What does it take to build the future of investing? Where do you start to reinvent capital markets? How do you build trust with customers, investors, and regulators?
When you’re ready to hear the answers, listen to episode 60 of Women Disrupting Tech with Connie Bloem. With Mesh, she is reinventing capital markets from the ground up.
To listen to her incredible story, press the play button or read more about the episode by scrolling down.
Reinventing Capital Markets With Mesh's Connie Bloem | Episode 60 of Women Disrupting Tech – Women Disrupting Tech
The Magic You Can Expect in this Episode 🪄
In episode 60 of Women Disrupting Tech, we discover the future of investing. Connie is our guide as we learn about
👩🏼🏫 her unique journey into finance,
🚧 the hurdles of building trust with regulators and customers and
👥 the importance of a diverse team in developing innovative solutions on the blockchain.
Plus, you’ll discover why women should use their unique strengths rather than playing the men’s game in finance.
To hear that and more, find episode 60 of Women Disrupting Tech on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube, and hit play ⏯️.
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What makes this episode magical🌟?
Did you know that only 4.9% of blockchain and crypto founders are women? So, being able to interview one of them on this podcast is already remarkable.
But there’s more. In this episode, we feature yet another talented young woman with a passion for building a better planet. Connie’s dedication to making investing accessible, easy to use, and transparent is genuinely inspiring.
The solution she is building with Mesh is a miracle of complexity. So, getting to the point where it’s at didn’t come easy. Just imagine having to do this in an environment where trust is rare. On top of that, startup funding dried up last year as we left zero-interest rate territory. Succeeding to find funding and, recently, becoming a regulated service provider is a piece of magic in itself.
“Use being a woman as your strength.”
Connie Bloem, Co-founder and Managing Director of Mesh
About Connie Bloem and Mesh
Connie Bloem is the managing director and co-founder of Mesh. She holds bachelor’s degrees in industrial engineering and financial engineering from Pretoria University. Prior to starting Mesh, she worked for Accenture and Andile on solutions for capital market participants. You can follow her journey and connect with her on LinkedIn.
Mesh is a fully regulated crypto-asset platform based in The Netherlands. Mesh aims to make capital markets easy to access, simple to use, and transparent through the tokenization of real-world assets on the blockchain. You can learn more about Mesh’s journey by visiting its website and following it on LinkedIn and X/Twitter.
And when you’re ready for more on the future of capital markets on the blockchain, you should read this McKinsey article about the power and waves of tokenization.
Let me know what you think!
When you’ve finished listening to this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, please let me know what you think about it in the comments.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on Connie’s statement that women should play to their own strengths rather than playing the game of men.
By the way, if you would like to suggest a guest that I absolutely must have on the podcast, send me an email or a DM on LinkedIn.
What’s coming up?
Next week on Women Disrupting Tech, Asceline Groot and Wyke Potjer will guide us as we discover how to live a happy, healthy, and sustainable life.
After that, we have a special episode. Because for the first time, I will have a man as a guest. And not just any man: Ruben Brave. This episode will be in Dutch.
So stay tuned for more amazing women disrupting tech and their male allies in season three of Women Disrupting Tech!
More episodes like this?
If you like to listen to more episodes like this one, here are a few recommendations.
– In episode 54, Kimberly Ofori and I talked about the power of financial inclusion and how it can help us build a more sustainable world.
– In episode 35, Joanna Pamphilis shares the value proposition of having more women in IT and digital.
– In episode 4, I talked to Puck Landewé about her mission to help 1 million women become financially independent. The episode is in Dutch.
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