Kurt Bilafer
General Partner at Kurt Bilafer's Syndicate
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Overview
Work Experience
Director Board of Directors
2022 - Current
COO
2022
Trade Ledger, established in 2016, is a Corporate Lending Platform for better business lending that supports many lending categories including invoice funding, supply chain financing and debtor financing. Trade Ledger is a complete digital business lending operation (Lending-as-a-Service). We create a channel to support all major types of cash flow lending products and enable faster growth. Our unique understanding of electronic invoicing, and other business transaction technology has enabled the creation of a supply chain transactional network that is at the core of the Trade Ledger platform. This provides unparalleled access to the B2B transaction data that underpins receivables. We use this unique ability to determine payment risk and fraud accurately for any receivable. For our lending customers this equates to unfair advantage through superior underwriting capability and ultimately much needed product innovation to address this underserved market. The platform further enhances our Lender customers’ business via the network effect, whereby the enhanced products drive greater customer adoption, which in turn drives further market demand and product innovation investment.
Board of Advisors
2019 - 2022
Limited Partner
2022
Palrecha Capital is a venture capital investment firm.
Limited Partner
2019
The Essence fund is designed to support technical founders to seize the market opportunity and help build a company from the 0-to-1 stage.
Enterprise fund focusing on 1st time technical founders building in the infra / developer space
General Partner
2019
Limited Partner
2019
Angel Investor & Advisor
2015
Checkout my syndicate on AngelList angel.co/s/bilafer/Bddnl
Limited Partner
2018
We are on a mission here at LAUNCH to support founders and inspire innovation. Our small team of rebels put on the largest startup conference in the world, the LAUNCH festival, the podcast This Week In Startups and we run the LAUNCH Incubator. We invest millions of dollars into 40 promising founders a year, some of which go on to change the world. Most of these founders spend 12 weeks in our very intense -- but fabulously fun -- accelerator.
Support founders and inspire innovation
Limited Partner
2018
Stage 2 Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage B2B software companies and sits shoulder to shoulder with leadership teams to operationalize sustainable revenue growth and sales operations. Backed by top go-to-market professionals from leading tech companies, Stage 2 Capital leverages its deep sales expertise to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses in addition to providing capital.
Stage 2 Capital is a go-to-market venture capital fund that primarily invests in early-stage B2B software companies.
Mentor
2020 - 2024
Mentor
2021 - 2023
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Advisor & Mentor
2022 - 2023
Education
BS
1989 - 1993