Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest. Then in 2018, Walter went live […]
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Triangle serial entrepreneur launches Plum, raising $1.5M, to help groups buy vacation homes
DURHAM – A Durham-headquartered startup, Plum, led by a Triangle-based serial entrepreneur, seeks to simplify the process of buying a second home for groups of people. Today, the company announced it is raising a pre-seed round of $1.5 million in funding, and the round will include an investment from the Triangle […]
Meet the Self-Proclaimed ‘Serial Entrepreneur’ Couple Charged Over Laundering Bitcoin
Heather Morgan (left). Source: Inner City Press / Twitter. Ilya Lichtenstein (right). Source: Twitter. At first, a self-proclaimed “serial entrepreneur” couple has been granted bail by a US judge for an alleged conspiracy to launder USD 4.5bn worth of bitcoin (BTC) stolen from the 2016 hack of the major crypto […]
Federal probe into serial entrepreneur couple who cashed in on COVID testing boom
A serial entrepreneur couple who cashed in on the COVID testing boom are now at the center of a federal probe after being accused of fraud by customers who say they never received results or got negative test results via email before they had even taken the test. Longtime entrepreneurs […]
Confessions of a serial entrepreneur
(PHOTO: Victor Tan) SINGAPORE — Some people are happy to work in an office job their whole lives. Some people set up a business to scratch an entrepreneurial itch they had. Victor Tan, 58, has started about 15 businesses over nearly 20 years. Now an independent consultant, Tan shares his […]