Fundraising as a Black Founder

Gabby Cazeau is a Senior Associate at Harlem Capital Partners where she focuses on deal sourcing, due diligence, and connection building across the tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem. 

She is also a second-year MBA candidate at the Yale School of Management and will graduate in May 2020. At Yale, Gabby served as an Innovation Advisor at TSAI City, Yale’s startup incubator and accelerator. Prior to Yale, Gabby worked in R&D and Innovation at General Mills where she created new products for iconic brands like Cheerios, Nature Valley, Epic, and FiberOne. 

She is Haitian and originally from Maryland. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis where she was a John B. Ervin Scholar. In her free time she is an avid reader and enjoys salsa dancing, especially finding a good dance spot while traveling to a new city.

Curu enables lenders to fund more loans by building applicant criteria (credit score, debt to income ratio, and more) with real-time recommendations.

Curu is ventured backed by Vestigo Ventures, Harlem Capital, Matchstick Ventures, FIS, Techstars, Chingona Ventures, Carolina Fintech Ventures and the Holdun Family Office.