Monese

Banking On Demand

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Financial Services
  • Location London, United Kingdom
  • Currency GBP
  • Founded October 2013
  • Employees 20
  • Website monese.com

Company Summary

Monese provides on-demand UK/EU banking accounts regardless of the customer's citizenship. This revolutionises banking for expats and immigrants as ‘residency restrictions’ imposed by traditional high street banks are one of the single greatest barriers to accessing the banking system when they arrive in a new country.

Monese's go-live on 21st Sep was covered by Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Guardian and The Next Web plus many others.

Team

  • In 2008 Norris co-founded MyJar and built a customer base of over 70k within a year. The company was the first text message based micro-lending service in the UK and helped to change the financial industry in the UK by getting credit to customers within 2-3 minutes. In 2011, Norris founded LendFusion, providing a brand new hosted lending platform for SME short-term lenders globally.

  • VP of Growth

    Mulenga worked as a Digital Director at FCB Inferno which is a UK based integrated creative agency with a global scope. He also sat on the board there and led on the strategic development of the agency’s digital offering. Mulenga has successfully led large international and multi-discipline teams at some of the world’s foremost digital agencies, for high profile fortune 500 clients; delivering game changing brand / product strategies.

  • Director of Operations

    Riina led ZeroTurnAround's Estonian operations as a General Manager. Riina has tons of experience - she was part of a small team that built the first Estonian e-Government, helped Skype's Estonian team to grow from 100 to 300 employees and helped Ambient Sound Investments (a private investment vehicle of 4 founding engineers at Skype) to look after their portfolio companies as a COO and Board Member.

  • Amish Mody
    VP of Finance

    Amish has 15 year strong background from investment banking. He was part of the executive management team expanding the originally Baltic countries based investment banks Trigon Capital and Arlig Capital to pan Central Eastern European advisory houses, with the international team located in 9 countries. Amish has successfully advised strategic and financial investors on wide spectrum of industries and geographies.

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