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Ep 27: Simon Lee, Patona.
In episode 27 Dexter is joined by Simon Lee, Co-Founder of Assembly Payments and now Managing Partner at Patona.
Simon knows a thing or two about raising capital and scaling Fintech’s. As CEO at Assembly Simon has raised $70m and won partnerships with Westpac and Standard Chartered.
Patona started life as a bootstrapped tech startup that saw amazing success by running the majority of its business from India with minimal investment.
This is a ‘no holds’ barred chat with Simon as he gives his views on the ‘Fintech startup Dream’ and shares how Patona is helping Fintech founders launch and scale with minimal capital.
What happened next.
This episode was published in July 2020, when Simon Lee, co-founder of Assembly Payments, was Managing Partner at Patona and talking about how founders could launch and scale with minimal capital.
In February 2025 Simon returned to the show as founder of Teamified, which he said started in 2020. He said it grew by 80% the previous year and was hiring 50 people, about 60% of them for non-tech roles, and that AI testing had cut the time to hire a tech person from an average of 45 days to 22. He said the business started to help founders get less diluted.
