APPEARANCES
2024
• Book: Fintech Feminists, Nicole Casperson
• Talk: Women in Fintech & Codi, “Fintech Founder's Night: Panel and Demos”
• Talk: Shimmer, “How to Budget With ADHD”
• Talk: Fintech is Femme, “Fintech is Femme Leadership Summit”
• Her Dinero Matters: “How The Financial System Has Failed Women (and What You Can Do Despite This)”
• SoMoney with Farnoosh Torabi: “Smart Credit and Banking Moves for Women with Vrinda Gupta, Founder of Sequin”
• Purse Strings Podcast: “Taking Control of Your Financial Health”
• Brown Ambition Podcast: “I Built Your Credit Card ft. Vrinda Gupta”
• The Sugar Daddy Podcast: “Revolutionizing Finance for Women with Sequin CEO, Vrinda Gupta”
• She Believed She Could Podcast: “Finding Financial Power As Females with Vrinda Gupta”
• The Money Love Podcast: “The Dangers of Credit Card Debt (and a tool that can help) with the CEO of Sequin, Vrinda Gupta”
• The Money Love Podcast: “The Dangers of Credit Card Debt (and a tool that can help) with the CEO of Sequin, Vrinda Gupta”
• Women & Money Podcast: “Taking Control of Your Financial Health with Vrinda Gupta”
• Basic B*tch Seeks Enlightenment Podcast: “Are Women Bad with Credit Cards with Vrinda Gupta”
• Bad Bitch Empire Podcast: “Fundraising Millions to Drive Women's Financial Power w/ Vrinda Gupta, CEO, Sequin”
• Financially Intentional Podcast: “How Sequin Is Changing the Game for Financial Equality”
• Article: Forbes, “17 Fintech Apps Created By Women, For Women”
• Article: Economic Times, “Women in FinTech: Driving Innovation, Inclusion, and Growth”
• Article: Lazy Girl Capital, “50 Shades of Pink (Collar) With Vrinda Gupta”
2023
• Article: Forbes, “How The Future Of TikTok May Impact A Generation's Financial Literacy”
• Her First 100K Financial Feminist Podcast: “What Banks Don’t Want You to Know”
• Award: Fintech Magazine, “Top 10 women to watch in fintech for 2023”
• Techsetters Podcast: “Giving Women the Credit They Deserve”
• Talk: PayPal's Women's ERG, Keynote Address
• Talk: Women in Fintech x Chime, Consumer Fintech
• Talk: Her First 100K, “Credit Boosting Secrets: Building Your Credit Score with Vrinda Gupta”
• Talk: Aura Finance, “Credit AMA with Vrinda Gupta”
• Article: Finmasters, “Yes, You Can Build Credit with a Debit Card. Here’s How!”
• Award: Provenir, “Ten Fintechs/Finservs Supporting Women – or Being Led by Them!”
• Article: Well Kept Wallet, 7 Best Debit Cards
• Award: StartupBeat, “StartupBeat’s 2023 15 Fintech Founders to Watch”
• Award: Product Hunt, “#2 Fintech of the Week”
2022
• Article: ABC7 News, “Bay Area startup addresses gender, racial disparities by helping educate women on finance”
• WINNER: Women in Innovation: General Innovations Award
• Talk: YCombinator, “YC Women Founders Summit”
• Talk: Elpha x Volley, “Women at Startups Panel”
• WINNER: 2022 INSPIRING FINTECH FEMALES by NYC Fintech Women
• Award: Fintech Magazine, “Top 100 Women in Fintech”
• WTFintech Podcast: “How Vrinda Gupta is Building Financial Equity Through Sequin Finance”
• Talk: Fintech is Femme
• Talk: YCombinator, “Women Engineers in Startups”
• Talk: University of California, Riverside
• Humans of Fintech Podcast: “How Vrinda Gupta is Building Financial Equity Through Sequin Finance”
• COVER STORY: Fintech Magazine: “Women and Wealth: Managing Our Financial Future”
• Her First 100K: Financial Feminist Podcast: “What Credit Card Companies Don’t Want You To Know With Former Visa Credit Expert Vrinda Gupta”
• Women in Innovation Podcast: “Credit is Access to Opportunity”
• Article: Mooch, “Fintech Founders: Vrinda Gupta of Sequin”
• Investor Mama Podcast: “Credit Inequalities Against Women and How to Combat Them with Vrinda Gupta”
• Seed Stories Podcast: “Sequin - "The Debit Card that Builds Credit for Women.”
