Charles Shannon

Westbound Equity Partners is an early stage firm investing financial and social capital into exceptional leaders and teams who come from all walks of life to build generationally great companies. Our support goes beyond capital: the Westbound team and Network partner deeply with founders to build intentional, winning cultures and scale with excellence.

Deel is one platform for payroll, HR, benefits, mobility, performance, and device management across 150+ countries. Built on owned infrastructure, powered by AI, and supported by thousands of local experts, Deel helps businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly. Trusted by 40,000+ customers, and created to become a global brand people love. Learn more at deel.com.

The needs of business owners have significantly changed over the past decade, the insurance industry hasn’t. When you’re running your own business, you’re placing a huge bet on yourself. Your ideas, your passion, your blood, sweat and tears define your success. Next Insurance was created to give your business the coverage it deserves. Simple, affordable and tailored. So no matter what you do, no matter how you define success, we’re right there, next to you. 100% dedicated to the self-employed, 100% how insurance should be.

In a world where consumers increasingly value self-expression and individuality, the market for hard-to-find fashion, collectibles, and electronics has never been hotter. Our global platform offers unique access to current culture while our data-driven, bid-ask model provides buyers with the real-time visibility to know they’re getting a fair price. With key leadership and an inspiring vision in place, we believe we’re poised for significant growth: into new product verticals, new audiences, and new geographies. To get there we’re looking for flexible, all-in teammates who are excited by ownership and the opportunity to take on emerging challenges. If you’re a doer who’s ready to solve tough problems with plenty of laughs along the way, we’d love to hear from you. We welcome, embrace, and respect all dimensions of diversity. We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members are valued, supported, and respected—and no, you don’t need to know a thing about sneakers or fashion. To learn more and check out open roles, head to careers.stockx.com.

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We’re building the future of cross-border payments for the next billion. 2018-2021 - was v1 of the company - doesnt exist. In just 28 months since re-launch in 2022, NALA grew from $0 to $24M in revenue, turned profitable once, and built a moat through an integrated B2B (rafiki.com) infrastructure powering stablecoin payments between the US, UK, EU, Africa and Asia. Raised over $50m - our investors include Accel, Acrew, Y Combinator, Bessemer, and DST Global Partners, alongside awesome founders Alex (Deel), Tarek (Kalshi), Jonas (Monzo), Ryan (Chime), Laura (Alloy) and Vlad (Robinhood).

Finix is a payment processor that makes it easy for software platforms, marketplaces, and individual businesses of all sizes to accept payments and send money while maximizing revenue and reducing costs. Finix is trusted by startups and publicly traded companies alike to build and scale their payments infrastructure. Headquartered in San Francisco, Finix is a privately held company with funding from American Express Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Homebrew, Inspired Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Visa, and more.

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly and always learn and reiterate to support merchants, Dashers and the communities we serve. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods. DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. Our leaders seek the truth and welcome big, hairy, audacious questions. We are grounded in our company values, and we make intentional decisions that are both logical and display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to Merchants to Customers.

A modern platform for the AI era Our mission at Cohesity is simple: to protect, secure, and provide insights into the world’s data. The largest organizations around the globe rely on us to strengthen their business resilience. With the Cohesity Data Cloud, we are able to deliver on that mission. Our customers can recover from cyber events faster, manage and secure their data at enterprise scale, and gain valuable insights with our industry-leading AI capabilities.

Fundbox is the pioneer of embedded capital products for SMBs, offering fast, simple access to credit through the tools businesses already use. Since 2015, Fundbox has helped over 170,000 small businesses unlock more than $6 billion in capital. Now, as the capital infrastructure behind the digital SMB economy, Fundbox is focused on enabling platforms to embed financial tools directly into their user experiences. -Named one of CNBCs Top 250 fintechs in 2024 & 2025 -Honored as an Inc.com B2B Power Partner in 2024 -Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America -Winner of the AI Breakthrough Awards

Turo is reinventing rental to unlock independence for all, with hundreds of thousands of vehicles listed by a vast network of local hosts across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and Australia. By removing the hassles and rigidity of the traditional rental experience, Turo lets customers choose the exact vehicle they want, pick it up where they want, and keep it for as long as they need. Turo has raised $450M+ from top-tier investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Canaan Partners, August Capital, GV, Shasta Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation, and IAC. With a talented, dedicated team, Turo is changing the way people think about travel. Discover Turo at turo.com, the App Store, and Google Play, and check out our blog, Field Notes, at blog.turo.com.

Westbound Equity Partners is an early stage firm investing financial and social capital into exceptional leaders and teams who come from all walks of life to build generationally great companies. Our support goes beyond capital: the Westbound team and Network partner deeply with founders to build intentional, winning cultures and scale with excellence.

Welcome to a new kind of venture capital. A community of talented founders who switched from the common path.

Deel is one platform for payroll, HR, benefits, mobility, performance, and device management across 150+ countries. Built on owned infrastructure, powered by AI, and supported by thousands of local experts, Deel helps businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly. Trusted by 40,000+ customers, and created to become a global brand people love. Learn more at deel.com.

The needs of business owners have significantly changed over the past decade, the insurance industry hasn’t. When you’re running your own business, you’re placing a huge bet on yourself. Your ideas, your passion, your blood, sweat and tears define your success. Next Insurance was created to give your business the coverage it deserves. Simple, affordable and tailored. So no matter what you do, no matter how you define success, we’re right there, next to you. 100% dedicated to the self-employed, 100% how insurance should be.

In a world where consumers increasingly value self-expression and individuality, the market for hard-to-find fashion, collectibles, and electronics has never been hotter. Our global platform offers unique access to current culture while our data-driven, bid-ask model provides buyers with the real-time visibility to know they’re getting a fair price. With key leadership and an inspiring vision in place, we believe we’re poised for significant growth: into new product verticals, new audiences, and new geographies. To get there we’re looking for flexible, all-in teammates who are excited by ownership and the opportunity to take on emerging challenges. If you’re a doer who’s ready to solve tough problems with plenty of laughs along the way, we’d love to hear from you. We welcome, embrace, and respect all dimensions of diversity. We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members are valued, supported, and respected—and no, you don’t need to know a thing about sneakers or fashion. To learn more and check out open roles, head to careers.stockx.com.