Can AI Replace Financial Advisors? The Future of Fintech, Fundraising & Money | Laura Cornely

📅 August 13, 2026

About This Episode

What happens when financial advice meets AI?

In this episode of Nothing Ventured, host Aarish Shah sits down with Laura Cornely, CEO & Co-Founder of Count, the UK’s automated financial advisor, to explore the future of fintech, financial advice and startup investing.

Laura shares how Count is using technology to help people manage their money, build budgets, create rainy day funds and invest through personalised financial strategies.

They discuss:

– Can AI and automation replace human financial advisors?
– Why financial advice needs a human touch
– Building the UK’s automated financial advisor
– The FCA sandbox and navigating fintech regulation
– Why Laura and her husband chose to build a startup together
– Fundraising, dilution and startup runway in 2026
– Why founders need to think differently about venture capital
– The changing fintech investment landscape
– AI, defensibility and what makes a startup truly difficult to copy
– Whether technology is actually making our lives easier

Laura also explains why she believes technology may have peaked in making our lives easier and why human connection could become even more valuable in an increasingly AI-driven world.

If you're interested in fintech, AI, financial advice, venture capital, startup fundraising, FCA regulation, investing and the future of technology, this episode is not to be missed.

Nothing Ventured explores the people, ideas and businesses shaping the venture ecosystem.

Find Laura Cornely online at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-cornely-505083198/?locale=en
Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/count_app/
Count Finance: https://count-finance.com

This episode is sponsored by EmergeOne, fractional CFOs for venture backed tech startups from Seed to Series B.

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