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Raphael Ouzan
Founder of A.Team
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Raphael Ouzan
Founder of A.Team
New York, New York
Overview
Raphael Ouzan is the Founder & CEO of A.Team in New York, with a background in founding successful ventures like BlockNation and serving as a Board Director at Start-Up Nation Central. He has invested in a variety of sectors and stages, including Security, FinTech, and Web3/Blockchain, showcasing strong leadership and strategic skills in the startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2020 - Current
A.Team is a distributed, on-demand team formation platform that allows members to team up and build things.
Raised $60,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Insight Partners, Cyril Berdugo, Spruce Capital Partners, FJ Labs, Arrive, Adam Grant, NFX and Marco Mahrus.
Founder & Investor
2019
BlockNation invests in and builds early stage teams, daring to harness emerging technologies to rethink fundamental parts of our society.
Board Director
2014
Co-Founder, Chairman
2013
Entrepreneur In Residence
2017 - 2018
Thrive Capital is an investment firm that builds and invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled companies.
Raised $120,000,000.00 from Petershill Partners.
VP, Product & Technology
2015 - 2017
Prosper is the pioneer of marketplace lending and one of the fastest growing private companies in the world. I joined Prosper as part of their acquisition of my company, BillGuard, and I now lead Prosper's product and technology efforts to advance financial well-being through habit-forming consumer products.
Prosper Marketplace is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions.
Raised $503,455,497.00 from Neuberger Berman.
Founder, CTO & Head of Product
2010 - 2015
BillGuard is a personal finance analytics company best known for pioneering the use of crowdsourcing to empower consumer to control, protect and do more with their money. BillGuard’s top rated mobile apps have won almost every industry award in their category, including being named one of the top banking innovations of all time by Online Banking Report. It helped consumers find 10's of millions of dollars in wrongful charges and over-spending on their payment cards. Backed by some of the world's top investors including Bessemer Ventures Partner, Vinod Khosla, Innovation Endeavors (Eric Schmidt) and Peter Thiel, the BillGuard mobile app became one of the fastest growing personal finance apps in history before being acquired by Prosper Marketplace in Oct 2015.
BillGuard was a personal finance analytics app that empowered consumers to control, protect and do more with their money.
Raised $16,500,000.00 from OurCrowd and The R-Group.
Software Engineer, Team Leader & Operational Infrastructure Manager
2005 - 2010
Consulting - Mobile Development
2009 - 2009
Head of Engineering
2004 - 2005