Opportunity Unlocked

Co-Founder & CEO of Clearco Andrew D'Souza - Supporting Highly Diverse Founders, Revelations from Moving to Silicon Valley After Consulting, Finding a Problem You Have a Passion for Solving

April 26, 2021 Noah Ifergan Season 2 Episode 1
Opportunity Unlocked
Co-Founder & CEO of Clearco Andrew D'Souza - Supporting Highly Diverse Founders, Revelations from Moving to Silicon Valley After Consulting, Finding a Problem You Have a Passion for Solving
Show Notes

LinkedIn: Andrew D'Souza

Andrew D’Souza is the co-founder & CEO of Clearbanc, the biggest ecommerce investor in the world. Clearbanc has invested $1.6 billion into 4,000+ ecommerce and software companies using data science to identify high-growth funding opportunities in less than 24 hours. This data-driven approach takes the bias out of decision making and helped fund 8x more female founders than traditional VC. Andrew has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital and is an adviser and investor to companies such as WealthSimple, Properly, and Tulip Retail. Prior to Clearbanc, Andrew was the president of Nymi, a wearable platform focussed on identity and security and the COO of education startup, TopHat. Andrew began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company after receiving his degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

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