ANDREW D’SOUZA

Co-founder & CEO CLEARBANC

BIO: Andrew is Co-founder & CEO of Clearbanc, the biggest e-commerce investor in the world. Clearbanc has invested $1 billion into 2,800-plus e-commerce and software companies using data science to identify high-growth funding opportunities in less than 24 hours. Andrew has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital and is an adviser and investor to companies such as Wealthsimple, Properly, and Tulip Retail. Prior to Clearbanc, he was the president of Nymi, a wearable platform focused on identity and security and the COO of the education startup, Tophat.

BEST/MOST-VALUED CAREER LESSON IN THE PAST YEAR: Focus on being proactive vs. reactive. This year and moving forward I am focused on taking the learnings of the past months outside the chaos of the day-to-day and plan ahead and be ready for what comes next.