Kurt Bilafer

Director Board of Directors

2022 - Current

COO

2022

Trade Ledger, established in 2016, is a Corporate Lending Platform for better business lending that supports many lending categories including invoice funding, supply chain financing and debtor financing. Trade Ledger is a complete digital business lending operation (Lending-as-a-Service). We create a channel to support all major types of cash flow lending products and enable faster growth. Our unique understanding of electronic invoicing, and other business transaction technology has enabled the creation of a supply chain transactional network that is at the core of the Trade Ledger platform. This provides unparalleled access to the B2B transaction data that underpins receivables. We use this unique ability to determine payment risk and fraud accurately for any receivable. For our lending customers this equates to unfair advantage through superior underwriting capability and ultimately much needed product innovation to address this underserved market. The platform further enhances our Lender customers’ business via the network effect, whereby the enhanced products drive greater customer adoption, which in turn drives further market demand and product innovation investment.

Board of Advisors

2019 - 2022

General Partner

2019

Limited Partner

2018

Stage 2 Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage B2B software companies and sits shoulder to shoulder with leadership teams to operationalize sustainable revenue growth and sales operations. Backed by top go-to-market professionals from leading tech companies, Stage 2 Capital leverages its deep sales expertise to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses in addition to providing capital.

Limited Partner

2018

We are on a mission here at LAUNCH to support founders and inspire innovation. Our small team of rebels put on the largest startup conference in the world, the LAUNCH festival, the podcast This Week In Startups and we run the LAUNCH Incubator. We invest millions of dollars into 40 promising founders a year, some of which go on to change the world. Most of these founders spend 12 weeks in our very intense -- but fabulously fun -- accelerator.

Angel Investor & Advisor

2015

Checkout my syndicate on AngelList angel.co/s/bilafer/Bddnl

Mentor

2020 - 2024

Mentor

2021 - 2023

Advisor

2020 - 2022

Banzai is the easiest solution for field marketing teams to discover and market professional events. Banzai’s event marketing platform automates and simplifies event outreach, while driving more registrations and more engaged attendees.

Chief Revenue Officer & Chief Marketing Officer

2020 - 2021

Banzai connects people to career-changing experiences. We create Event Marketing Automation solutions that are simple to use, people-focused, and learning-centered. Our community empowers professionals to improve their skill sets and network with the world’s leading companies, such as Facebook, Adobe, ServiceNow, SAP, Blackline, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. Our suite of Event Marketing Automation solutions maximize audience reach, simplify event invitations, increase the quality of registrations, and prove ROI for field and partner marketers through a single platform.

Fund Manager - Fund XVII

2019 - 2022

Assistant Fund Manager - Fund XVI

2019 - 2019

Advisory Board Member

2020 - 2022

Tribute is a workplace mentorship app that radically redefines and improves mentorship for both companies and employees. Harnessing the power of personal stories, Tribute creates authentic personal connections through Shared Life Experiences™, interests and goals. Tributementorship.com

Advisor

2019 - 2020

The best thing a salesperson can have is the ability to read a prospect's mind. The next best thing is to have Contiq!