• Earn & Invest Podcast: “Reversing the Hidden Cost of being a Woman w/ Vrinda Gupta”
•Article: This Week in Fintech, “Women's History Month”
• Talk: Ladies Get Paid, “Bust Credit Myths With A Visa Credit Expert”
• Top 100 Companies: On Deck, “On Deck’s Top 100 Companies of 2022”
• Article: Elpha, “Why I view being an underrepresented founder as my superpower”
• Article: The Sun, “I got denied for credit – so I’ve launched a card to help boost women’s scores”
• Article: FinTech Magazine, “Credit crunch: Sequin CEO Vrinda Gupta talks female finance”
• Article: Apartment Therapy, “How to Make Financial Wellness a Form of Self-Care, According to a Financial Expert”
• Article: Bankrate, “The history of women and credit cards”
• Article: CardRates.com, “Sequin Debit Card Empowers Women to Build Credit and Help Close the Financial Gender Gap”
• Course: Stanford, “Redesigning Finance”
• Course: Ladies Get Paid, “Bust Credit Myths With A Visa Credit Expert”
• Brydge Club by Ruffin Mitchener: “Visa PM rejected by card she helped launch, raises $5.7M for Sequin”
2021
• Talk: Berkeley Haas Alumni Network, HaasX 2021
• Talk: SXSW Gender Equality, SXSW Conference
• Talk: The Female Quotient, Equality Lounge® In Commemoration of Equal Pay Day
• Talk: Lean In USC
• Talk: Lean In Brown
• Talk: Haas Women in Leadership, “Story Salon: Stories in Leadership, Challenging the Status Quo, and the “Road Less Traveled””
• Talk: Future Females North America
• Paradigm Shift Podcast: “Vrinda Gupta, founder/CEO of Sequin, on why she started a company to help women build credit, approach to building a new financial services product, and opportunities for more personalization”
• Post: YCombinator, “Sequin empowers women to build credit and earn rewards.”
• Article: Forbes, “Debit Card Startup Which Builds Credit For Women Raises $5.7 Million In Total Funding”
•Article: TechCrunch, “Here are all the companies from Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day”
•Article: Bustle, “Meet The CEO Changing The Financial World For Women”
• Article: American Banker, “Will new credit building products work as promised?”
• Article: Payments Journal, “Credit Cards and Credit Scores: Do Rebuilders Help?”
• Article: Fortune Termsheet, “When startup exits aren’t such good news”
• Article: Axios Pro Rata
• Article: This Week in Fintech (7/30)
• Article: Fintech 🧠 Food, “Fintech 🧠 Food - 26 Sep 2021 - Truelayer $130m raise, Airwallex $200m, and why Chase is going all-in on cloud-based core banking”
2020
• Adulthood Pending Podcast: “Empowering Women through Building and Demystifying Credit with Sequin Founder Vrinda Gupta”
• Reimagined Podcast: “Vrinda Gupta: Reimagining Credit Cards for Women.”
• Sequin Podcast: “Sequin Sistas: A safe space to learn about credit scores/cards/and everything in between.”
• Article: Dorm Room Fund, “The Future is Female: Why We Funded Sequin”
• Article: The Startup, “Six Women MBAs Rewriting the Rules of Business”
• Article: Slope Agency, “Slope Interview Series: Vrinda Gupta, Sequin”
• Talk: Women In Product
• Talk: Lift Her Wealth, “The Hidden Costs of Being a Woman”
• Talk: Young, Not Broke, “Credit Power Hour w/ Vrinda Gupta of Sequin”
• Talk: CardCon
• Talk: Women in Fintech
• Talk: MissCEO, “What Every Woman Needs to Know About Building Credit”
• Talk: IDEO
2019
• Article: Washington Post, “Can a credit card be sexist?”
• Article: CreditCards.Com, “New credit card aims to beat the pink tax with targeted rewards”
• Article: The Fast Company
• Article: “Why I’m Building Sequin”