Lisa Shields

Founder & CEO, FISPAN

FintechVancouverOn TechVancouver stages since 2018

Lisa Shields is the founder and CEO of FISPAN, the Vancouver company that embeds business banking into the software companies already use. She previously founded and ran Hyperwallet for fifteen years, sold to PayPal in 2018, and used her TechVancouver slot in 2018 to walk through three moments when that first company nearly did not survive.

On the TechVancouver stage ×1

TECHVANCOUVER16:14

Lisa Shields of Fispan presents 3 existential startup moments

TechVancouver · April 2018

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In their words

our hockey stick really started sort of eight years after you know eight years into the business

TechVancouver, Apr 2018 · watch at 06:29 ↗

negotiating a better contract is a monk's game — go and find another supplier especially if it's critical to you providing your services

TechVancouver, Apr 2018 · watch at 11:02 ↗

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Around the web ×1

Podcast

Lisa Shields, CEO of FISPAN, Talks About Why The Future of Finance and Banking is Integrated and EmbeddedCanada's Podcast

2021

Quick answers

What is FISPAN?

A Vancouver fintech founded by Lisa Shields in 2016 that connects business banking services into the ERP and accounting software commercial clients already run.

What did Lisa Shields build before FISPAN?

Hyperwallet, a cross-border payouts company she founded and led for fifteen years; PayPal acquired it in 2018.

What was her TechVancouver talk about?

Three moments in her first startup where the business faced a genuine existential question, and what she took from each.

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