After healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After deeptech and energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I found myself discovering\u2026 stablecoins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be honest, I initially thought this world was mainly about crypto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I quickly realized it was actually about something much bigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Liquidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more than thirty years in industry, international payments were simply part of doing business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rarely questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meeting the founders of Solide Finance<\/strong> completely changed my perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their ambition is not to reinvent banking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is to rethink one of its oldest infrastructures: international payments and foreign exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Using blockchain and stablecoins, they are building technology that allows financial institutions to settle cross-border transactions in real time while remaining fully compliant with regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What fascinated me was not the technology itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was the question behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why should moving money across borders still rely on infrastructures designed decades ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like every major technological transition, this one is not really about replacing existing systems overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is about making them faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And ultimately, more useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This investment taught me something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Innovation is often misunderstood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People tend to associate it with products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Increasingly, the greatest transformations happen inside infrastructures we never see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Payment networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carbon markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The invisible layers we discussed in my previous posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps that is why this first journey as a Business Angel has been so energizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I met founders tackling completely different industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DeepTech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Financial infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet they all shared the same mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They were not trying to build fashionable companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They were solving real problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And with remarkable optimism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After spending more than three decades helping established companies grow, I now have the privilege of witnessing another kind of growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n