Michael Vaughan
@michael_vaughan
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Co-founder & GP @VeraEquity and Operating Partner @stripesco_; Former COO @Venmo
Philadelphia, PA
Joined January 2009
Congrats @TheTakach @HelsonTaveras and the whole @Keep_Card team on the fundraising and the incredible business & product you're building for 3 million Canadian SMBs that have only had access to inadequate financial tools. Until Now! Proud to be a supporter since the early days.
1/ Today is a huge day. We raised $108M CAD in equity and debt to rebuild Canadian business banking from the ground up. Here’s why this matters 🧵👇
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Proud to see @Simple_Closure on the @FastCompany Top 50 Most Innovative Companies list! They've built the 'TurboTax of shutting down' and are helping founders move forward faster. https://t.co/AfYMHxDbEu
fastcompany.com
The failure rate for new businesses is high. SimpleClosure has a platform that streamlines the task of shutting down a startup.
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Wrote an article about waking up on a random day and finding out Facebook was building a Tinder competitor. Our stock fell by 20% in hours... it was one of the strangest work days of my life. https://t.co/7HgceabXWu
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Say hello to Alpha: your investing co-pilot powered by @OpenAI’s GPT-4. Get real-time and historical market data in a natural language interface. On demand. Go ahead. Start a conversation about any asset you care about. https://t.co/glP1DraHmJ
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Pumped to soon release this collab w @drsnow and @snowagencyco with @Get_Fondue that quantatively measures the top 75 Shopify plus brands welcome series. Jon gives a sneak peak to it below https://t.co/OW9TVYT5Fc…
The Welcome Series is the most critical part of any retention marketing account. Releasing a report w/ @OCharnoff & @Get_Fondue. We analyzed 75 of the top Shopify Plus brands' welcome series’ first emails📩 Below is a sneak peek at some of the data that'll be in the report👇
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Sharing some big news today: - We’ve launched a $100M community-backed accelerator to fund people as early as pre-company - We provide $25K advances for people to quit their job and explore whether they want to start a company - Now Co-CEO at On Deck https://t.co/iif1L4pqHV
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BNSMPL (Buy Now Save Money Pay Later) @getpriceapp now integrated with @AfterpayUSA
https://t.co/8O1SAUOZij
price.com
Price.com is excited to announce its partnership with Afterpay to provide millions of products to customers with buy now, pay later payment plans!
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All @unit_co_ does is 🛳️
0/ List of things @unit_co_ shipped in the last few months. PS- we have a new website + new docs. And we just made all the following public: - Changelog: https://t.co/lXku1fCYMW - Features: https://t.co/QmdlQEYsVZ - Roadmap: https://t.co/WXfpU9QXid 👇
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Exploring startup ideas alone is hard. But the search cost is high to find co-explorers. That's why I'm excited to launch Groundwork, an invite-only community for -1 to 0 founders to explore ideas by building together. https://t.co/r4v9B01prU What and why 👇
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Awesome to see technology solving real problems and improving lives! Excited for @napsel and @HiMorty team and proud to be supporting them! https://t.co/27ixBKsUVA
blog.morty.com
Announcing Morty's $25M Series B fundraise. This money will be used to grow the business and further our mission to democratize access to home financing.
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Respect.
Drop 002 — Helpful VCs Investors have 5 hours to verify and claim their NFT by tweeting it out… if they don’t, it goes to auction. Not a VC? Retweet this tweet for a chance to win a Helpful Analyst! https://t.co/FdYWjtC8KX
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They're hiring across a bunch of open roles as well. This is a chance to join a 🚀 https://t.co/SGD4PVim0k
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Real-time money movement shouldn’t be that hard or expensive. @StephKirkpat and the @hello_orum team are fixing this! Excited for @Accel and @CanapiVentures to come on board! 🚀 https://t.co/jFIeOxY0wN
techcrunch.com
Orum, which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced today it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of
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Imagine the possibilities! Launch new banking products in minutes (not months). No fintech experience required. @itaidamti @somdoron and the @unit_co_ team are building product and onboarding clients at a ridiculous clip! 🚀 Awesome to have @Accel @amitku on board!
Excited to announce we raised a $51M Series B led by @Accel and the launch of Unit Go to empower companies to build banking products in minutes! 🚀 Read more here: https://t.co/PRvO7ah6m8
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Excited to be supporting @nicosimko @kosteckia @ErichNussbaumer on this journey alongside @gimmedadeetz @upfrontvc @kareemszaki @ThriveCapital
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Here's @getclair's crazy idea: get paid today for what you earned today. And don't pay egregious fees for this "privilege". 🤯 https://t.co/dMjgexvSp1
techcrunch.com
The world seems to move faster every year, and yet, nothing feels slower than the speed by which paychecks get distributed. In the United States, work
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Do you ever wonder why your investment options are so limited in your retirement accounts? It doesn't have to be this way! Congrats @ericsatz and @alto_ira team on the raise! Huge fan (and satisfied customer) and now excited to be an investor as well! https://t.co/YZmqSzVJRp
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Finally, you can buy stock like any other online purchase! No more waiting several days for your ACH transfer to clear. Kudos to @public for continuing to drag the brokerage industry (kicking and screaming) into the 21st century!
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