Latoya Taylor Jackson

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Principal at Evergreen Seed Fund | ex-Capital One

Evergreen Seed Fund
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
7+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English, Hindi
InvestingAdvising
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Overview

7 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Previously an operator for 6 years before investing. Sit on 2 boards. Before that: Capital One and Accenture. Bird-watcher and amateur naturalist.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in fintech
  • Advice on fintech
  • Second opinions on due diligence decisions
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Fund-of-funds solicitations
  • Crypto token projects

Replies on weekends

Skills
due diligenceboard workventure capitalbiotech
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into pre-seed fintech in the Nordics

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Fintech
Geographies
US and Europe
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Usually the first cheque in. Decisions within 1 weeks.

Seattle, WAboard workventure capitaldue diligence
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for first-time founders: fintech and biotech

Topics
fintech, due diligence, venture capital
Format
Calls
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

7 years of fintech. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Seattle, WAbiotechdue diligenceboard work
Open

Experience

  1. Principal
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Evergreen Seed Fund · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Sit on 7 boards.
    • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
    • Backed 20 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
    Capital One · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 354ms to 88ms.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2021 - Jul 2023
    Accenture · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 326ms to 113ms.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
    Nike · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 35% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Engineering
    2020 - 2022
  2. Penn State
    BS, Engineering
    2014 - 2018

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