FT Partners’ Steve McLaughlin Featured on Turpentine Finance Podcast with Sasha Orloff: “The Dealmaker’s Secrets: Steve McLaughlin on Crafting A Fundraise Story Worth $33B, FT Partners' CEO”
In this conversation, Sasha Orloff sits down with Steve McLaughlin, CEO and Managing Partner of FT Partners. Steve provides an insider’s look into the high-stakes world of capital raising and dealmaking for high-growth private companies. From being Goldman Sachs’ Former Head of FinTech to founding FT Partners, a global FinTech investment bank, McLaughlin shares his strategies for crafting compelling narratives that unlock massive fundraising rounds - like the $33 billion valuation for Revolut and a $100 million plus raise for Sam Altman’s Worldcoin. They dive deep into storytelling, the importance of product over marketing spend, founder red flags, and much more.
FT Partners’ Steve McLaughlin Featured on the Paris FinTech Forum Interview Series
In this episode, host Elliott Gotkine interviews Steve McLaughlin, Founder & CEO of FT Partners. Hear about what FT Partners is doing in the FinTech ecosystem, Steve’s career journey, and his views on the Digital Finance & FinTech world. This series is part of the Paris FinTech Forum Communities, a collection of top-level digital content and exclusive in person networking events produced by Laurent Nizri (Alteir Event).
FT Partners Served as Financial Advisor to Paytronix on its Sale to The Access Group
On November 1, 2024, Paytronix announced its sale to The Access Group. For more than 20 years, Paytronix has been a trusted partner helping restaurant and convenience industry brands maximize the lifetime value of their guests and grow more profitable businesses through its cloud-based, AI-ML-first digital guest engagement platform. The Access Group’s acquisition of Paytronix – the largest acquisition in its 23-year long history – will help accelerate its expansion in the US hospitality space and extend its business management software capabilities in Europe.
FT Partners Served as Financial Advisor to Moniepoint on its $110,000,000 Series C Financing
On October 29, 2024, Moniepoint, Africa’s leading payments and banking FinTech, announced it has secured $110 million in equity financing led by Development Partners International, with participation from the Google Africa Investment Fund, Verod Capital, and existing investor Lightrock. The capital raised will be used to accelerate Moniepoint’s growth across Africa, building an all-in-one, seamlessly integrated platform for African businesses of all sizes, while supporting initiatives by many African governments to widen access to the formal financial system and drive economic growth.
FT Partners Served as Financial Advisor to Interface on its Financing
On October 22, 2024, interface.ai announced it raised a total of $30 million to become the most valuable agentic AI company in banking. interface.ai’s AI-driven tools — spanning voice, chat, and co-pilot interactions — are transforming the ways financial institutions support their customers. Serving as the first line of support, these AI agents manage inbound member and customer inquiries, successfully handling over 60% of interactions directly. Bootstrapped since inception, the Company has achieved significant milestones, including serving around 100 financial institutions and hundreds of millions of consumers.
FT Partners’ Steve McLaughlin Featured on the 10X Capital Podcast: “How FT Partners Beats Bulge Bracket Banks”
Steve McLaughlin, Founder and CEO of Financial Technology Partners sits down with David Weisburd, Co-Founder of 10X Capital, to discuss the hidden values and success of top FinTech companies, insider perspective on the work-life balance myth, and the powerful face-to-face strategies that elite companies swear by.
FT Partners’ Steve McLaughlin Featured on The FinTech OG Podcast Series
Steve McLaughlin, Founder and CEO of FT Partners and Matt Harris, Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, chat with Julie VerHage-Greenberg to offer insights from their decades-long careers in FinTech into where the space has created the most value, where there’s room to grow and if FinTech is still a good place to build.
FT Partners’ Steve McLaughlin Featured on The FinTech Blueprint Podcast
Steve McLaughlin, Founder and CEO of FT Partners and Jon Lear, President & Co-Founder of Fintech Meetup discuss the current state of FinTech and the sector’s biggest opportunities on The FinTech Blueprint podcast.
FT Partners’ Steve McLaughlin Named to The Information’s Inaugural “New Financial Power Brokers” List
Meet The Information’s New Financial Power Brokers: The people who will run finance– either by standing in the spotlight or pulling the strings behind the scenes – over the next couple of decades. We asked our sources on Wall Street and across the finance industry to identify the movers and shakers who will make the biggest deals happen, finance them, innovate around banking and pluck the winners out of a deep pool of startups.
FT Partners’ Steve McLaughlin Featured on Bloomberg TV to Discuss Silicon Valley Bank Fallout
On March 13, 2023, Steve McLaughlin, Founder and CEO of FT Partners, was featured live on Bloomberg TV to discuss the state of FinTech after the Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) collapse.
