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Rachel Lauren

Founder of Debbie Inc.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Rachel Lauren is the COO and Co-Founder of Debbie Inc., a successful startup, and a former VC Investor at BDMI - Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. She has a strong background in venture capital, business development, and valuation, with experience working at Credit Suisse and other notable organizations in the industry.

Work Experience 

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Debbie Inc.

  • Co-Founder, COO/Growth

    2021 - Current

    Building the first app to offer cash rewards for positive financial behavior, and learning how to build a company for the first time. Experience includes: -Growing to tens of thousands of users -Landing financial institution partnerships -Raising over $2m in capital -Just general "getting stuff done"

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BDMI - Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments

  • VC Investor

    2019 - 2021

    Sourced investment in Extra, Zephr (exited to Zuora), Astra, Infinite Objects, Stix, Gravity AI, Certa, and Fursure. Assisted in Flip investment.

BDMI is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on investments in digital media technologies, products, and distribution channels.

bdmifund.com
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Zephr

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2021

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Credit Suisse

  • TMT Equity Research Associate (Software)

    2018 - 2019

    Software - Cybersecurity (TMT) -Covered large cap public software companies -Performed employee, partner/reseller, and customer due diligence -Published interviews with cybersecurity companies to better inform public investors of various technology -Conducted financial statement analysis to aid in financial modeling

Credit Suisse Group is a financial services company that advises clients in all aspects of finance.

credit-suisse.com
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The Gothm

  • Business Development/Account Manager

    2018 - 2018

    -Focused on building sales pipeline for clients, including go-to market strategy as well as lead sourcing -Systematized client onboarding, making sure to understand the client’s business model, messaging, and needs

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TAMID Group

  • TAMID National Venture Director

    2017 - 2018

FMV Opinions, Inc.

  • Valuation Intern

    2016 - 2016

    FMV is one of the nation’s preeminent valuation and M&A advisory firms, offering a broad range of financial advisory services to private and public companies, and their advisors. -Assisted in building financial models for the purpose of valuing small, privately-owned companies -Analyzed financial statements in order to draw conclusions about the operations of target firms -Prepared comprehensive industry reports using research from IBISWorld, CapitalIQ, and various news sources

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Anthemis Group

  • Fintech Advisory/Venture Capital Analyst

    2015 - 2016

    Anthemis Group is a Financial Services advisory and investment firm, focusing on Fintech innovation. Notable investments include eToro, Betterment, Fidor Bank, eShares, and Blueleaf. -Conducted commercial and technical startup due diligence projects for financial services clients -Assisted in creation of internal startup knowledge database as well as CRM solutions to maintain as intellectual assets and track clients -Tracked data on European FinTech ecosystem (accelerators, VC’s, etc.) to locate potential partnerships

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