The journey from a startup to IPO

Listen to the founder of Higher One, Mark Volchek, an entrepreneur turned VC, share his journey from startup to IPO and explain how to approach investors for seed funding correctly.

Mark Volchek is an entrepreneur turned VC. While still an Ivy League student, he started Higher One, a company that aimed to simplify student payments and make them electronic. The company was an enormous success, and in 2010, Higher One went public with a valuation of $600 million on NYSE. Later, in 2016, it was acquired by Blackboard and was made private again. Now, Volchek is investing in other prominent startups via Las Olas, an early-stage VC firm with a mission to find and support extraordinary people in “non-obvious places.”