Remus Brett

Remus is a successful entrepreneur who co-founded Finalta – a benchmarking and data analytics company which was acquired by McKinsey & Co.

He has invested extensively across fintech, from core infrastructure to consumer apps. Alongside fintech, he’s also interested in climate and its intersection with finance. His investments include: Yapily, Copper, Sylvera, Raisin, Yonder, Translucent, Canopy Connect, 8fig, Supercritical, Weav (acq. by Brex), and Otta (acq. by Welcome to the Jungle).

If you break fintech down into its major sub-categories, within any of those there’s still the potential for many multi-billion companies to be built.

Remus’s career began in tech consulting, research and data analytics including at Datamonitor and then Forrester Research, where he led its European financial services team. After co-founding and scaling Finalta as CEO – and overseeing its sale to McKinsey and subsequent integration – he went on to lead the company’s international expansion from Europe to North and South America, and Asia.

Everything from naming the company, bootstrapping and the challenges of hiring, firing, scaling and then exiting, I've experienced them, so I naturally feel a high degree of empathy for the founders we work with, particularly at the very early stage.

Outside of work, Remus is a trustee of Lively Minds, an early childhood education and development NGO which works in Ghana and Uganda. He also helped set up, and continues to support, the award-winning Noble Rot restaurant group.

He’s often seen at Phoenix Court in full cycling gear, Brompton in hand and generally with a smile on his face - especially if Liverpool won the night before, or over the weekend.