{"id":45779,"date":"2023-10-20T15:46:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/were-fit-were-smart-and-were-good-dr-catriona-wallace-on-fintechs-missing-link-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:46:20","slug":"were-fit-were-smart-and-were-good-dr-catriona-wallace-on-fintechs-missing-link-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/were-fit-were-smart-and-were-good-dr-catriona-wallace-on-fintechs-missing-link-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"“We’re fit, we’re smart and we’re good”: Dr Catriona Wallace on fintech’s missing link – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Catriona Wallace, the founder of $24 million fintech startup Flamingo, is calling on more female entrepreneurs and tech developers to consider opportunities in fintech.<\/p>\n

Wallace says it\u2019s becoming evidently clear that more female-founded companies will add great value to not only the startup sector but Australia\u2019s broader economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen-led startups are outperforming their male counterparts in the financial returns they\u2019re getting for investors,\u201d she tells StartupSmart.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause women founders are typically more conservative on how we spend money, we tend to run our business very leanly and very effectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this is staring to show in the financial performance of the companies that we\u2019re leading.\u201d<\/p>\n

This month, Wallace\u2019s venture is listing on the ASX<\/a>, making it one of the first fintech companies led, owned and chaired by women to trade publicly.<\/p>\n

Determined to be one of the first of many, Wallace is working to create a movement for women in fintech to connect, mentor and foster more female-founded companies in the sector.<\/p>\n

She plans to do this by inspiring more women to take up tech roles in big financial companies and fintech startups.<\/p>\n

She also wants to encourage female founders in other sectors to step into the fintech space and give it a shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs one of the few female founders of fintech, this is very much in my interest,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

This week, Wallace joined other leaders in the space to ignite this conversation at Spark Festival<\/a>\u2019s Women in Fintech event.<\/p>\n

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“Done is better than perfect” – takeaways from #WomenInFintech Meetup this evening @catrionawallace @laurenjcapelin pic.twitter.com\/51TDJgPQII<\/p>\n

\u2014 Stone & Chalk (@stoneandchalk) October 26, 2016<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe want to mentor and encourage women to step up and to want to found fintech companies,\u201d Wallace says.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraditionally it has been a male dominated sector – financial services and technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we need to do now is start to profile women who are working in the sector and also to build on why it\u2019s such a great career and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wallace says women who have strived in sectors where the odds are against them develop a unique set of skills, strengths and attributes for entrepreneurship and leadership in innovation.<\/p>\n

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Think imaginatively and broadly about what ‘Women in Fintech’ really means; what can we achieve through this Meetup? pic.twitter.com\/PyEKqPxBaC<\/p>\n

\u2014 Stone & Chalk (@stoneandchalk) October 26, 2016<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThat just gives us good training and good stamina [so] we can do the 18 hour days,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re fit, we\u2019re smart and we\u2019re good \u2013 we\u2019re very well suited to running startups.\u201d<\/p>\n

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