Samarth Shekhar heads the EMEA presence (in Amsterdam) of SixThirty Ventures, an early stage venture capital headquartered in St. Louis, US, offering B2B fintech and insurtech startups funding and connections to top US financial institutions. He was recognised by the WSJ/Financial News FinTech40 as one of the 40 Innovators Shaping the Future of Finance in 2014. Shekhar is the co-founder of FinTech Forum, since 2013 the leading community (network of 12,000+) for startups, investors and financial institutions in Europe. Prior to SixThirty Ventures, he founded and ran TechFluence, an award-winning corporate development boutique in Germany.