Alexa von Tobel (born circa. 1984) is the founder and CEO of LearnVest.com, an award-winning personal finance website. Von Tobel is the author of the New York Times bestseller Financially Fearless, which debuted on December 31, 2013.
In April 2014, von Tobel was selected as an inaugural member of the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship, alongside Steve Case, Reid Hoffman, Tory Burch and others.
Originally from Florida, Von Tobel received an A.B. in Psychology at Harvard College.
After graduation, she worked as a trader at Morgan Stanley before leaving to be the Head of Business Development at Drop.io.
Von Tobel came up with the idea for LearnVest in 2006 while working at Morgan Stanley when she realized she and most other people had never had any formal education about how to manage their personal finances.
In April 2009, Von Tobel closed a $4.5 million series A round of funding led by Accel Partners. To date, Learnvest has raised outside equity of $72 million, from investors including Accel Partners, AmericanExpress Ventures and Northwestern Mutual Capital.
Tobel is a village and former municipality in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland.
In 1999 the municipality was merged with the neighboring municipality Tägerschen to form a new and larger municipality Tobel-Tägerschen.
Coordinates: 47°31′N 9°02′E / 47.517°N 9.033°E / 47.517; 9.033
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