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Mickias Hailu

Operator | FinTech Investor | HBS

New York City Metropolitan Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2023

  • Head of Finance

    2023

  • FinTech Consultant

    2023

    FinTech & Financial Services projects, Startup Advisor, Market Intelligence, Investor Sourcing

2021 - 2022

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

    +$1B Global FinTech-focused fund: Seed, Series A and B Board observer: Albert, Atomic, Alpaca Investments: Albert, Atomic, Alpaca, Pearler, stealth payments

  • Rock Venture Partner, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship

    2020 - 2021

    Investment Committee for HBS Rock Accelerator Program Advise startups via board positions

  • Investor

    2020 - 2021

2020 - 2020

  • Partnerships/New Products

    2020 - 2020

    Series C digital health startup backed by Deerfield, Google Ventures & Founders Fund. On-demand EMT/Paramedic network and telehealth solution that delivers healthcare (i.e. urgent care services, COVID testing) to underserved and elderly populations.

2014 - 2019

  • M&A and Strategic Ventures

    2016 - 2019

    Venture investments: Homee (Series B), Cape Analytics (Series B), Flock (acq. Paychex), Coterie, StrongArm Tech $6 billion in M&A transactions: $2b for Navigators (Global Specialty business), $1.5b for Aetna's Group Benefits Business, $2b for Talcott Resolution (Wealth mgmt runoff), $200m for Foremost (Farmers Small Business) Strategy/Internal Consulting work: Hypothesis-driven strategic initiative presentations, Market research and presentations, Quarterly Board of Directors presentations, Competitive Intelligence, Startup/disruptive company research

  • LDP Analyst: Wealth Management Strategy / Finance

    2015 - 2016

  • LDP Analyst: IT Finance

    2014 - 2015

    Support $300 million IT invest Project portfolio for Commercial Businesses Helped to streamline IT expense allocation process to ensure accuracy and efficiency Introduced an improved variance analysis technique to communicate to business customers