Investors, employees and mum: Raaj Rayat on how startup founders must be able to adjust their pitch

Raaj Rayat is an investment manager at AirTree Ventures. There, he focuses on early-stage investments across Australia and New Zealand. He was an early employee of Lendable, a fintech startup that used data science to expand fair access to financial services in emerging markets and has worked as a data scientist and investor in Nairobi and London.

In August, he joins SmartCompany as a guest judge at the Pitch, our early-stage startup competition, this time with a focus on fintechs. Here, he shares his thoughts on current trends, and why being able to explain your startup to your mum is so important.