About
Nellie Levchin started at PayPal in a junior office-manager role and grew into a key early employee, then served as Chief Risk Officer at Peter Thiel's global macro hedge fund Clarium Capital Management before joining SciFi VC. Max Levchin has publicly credited her as the person who discovers and drives a large share of SciFi's deals, and she appears as a featured expert in fintech lending discussions, bringing a practitioner's depth in risk management and underwriting to early-stage investing. Nellie Levchin started at PayPal in a junior office-manager role and grew into a key early employee, then served as Chief Risk Officer at Peter Thiel's global macro hedge fund Clarium Capital Management before joining SciFi VC. Max Levchin has publicly credited her as the person who discovers and drives a large share of SciFi's deals, and she appears as a featured expert in fintech lending discussions, bringing a practitioner's depth in risk management and underwriting to early-stage investing.
