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Marco A. Casas

Executive Director Strategic Partnerships at Wells Fargo || Investor in fearless founders over the years

New York, New York

Angel
Investor

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $50,000.00

Education

Investments

Grata Data

Seed

Total Funding: $3.2M

Undock

Seed

Total Funding: $3.7M

Reflective

Seed

Total Funding: $2.3M

Alto Solutions

Seed

Total Funding: $68M

Alto IRA

Seed

Total Funding: $21M

Artiphon

Seed

Total Funding: $2M

E25Bio

Seed

Total Funding: $4.3M

Busy Beauty

Pre-Seed

Total Funding:

Mahmee

Seed

Total Funding: $15M

Podcorn

Seed

Total Funding: $2.2M

Civic Eagle

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Geospiza

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Whistler

Seed

Total Funding:

StoryFit

Early Stage VC

Total Funding: $7.8M

Gridwise

Seed

Total Funding: $31M

Work Experience

Wells Fargo

2023

  • Executive Director, Treasury Management & Payments Tech Partnerships

    2023

Various Startups

2016

  • Angel Investor & LP

    2016

    Supporting intrepid founders and emerging fund managers whenever I can. Investments include Awari (sold to Fluency Academy), Universal Standard, Republic, Aerflo, Ledn, Kolors, Quiltt, Mono, Brgd.app, AL’s NA Beer, Kuna Venture Partners, Waybury Capital, Rally Cap, among others.

Council on Foreign Relations

2020

  • Term Member

    2020

Marqeta

2022 - 2023

  • Sr Director, Strategic Partnerships - Fintech GTM

    2022 - 2023

American Express

2021 - 2022

  • Director & Chief of Staff, Strategic Partnerships - Enterprise Innovation Partners

    2022 - 2022

  • Sr Manager, BD & Partnerships - Merchant Strategy, Product, and Analytics

    2021 - 2022

Alumni Ventures

2018 - 2021

  • VC Senior Principal

    2018 - 2021

    - Recognized as one of Business Insider’s rising-star VCs in 2020 - Led investments for AV in Compass (NYSE: COMP), CoScreen (sold to Datadog), Downstream (sold to Jungle Scout), among others.

Various Banks

2007 - 2018

  • Earlier Career: Institutional Sales, Account Executive & Relationship Manager / Investment Banking

    2007 - 2018

    - SVP Institutional FICE Sales, ICBC Standard Bank. 2013-2018 - VP Institutional Equity Sales, Macquarie Capital. 2012-2013 - VP Institutional Equity Sales, Otkritie Capital. 2010-2013 - Associate Institutional Equity Sales. RenCap Securities. 2008-2009, 2009-2010 - Analyst Investment Banking. Renaissance Capital. 2007-2008

The Davis UWC Scholars Program

2003 - 2007

  • Davis UWC Scholar

    2003 - 2007