{"podcast":{"title":"Scouting for Growth","slug":"scouting-for-growth-4686831","podcast_index_feed_id":4686831,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/sabinega/feed.xml","website_url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/21959862/c84aea4ad531642db775e0d7782c8f77.jpg","author":"Sabine VanderLinden","episode_count":233,"summary":"There are over 180,000 FinTech ventures out there today. My team tracks 7.3 million of them across markets every single week. But the number that matters isn’t the one that’s growing. It’s the one that isn’t. Only 25% of these ventures have secured funding and meaningful backing. The other 75% aren’t just looking for capital. They’re looking for access, credibility, and partnerships with the institutions that can turn a great product into real-world impact. This is Scouting for Growth. I’m Sabine VanderLinden. I lead Alchemy Crew Ventures, and I built the Venture-Client Model for regulated industries... the model where a growth venture earns a corporation as its customer before a VC writes the cheque. When that sequence works, it changes the equation for everyone: founders, corporates, and the investors watching from both sides of the table. Each episode, I bring a founder, an operator, or an institutional leader to the table for the conversation that usually happens behind closed doors: about how corporates really think, how capital really flows, and what it actually takes to build, grow, and scale in a world where the boundaries between FinTech, InsurTech, HealthTech, and AI are…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T16:17:45.012213+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831"},"episode":{"title":"Patrick Van Deven: The Frontier Firm's Moat isn't Data. It's The Layer that Governs It.","slug":"patrick-van-deven-the-frontier-firm-s-moat-isn-t-data-it-s-the-layer-that-governs-it","published_at":"2026-06-11T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/patrick-van-deven-the-frontier-firm-s-moat-isn-t-data-it-s-the-layer-that-governs-it","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831","url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com/e/patrick-van-deven-the-frontier-firm-moat-isnt-data-it-is-the-layer-that-governs-it/","audio_url":"https://cohst.app/pdcst/6K4Q1I/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zbu8axcp5gzt84th/260526_Patrick_Van_Deven_The_Frontier_Firm_Has_a_Data_Problem_25V26_M_SAS_Jimmy_5567a2gjf.mp3","summary":"The AI revolution has a hidden dependency most enterprises are still underestimating. It is not the model. It is not the interface. It is not even the agent. The real bottleneck is the enterprise data layer. In this episode of Scouting for Growth, Sabine VanderLinden speaks with Patrick Van Deven, CEO of VaultSpeed, about why AI governance in regulated industries will depend on something far less glamorous than large language models: trusted, traceable and explainable data transformation. As insurers, banks and wealth management firms move toward AI-native operating models, many are discovering an uncomfortable truth. Their data infrastructure was built decades ago. Their transformation logic is often hard-coded. Critical institutional knowledge lives inside undocumented pipelines. And many organisations cannot fully explain how their reporting, analytics or regulatory data was created. That becomes a serious risk when AI agents start supporting decisions in regulated environments. Patrick connects this challenge to the rise of the “Frontier Firm”: the AI-native enterprise powered by human-agent collaboration, intelligence on demand and automated workflows. But he offers a practical warning for boards, CIOs, CTOs and Chief Data Officers: without deterministic data lineage, auditability and governance, enterprise AI cannot be trusted at scale. The conversation explores the collision between AI adoption, regulatory accountability, digital transformation, core system modernisation and enterprise data governance. Patrick explains how VaultSpeed helps organisations automate the transformation layer that connects fragmented systems such as Guidewire, Salesforce, SAP, Workday, core banking platforms and wealth management systems. Instead of relying on manual coding and tribal…","meta_description":"The AI revolution has a hidden dependency most enterprises are still underestimating. It is not the model. It is not the interface. 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