More About Melissa
Melissa Wasser is a partner on the Capital Network team, focused on fintech companies.
Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Melissa was head of the Private Capital Markets group at Financial Technology Partners, helping Series B through pre-IPO fintech companies on private capital raises. Before that, she was at Goldman Sachs for over 10 years, working on private placements for later-stage technology companies and advising financial institutions’ investment banking clients.
Melissa graduated from Penn State University with a degree in finance. Melissa considers herself a coffee connoisseur and, after traveling all around the world, found her favorite beans in Kyoto, Japan, and Kenya’s Masai Mara.
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We have provided many resources in this series for this stage of your business journey. We’d like to wrap up by focusing on how to manage debt post-closing.
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Embarking on a debt raise can be a daunting task and we aim to demystify the debt-raising process at large and navigate you through it.
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To successfully raise in today's climate, founders will need a different mindset, approach, preparation, and process. Here are some tips.
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This article is the second of four installments in our new series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. Read part one on Choosing the Right Funding Structure here.
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Today’s startups are harder-pressed to manufacture explosive growth in short periods of time. Yet that's what they need to do to compete with big firms.
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What counts as "cash," developing a plan for that cash, building an adaptable operating model, and dealing with a liquidity crisis.
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Choosing the right funding structure can have a meaningful impact on the trajectory of your company, its ability to scale, and your bottom line.
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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Raising debt is an important financial tool for startups, especially as more and more companies become fintech companies. Learn how it works.
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Plus, credit reporting for BNPL, new regulations for payment apps, and is now a bad time to raise?