Engineer Networking & Fireside Chat with Daniel Simon
Please join Avid Ventures for an evening of networking with fellow engineers, featuring a fireside chat with Daniel Simon, founder and CEO of Coast, a company that is re-imagining payments and expense management for fleets (and an Avid portfolio company!).
This event is exclusively for engineers.
We'll leave plenty of time for networking and refreshments. We hope to see you there!
About Daniel:
Daniel has spent his career at the intersection of technology and financial services — as an engineer, technologist, architect, and founder. Prior to starting Coast, Daniel was co-founder and CTO / COO of Bread, a leading payments and credit technology firm backed by some of the world’s top VCs which was acquired for $500MM+ in 2020.
About Coast:
Coast is re-imagining the trillion-dollar U.S. B2B card payments infrastructure, with a focus on the country’s 500,000 commercial fleets, 40 million commercial vehicles, and many million commercial drivers. The incumbent technologies that cater to these customers are decades old, and drivers and fleets increasingly demand modern digital experiences and affordable and transparent financial services products. Coast's mission is to deliver them at a transformational scale, beginning with the Coast Fleet and Fuel Card built on a cutting-edge spend management platform.
Coast has raised $165M in total funding backed by top fintech and mobility venture funds, including Avid Ventures, Iconiq, Accel, Insight Partners, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, and Colle, and premier angel investors, including founders of Affirm, Marqeta, Plaid, Flexport, and many others.
About Avid:
Avid Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City backing exceptional founders building transformative technology companies across North America, Europe, and Israel. Leveraging our 25+ years of collective venture and growth experience at premier investment firms including General Catalyst, General Atlantic, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Silver Lake, and Goldman Sachs, Avid actively partners with founders and their teams as a “Strategic Finance Advisor” to grow startups into proven growth businesses with best-in-class metrics.