Podcast: Jake and Sheel on Venture Unlocked, Ep.100
Jake and Sheel on Investing in fintech, fund construction, and fundraising lessons
Jake Gibson
Why We Invested in Yave
⬅️Originally published by Jake on LinkedIn here.
Psyched to take the lid off an exciting company in LatAm: Yave!
Yave is effectively Rocket Mortgage + Blend + more, for the Mexican real estate market.
We co-led the investment along with our friends from MetaProp, as well as a number of notable proptech
Why We Invested in LogRock
⬅️Originally published by Jake on LinkedIn here.
Very excited to announce our investment in LogRock!
By offering safety and compliance software to trucking companies and collecting data such as driver qualification files, preventative maintenance filings, and violation history, LogRock reduces trucking companies' risk associated with fines that follow Department
Podcast: Jake on Early Days, Ep.7
Jake Gibson, co-founder of NerdWallet, shares the story of how messing around with a friend to fix a problem getting a credit card scaled into a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ.
Thoughts on the Market, from 1Q22
🔃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 1Q22 update, which went out right after the market puked because of inflation, interest rate hikes, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It
TechCrunch: Better Tomorrow Ventures closes on $225M fintech-focused fund, which is triple the size of its last fund
BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners. That experience, in the pair’s view, gives them an edge in a very competitive investment environment.
Business Insider: Meet NerdWallet's other co-founder, who left the company in 2014 to focus on being a dad. He's now an investor and has his own VC firm.
Gibson co-founded NerdWallet with Tim Chen in 2009 and was the company's COO until he left in 2014.