Malte Rau

CEO / Co-Founder at Pliant

New York, New York, United States

About

In the last decade I focused on closing the gap between risk management and business development for several banks and fintechs in- as well as outside of Germany. I recently co-founded Pliant to make corporate credit cards as easy to use as they should be and fix climate harming card incentives while solving the complexity of payments and lending at the same time.

Experience

  • CEO / Co-Founder at Pliant
    Apr 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

    At pliant we have built a truly flexible corporate credit card that your company can integrate into any existing financial process setup or we bring the best-in-class partners for every use case to you. Additionally, we offer the highest cashbacks, flexible limits, and the best exchange rates at no costs.

  • CEO / Founder at Geldspeicher GmbH
    Jan 2019 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

    At Geldspeicher we developed a state-of-the-art categorization engine for German bank account data.

  • interim Chief Risk Officer at FinCompare - Smarter SME Financing
    Jul 2018 - Dec 2018 · 6 mos

    As a consultant I helped FinCompare to setup a risk matching engine and launch the first fully digital SME loan with Solarisbank.

  • Portfolio Manager / Head of Fintech Investments at Global Growth Cap
    Mar 2017 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

    At the venture debt arm of Rocket Internet I was responsible for all fintech debt investments. Running the due diligence for hundreds of fintechs and investing all over the globe from Australia to the US and back.

  • Vice President Risk Management at Lendico Global Services GmbH
    Nov 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

    I've joined Lendico to build up the SME lending capabilities of the platform facing and solving the typical challenge of early stage lending startups: How to close the information asymmetry between banks and fintechs to build a competitive product.