• Rebirth Financial presenting at FinovateFall


    Rebirth Financial, Inc. gains international acclaim by being selected to present at the finance industry’s premier innovation conference- FinovateFall- in New York, September 20-21.

    Louisiana based Rebirth Financial will demonstrate its most current financial technology breakthroughs alongside companies including Google, MasterCard, and Experian- to an audience of 1,000 financial industry leaders. Rebirth Financial will demo its new JAS Rating System: a first-of-its-kind scoring system to determine the financial health of a small business. More. 

     

  • Radio Interview: Abrar Ahmad from Travel Capitalist on WSGO Entrepreneur Happy Hour


    Profile and accompanying Podcast.

  • e27 Echelon 2011


    Abrar Ahmad, Partner,to participate on Travel panel at e27 Echelon -- one of the largest entrepreneur conference in Asia. More Information.

  • Press: Straits Times (Singapore)


    Full article.

  • Justin Beswick, CEO of Uncontained Living, on CNBC Africa


    TEDxCapeTown was a roaring success and moved the needle forward for entrepreneurship in South Africa. Interview highlights and event videos.

  • Tune in to the Small Business Hour Radio Show

    (online and on WSGO 990     in New Orleans)


    Hosted by Rebirth Financial CEO, Chonchol Gupta. Rebirth Financial is an online marketplace connecting small businesses borrowers with individual and institutional lenders. Read More

  • Rebirth Financial in INC Magazine (Apr 2011)


    Rebirth Financial is an online marketplace connecting small businesses borrowers with individual and institutional lenders.

    "This whole thing has been very grass roots," says Williamson. "We had MBAs from Stanford, and then those kids went to work for Salesforce.com and Google and now their companies are involved." One of the IDEAPitch finalists this year, Rebirth Financial, a peer-to-business lending platform, was founded by Xavier Cabo andChonchol Gupta, Tulane MBA grads who won the competition last year for their work with Jack and Jakes, a local organic market. This year, their own business got some significant help from the Chicago Booth MBA team. "They helped us go from having $26,000 in loans on our platform to over a $1 million," says Gupta. "And they gave us a marketing strategy for the next nine months," adds Cabo. "That's beautiful."  That kind of mentoring—peer-to-peer and intergenerational—is what helps create and sustain an entrepreneurial ecosystem that not only draws upon local talent, but is vibrant enough to attract global resources. "New Orleans along with San Francisco is constantly creating vibrant ideas and products to the landscape in music, food, architecture, and entrepreneurs" says Coulter.  New Orleans isn't Silicon Valley yet, but give it some time. As Mayor Mitch Landrieu likes to say, the place "gets all up in ya." Read More

  • An exciting Q1 for Rebirth Financial.


    Rebirth Financial is an online marketplace connecting small businesses borrowers with individual and institutional lenders.

    What Travel Capitalist has known from the beginning is now reaching a much wider audience.

    The addition of Robert Lane (former President of Key Bank NA Ohio), Darin McAuliffe (co-founder of TurboTrip.com) and Doug Walner (SVP and General Manager of Stamps.com) to their Board of Advisors.

    Participating in New Orleans Entrepreneurs Week, a number of high profile blog Social Lending Blog writeups & press coverage and the launch of their peer to business lending platform.

    Rebirth Financial entered the last round in the Tulane Business Plan Competition (2011) and founders will be hosting a roundtable at the Center for Financial Services Innovation Annual Conference.

    Rebirth Financial closes $40k of funding for it's first borrower within the first 3+ weeks of launch. Review their featured borrower to see who's next on deck for funding. Read More

  • Tnooz Article: Offbeat Guides Shipping 10,000 guides a month.

    • 27 October 2010
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    The OffBeatGuides model was simple: create personalised travel guides using content from around the web for a destination and time period unique to the user. The guides were selling at $10 for a PDF or $25 for a PDF and printed version.

    OffBeatGuides signed two deals to throw its product in front of travellers – one with Expedia and another with Starwood Hotels.

     

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  • Web In Travel - Day 2

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    This session brings together veteran entrepreneur Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati and now Offbeat Guides, with investor Abrar Ahmad, Partner at Travel Capitalist Ventures. Sifry will talk about where content is going, where it wants to go, how you can free it and give it context and customization. Abrar, whose portfolio companies (including Offbeat Guides) have transactions totaling US$800 million, will talk about what he’s looking for in the next big thing in travel startups and share the nuances of travel investments in emerging markets. 

    • Abrar Ahmad, Partner, Travel Capitalist Ventures
    • David L. Sifry, Founder and CEO, Offbeat Guides

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  • Interview: Abrar Ahmad (Partner, TCV)

    Specialist travel fund, Travel Capitalist Ventures, is setting its sights on 'the next big thing' in Asia; Abrar Ahmad tells Yeoh Siew Hoon what he's on the lookout for.

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  • Justin Beswick Selected for Brightest Young Minds

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    Brightest Young Minds (BYM) is an initiative of young people passionate about exploring, demonstrating and implementing ideas and alternative solutions to the problems plaguing humanity.

    Mr. Beswick, founder of Uncontained Living Pty (S Africa) will be attending the BYM summit in September, where he will be adding his thoughts on sustainable living and business practices.

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  • Uncontained Living Receives Critical Backing of the City of Cape Town.

    Uncontained Living, received the backing of critical stakeholders such as the City of Cape Town, who acknowledge the need and benefit of sustainable living, when solving the local housing crisis! Lindie Buirski, Head: Environmental Capacity Building, Training & Education, Environmental Resource Management Department, City of Cape Town, said "We support their efforts and look forward to working closely with Uncontained Living in developing a greener future ('Smart Living'), particularly here in the City of Cape Town". Visit the UnContained website here or the RCIPS page of latest news on this venture here.

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