At The Money

#34 Michele Romanow (Clearco) - 'Venture capital is expensive capital for e-commerce startups'

At The Money
21-05-2021

My guest in this episode is Michele Romanow, co-founder and president of Clearco.
Clearco provides non-dilutive financing for founders. So far they've invested more than $2 billion in over 4,600 companies. Recently, Clearco also launched in the Netherlands, because: "There is an enormous amount of strong founders there."
Michele is serial entrepreneur and was the world's youngest (and "poorest") Dragon in the Canadian Dragons' Den television series. 
In this episode, Michele explains how their revenue-sharing model works, why she would rather have had a Clearco for Clearco instead of being a unicorn company, and how their data science models take out the bias in investment decisions.
At The Money is a podcast of Golden Egg Check and is hosted by Thomas Mensink.