Distinguished Young Alumni Award

Nick Grassi


Cofounder, Finerio
GLS ’12

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Nick Grassi Bio



Nick Grassi (GLS ’12) is the cofounder of Finerio, the first automated platform empowering over 200,000 Latinos to take control of their personal finances in Mexico and other Latin American countries.

Finerio has appeared in Forbes, TechCrunch, and Entrepreneur, and won first place as the most important startup in Mexico in the Everis Prize out of over 800 entrants. Finerio has saved over $40 million dollars per year for its users, reached over 5,000,000 people with its educational content, becoming the number one personal finance blog in Mexico, and was named the top educational Fintech by CitiBanamex in Mexico.

Grassi studied Global Liberal Studies at NYU as part of the inaugural class of 2012. He spent his entire junior year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, while working with an NGO specializing in microfinance for cooperative owned businesses. He later did his thesis on how cooperative owned businesses could provide a blueprint for a new international microfinance model to help micro-entrepreneurs around the globe achieve larger impact.

Upon graduation, Grassi went to work for Santander Bank in Madrid, Spain and Oslo, Norway, working to help consumers access credit across Europe. Later, he returned to New York and San Francisco to work with the Swedish Trade and Invest Council to help over 50 different small and medium businesses to enter into the U.S. market as a consultant. He received the Fulbright award to go to Mexico, doing work on his MBA at the ITAM University and working with Deloitte Consulting to help them begin their Financial Technology practice in Mexico City. Upon seeing the great need for financial literacy, he and his business partner started Finerio with the mission of helping millions of people make better decisions with their money.


INDUSTRY: Finance

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