Charley M
Co-Founder @ Exponent Founders Capital, early stage investor + builder | ex Plaid, Ramp, Alloy
New York City Metropolitan Area
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$10,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000.00
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Co-Founder, Managing Partner
2021
EFC is a $123M fund focused on backing early founders with strong opinions. We’ve scaled multiple companies from $0 to $100M+ in revenue at companies such as Plaid, Robinhood, Ramp, Alloy, and more. For our founders, we are laser focused on supporting them from the earliest stages of that journey. exponentcap.co
2021
Growth Advisor
2023
Head of Growth
2022 - 2023
Alloy provides a command center for identity, helping companies make better decisions using a single API and dashboard to manage onboarding, transaction monitoring, credit underwriting, and much more. Focused on marketing, sales, new products, and corp dev for Alloy.
GM of Fintech
2021 - 2023
2022
Advisor
2022
2022
Product Advisory Board Member
2022
2020 - 2021
Head of Growth
2020 - 2021
Ramp is the only corporate card that helps companies spend less. Led Ramp’s revenue team as first head of growth from 0 clients to the fastest growing corporate card program in the US + NYC's fastest growing startup.
2015 - 2020
NYC GM
2018 - 2020
- restocked LaCroix (again) for our first NYC office - spent most of my day working with with my team on all things technical integrations + client growth, managing + expanding the NYC office, and building out our fintech community in NYC - site lead for combined NYC office of Plaid + Quovo (acquisition closed in Jan 2019) - launched Plaid in Canada, UK, EU - sold a lot more Plaid stuff
Fintech GTM
2016 - 2018
- built out sales team, lead fintech + developer sales - sold more Plaid stuff
Growth
2015 - 2016
- first business hire / employee #9, did a bunch of stuff including restocking a lot of LaCroix - sold some Plaid stuff
2014 - 2015
Integrated Payments Strategy Group
2014 - 2015
Developed and recommended strategy for JPMorganChase's C-level leadership, with a focus on emerging payments business models, fintech companies, and virtual currencies. Created initial strategy around digital currencies and led firmwide bitcoin & blockchain working group across JPMorgan Chase.
2012 - 2014
Product Management & Strategy, CIB New Product Development and Emerging Technologies
2012 - 2014
CIB New Product Development and Emerging Technologies CIB Strategy: Research and Development Led initial strategy around Bitcoin + blockchain for JPMChase. Built the next generation of technology products for JPMorgan with a team of product managers, data scientists, and engineers. Highlights included creating a machine-learning model to streamline sanctions screen process, launching a global trade network analysis product for liquidity + supply chain finance, and creating a cross-bank FIX API spec for fixed income dealer inventory.