrepreneurs where he cofounded Varsity Pitch, a business ideas competition between Oxford and Cambridge's top business ideas for a 10k pounds prize fund. He also led Idea Idol, the society's hugely successful flagship business ideas competition with 5,000 pounds as a prize pool.

Join this virtual talk and learn from insights of our guests. 

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Hiroki Takeuchi

    GoCardless

    CEO & Co-founder

Moderator

  • Steve O’Hear

    Zapp

    VP of Strategy

When

When

Thursday, November 19, 2020
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM UTC

Agenda

6:00 PMWelcome
6:03 PMPanel discussion
6:30 PMFireside chat
7:15 PMVirtual Business Networking
8:00 PMFinish

Organizers

  • Prem Sangeet Petar Savic

    Supreme Factory

    London Director

  • James Lethem

    Nascence

    Co-Director

  • Dec McLaughlin

    Startup Grind Scotland

    COO

  • Roux Reabow

    BananaSZN

    Ambassador

  • Elina Agrawal

    Ambassador

  • Patrycja Maksymowicz

    Open Solutions Global

    Founder/ MD

  • Weronika Adkonis

    Marketing Manager

  • Rohan Sesetti

    Ambassador

  • Sam Adekunle

    Grone Collective

    Head of Special Projects & Initiatives