Itai Damti

Co-Founder & CEO @ Unit

About

Unit is the market leader in embedded finance. We offer ready-to-launch solutions - embedded capital, banking and bill pay - that help software companies grow revenues, delight their customers and win their markets. Our products serve millions of users across ~100 customers, including: Wix, Bill.com, Honeybook, Relay, Homebase and more. I've been passionate about the complexity + value in building infrastructure from a young age, and at Unit I'm lucky to do it as part of a great team. I try to live my life mindfully, with curiosity, and with an open heart. I’m a generalist and lifelong learner of leadership, science, nature, business, design, music and more.

Country

United States

City

New York

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Product Management, Start-ups, .NET, Software Design, FX trading, System Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Lean Startup, Financial Markets, FinTech, Operations Management, Mobile Devices, Architecture, Multithreading, User Experience, C#, Web Applications, Scrum, Trading Systems, Software Development

Experience

Co-Founder & CEO

Unit

2019-4 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

Investor

Startups

2013 - Present · 13 yrs

Wrote (mostly) early & small checks into companies as an angel or syndicate member. Rooting for the founders from the sideline as a friend & admirer.

Mentor

First Round Fast Track

2021 - 2022 · 1 yr

Advisor

Ion Pacific

2017-7 - 2021-1 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Hong Kong

Ion Pacific is a global investment and merchant bank, headquartered in Hong Kong. It specializes in cross-border technology investments, and is licensed by the FCA (UK) and SFC (HK).

Co-Founder

2017-12 - 2019 · 1 yr

Hong Kong

Co-founded a quant prop-trading business (marketmaking, arbitrage) that traded across 30 exchanges, 32 assets, 650 order books.

Entrepreneur In Residence (Fintech)

500 Global

2018-1 - 2018-11 · 11 mos

San Francisco

Worked closely with the fintech partners + 12 portfolio companies making a dent in insurance, payments, banking, lending and more.

Entrepreneur In Residence

SOSV HAX

2017-5 - 2017-7 · 3 mos

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Mentored ~20 startups (consumer, robotics, healthcare, industrial) at the world's first and largest hardware accelerator.

Co-founder

Leverate

2008-1 - 2016-11 · 8 yrs 11 mos

Leverate is an industry leader in tech for online brokers, with over $200b in monthly trading volume. The company offers a full suite of products, including liquidity, risk management, compliance tools, real-time market data on >4000 assets, CRM's and trading platforms.