Christina Nelson

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Principal at Driftwood Venture Partners | ex-Stripe

Driftwood Venture Partners
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
6+ years experience
Harvard Business School
English
Investing
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Overview

Principal at Driftwood Venture Partners, backing fintech companies. Sit on 4 boards. Previously at Stripe.

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  • Founders building in fintech
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  • Working sessions on venture capital
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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
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InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into pre-seed fintech in North America

Cheque size
$100k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Fintech, B2B SaaS
Geographies
India
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

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Experience

  1. Principal
    May 2022 - Present
    Driftwood Venture Partners · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
    • Sit on 3 boards.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2020 - May 2022
    Stripe · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Backed 59 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 31 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.

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Education

  1. Harvard Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2019 - 2021
  2. University of Florida
    BS, Business Administration
    2015 - 2019

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