Charlie Feng
Founder of Agora
Charlie Feng
Founder of Agora
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2022 - Current
Building the end-to-end governance platform for scaling protocols. DM me for any questions! Set up yourself here: agora.xyz
Steering Committee
2019
Chapter Leader for Canada The Operators Guild is home to the world’s best operators. Together, we're building the fastest-growing and most innovative companies in the world. We're a members-only community for CFOs, COOs, founders, entrepreneurs, biz ops, and finance leaders. We empower the best company builders in the world throughout their career journey by offering connection and knowledge share through our online forum, virtual events, and in-person meet-ups in 25+ cities worldwide. Learn more at operators-guild.com
Investor
2022
Investor
2021
FOG Ventures was created to invest and support innovative founders that are helping create toolbox 2.0 for the modern day operator. We’re backed by the world's top COOs & CFOs at tech’s most prominent startups. We do not just invest in what we believe in — as active operators, we’re investing in products we actually love and use. Send amazing teams/products our way: www.fog.ventures / deals@fog.ventures
Co-Founder
2016 - 2021
Our mission is to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs. Clearco is a fintech startup that provides founders and entrepreneurs with a suite of performance financing products & services tailor-made for founders in all stages of their journey. A pay-as-you-grow pioneer and the world’s largest ecommerce investor, our mission is to remove the barriers between brilliant ideas, and brilliant businesses. Clearco has invested $3+ billion into 5,000+ companies using data science to identify high-growth funding opportunities in less than 24 hours. This data-driven approach takes the bias out of decision making and helps Clearco fund 8x more female founders than traditional VCs across 6 countries. Clearco’s portfolio spans small businesses across the United States, Canada, UK, Australia and Netherlands to some of the biggest brands today, like unTUCKit, Vanity Planet, Andie Swim, Haus, and Farmgirl Flowers. 30% of Clearco’s portfolio are people of colour. Founded in 2015 by Michele Romanow of CBC’s “Dragons’ Den” (Canada’s “Shark Tank”), Andrew D’Souza, Ivan Gritsiniak, Charlie Feng, and Tanay Delima, Clearco is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company has raised $900 million to date and investors include Oak HC/FT, Highland Capital, Emergence, Founder’s Fund, and Softbank. For more information, visit clear.co and @getclearco. (formerly called Clearbanc)
Co-Founder
2014 - 2016
Hemingly 2.0 is an AI chatbot that boosted the productivity of the sales & marketing team. In a prior iteration, Hemingly 1.0 serviced indie authors and helped a few become #1 Best Sellers via our platform. Funded by MIT GFSA Accelerator 2014
Data, Finance
2013 - 2015
Published credit models and algorithms. Covered energy, oil & gas. Built internal tooling in my spare time.
Developer
2013 - 2014
Social platform for early adopters. Pinterest for new gadgets.