Jess Mah

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Jessica Mah
Born (1990-05-18) May 18, 1990 (age 34)
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley, Bard College at Simon's Rock
OccupationBusinesswoman
Known forCo-founding InDinero

Jessica Mah (born May 18, 1990, in Westchester County, New York) is an American entrepreneur. Mah has founded several companies including InDinero and Mahway. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Early life and education

Mah was born in 1990 in Westchester County, New York, her parents were entrepreneurs in the clothing business and immigrants from Hong Kong who relocated to the United States. [5] [6] Mah finished high school at the age of 15, and then she joined Bard College at Simon's Rock. [7] [8] At the age of 17, Mah joined the University of California, Berkeley's computer science program and graduated by the age of 19. [8]

Career

Mah began her first business when she was 11 by purchasing server space in bulk and selling fractions of the space for cheaper prices. [5] At the age of 13, she started her first internet company selling computer parts on eBay. [9] [10]

In 2009, while at the University of California, Berkeley, Mah and her classmate Andy Su co-founded inDinero, a FinTech company providing accounting and financial software to businesses, and launched the firm's online dashboard a month after graduating from their computer science program. [9] [11] [12]

Following Mah's graduation, she and Su applied to Y Combinator's summer program, [13] and after presenting their idea formally to investors, they had 20 investors signed on. [14] By 2014, inDinero raised $8 million from angel investors, [8] and has raised more than $10 million by 2023. [6]

Mah has received recognition such as being named to Forbes 30 Under 30 under the enterprise technology category, [15] the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 list in 2012, and appeared on the August cover of Inc. Magazine in 2015. [16] [17]

As of 2023, Mah has founded three start-ups, [14] including internshipIN an enterprise software as a service (SaaS) company [18] and Mahway, a venture builder with a portfolio of five companies that has attracted capital from Silicon Valley investors. [6]

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  2. ↑ "How InDinero ignored investors and started making money". VentureBeat. 2011-03-30. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  3. ↑ Feintzeig, Rachel (2022-02-07). "Giving Workers More Time to Grieve in an Era of Loss". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  4. ↑ Erb, Kelly Phillips. "Tax Meets Technology: A Chat With Jessica Mah Of inDinero.com". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  5. 1 2 "In It for a Marathon: Jessica Mah and InDinero's Resilient Founding Team" (PDF).
  6. 1 2 3 "How Jess Mah Went From Startup Founder to Venture Funder". The Street. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  7. ↑ "Entrepreneurs teenagers : 13 parcours incroyables". Les Echos Executives (in French). 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  8. 1 2 3 Kim, Eugene. "This 24-Year-Old High School Dropout Is Tackling A Problem Every Startup Hates To Deal With". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
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  11. ↑ "How a 26-Year-Old Silicon Valley CEO Spends Her Money". Cosmopolitan. 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
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  13. ↑ Gardella, Adriana (2010-09-29). "Can a 20-Year-Old Help You Track Your Finances?". New York Times. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  14. 1 2 "Jessica Mah and Andy Su, Founders of inDinero". Inc. (magazine).
  15. ↑ "Jessica Ma". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  16. ↑ "Alum Jessica Mah Lands Cover of Inc. Magazine". simons-rock.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  17. ↑ Global, E. O. (2015-12-25). "Jessica Mah, Age 25, Graces the Cover of Inc. Magazine in 2015 - The EO Blog". blog.eonetwork.org. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  18. ↑ "12.03.2008 - InternshipIN, nationwide job board, launched by three undergrads". newsarchive.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
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