Heather Sanders

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Founder & CEO, Lantern Labs - consumer fintech · compliance · lending

Lantern Labs
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
Kellogg School of Management
English
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Lantern Labs, working on consumer finance. Took Lantern Labs from zero to $10 million ARR. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on compliance decisions
  • Questions about consumer finance
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Crypto token projects

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
lendingconsumer fintechcompliancegrowth
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $1M seed for tutoring for Indian SMBs

Stage
Seed
Raising
$1M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
$4M ARR after 29 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$4M ARR after 29 months. Looking for investors who know creator tools and can help with pricing.

New York, NYconsumer fintechlendingcompliance
Open
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Lantern Labs is hiring 3 product designers in New York

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$136k-$184k
Team
Founding team, 11 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Comfort with ambiguity
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $156k-$216k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

New York, NYcomplianceconsumer fintechgrowth
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Lantern Labs · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Took Lantern Labs from zero to $2 million ARR.
    • Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company.
    • Raised $27 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Senior Account Executive
    Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
    Atlassian · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Signed 25 channel partners that now source 28% of pipeline.
  3. Regional Sales Director
    Apr 2021 - Mar 2023
    EY · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Built the public sector team from 5 to 35 reps.
    • Opened 9 new logos over $5 million ACV in the region.
  4. Account Executive
    May 2019 - Apr 2021
    Workday · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shortened the public sector sales cycle from 7 months to 3.
    • Signed 16 channel partners that now source 16% of pipeline.
  5. Enterprise Account Executive
    Jun 2017 - Jan 2019
    Dropbox · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Signed 29 channel partners that now source 41% of pipeline.
    • Shortened the public sector sales cycle from 11 months to 5.

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Education

  1. Kellogg School of Management
    MBA, Business Administration
    2019 - 2021
  2. Duke University
    BS, Business Administration
    2013 - 2017

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