LUCA CONSENTINO

Luca Consentino. Leads Product at Cross River, the atypical FinTech bank powering money movement and lending as a service for Stripe, Coinbase, Revolut, Plaid, etc. I focus on growth, transformation and turnaround, and post-merger integration.

He had worked in both startups and large companies, and was a founder. As the first hire at Oasis Labs, he built a privacy layer for AI, raised $45M (a16z, Accel, etc), and scaled it to a $2B smart contract platform. He had built b2b products at Google, led new initiatives at American Express, and launched consumer products at P&G. He boostrapped an advertising agency to $1M/y in revenues.

As an angel investor, he had backed 20+ companies, including AtoB, Decisionly, Gumroad, Cobre, DolarApp, Spot2, focusing on founders tackling complex, large markets.He helps with problem definition, zero-to-one scaling, and introductions.

He holds an engineering degree and an MBA from UC Berkeley, where he also founded Berkeley StEP, a pre-accelerator that’s launched 150+ startups with a 10% funding rate.