Source: Crunchbase News
By Joanna Glasner
This article is Part Four of our series featuring workers displaced by the recent waves of tech layoffs who decided to found their own companies. In Part One we chatted with investors and founders and looked at data for early-stage startups. Part Two profiled entrepreneur Peter Henry and the fintech he founded in Latin America. In Part Three, we checked out the state of accelerators during the downturn. — Special Projects Editor Christine Kilpatrick
A series of layoffs at online mortgage lender Better.com last year left thousands of former staffers scrambling to find a job. But not Anmol Sahai. He was thinking term sheets.
Sahai, a 27-year-old Colorado native, joined Better in 2018 as a loan consultant, working his way into a post as legal analyst a year later. Alongside his job, Sahai was studying for a law degree at City University of New York.
The combination of work and studies helped germinate the idea that culminated in his legal tech startup, Composure, when Sahai had trouble finding software geared for managing workflow at a busy and growing in-house legal department…
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