Rani Croager

Rani Croager is co-founder of Uptima Business Bootcamp, an innovative member-owned business accelerator. has 15 years of experience advising organizations on strategic and financial planning, capital raising and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Croager was a member of the founding team and vice president at Altius Education where she helped raise over $30 million of capital to fund development of the company’s educational ecosystem. Ms. Croager began her career as a successful investment banker and has led and participated in over 30 financing, merger, acquisition and joint venture transactions, representing over $15 billion in value, for leading technology companies. Ms. Croager has extensive experience supporting very early stage entrepreneurs as a lead organizer for Startup Weekend Oakland – Black Male Achievement, pitch coach for Oakland Startup Weekend EDU, organizer and entrepreneur coach for the Alliance for Community Development and judge for Duke University Startup Challenge. Ms. Croager received her B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Duke University, was a recipient of the university’s prestigious William J. Griffith university service award and was selected as a semifinalist for Young Trustee on the university’s Board of Trustees.