# Ep. 112: Anastasia Kovaleva, Poland Street | Sector Focus and Scaling Financial Services Platforms Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/private-equity-value-creation-podcast-7052671/ep-112-anastasia-kovaleva-poland-street-sector-focus-and-scaling-financial-services-platforms Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/private-equity-value-creation-podcast-7052671/ep-112-anastasia-kovaleva-poland-street-sector-focus-and-scaling-financial-services-platforms.md Podcast: [Private Equity Value Creation Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/private-equity-value-creation-podcast-7052671) Published: 2026-02-10T05:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-112-anastasia-kovaleva-poland-street-sector-focus-and-scaling-financial-services-platforms--69940337 Audio file: https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69940337/416520328_44100_2_662b5c1d2476.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/private-equity-value-creation-podcast-7052671/episodes/ep-112-anastasia-kovaleva-poland-street-sector-focus-and-scaling-financial-services-platforms Duration seconds: 2145 ## Resource On this episode, Anastasia Kovaleva, Partner at Pollen Street Capita;, shares how sector focus informs value creation across financial services and how her team approaches scaling mid-market businesses across Europe. Hear how specialist playbooks differ across software, services, and regulated models, how investors can partner with management to professionalize go-to-market and M&A capabilities, and how to apply automation and AI to improve efficiency, integration, and growth in complex financial services environments. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/private-equity-value-creation-podcast-7052671/episodes/ep-112-anastasia-kovaleva-poland-street-sector-focus-and-scaling-financial-services-platforms/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/private-equity-value-creation-podcast-7052671/ep-112-anastasia-kovaleva-poland-street-sector-focus-and-scaling-financial-services-platforms.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.