Full Name
Miles Lasater ’01
Job Title
Co-Founder
Company
Purpose Built
Speaker Bio
Miles Lasater is CEO and Founder of Purpose Built, a venture studio focused on economic opportunity. Miles previously co-founded Higher One (IPO, 2010), SeeClickFix (acq 2019), and OneUni. He is a Kauffman Fellow, formerly a VC at F-Prime Capital, and co-founded the Yale Entrepreneurial Society while an undergraduate at Yale.
Higher One was a fast-growing fintech company that served 2M+ college students and 1,200+ higher ed campuses. He was founder and senior executive, taking the company from idea to $200M+ in revenue, 750+ employees, and a public listing on the NYSE. Miles served as the public company board chair and is experienced in corporate governance and M&A transactions.
Miles has invested in dozens of pre-seed and seed-stage ventures, taught a class on venture capital at Yale University, and previously served on the board of Venture for America. He is on the board of ConnCORP, a $150M+ economic development project in the Dixwell neighborhood of New Haven, and is Chair of the board of Curious Learning, a tech nonprofit. Miles is the host of the podcast Startups for Good and blogs at VenturePatterns.com.
Higher One was a fast-growing fintech company that served 2M+ college students and 1,200+ higher ed campuses. He was founder and senior executive, taking the company from idea to $200M+ in revenue, 750+ employees, and a public listing on the NYSE. Miles served as the public company board chair and is experienced in corporate governance and M&A transactions.
Miles has invested in dozens of pre-seed and seed-stage ventures, taught a class on venture capital at Yale University, and previously served on the board of Venture for America. He is on the board of ConnCORP, a $150M+ economic development project in the Dixwell neighborhood of New Haven, and is Chair of the board of Curious Learning, a tech nonprofit. Miles is the host of the podcast Startups for Good and blogs at VenturePatterns.com.
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