Florin Mihoc
Investor
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder
2023 - Current
Back in 2000 prepaid debit cards revolutionized the industry by eliminating legacy core banking platforms and integrating the ledger directly into the processor. This, simplified launching of debit cards, capturing a huge chunk of the market, and accelerated the neobank trend. Many of the neobanks today are still running on the same rails from 25 years ago. NOW, we are at an inflection point, with stablecoin and blockchain transforming the foundation of debit card accounts, offering consumers superior benefits and lower costs. Just as prepaid cards disrupted the industry a quarter-century ago, stablecoin-based debit accounts are redefining payments and we are seeing a REPEAT of the disruption that we saw, when prepaid cards came along a quart of a century ago. We are LEADING this disruption by driving stabecoin prepaid/ debit card accounts adoption into the mass markets, via our b2b2c white-label, platform. We are a seasoned team, toped with some smart friends, and strategic partners and backers. Drop us a line if interested in stablecoin payments, orchestration, and shifting debit/ prepaid from traditional rails to the stablecoin ones.
Venture Partner
2018
ff Venture Capital is a technology venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, drones, and cloud software.
Visiting, Associate Scholar
2014
Executive Board Member- Head of Strategic Partnerships
2018
Our dynamic planning technology makes your Digital Out of Home campaigns more measurable, relevant and impactful. TPS has graduated first batch of @Techstars accelerator in Dubai, in partnership with Ginco
Book over 500k digital billboards worldwide by the hour and in fractional media segments
Raised $4,485,626.00 from SeedBlink, Codie Sanchez, Cadron Capital Partners and TechAngels.
Strategic Advisor
2022
Advisory Board
2017
GROUNDFLOOR is a crowdsourced real estate investing and lending platform that makes private capital markets open to all.
Raised $81,403,492.00 from Medipower and E. Mackey.
Opps Partner
2020 - 2023
A VC fund focused exclusively on deep tech & human survival Astor Perkins is a venture capital fund focused on deep tech, sustainability & survival. We partner with global leaders on their mission to build and protect the future cities on Earth and in space.
Strategic Advisor
2020 - 2022
OptimizeFT (Optimize Financial Technology)- is a card issuing, program manager and white-label platform, enabling vertical banking solutions for credit, debit and prepaid. Its highly-configurable platform and deep features libraries allow for tailored payments solutions and best in class ui/ux experience. Significantly reduces costs and time to market for large enterprises who seek to launch their branded payment programs/ solutions. My long time passion (2 decades) for strategic partnerships, and fintech was married with best in class fintech platform / seasoned team of operators at OptimizeFT
OptimizeFT is a financial technology platform with services that allow for next-generation digital payment solutions and programs.
Senior Advisor to the CEO
2017 - 2019
Freight Farms offers high-volume crop production units made from upcycled shipping containers to support farming in any climate.
Raised $55,905,000.00 from ICS FO, Aliaxis Group, Stage 1 Ventures, Ospraie Ag Sciences, Alkaline Capital, Spark Capital, Spark Capital, Ospraie Ag Sciences and Right Side Capital Management.