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Specializes in early-stage investments in the Software, Consumer, and Fintech industries. Uses a rigorous experience-driven investment selection process to fund the best capital-light companies with a viable product, serving a large addressable market, and solving a known pain point

$10M Early-stage private technology companies with a focus on crypto/web3 in the form of equity investments with additional opportunistic direct token and NFT investments.

Backs early-stage founders who want to change how the world works

Codie is the founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking, with over 2.5+ million subscribers. She is the co-founder of Unconventional Acquisitions, focused on small business acquisitions in the micro-PE space with an emphasis on roll-ups. She runs a holding company of SMB’s below $10M EBITDA focused upon what she calls “boring businesses,” or service-based businesses. She is a former partner at private equity firm EEC, and built First Trust’s $1 billion+ AUM Latin America business. She held leadership positions at Goldman Sachs, State Street, and Vanguard. She started as a journalist where she won the JFK award and Howard Buffett Foundation. She was listed as a 25 Most Innovative Leader in Cannabis, and a Top Female Investor by Forbes. She has an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, a master’s from ESADE and Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and a B.A. from Arizona State University.

Enjoy building companies. Many failures, a few wins. Pretty good at going from 0 --> 1. I also host My First Million, one of the fastest growing business podcasts.

"I started Vibe Capital to live vicariously through founders doing more interesting things than me." "I also founded Teachable, an online platform that enables creators to earn a living from their knowledge. I wrote the first version of the app in 2013 before hiring people that actually knew what they were doing, and eventually scaled the business to $50M+ in ARR, and an eventual exit to Hotmart where I now serve on the board."

Howard has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. With a differentiated vision for starting, managing, and successfully advising innovative companies, Lindzon is the public-face of Social Leverage. In 2008 Lindzon co-founded StockTwits. Stocktwits pioneered the 'cashtag' ($AAPL) and today has over 6 million monthly unique visitors to the site. In November 2021, Stocktwits raised $30 million from FTX and Times Bridge India. Previously, Lindzon founded Wallstrip (an on-line video show) which was acquired by CBS in 2007. The connection to StockTwits gives Social Leverage access to a talented and diverse community of professionals who continuously surface and evaluate FinTech opportunities.