Andre is an experienced start-up entrepreneur with a passion for applying technology to solve problems for people. He was a co-founder of Closir, a fintech product focused on institutional finance and the asset management industry. He helped grow Closir to currently serve 200 large corporate users and 100 investor users. He is now applying the experience of Closir to launch Stuypend.

Michael has an engineering background with recent experience in banking in New York City. His first start-up company took from prototype to production a football training tool invented at Cornell University. His interest in payments started after winning the Dwolla API prize at the ValueStream Labs hackathon in the fall of 2013. He’s excited to apply his knowledge and experience to build Stuypend.