CC Does Deal with Deserve

CC Does Deal with Deserve

Deserve is a start-up helping young people, internationals, and historically "riskier" customers to build credit. They are also building out an extensive cloud-based credit card platform for businesses. CC was a part of a $50 million raise led by Goldman Sachs in a Series C funding round. Others participating in the round include existing investors Sallie Mae, Accel, Aspect Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners and Mission Holdings. Read more about the deal on TechCrunch.
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Investment in Strala

Investment in Strala

Cougar Capital is pleased to announce an investment in the digital marketing start-up Strala. Strala was founded in 2016 by Mikel Chertudi and Rob Clarke. Strala’s key product is a SAAS platform that creates and manages digital marketing tracking codes at the point of origin, which facilitates reliable reporting and improved insight into the ROI of digital marketing spend. Chertudi was the former Director of Inside Sales at Adobe and Rob Clark was formerly a Group Manager over Product Innovation at Adobe.
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Dynasty! Cougar Capital Wins Global 2018 VCIC Competition

Dynasty! Cougar Capital Wins Global 2018 VCIC Competition

We are pleased to announce that a team of Cougar Capital members won the 2018 Global Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC). VCIC is a venture capital case competition where over 70 universities compete in a March Madness style bracket and are judged by industry professionals. This year, the BYU team bested teams from some of the top business schools in the world: including Chicago, Berkeley, MIT, Wharton, Kellogg, and Oxford. Previous Cougar Capital teams won global VCIC in 2016 and placed 2nd in 2017. Also, this year a team of BYU undergrads won the National VCIC undergrad competition. During the…
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Investment in SaltStack

Investment in SaltStack

Cougar Capital is pleased to announce an investment in SaltStack. SaltStack is an IT infrastructure management platform based in Lehi, UT.  SaltStack’s CEO, Mark Chenn, is a former member of Cougar Capital. SaltStack’s Series A raise was led by Mercato partners.
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