Charlie Feng co-founded Clearco and helped take it from three founders to nearly 1,000 employees before starting over in San Francisco as CEO of Runner.
Worth knowing
He has raised hundreds of millions for a Canadian fintech, scaled the team behind it, and built a second company in crypto governance, so he knows what breaks at every stage of that climb. As a founding partner at Agora he writes $50K to $250K cheques into AI, fintech, marketplaces and Web3. Founders raising early money or plotting a Toronto-to-San-Francisco move should write.
Story
Charlie studied at McGill and began in a data and finance role at DBRS, the Toronto credit ratings agency later bought by Morningstar, with a stint as a developer at Hypejar along the way. Then came Clearco, the Toronto revenue-financing company he co-founded as Clearbanc, where he announced the rebrand alongside a Series C. He went on to co-found and lead Agora, a compliance and governance platform for decentralized ecosystems, and Hemingly, an AI chatbot startup. He now builds Runner from San Francisco.
Highlights
- Co-founder, Clearco (formerly Clearbanc), Toronto
- Clearco raised $300M+ at a $2B+ valuation
- Co-founder and CEO, Agora, compliance and governance for crypto ecosystems
- Co-founder, Hemingly, AI chatbot startup
- McGill University
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