Louis Carbonnier, co-CEO, and co-founder of Hokodo, a B2B BNPL or trade finance solution, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about innovative digital approaches in trade financing, supporting SMEs, and commerce overall.


Here is what they talked about:

• Louis' background: why become an entrepreneur?

• What does Hokodo provide? What’s the problem you are solving? Why trade financing?

• What’s different between Hokodo and other trade financing providers? You also call yourself a BNPL for SMEs – do you work like BNPLs in the consumer space?

• What’s your technology angle?

• What are your plans for scaling up and perhaps expanding the product range?

• You serve SMEs – what sectors do you focus on, and what’s your outlook for the rest of this year, given the challenging global economic environment?

• Where are your clients?

• How do you make money? 

• How big is your team, and where are you based?

• How did you get going and acquire the first customers when you first started?

• What’s your favorite business book? The hard thing about hard things (of course!) by Ben Horowitz and Empowered by Marty Cagan

• What’s the best way to reach out: louis@hokodo.co or LinkedIn