Oliver Woods

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Co-founder & CTO, Verge Works - content · growth · education

Verge Works
Philadelphia, PA · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
Boston University
English
Raising
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Overview

Co-founder & CTO of Verge Works, working on edtech. Took Verge Works from zero to $4 million ARR. Most at home with mobile and content.

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Skills
mobilegrowthcontenteducation
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Seed round open - payroll for cloud-native startups, $8M ARR

Stage
Seed
Raising
$8M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$412k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
$8M ARR after 16 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$8M ARR after 16 months. Looking for investors who know proptech and can help with pricing.

Philadelphia, PA · remote OKeducationcontentmobile
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Verge Works · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
    • Signed 255 paying customers, 5 of them enterprises.
  2. Director of Product
    Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
    UnitedHealth Group · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Grew creator revenue from $3 million to $14 million ARR.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
    Meta · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Launched the creator product in 3 markets.
    • Ran 153 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
    Nike · 9 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Ran 187 customer interviews before writing the first spec.

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Education

  1. Boston University
    BS, Computer Science
    2013 - 2017

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