Ankur Nagpal
This fintech startup ideally wants to be ‘a lot more boring’ than Robinhood
Soon after launching Ocho, a startup offering personal finance support for business owners, Ankur Nagpal realized that the company’s debut product — a solo 401(k) retirement account — “is not…
Ocho wants to rethink (and rebrand) personal finance for business owners
When Ankur Nagpal sold Teachable for a quarter of a billion dollars, he felt lucky. Then, he quickly felt lost when trying to navigate the financial systems of a country…
Gift Guide: 6 entrepreneurs tell us what they really want this year
Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’ve got lots of them. Looking for our other guides? Find them here! 2021 was largely defined by the…
Circle comes around again with fresh capital, led by Tiger Global, for $200M valuation
The company was founded in January 2020 to make engaging with paying customers and thus building creator businesses as effortless as possible.
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Vibe Capital is a new venture firm built for scrappy international founders
Entrepreneur Ankur Nagpal spent seven years building up Teachable, a marketplace for teachers to make their online courses into full-fledged businesses. He raised only $12.5 million in funding before selling to Hotmart, a deal reportedly worth a quarter-of-a-billion dollars. Now, Nagpal wants to use his experience as a founder to help other founders scale their…
Hustle Fund backs Fintor, which wants to make it easier to invest in real estate
Farshad Yousefi and Masoud Jalali used to drive through Palo Alto neighborhoods and marvel at the outrageous home prices. But the drives sparked an idea. They were not in a…
Creators need better community tools — Circle wants to fill the gap
Entrepreneurial creators have to do a lot with limited time. They need to, well, create, but then they also need to build their marketing funnels, convert users to their paid…
