Andrew McCormack

General Partner

2010 - Current

Founding Partner at Valar Ventures, a fintech-focused, NYC-based venture capital firm. Investments include Xero, Transferwise, N26, Stash, Qonto, BlockFi, Octane, Moss, Kuda, Point, Neo Financial, Syfe, Bitpanda, Velocity, Starship, Jetty, Coya, Bestow, Petal, TaxFix, Albo, Bukuwarung, Bank Novo, Parker, Majority, Portofino, Shares, Hatch, Vauld, Syfe, ShopUp, XanPool, Yellow Card, Breather, EyeEm, Even, Kalo, Homie, Dinda, Granify, Vend, ContaAzul.

Principal

2008 - 2013

Special projects at Peter Thiel’s multi‐strategy, global-asset-management firm.

Founder & CEO

2003 - 2008

Sprezzatura Restaurant Group created and operated two restaurants in San Francisco: Frisson and Laiola.

Operations

2002 - 2003

Left eBay with Peter Thiel following the acquisition of PayPal to help set up Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund. Managed Clarium’s start up operations.

Assistant to CEO

2001 - 2002

Assisted Peter Thiel, then CEO of PayPal, with corporate development and management functions. Worked directly with senior management to create the investor presentation for PayPal’s IPO road show. Attended and coordinated all meetings for the IPO and secondary offering road shows. Coordinated all Board of Directors meetings. Worked with PayPal’s VP Business Development to develop an effective lobbying strategy to address PayPal’s regulatory issues.

Business Development Associate - Yahoo! Latin America

2000 - 2001

Assisted the Director of Business Development for all of Yahoo! Inc.’s spanish language properties.

Business Development Associate

1999 - 2000