Evan Baehr is an American 🏷️#entrepreneur, 🏷️#investor, and 🏷️#author, co-founder of the SMB lending platform Able and co-author with 📝Evan Loomis of 📝Get Backed (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015), a step-by-step guide to early-stage fundraising built around the pitch deck.
Earlier in his career Baehr was a co-founder of Outbox, the postal-mail-to-digital service that operated in Austin and Washington, D.C. before winding down in 2014. He has subsequently moved between investor, operator, and writing roles, and is a regular speaker on fundraising mechanics and the friction points first-time founders most consistently underestimate when raising institutional capital.