Leo Beck

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Associate at Kiteline Ventures · Fintech · due diligence, board work

Kiteline Ventures
Denver, CO · MT (UTC-7)
4+ years experience
Virginia Tech
English, Hindi
AdvisingInvesting
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Overview

4 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Led or co-led 10 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later. Backed 53 founders at pre-seed and seed. Previously at Visa. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in employment law
  • Advice on employment law
  • Second opinions on board work decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on hardware
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Offshore staffing offers

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
venture capitaldue diligencehardwareboard work
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for first-time founders: fintech and hardware

Topics
employment law, hardware, venture capital
Format
Office hours
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

4 years of fintech. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Denver, CO · remote OKventure capitalboard workdue diligence
Open
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $250k cheques into pre-seed fintech in LatAm

Cheque size
$250k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Employment law
Geographies
US and Europe
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Typically lead or co-lead. We reply to every founder.

Denver, COventure capitalhardwareboard work
Open

Experience

  1. Associate
    Dec 2023 - Present
    Kiteline Ventures · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
    • Negotiated 596 commercial agreements a year.
    • Secured 7 payments licences.
  2. Finance Director
    Oct 2022 - Dec 2023
    Visa · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
    • Closed the books in 5 days, down from 18.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 7 straight quarters.

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Education

  1. Virginia Tech
    BS, Finance
    2017 - 2021

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