Podcast: Sheel and Jake on the I/O Pod, Ep. 9
The Kings of Fintech | How NerdWallet's Jake Gibson and Sheel Mohnot Are Funding The Next Generation
Jake Gibson
The Lost Art of “F*ck Around and Find Out”
⬅️Article originally published here by our friends at This Week in Fintech
In its first year in 2009, NerdWallet made $75. The second year, that rose to about $60,000. In the first nine months of 2023, the company generated $465.7 million in revenue.
That exponential rise in fortunes
The Startup Community Must Shake Off Its Funding ‘Shell-Shock’
People tend to think of startups as creating something from nothing, but it’s more like finding order in chaos...
Why We Invested in Caliza
⬅️Originally published by Jake on LinkedIn here.
We’re excited to be partnered up with Caliza!
Alongside our friends at Abstract Ventures, QED Investors, RaliCap, and a number of international fintech founders, we're thrilled to help build the future of international fintech infrastructure.
I’m a strong believer
Why We Invested in Charlie
⬅️Originally posted by Jake on LinkedIn here.
Very excited to announce our investment in Charlie! Financial services for retirees.
At Better Tomorrow Ventures, we feel as though the vast majority of founders, including in fintech, tend to build products for people who look like themselves.
That's why we
Thoughts on the Market, from 4Q22
🔃In our quarterly LP updates, we try to put together some insightful thoughts on the market, our firm, or the general fintech world. This was our 4Q22 update, after a very long year of interest rate hikes. Venture investors had largely pulled out of the market, too busy licking their
Why We Invested in Portão 3
⬅️Originally published by Jake on LinkedIn here.
Excited to announce our investment in Portão 3 (YC S21)!
Cash flow management tools are known to provide value to businesses of all sizes, helping regulate their financial health and cash position.
As we evaluated the opportunity to invest in Portão 3, we