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Brett Austin Cooper

Cash rules everything around me

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2021

  • Staff Product Manager

    2022

    Get paid as you work

  • Lead Product Manager

    2021 - 2022

  • Investor

    2020

    rali_cap invests in foundational fintech infrastructure -- the data, payment and communication startups accelerating scalable, multi-market financial services.

  • Senior Product Manager

    2021 - 2021

    Join one of the world's most downloaded direct-to-consumer digital lending applications and led the development of new products globally (Kenya, Nigeria, and India) as the company evolved into a full-service digital bank.

  • Product Manager

    2019 - 2021

2017 - 2019

  • Product/Chief of Staff

    2017 - 2019

    Smile ID is Africa's leading identity verification solution having provided over 150 million identity verifications. As one of the earliest employees, I did a little bit of everything: product, biz dev, expansion, and general support of the C-suite.

2016 - 2017

  • Strategy and Finance Manager

    2016 - 2017

    Worked with a Rwandan food and beverage company on finance, strategy, and international expansion

2015 - 2016

  • Product Analytics and Finance Manager

    2015 - 2016

    Led analytics and finance functions for an emerging market mobile CRM startup.

2015 - 2015

  • Design Consultant

    2015 - 2015

    Led a design sprint for Indian microfinance bank (Utkarsh Small Finance Bank)

2013 - 2015

  • Manager, Valuation Services

    2013 - 2015

    Valuations of all kinds (stock options, venture holdings, exotics assets, and more).

2010 - 2013

  • Senior Associate

    2010 - 2013

    Due diligence, M&A support, and valuations (nitty-gritty accounting and finance projects)