Rory Eakin
Co-Founder, Board of Directors @ CircleUp
San Francisco, United States
Rory Eakin is a seed investor at CircleUp in San Francisco focused on Banking and FinTech. Rory has supported entrepreneurs nearly all his career, most recently as Director of Investments at Humanity United, part of the Omidyar family enterprises. At Humanity United, he invested in small businesses and social enterprises to stimulate job creation and promote stability in fragile economies. He began his career at a startup providingfinancial training to small businesses in Cape Town, South Africa. Rory is a former consultant with The Boston Consulting Group.Rory received his MBA from Stanford as well as a public policy degree from Princeton. He holds Series 24, 63, and 82 licenses, and enjoys listening to weekend NPR quiz shows a little too much.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Rory Eakin invests in
Stages Rory Eakin invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Banking 1 (100%)
- FinTech 1 (100%)
- Finance 1 (100%)
- Lending 1 (100%)
- Blockchain 1 (100%)
Investments
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Jia
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Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.3M / Seed / Apr 26, 2023 |
Co-Investors
About CircleUp
CircleUp is an investment platform that provides capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands with a modern, scalable approach to private markets. CircleUp is comprised of internally-managed equity funds, a credit program, and an Insights and Connections team - all powered by Helio, CircleUp's proprietary machine learningplatform. Helio collects and analyzes billions of data points to evaluates 1.3 million consumer businesses and predict future business success.
CircleUp Contacts
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Aditi Dashputre
Partner
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Ben Lee
Investment Committee, CircleUp Funds
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Karen Howland
Managing Director
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Patrick Robinson
Managing Director
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Rory Eakin
Co-Founder, Board of Directors
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What does Rory Eakin invest in?
Rory Eakin invests primarily in Banking, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed stage. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Rory Eakin closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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