Om Kundu’s Post

Original posting by author/host of 3P LIVE: Host Garrett Girvan 🌐: "3P Live: Feat founder Om Kundu - 12:30PM EST, April 4th (Thurs) How many business insights have you gleaned from Stanford Math grad fintech founders recently... Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Join us at 3P Live for candid conversations with Sales Leaders & Founders. We delve into 1) pivotal business insights 2) passions outside work 3) Elevator pitch Meet Om, founder of SaveAway, a fintech savings platform. Our paths crossed at SXSW during his hosting of an event for fintech/ecom leaders. Excited to uncover the origins of this financial-focused meetup and explore potential avenues for your involvement!"

🔭{RE: SXSW 2024 Fintech + E-Commerce Meet🆙} Saluting the sights set and sounds heard, in that inimitably magical hour of March for a future free 〰️ from punitive rent-collection + fees, Springing forth what's imperative: More than monochromatic speed, or, being frictionless: Grace to press 🔛 for what's safe, secure, purposeful — "accelerating tech"'s true north guides, sustaining what will endure, where trust abides. On trails untrodden, not wrought to trip in haste, nor hampered by mounting debt, with novelty and wellness interlaced by what’s within the 💓 of fintech and commerce's sphere: Dreams undeferred, goals drawn near, with the arc bent, as it steadfastly must, to realize what is 🌅 rising, as it is just. https://lnkd.in/eMR2KRgJ `````` Heartfelt thanks to all who invigorated the SXSW #Fintech & #ECommerce Meet🆙— it was a distinct honor to be facilitating it once more with the ring of ‘24, uniting dreamers and doers of retail e-commerce + fintech hailing from near and as-far-as (variously): Singapore to Sydney; from Costa Rica to Uruguay! The dialogue couldn’t have been more timely, serving as a crucible for the intersection of ecommerce and fintech’s accelerating vectors across AI, Phygital, and Web3 among several others — with the recognition that they are only as good as the more perfect union they forge to further human agency with due consideration to the use-cases, safety, security, and wellness: Enabling ‘more with less’ greater financial security, and tools that spur forth the best within us, as we hope the opportunity for dialogue did for you: Really appreciative to so many that RSVP’ed https://lnkd.in/eHQP_K9K , joined IRL, those including Fabio who shared pre-event https://lnkd.in/eNsmcF22 + on X-Spaces https://lnkd.in/ehqhUvXG and Alfonso post-event: https://lnkd.in/er26KKp6 Speaking of furthering the dialogue, on a personal note Garrett Girvan 🌐 from the #MeetUp and I will be #LIVE right here on LinkedIn Upcoming April 4, 11:30AM CT A special welcome to tune-in, and share the goodness right here that were inspiring and impactful to YOU!

Will you settle for what’s conspicuously commonplace, Lured by instant gratification’s guile, even if it leaves nada trace? Or, see what #tech with #will … is empowering save, and must pave — An impactful way, Rising inex☀️rably … from the fray Into the final, With an ever-grateful founder rooted in community, and all joining to #SaveAway? Seeing SaveAway® with INSPIRAVE selected as a Finalist of Accompany Capital / Tech Incubator at Queens College (TIQC)’s #TechImpact StartUp Competition from https://lnkd.in/ekEt-JCY is to applaud all championing us inexorably forward — SaveAway®️’s foresighted Users, Partners, and Supporters furthering our impact into the fore… to ring-in tiny.cc/WhyNot24for24 🖱 ⏪ 🎉 #otd 2〰️24 in ways more than one: To see your 🛍️-goals sustainably be sans #riskofcredit = #debtfree. With gratitude to the organizers + sponsors incl. New York City Economic Development Corporation NY Tech Alliance Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) Donovan Richards Jr. Office of the Queens Borough President Startbook The Venture Mentoring Team Xponential Ecosystem Ycenter and all making it possible.

