Eli Wachs 👣

CEO

New York, New York, United States10 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded Footprint to combat identity theft.
Led Tech Fights Dobbs for women's health advocacy.
Established High School HeroesX to engage youth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Healthcare entrepreneur with a strong focus on advocacy and technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipLeadershipAiVenture CapitalResearchPublic SpeakingCommunity Engagement

Other Skills

AI-powered onboardingrisk managementcomplianceoperationsidentity infrastructureAI agentsfraud preventioncompliance solutionsPrivacy technologyWomen's health advocacyCoalition buildingAdvocacyTechnology solutionsTechnology investmentData privacy

About

I've been starting companies since high school. Today, my company Footprint is building the identity layer to the internet. We're honored to work with some of the largest companies across banking, payments, gaming, and real estate. Footprint's mission is to eliminate $20B of annual identity theft by leveraging AI agents for fraud + compliance teams and building the system of record for identity decisions. With this goal of giving consumers trust online, I also started Tech Fights Dobbs (TFD), a group of privacy + women's health companies using technology to help protect women post-Roe. In my free time, I perform stand-up comedy and listen to Avicii.

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Tech fights dobbs

Founder

May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · New York, United States

Tech Fights Dobbs (TFD) is a coalition of technology companies committed to using technology to give back women their privacy, their rights, and hope in the wake of the horrifying Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe.

Privacy technologyWomen's health advocacyCoalition buildingEntrepreneurshipLeadership

Footprint

Co-Founder + CEO

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · New York, United States

AI-powered onboarding + agents for risk, compliance, and ops. Building the identity infrastructure for the internet. Raised $20M from QED + Index. Work with largest companies in banking, payments, and digital commerce.

AI-powered onboardingrisk managementcomplianceoperationsidentity infrastructureEntrepreneurship+1

General atlantic

Investment Professional | Technology Team

Aug 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Technology investment team focusing on Data Privacy, Compliance, Identity, and Data Security

Technology investmentData privacyComplianceIdentity securityVenture CapitalResearch

Decdis

Co-Founder

Apr 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr

Decdis was created by four people under the age of 25 at the YSI incubator in Norway. The company sought to find ways to prevent the spread of infectious disease. Decdis aimed to help companies track disease in the workplace, using AI and other tools to provide daily insights and recommendations.

AIInfectious disease preventionData trackingEntrepreneurship

Ysi - young sustainable impact

Selected Participant

Apr 2017 – Aug 2017 · 4 mos

One of 25 chosen out of 10,028 applicants; working with an international group of five on a startup to address elements of UN sustainable development goal number three.

Sustainable developmentStartup collaborationEntrepreneurshipResearch

Ted conferences

Keynote Speaker

Aug 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

Eli has spoken at two TedX events and at tGELF LIFE in New Delhi, India.

Public speakingEvent organizationPublic SpeakingLeadership

Ysa (youth service america)

2015-2016 Youth Ambassador for the State of Pennsylvania

Aug 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

Selected as Youth Ambassador for the organization’s “Promoting Youth Creativity and Innovation to Solve Local Problems” initiative receiving funding for a statewide High School HeroesX environmental challenge
Worked with the offices of U.S. Senator Bob Casey and U.S. Senator candidate Katie McGinty throughout the challenge ultimately awarding three winning teams prizes to help implement solutions for unsafe fracking, non-essential lighting and recycling

Youth engagementCommunity outreachLeadershipCommunity Engagement

High school heroesx

President and Founder

Apr 2013 – Mar 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos

High School HeroesX (HSHX) is an organization which runs incentivized competitions for high school students to solve local issues. Founded during my freshman year in high school, HSHX has operated challenges ranging issues such as the education gap, save algorithms for autonomous vehicles, and the environment. Students from Beijing to Philadelphia have participated in our challenges--year long competitions based around solving a challenge topic selected by the students competing. The winners of our Philadelphia Education Challenge winners used the grant money to scale their computer literacy curricula to impact more students by purchasing Little Bits Stream PD.
Established organization’s 501(c)(3) status, created the vision, applied for and received numerous grants for funding, built a robust social-media marketing platform and forged key relationships with school administrators, government officials and corporate leaders

Nonprofit managementYouth engagementSocial media marketingEntrepreneurshipLeadership