St. Louis Magazine

FINANCE 2.0

To understand the world of fintech, says Atul Kamra, managing partner of venture fund SixThirty, you first have to realize that the issues of financial health and medical health are colliding.

“Driving this collision is this perfect storm of pressures that challenges our sense of personal wellbeing,” says Kamra. “The shifting of responsibility of our healthcare and our retirement from institutions and the state to the individual, the rising cost of education, the rising cost of healthcare, an aging demographic...”

Where does fintech fit in? Kamra points to two companies from the portfolio of SixThirty, a firm that invests in entrepreneurs who are

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