“Founder of FoundrsList. Co-founder & CTO of SmartAsset.”
A little about me: I'm one of those "old-school" computer nerds, who's been coding since I was about 10 or 11 years old, starting out on a cutting-edge Atari 128XE with a whopping 128 kbytes of RAM; then on an Acorn Archimides A3000, before graduating to a "real" computer: an 80186 PC with MS DOS 6.
I was born and raised in Malta, graduated from the University of Malta, and then moved to the UK and finally to New York City, having spent some time working in Italy, Germany and Malta.
In late 2010, I cofounded SmartAsset.com one of the most popular fintech tools in the USA. Together with my cofounder (who incidentally, I met on techcofounder.com), we took SmartAsset through the usual (painful) startup stages of growth: from bootstrapping the early prototype, and almost running out of funds within the the first 12 months, to raising an Angel round, joining Y-Combinator in the Summer of 2012, and gradually building the company into a strong presence in the fintech space. Today, SmartAsset reaches over 70 million visitors/month and has raised over $50 million in Venture capital.
