Danika Robinson Lyon Koenig
Head of Payment Operations at Stash
Dallas, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Syndicate Co-Lead
2022 - Current
Our syndicate leverages the collective power of the Stripe Alumni network to invest in the next generation of startups. Reach out today: hello@danikabuilt.com! Current portfolio: Acana, Arcfi, Ash Wellness, Falconer AI, Griz, Inversion Space, Macro Oceans, Mosey, Plenty (acq. by Wealthsimple) , Stainless, Userfront, Vela, Versa (fka Bend.Green), and Wholesail
Angel Investor
2020
I invest in people with good ideas who attempt to solve personally experienced problems in scalable ways. Industry agnostic with a focus on dev tools, fintech, healthcare, and net-new industry creators and operators. 50+ personal investments and growing. [active] Acana, Afterword, Aleoop, Arcfi, Ash Wellness, Bend.Green, Bunches, Cart.com, Colossal, Falconer AI, Flexbase, Flex Tech Co., Fondo, Globowl, Griz, Harbera, Hero's Jobs, Hum Capital, Impossible Metals, Inversion Space, Joyful Health, Loula (fka Onu Wellness), Macro Oceans, Magic, Marlo, Mentaport, Merit, Mosey, Mozaic, Node ECO, Onton (fka Deft), Palmetto, Pretzel.AI, Purple Arch Ventures, Scalefast, Stainless, Stonehenge Labs, Swan Bitcoin, Tallied, Thurgood, TrueNorth, Up&Up, Vela, Wally, Inc., and Wholesail [exits] Plenty (acq. by Wealthsimple) [rip] Airhouse, Airlift, Boost, Dockee, Moonshot Brands, Nurdle (fka Spectrum Labs), Pump Current: First Round Angel and Sequoia BLCK VC. Former: Scout Investor at 572°F, backed by Bonfire Ventures
Head of Payment Operations
2024 - 2025
The Shopify platform for D2C Game Developers. Backed by a16z and co-founded by Twitch co-founder Justin Kan. I lead payment operations and my team oversees Funds Flow and Payment Stack partners, Account Management, Customer Service, Product Ops Project Management, Business Risk/Fraud, and Tax.
Head of Operations
2023 - 2024
RegTech. Operational Glue.
Hummingbird is a technology company that provides solutions to enhance anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing investigations.
Raised $41,205,068.00 from William Hockey, Flourish Ventures, Homebrew, Fin Capital and Battery Ventures.
Head of Payments & Payment Product Partnerships
2021 - 2023
Ness was the first of a kind Health and wellness credit card. I managed card, bank, financial and technology partners and was responsible for the card P&L. Vision to make health and wellness more affordable and accessible to all by rewarding healthy actions you make every day. Specifically, 0 to 1 foundational builder responsible for the developing the operational structure, finding the financial partners (bank, card network, issuer processor, general ledger, PCI compliance, encryption, etc.), leading the technical integration and launch through white card testing, beta, and public launch! Negotiated all business deals, pricing, and card incentive structures. Built and managed card program, worked closely with legal and outside counsel to get board approval in record time (3 mos.). Responsible for purchase of receivables, disputes, and day to day card operations.
The card that keeps you healthy. Request an invite to Ness Rewards at www.nesswell.com.
Raised $15,500,000.00 from Accomplice, Nitesh Banta, Refactor, Will Ventures, Nate Rosenthal, Global Founders Capital, Digitalis Ventures, Portage Ventures, Core Innovation Capital and Atypical Ventures.
Founder & CEO
2020 - 2021
Time banking protocols for semi-mediated skills exchange. ODF8 - OnDeck Founder Accelerator Alum
Founder Fellowship
2021 - 2021
ODF8, ODA4
Strategic Partnerships
2015 - 2020
Product Partner who helped grow and scale Stripe and the Partnerships team 10X+ and revenue exponentially. I am a Strategic Partner Manager who executes technical and non-technical projects and partnerships of our largest Financial Partners (card networks, acquiring partners, payout banks, alternative payment methods, etc.). I live at the intersection of business opportunity and overcoming the legal, regulatory, and network/bank op reg hurdles to go live and thrive. I shape business processes and funds flows to be compliant but more importantly to capture customer value and create new market opportunities. I work cross functionally with Legal, Product, Financial Crimes, Risk, Sales, Engineering, executives and more to manage our largest financial partners and work on projects related to product market fit, growth, business compliance, business development, pricing negotiations, implementation, global expansion, user advocacy, auth optimization, launching new business models, sales, program development, metrics and everything in between that it takes to make the Stripe best in class. I laid the foundation for internal policy and built and shipped risk frameworks for supportability that are still in use today to guide the next generation of business disrupters. Pioneered novel approaches to authorization optimization working directly with Issuers and sharing risk detail in the auth message to increase acceptance rate and reduce fraud. Partnerships: 10/19 - 06/20 Financial Partnerships: 10/17- 10/19 Financial Stack: 09/16 - 10/17 Risk: 08/15 - 09/16 Co-Founder & Co-Lead: The Black Stripes 2016-2018 The Black Stripes is a community within Stripe that focuses on empowerment and advancement of individuals who identify as a member of the black diaspora. SQL
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.
Co-Founder & COO
2014 - 2015
University focused innovative (at the time) bed in a box mattress company.
Recruiter
2015 - 2015
Expanded Palantir and GrabTaxi's global teams.