Capital Call with Christian Bilger of Honeycomb Credit

We are privileged to have Christian Bilger the Co-Founder and COO of Honeycomb Credit, as guest of Ben Franklin’s next Capital Call

Honeycomb Credit is a funding portal that allows locally owned small businesses to to raise capital in a variety of ways from their own loyal customers and fans. Honeycomb unlocks fair growth capital for Main Street businesses, while simultaneously enabling anyone to invest local in their own communities.

Topics Covered

How the invest local movement enables community-driven investment and business growth
How the Honeycomb Credit platform connects local businesses with customer investors
Audience Q&A with Christian

This session is moderated by John Sider, Vice President of Business Development, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania.

Meet the presenter

Christian Bilger is the Co-Founder and COO of Honeycomb Credit, a funding portal that allows locally owned small businesses to borrow expansion loans from their own loyal customers and fans. Honeycomb unlocks fair growth capital for Main Street businesses, while simultaneously enabling anyone to invest local in their own communities. Christian co-founded Honeycomb to empower communities to invest in their local entrepreneurs and provide fair financing to growing small businesses. Prior to founding Honeycomb Credit, Christian worked at Wellington Management and JPMorgan in their hedge fund administration businesses. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance from St. Michael's College and an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon.

Meet the presenter

John Sider created "Capital Call", the Ben Franklin quarterly session he moderates that links entrepreneurs in the BF CNP ecosystem to active, early-stage investors in the region. John is an accomplished professional in private, public, and non-profit sectors. With a wide-ranging experience in debt and equity financing as well as senior-level management appointments. John is an expert in program development and execution for economic development activities focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and redevelopment. He is highly skilled in communications, financial analysis and business development and a frequent presenter/moderator on early-stage capital formation issues at venues that have included: International Commercialization Forum, US Treasury, National Academy of Sciences, National Governors Association, State Science and Technology Institute and more.

Capital Call with Christian Bilger of Honeycomb Credit