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Rachel Lauren

COO and Co-Founder @ Debbie, Former VC @ BDMI

New York City Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $3,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder, COO/Growth

    2021

    Building the first app to offer cash rewards for positive financial behavior, and learning how to build a company for the first time. Experience includes: -Growing to tens of thousands of users -Landing financial institution partnerships -Raising over $2m in capital -Just general "getting stuff done"

  • VC Investor

    2019 - 2021

    Sourced investment in Extra, Zephr (exited to Zuora), Astra, Infinite Objects, Stix, Gravity AI, Certa, and Fursure. Assisted in Flip investment.

2020 - 2021

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2021

2018 - 2019

  • TMT Equity Research Associate (Software)

    2018 - 2019

    Software - Cybersecurity (TMT) -Covered large cap public software companies -Performed employee, partner/reseller, and customer due diligence -Published interviews with cybersecurity companies to better inform public investors of various technology -Conducted financial statement analysis to aid in financial modeling

2018 - 2018

  • Business Development/Account Manager

    2018 - 2018

    -Focused on building sales pipeline for clients, including go-to market strategy as well as lead sourcing -Systematized client onboarding, making sure to understand the client’s business model, messaging, and needs

2017 - 2018

  • TAMID National Venture Director

    2017 - 2018

2016 - 2016

  • Valuation Intern

    2016 - 2016

    FMV is one of the nation’s preeminent valuation and M&A advisory firms, offering a broad range of financial advisory services to private and public companies, and their advisors. -Assisted in building financial models for the purpose of valuing small, privately-owned companies -Analyzed financial statements in order to draw conclusions about the operations of target firms -Prepared comprehensive industry reports using research from IBISWorld, CapitalIQ, and various news sources

2015 - 2016

  • Fintech Advisory/Venture Capital Analyst

    2015 - 2016

    Anthemis Group is a Financial Services advisory and investment firm, focusing on Fintech innovation. Notable investments include eToro, Betterment, Fidor Bank, eShares, and Blueleaf. -Conducted commercial and technical startup due diligence projects for financial services clients -Assisted in creation of internal startup knowledge database as well as CRM solutions to maintain as intellectual assets and track clients -Tracked data on European FinTech ecosystem (accelerators, VC’s, etc.) to locate potential partnerships