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Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$1,000,000.00Target Investment:
$500,000.00
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Lists including Michael
Investments
SimpleClosure
Total Funding: $6M
Salt Labs
Total Funding: $18M
Maplerad
Total Funding: $6M
Flip
Total Funding: $380M
Tandym
Total Funding: $10M
Keep Technologies
Total Funding:
Imburse
Total Funding: $14M
Jerry
Total Funding: $220M
Price.com
Total Funding: $14M
Stitch
Total Funding: $35M
Remagine
Total Funding: $24M
Rho
Total Funding: $95M
TaxBit
Total Funding: $240M
Momentum
Total Funding: $18M
Lunchbox Technologies
Total Funding: $72M
Unit21
Total Funding: $92M
Clair
Total Funding: $45M
Overflow
Total Funding: $33M
Lendtable
Total Funding: $23M
Orum.io
Total Funding: $82M
Solid
Total Funding: $18M
Mesh Payments
Total Funding: $63M
Unit.co
Total Funding:
SPRX
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Work Experience
2021
Co-Founder and General Partner (GP)
2021
Vera Equity is an early stage venture capital firm backing awesome entrepreneurs and innovative ideas at the pre-seed and seed stages. Vera offers founders not just access to capital, but also operations advisory and connections to transformative talent. The firm’s first fund has a US-focused fintech strategy, serving as a playbook for future expansion across sectors.
2022
Operating Partner
2022
As an Operating Partner, I'm focusing on the global fintech sector across both consumer and enterprise software.
2019
Mentor to Startup Founder/CEOs
2019
I've had the privilege to mentor several great founders and be part of this amazing community that First Round has created.
2019 - 2023
Board Member
2019 - 2023
2019 - 2022
Venture Partner
2019 - 2022
2020 - 2021
Board Member
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
Board Member
2019 - 2020
Served as an independent board member until Square acquired the company in June 2020.
2013 - 2019
Venmo, Chief Operating Officer
2013 - 2019
2011 - 2019
Chief Operating Officer
2011 - 2019
As COO at Venmo for 8+ years, I helped lead the business from the ground floor to 40+ million active users, $300 million revenue annual run rate and a forecast of $100 billion in payments in 2019. Venmo has been recognized by Fortune as a global breakthrough brand, by TIME as a Top 50 App, by Fast Company as one of the Most Innovative Companies in Finance and Social Media and consistently ranks in the top 20 of all free apps in the iOS App Store. After I joined the five-person Venmo team in 2011, we were acquired by Braintree in 2012 and then by PayPal in 2013 as part of the $800 million Braintree deal. Venmo was originally venture backed by Accel, RRE, Greycroft and Lerer among others.
2008 - 2011
Vice President of Business Development & Sales
2008 - 2011
Grew revenue 850% cumulatively over three years to gain the #7 spot on the 2011 Philadelphia 100 list of fastest growing private companies in addition to a spot on the 2011 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies nationwide.