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Lizann Fernandez

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Bengaluru

12+ years of work experience

Amalgamic.io
Jan 20251 yr 9 mosPresent

Manage all your credit cards like a boss. Your time > chasing $12 ghost subs. Get started in 60 seconds. At Amalgamic, we're excited to build agents to take on boring admin tasks of life. No more weekends spend chasing a refund, or tracking a cashback. Give us all your recurring spends and we will give you $ back .
Jupiter
Oct 20222 yrs 3 mosDec 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jupiter Money is a $700Mn leading digital neobank backed by Peak XV (formerly Sequoia), QED, Tiger Global and Matrix Partners. Led our core monetization product - RuPay Credit Card on UPI – Own P&L & setup entire business line from scratch across Product, Risk, Design, BD, HR, Ops and core Finance functions, overseeing 60+ member team. We executed some of the coolest in tech and product in record time (<6 months) to enable - 1) Fastest issuance to txn experience in UPI CC ever(!) 2) Innovative, translucent card design, 3) Built core infra to support CCMS, UPI-CC Switching, and txn EMI portability.
Setu
Mar 20193 yrsFeb 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Founding team - Employee #5. Setu builds low-cost, modular API infrastructure to launch a fintech product or service in a matter of days, not months; empowering developers to reimagine financial services for the next billion. Setu is founded by UPI's founding team and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Falcon Edge. As Founding Member, I built a new-age bill pay network across 100+ billers in new categories (loans, credit cards and subscriptions), negotiated deals with bank/billers/payer app (PhonePe and others). Built & scaled a sales/BD function & responsible for 0-1 and growth for the first 100 billers across loan repayments, school fees and other new categories. Successful exit to PineLabs in 2021
Quona Capital
May 20171 yr 10 mosFeb 2019

Bengaluru Area, India

Quona Capital is a $350M+ AUM VC for fintech. I focussed on India/SE Asia markets, evaluated deal flow for 500+ fintech business models across payments, credit, savings and investments. Deals: Fisdom Ser A (exited to Groww), Finja Ser A, Credit Mantri follow-on, IndiaMART exit (IPO), Coins.ph (exited to Go-Jek)
Dalberg Global Development Advisors
May 20134 yrsApr 2017

Mumbai/ New Delhi; project work in rural Rwanda, Hungary, SE Asia

Dalberg is the world's leading strategy consulting firm for emerging markets. Built and worked on fintech for inclusion projects circa 2013/14, including: "financial health framework" for leading US/India clients, running pilot programs in MSME lending and real time payments, Secondment at datatech platform SocialCops (now Atlan)

Education

St. Xavier's College

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, English

St. Xavier's College

20103 yrs2013

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Founder at Amalgamic.io, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Manage all your credit cards like a boss. Your time > chasing $12 ghost subs. Get started in 60 seconds. At Amalgamic, we're excited to build agents to take on boring admin tasks of life. No more weekends spend chasing a refund, or tracking a cashback. Give us all your recurring spends and we will give you $ back .

Business Head/GM at Jupiter, Oct 2022 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Jupiter Money is a $700Mn leading digital neobank backed by Peak XV (formerly Sequoia), QED, Tiger Global and Matrix Partners. Led our core monetization product - RuPay Credit Card on UPI – Own P&L & setup entire business line from scratch across Product, Risk, Design, BD, HR, Ops and core Finance functions, overseeing 60+ member team. We executed some of the coolest in tech and product in record time (<6 months) to enable - 1) Fastest issuance to txn experience in UPI CC ever(!) 2) Innovative, translucent card design, 3) Built core infra to support CCMS, UPI-CC Switching, and txn EMI portability.

Director - Strategy and BizOps at Setu, Mar 2019 - Feb 2022 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Founding team - Employee #5. Setu builds low-cost, modular API infrastructure to launch a fintech product or service in a matter of days, not months; empowering developers to reimagine financial services for the next billion. Setu is founded by UPI's founding team and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Falcon Edge. As Founding Member, I built a new-age bill pay network across 100+ billers in new categories (loans, credit cards and subscriptions), negotiated deals with bank/billers/payer app (PhonePe and others). Built & scaled a sales/BD function & responsible for 0-1 and growth for the first 100 billers across loan repayments, school fees and other new categories. Successful exit to PineLabs in 2021

Investment Analyst at Quona Capital, May 2017 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Quona Capital is a $350M+ AUM VC for fintech. I focussed on India/SE Asia markets, evaluated deal flow for 500+ fintech business models across payments, credit, savings and investments. Deals: Fisdom Ser A (exited to Groww), Finja Ser A, Credit Mantri follow-on, IndiaMART exit (IPO), Coins.ph (exited to Go-Jek)

Consultant at Dalberg Global Development Advisors, May 2013 - Apr 2017 · 4 yrs, Mumbai/ New Delhi; project work in rural Rwanda, Hungary, SE Asia, Dalberg is the world's leading strategy consulting firm for emerging markets. Built and worked on fintech for inclusion projects circa 2013/14, including: "financial health framework" for leading US/India clients, running pilot programs in MSME lending and real time payments, Secondment at datatech platform SocialCops (now Atlan)

Education

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, English, St. Xavier's College

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