About Sheel Mohnot

Sheel Mohnot is the co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, a seed-focused venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building transformative fintech companies around the world. The firm is currently investing out of its second set of funds, totaling approximately $225M. Since 2015, Sheel Mohnot has focused exclusively on investing in fintech companies, following a successful career with a couple of fintech exits of his own. Beyond fintech, Sheel Mohnot co-founded the podcast 'The Pitch,' which was acquired by Gimlet Media / Spotify and now reaches around 100,000 listeners weekly. He also co-founded Thistle, a food company that serves tens of thousands of customers every week. (And as a side note—he advises against wasting money on InMail!) consultant at BCG and started his FinTech career at the non-profit p2p lender Kiva. He completed his BS at Carnegie Mellon University. There is the fact that Sheel’s name appears early on the cap tables of notable companies like Albert, Unit, Flexport, Ramp, and Kin (even Mercury). He’s big on Twitter @pitdesi, where he shares tips for early-stage founders and occasional updates on his recent wedding in the Taco Bell metaverse. Or you might see him on well-known podcasts like The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) and My First Million. He’s even successfully helped build and sell two companies — reverse credit card auctioning platform FeeFighters (acquired by Groupon in 2012) and private auctioning site Innovative Auctions. Led 500S global fintech deals – 200 investments (e.g. Credit Karma, Stripe] 2 successful exits in FinTech as entrepreneur; 30 angel investments A regular speaker on financial innovation, entrepreneurship, and social innovation Featured on The Atlantic, The New York Times, GigaOM, Techcrunch, Forbes