Gaston Aussems
Venture Partner at Antler
Amsterdam Area
Overview
Work Experience
Member of the Board of Advisors
2025 - Current
NALA is here to make payments easy in your 'home away from home.' Send real-time payments to friends and family that use NALA. Split bills, pay for gifts, or share holiday expenses in the UK, EU, and US
Nala is a FinTech company developing a mobile payments application to simplify money transfers and transactions.
Raised $50,210,000.00 from Amplo, Acrew Capital, Alumni Ventures, Vlad Tenev, Nyca Partners, HOF Capital, DST Global, Ryan King and Norrsken22.
Member Of The Supervisory Board
2021
Oikocredit is a worldwide cooperative that promotes sustainable development by providing loans, investments and capacity building to the financial inclusion, agriculture and renewable energy sectors. As a social investor, Oikocredit’s work is guided by the principle of empowering people to improve their livelihoods. Member of the Supervisory Board and chair of the Remuneration, Nomination and Selection committee.
Member of The Supervisory Board
2023
With Klearly, SMB merchants can accept card payment anytime, anywhere. Our software technology turns smartphones/tablets into secure payment processing devices by using Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology. Our entirely digital payments solution allows our merchants to focus on what they do best, while Klearly handles the rest.
Venture Partner
2021
Atlantica Ventures believes that technology and technology-enabled companies drive inclusive and sustainable growth across the African continent. Our approach is to create alignment with Founders through deep engagement to visualize their mission ensuring our ability to add value.
Member Of The Board Of Advisors
2021
OptInsight's SaaS solution takes the pain out of consent management processes and powers compliant go-to-market strategies.
Bain External Advisor
2021
Bain is helping the world’s most ambitious companies define the future. As an external advisor I occasionally work alongside teams from Bain and support them with specific experience and industry insights.
Chairman of the Board
2023
Payguru is the next generation mobile payment platform fulfilling all the regulatory requirements in TURKEY. Our cutting edge payment technology integrated with other complementary functions provides great benefits to our merchants in terms of transaction processing, fund collections and payment flows with best user experience.
Member of The Supervisory Board
2022 - 2025
Someday aims to provide homeowners with access to their home equity, enabling them to achieve their goals or dreams.
CEO
2023 - 2024
Infinic connects local digital payment solutions for ecommerce in Africa. Using real-time analytics and AI, it enhances the customer payment experience and payment routing to improve conversion. As a payment orchestrator, Infinic enhances conversion, provides operational efficiency and gives actionable insights to boost your online digital business. Infinic connects and improves existing infrastructure by providing a gateway into local and global infrastructure while managing the user experience of the payment funnel, relieving merchants from this complex task and allowing them to focus on their core business.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
2022 - 2024
Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. We believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background.
Education
MBA
1998 - 2000
Diploma in Islamic Finance
2013 - 2013
CertICM
2010 - 2011
Master of Science
1989 - 1994