Startup Life Show With Ande Lyons

How does a bootstrapped founder find funding without giving up a significant chunk of equity? Through founder-friendly non-dilutive debt capital!Our guest, Charlie Feng, is a seasoned founder, an operator angel investor and Co-Founder of Clearco, a fintech startup that provides founders and entrepreneurs with a suite of performance financing products and services tailor-made for founders in all stages of their journey.A pay-as-you-grow pioneer and the world’s largest ecommerce investor, Clearco’s mission is to remove the barriers between brilliant ideas, and brilliant businesses.Clearco has invested $2+ billion into 5,000+ companies using data science to identify high-growth funding. This data-driven approach takes the bias out of decision making and helps Clearco fund 8x more female founders than traditional VCs across 6 countries.Before Clearco, Charlie founded two other companies, and has scaled pre-Seed to Series C and beyond. Charlie also angel invests in ecommerce, fintech, saas, AI/ML, and a number of