Michael B. Gilroy

Canaan Partners VC — U.C. Berkeley California Bear — SF Bay Area Native

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FinTech Central: Working With the Regulator

The motto in early stage technology company building is move fast and break stuff. The motto in early stage financial technology company building is move methodically and work with the regulator. This is true more than ever today because as Ben Lawsky…

FinTech Central: The 2nd Wave of FinTech

Canaan recently hosted our West Coast edition of FinTech Central (FTC) to discuss the current state of infrastructure in fintech. FTC, which launched in 2015, is our quarterly panel discussion about trends in the fintech ecosystem. At our first FTC…

Early Stage SaaS Unit Economics

East Coast investors have a reputation for being sticklers around numbers, and not “buying the dream”, the same way our West Coast brethren tend to. In this piece I’m going to double down on the first part, and continue to strongly deny the second…