Nick Talwar

Senior Advisor

Nick has spent much of his career at the intersection of fast-scaling technology platforms and consumer / SME financial services, having launched and scaled transformative fintech businesses globally. He is responsible for portfolio management and value creation across Apis’ portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Apis, Nick was Global Head of Vehicle Financing at Uber, where he was responsible for the Group’s vehicle leasing rentals and fleet management division. Prior to that he served as General Manager of Amazon Lending, and also led Visa’s credit card business in North America.

Nick lives in Silicon Valley, is married with three children, and enjoys trying out Crossfit gyms wherever his Apis travels take him.

Profile

Hometown

Singapore, San Francisco

Location

Menlo Park, California, US

Languages

English, Spanish

Areas of expertise

Growth, Digital lending, Technology platforms

Q&A

This IS the job I coveted while I was in the first half of my career! I have spent the past 20 years as an operator, and aspired to one day be able to contribute my experiences in fast-growing companies and digitally-oriented financial services to a chance to make a big impact on the broader scale that APIS offers. I get to collaborate with relentlessly committed colleagues and portfolio and target investee executives on how to bring world-class financial solutions to underserved customers in growth markets. I feel like I lucked out!

I tend to be impatient and I love that at APIS we get almost instant market feedback to our choices. We invest in companies have established product-market fit, unit economics that work and are ready to scale. So when we invest, we do so with a formulated growth-oriented value creation plan that is activated by the new capital almost immediately – it is enormously rewarding to see the impact of that fresh capital and those plans to the mission-driven work of our portfolio companies often within weeks of investing.

Prior experience

Uber

Global Head of Vehicle Financing & CEO, Xchange Leasing

Amazon

General Manager, Amazon Lending

Visa

SVP, North America Credit Cards

Prosper

Chief Revenue Officer

Citibank

Country Manager, Citibank Sweden

Education

University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School
MBA

Georgetown University – School of Foreign Service
BS

Areas of focus at Apis

Insurance, southern Africa

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