OUT of the Super🥣 of constraints, indelibly rises... from the wind〰️iN’ 🛣️: Lived experience to 🔭 out of less, in good c⚙️mpany, more 〰️ 🏗️ to cement the dent for what will, resiliently,                   be       u           ☀ end  ringly held.      ea With gratitude for Oliver’s kind words @ https://lnkd.in/emx6T9MN , ultimately it is visionary users+partners — embracing what is rooted in SaveAway® with INSPIRAVE — that is spurring forth the "SaveAway®️ Now, Buy Soon" moment into the light of day: Nothing heartens us to do more with less in furthering the essence to #SaveAway than the enthusiasm with which we have been greeted, cited by Finovate, and presented at VentureCrush FGX https://lnkd.in/eAJY9FK4 , National Retail Federation's Big🍎Show https://lnkd.in/evR2giPm , and been among those shortlisted by Accompany Capital+Tech Incubator at Queens College (TIQC) @ https://lnkd.in/ekEt-JCY Excited to further the momentum of tiny.cc/WhyNot24for24 well into 2〰️24  in no small part because of your enthusiasm to #SaveAway, see your SaveAway®️ plans delivered, and refer others 🌐 and IRL at FounderFest https://lnkd.in/eW5TrrbT organized by Phil, Newlab FounderSquare https://lnkd.in/e5RBJTfM by Andrea, BBG Ventures' and separately Startup Grind New York ☕sessions https://lnkd.in/ejibvw_7 by Joshua Adrian among others, all in these first six weeks of ‘24 ⏪ With 📣forthcoming announcements ahead, no doubt with your joining tiny.cc/WhyNot24for24 🖱️⏪ you+we can… evermore.

Hats off to all whose participation made SXSW 2023’s "#Fintech and #Ecommerce Meet Up"' truly one-of-a-kind ✨, with no better time than "The Great Reset" for us to convene — That you found your way through🚪# 404, past 🦯alleys, no doubt speaks to the conviction — and penchant for action — that furthered our spirited dialog; to build an ecosystem that is more purposeful: One that was far-ranging, and equally delved into what was top-of-mind for each of you — from systems of commerce that keep friction (good and bad) in ⚖️perspective, to making API and data more accessible, to growth achieved with grit and grace: Should the meetup have left within you a glimmer of "the why" {with purpose} & "how" (with reimagination + ingenious execution) — for you to find more 🛍️goals-that-matter-to-you in reach, sustainably, that will spur you to do your part in “leaving a dent in the 🌌” — that will have meant the 🌐 to us. #sxsw #retail #commerce #meetup 🙇🏽

#NotToBeMissed — SXSW 2023’s “Fintech and E-Commerce Meet Up”! An honor to be its facilitator, with a warm welcome to all… harnessing "The Great Reset" to reimagine retail + #commerce in ways that are more purposeful — https://lnkd.in/gEea2Vhp 🤝 SXSW meetups IRL are one-of-a-kind… and, per the memorable #sxsw'16 quote, no doubt it will be that much more so when "you step up and get involved" https://lnkd.in/g5N-J4Wj ... to spur forth the best from all 🌐s: https://lnkd.in/gJ-g_xWS #retail #ecommerce and #fintech #meetup @ #SXSW2023

Hats-off to our InSpirAVE Community & Team! Truly remarkable seeing InSpirAVE cited at SXSW among the "25 most diverse startups from around the world [who will be] showcasing their big innovations", at Kauffman Foundation Tech.Co's 'Startup of the Year' gathering— https://lnkd.in/eG2SH75 Nothing's been as fulfilling as seeing our Team harness diversity and technology’s promise at its very best…to empower ‘#SavingMoreFaster for What Matters’,without the debt-trap {which continues to befall far too many— https://lnkd.in/eXwXXq6 } Join our InSpirAVE Roadshow kicking-off in the Valley,presenting @ INV Fintech Annual DemoDay—> https://lnkd.in/eEfTWf6 On the road to Austin? Catch our LIVE Demo@ SXSW Startup Night—> https://lnkd.in/eAmH4pj Through all of this our team’s relentlessness & community's support has never failed to amaze— Join them @ https://lnkd.in/eK_FQXv <—Know that we'll stop at nothing short with the Upcoming InSpirAVE Release, for you & us to #SaveForWhatMatters together Thanks Abhi Adebola Alex Ali Audrey Blynn Bruce Bruce Carl Dave Carl DaviCarl David Derek Deva Ganesh Guy Hariom Harjit Hope Jaime John JJ Krish Larry Lori Lori Leigh Max Madhu Michael Mariko Marino Mark Nami Peter Philip Ryan Sachin Scott Skylar Stefany Steve Steven Tino Tishin USS Yosef