Jessica Mah | |
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Born | May 18, 1990 |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley, Bard College at Simon's Rock |
Occupation | Businesswoman |
Known for | Co-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]
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]
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]