Business
Black Founders: Solving Chicago’s Venture Capital Problem
Black founders will share insights on the challenges they face raising funding for their businesses and how Chicago can address its diversity problem.
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Kyle Stoner
Founder & CEO at AbodeHQ.com / USRealty.com
Chicago
Kyle Stoner is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven background in engineering, product management, operations, and finance.
In 2017 Kyle launched Abode, an end-to-end online real estate marketplace. Abode is the top flat-fee listing site helping builders, large institutions and DIY home sellers list, market, show, and sell their homes at a fraction of the cost of traditional brokers. Abode can rapidly list hundreds and even thousands of homes on the relevant Multiple Listing Services (MLS), and provides clients with a dashboard so they can easily track these kinds of bulk sales.
Prior to that, Kyle co-founded Alpha Lead, a marketplace focused on using data analytics to match clients with Social Security Disability attorneys and senior living facilities.
In 2012, Kyle co-founded Pangea Money Transfer (gopangea.com), where he served as COO. Pangea is the highest rated money transfer app on both the Apple App store and Google Play.
Prior to that, Kyle worked for Robert W. Baird as an investment banker, executing mergers and acquisitions for consumer branded companies. While at Baird, he advised a number of top institutions, including Adidas on their acquisition of FiveTen and CamelBak on their sale to Compass Diversified Holdings.
Education: MBA, Columbia University; BS Industrial Engineering, Purdue University; Cranbrook Kingswood.
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