Christine Dean

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Co-founder & CTO at Copper Finance · Developer tooling · Rust, product

Copper Finance
Raleigh, NC · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
Georgia Tech
English, Mandarin
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Copper Finance (developer tooling). 19 years of building before that. Grew the team to 34 people across 4 countries. Previously built and sold a small developer tooling company. Before that: Workday and VMware. Most at home with Rust and developer tools. I tinker with 3D printers.

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developer toolsRustcommunityopen sourceSaaSproduct
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $6M seed for clinical documentation for European fintechs

Stage
Seed
Raising
$6M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
22% month-on-month growth after 17 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

22% month-on-month growth after 17 months. Looking for investors who know payments and can help with expansion into LatAm.

Raleigh, NCproductcommunitydeveloper tools
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Copper Finance · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Signed 259 paying customers, 24 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $24 million across 3 rounds.
    • Grew the team to 82 people across 2 countries.
  2. Product Manager
    Jul 2021 - Sep 2024
    Workday · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Grew creator revenue from $2 million to $36 million ARR.
    • Launched the creator product in 10 markets.
  3. Associate Product Manager
    Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
    VMware · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new creator customers from 14 days to 1.
    • Launched the creator product in 5 markets.
  4. Director of Product
    Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
    Amazon · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Took creator activation from 24% to 42% in three quarters.
    • Ran 172 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  5. Director of Product
    Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
    Stripe · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Launched the creator product in 6 markets.

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Education

  1. Georgia Tech
    BS, Engineering
    2003 - 2007

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