Lydia, The Financial Services Super-App, with CEO Co-Founder Cyril Chiche

Cyril Chiche is co-Founder and CEO of Lydia, a financial services super-app offering digital payments, donations, loans, checking accounts, payment cards, and other services…

Discussion:

• The Lydia origin story
• The Numa Café
• Early investments
• Product Market Fit and early growth
• Lydia, a super-app for your money
• Moving into then back out of the UK market
• 2020, first Tencent (WeChat Pay) then Accel invests in Lydia
• Covid and financial services trends and adoption
• Cryptocurrency buying/trading and financial services apps
• Accel’s newest venture partner and former Venmo General Manager, Amit Jhawar, joins the board
• 2021 and onward