About Nick:

Nick leads on HSBC Innovation Banking’s early stage relationships with UK Fintechs. He works with founding teams on a variety of solutions, from basic banking to more strategic solutions, such as venture debt and connectivity with the wider innovation ecosystem.

Nick sits within the Venture & Growth team at HSBC Innovation Banking (HSBC IvB), formerly Silicon Valley Bank UK. It is a specialist technology bank dedicated to supporting venture backed companies across all life stages, from pre-seed to pre-IPO. The UK is the bank’s headquarters, but has a global presence, with teams covering the innovation ecosystem in the United States, Europe & Nordics, Israel and Hong Kong.

As part of a team of industry specialists, Nick manages relationships with FinTech’s that meet certain criteria:

• Founders must have raised at a minimum a pre-seed round of £500k from VCs, angels or strategic investors
• Most often, they plan to leverage VC funding to accelerate the businesses’ growth ahead of a future acquisition or IPO
• Companies must have a UK incorporated entity in order to establish a relationship with HSCB IvB UK
• Whilst HSBC IvB does not bank certain sub-sectors of fintech (such as crypto exchanges and non-regulated payments companies) we work with a broad range of ventures coming from areas such as payments, lending, invest-tech, FS focused AI and software companies and embedded platforms.

Previous to HSBC IvB, Nick worked in industry with TradingView, a series C invest-tech, leading on their UK partnerships and business development strategy. He also spent time with 11:FS, a boutique venture builder for fintechs in the Research & Strategy team. He began his career on a Graduate Scheme with Barclays and qualified as an investment manager before moving to the bank’s ventures & CVC arm in Shoreditch.

Having worked as a banker, consultant and within industry, Nick has experienced the fintech ecosystem from multiple viewpoints and enjoys speaking with founders about fundraising, banking, GTM strategies, partnerships and propositions.

About MentorHours:

MentorHours are exclusively for Level39 members. These form part of the weekly curriculum offered to our 180 technology businesses who call Level39 home. For more information and link to register for this session, please see the latest member newsletter, or email the team on members@level39.co