Our goal is to identify and invest in innovative and mission-driven companies in the financial technology (“FinTech”), enterprise software or consumer technology sectors with an enterprise value of above $1 billion.

Our CEO is Howard Lindzon, the co-founder of StockTwits, a social media platform with over 4 million registered users where investors and traders share investment ideas. He served as its CEO from 2008, the year that StockTwits was founded, to 2013.

As a founding partner of Social Leverage, Howard Lindzon has made numerous early-stage investments in the fintech sector, including investments in Robinhood, Rally Road, eToro and Alpaca. He has invested in over 125 companies and has collaborated and built deep relationships with hundreds of co-investors and entrepreneurs. Prior to founding Social Leverage in 2009, his early-stage investment exits included sales to Comcast, Google, Pandora, Salesforce, Twitter and several other public listings.  He is a public figure with over 265,000 Twitter followers, 220,000 StockTwits followers and 8,000 e-mail subscribers as of Dec. 31, 2020, a daily blog and a weekly podcast. He graduated with a Master of Business Administration degree from Arizona State University and a Master of Arts degree in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

(Note: Social Leverage Acquisition Corp. I priced its SPAC IPO on Feb. 11, 2021, according to the terms in its prospectus: 30 million units at $10 each to raise $300 million.)