Gaston Aussems
Venture Partner at Antler
Gaston Aussems
Venture Partner at Antler
Amsterdam Area
Overview
Work Experience
Member of The Supervisory Board
2023 - Current
With Klearly, SMB merchants can accept card payment anytime, anywhere. Our software technology turns smartphones/tablets into secure payment processing devices by using Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology. Our entirely digital payments solution allows our merchants to focus on what they do best, while Klearly handles the rest.
Chairman of the Board
2023
Payguru is the next generation mobile payment platform fulfilling all the regulatory requirements in TURKEY. Our cutting edge payment technology integrated with other complementary functions provides great benefits to our merchants in terms of transaction processing, fund collections and payment flows with best user experience.
Member Of The Supervisory Board
2021
Oikocredit is a worldwide cooperative that promotes sustainable development by providing loans, investments and capacity building to the financial inclusion, agriculture and renewable energy sectors. As a social investor, Oikocredit’s work is guided by the principle of empowering people to improve their livelihoods.
Venture Partner
2021
Atlantica Ventures believes that technology and technology-enabled companies drive inclusive and sustainable growth across the African continent. Our approach is to create alignment with Founders through deep engagement to visualize their mission ensuring our ability to add value.
Member Of The Board Of Advisors
2021
OptInsight's SaaS solution takes the pain out of consent management processes and powers compliant go-to-market strategies.
Venture Partner
2021
Antler is a global startup generator and early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to turn the world’s best talent into founders of great companies. Antler unlocks the power of the world’s most brilliant and determined people to work on some of the most exciting and crucial opportunities and problems of tomorrow. Part of the LP advisory committee and coach to various startups in fintech.
Bain External Advisor
2021
Helping the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 63 offices in 38 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries.
CEO
2023 - 2024
Infinic connects local digital payment solutions for ecommerce in Africa. Using real-time analytics and AI, it enhances the customer payment experience and payment routing to improve conversion. As a payment orchestrator, Infinic enhances conversion, provides operational efficiency and gives actionable insights to boost your online digital business. Infinic connects and improves existing infrastructure by providing a gateway into local and global infrastructure while managing the user experience of the payment funnel, relieving merchants from this complex task and allowing them to focus on their core business.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
2022 - 2024
Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. We believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background.
Chief Executive Officer
2022 - 2023
TPAY MOBILE is a mobile payments platform in the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey (META). The company provides an end-to-end solution through single API integration, enabling digital service providers such as merchants and game developers, to accept payments from more than 30 countries in the region. The company serves 28M monthly users and processes over 1.5B transactions monthly across a variety of online services. Trusted by regional digital merchants and international brands, including Google, Huawei, MBC, Tencent, Anghami, Marvel, beIN, and many others.
Education
MBA
1998 - 2000
Diploma in Islamic Finance
2013 - 2013
CertICM
2010 - 2011
Master of Science
1989 - 1994