Founder Story: Samir Desai (Co-founder and CEO of Funding Circle)
Channel: Slush
Date: 05/12/2017

Samir Desai (Co-founder & CEO of Funding Circle) and Ari Helgason (Investor at Index Ventures) sharing the story behind Funding Circle, the global peer-to-peer lending platform. 

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In 2017, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 2,600 startups, 1,600 investors and 600 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to a week long celebration, including Slush Music, new Slush Y verticals, and hundreds of side-events and activities around the city. Slush 2018 takes place on 4.–5.12.2018 

Slush 2017 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums 
Website: http://www.slush.org 
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ 
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ 
Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ 
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush

Slush Music: http://music.slush.org 
Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org 
Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org 
Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org 

Intro videos by:
VAU (http://vau.company) 
VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) 

Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.
Slush 2017 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums 
Website: http://www.slush.org 
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ 
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ 
Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ 
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush

Slush Music: http://music.slush.org 
Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org 
Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org 
Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org 

Intro videos by:
VAU (http://vau.company) 
VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) 

Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.