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Thomas George

Venture Scout at Andreessen Horowitz

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Thomas George is an angel investor and a16z Venture Scout known for building and growing fintech companies, with a notable early involvement in Monzo Bank. His career highlights include serving as Director of Operations at Monzo Bank and making strategic investments in companies like Pave Bank. Currently based in San Francisco, California, Thomas George leverages his expertise in regulatory compliance, business development, and strategic planning to support startups in the fintech sector, focusing on generative tech/AI, payments, SaaS, and the future of work.

Work Experience 

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Capital 49

  • Investor

    2024 - Current

    Capital 49 is a new venture fund backed by the founders of Airwallex. We work with exceptional founders and invest in early stage startups across fintech, e-commerce, artificial intelligence and B2B software.

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Ezra Financial

  • Advisor

    2024

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Ares

  • Investor

    2024

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Prosper

  • Investor

    2024

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Shuffle

  • Investor

    2024

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Pave Bank

  • Investor

    2024

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Candle

  • Investor

    2024

SaaS

Raised $120,000.00 from Techstars.

candle.fi
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Andreessen Horowitz

  • Venture Scout

    2023

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

a16z.com
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Monzo Bank

  • Director Of Operations

    2022 - 2023

    Responsible for all US operations. Including customer support, payment/banking operations, vendors, growth marketing, people, financial crime and finance in the US.

  • Lead Product Manager, Monzo USA

    2021 - 2022

    Rebooted the engineering and product team post covid -- hired key positions and reset our ways of working and strategy.

  • Director of Operations USA

    2020 - 2021

    Was the first person "on the ground" in the USA. Set up the necessary vendors and partners to launch our first product into the US market (card processing, partner banking, fraud, KYC etc.). Ran all of Monzo's US regulatory engagement with the OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve and CFPB.

  • Head of International

    2017 - 2020

    Led a range of internal projects and built out the special projects squad. Projects included: international market expansion strategy, a major vendor renegotiation and series C fundraising.

  • Head of Risk

    2017 - 2017

    Took on an interim role to build new risk, compliance and regulatory processes in order to get fully approved for launch by the UK regulators.

  • Regulatory Analyst

    2016 - 2017

    Joined as employee 20, worked with senior team plus FCA/PRA to get approved as a fully regulated bank in the UK.

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Elixirr and Elixirr Capital

  • Consultant

    2013 - 2016

    Previous projects include developing the 5 year strategy for an offshore bank, mobilising a multi-million dollar IT infrastructure transformation programme for a Global Bank and Card Association sourcing for a major African Bank (for which Elixirr won the 2014 Management Consultancies Association Commercial Excellence award).

  • Analyst

    2012 - 2013

    Elixirr is a strategic advisory firm specialising in all forms of transformation, change, operating models and sourcing strategies. Elixirr's experience covers multiple industry domains and geographies with a current focus on Financial Services, Retail and Telecoms sectors.

Education 

Investments 

Pave Bank

Seed

Total funding: $5.2M

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