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a16z senior scout and founder of gamified fintech Coverd
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 29th percentile
- Publicly identified as an a16z senior scout, actively making early-stage investments on behalf of Andreessen Horowitz.
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Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current founder and CEO of Coverd, a gamified fintech platform founded in 2024.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Coverd has raised $13.9M in total funding across three rounds, backed by a16z, Yolo, Volt, and Wndrco.
Investor score
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Publicly identified as an a16z senior scout, actively making early-stage investments on behalf of Andreessen Horowitz.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Approximately one year of investing experience as an a16z scout since 2024.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in rooms with fintech-credible investors and operators who can sharpen your Series A narrative before you need it. Dinners and roundtables with a16z portfolio founders and fintech compliance insiders would directly accelerate your regulatory moat and distribution partnerships. Targeted hiring and scout-brand-building sessions will help you punch above your 6-person headcount while compounding your reputation as both operator and investor.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA dinner for a16z-backed fintech founders who have crossed the seed-to-Series-A bridge, to pressure-test Eric's Series A narrative and engagement-metric benchmarks 12–18 months out
- positioningA roundtable for founders and investors with HFT or institutional trading backgrounds (Hudson River Trading, Flow Traders, Citadel alumni) to swap notes on translating quant credibility into a consumer fintech founder story
- tacticalA happy hour connecting early-stage fintech founders navigating sweepstakes, games-of-chance, and prize-linked mechanics with specialist regulatory counsel who have licensed similar products before competitors caught up
- hiringAn a16z Speedrun cohort hiring session for SR004 and adjacent batch founders to source and vet Head of Growth and Head of Product candidates who have scaled early-stage fintech products from sub-10-person teams
- introsA dinner brokered through the a16z platform team connecting early-stage fintech founders with decision-makers at card networks and fintech distribution partners actively looking for embedded insurance or rewards-layer integrations
- positioningA roundtable for operator-scouts from a16z, Sequoia Arc, and First Round's scout programs to compare playbooks for documenting and publicizing early bets in ways that compound both founder and investor reputation over a 3–5 year horizon
- tacticalA dinner for sub-15-person fintech teams building around licensing and regulatory moats — sweepstakes, money transmission, insurance — to share war stories on getting compliance right before well-funded competitors enter