Jason David Cho

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Founder & CEO at Verge Logistics | ex-EY

Verge Logistics
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
8+ years experience
Harvard Business School
English
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Verge Logistics (B2B payments). 8 years of building before that. Grew the team to 48 people across 5 countries. Raised $16 million across 3 rounds. Most at home with fundraising and product. I teach a weekend class on fundraising.

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Skills
fundraisingproductB2B salesfintech
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $750k Series A for cross-border payouts for pharmacies

Stage
Series A
Raising
$750k
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
$870k from an existing fund
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
218 paying customers after 20 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

218 paying customers after 20 months. Looking for investors who know energy and can help with pricing.

Seattle, WAfundraisingproductb2b sales
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    May 2024 - Present
    Verge Logistics · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Raised $29 million across 3 rounds.
    • Grew the team to 66 people across 2 countries.
    • Took Verge Logistics from zero to $4 million ARR.
  2. Consultant
    May 2021 - Jan 2024
    EY · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Delivered 27 engagements across 5 countries.
  3. Associate Partner
    Jul 2019 - May 2021
    Lyft · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 16 a week to 2.
  4. Engagement Manager
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
    HP · 9 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Ran commercial diligence on 35 deals.

Projects

Write-up: B2B payments in practice
2024

A long-form guide to B2B payments for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Harvard Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2018 - 2020
  2. Penn State
    BS, Business Administration
    2013 - 2017

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