Koho
⸺ by Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Koho Financial is a Canadian fintech company that provides banking services. Legally it isn't a bank yet (as legally that requires a license). But it provides what normal people consider banking services.
I (Charles Iliya Krempeaux) was the founding chief technology officer (CTO) of Koho Financial.
From Thursday May 7th, 2015 to Friday January 12th, 2018 I worked on Koho; although really this Koho story starts on Wednesday April 1st, 2015 when I first got involved with Koho.
The founding team of Koho was myself (Charles Iliya Krempeaux), Daniel Eberhard, Scott Bell; with Amy Soetopo doing part-time work on Koho. Later Joel Skrepnek was hired, and joined the Koho team. And after that Jaclyn Quinn joined the Koho team.
That was Koho at its genesis — when we figured out how to build a bank — and built one from scratch.
After that, many others joined the Koho team — Sergei Berenson, Lauren Bates, Eric Richardson, Lynn Shinto, Davi Prates, Parween Mander, Stephanie Lo, Libi Berenson, and many many others.
This is the Koho story from my point of view.