Clara Veniard

Clara is the Founding Partner of Grant Peak Capital. She was also the Associate Program Officer in Mobile Payments and Financial Services for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Clara is the Founding Partner of Grant Peak Capital. She was the Associate Program Officer—Mobile Payments and Financial Services for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Clara has also been a Senior Manager in Customer Acquisition and the Product Lead at Amazon. She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Posts by Clara Veniard

Agent Networks Mobile Money Mobile Banking Series Part 2

In this video Clara Veniard, Associate Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explains the agent network model. She explains the various revenue models for the agent and the transaction fee models for customers. Clara notices that the key challenge has been building a model based on transactional revenue source – moving away from float […]

Mobile Banking: Agent Networks Part 1

In this video Clara Veniard, Associate Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation talks about a bank-led agent model where the customer proposition and the channel are controlled by the bank. Clara also enlists the factors that differentiate the agent network system from other retail payment systems.

Mobile Banking: Agent Networks Part 1

In this video series-1, Clara Veniard, Associate Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, talks about a bank-led agent model where the customer proposition and the channel are controlled by the bank.