Liza Rodewald & Erica McMannes - Founders, Instant Teams

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We couldn’t be more excited about Instant Teams’ recent $14M Series A financing, led by Tiger Global. The company’s growth continues to accelerate as it helps United States military spouses across the world find meaningful career opportunities. Founders Liza and Erica epitomize grit, determination and achievement, we can’t wait see the impact they create in 2022 and beyond!

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Liza Rodewald

Liza Rodewald is a 4x entrepreneur and software engineer with over 16 years of technical experience. She has built multi-million dollar enterprise software for government and healthcare industries.  Her passion for entrepreneurship came from her desire to have a more flexible lifestyle and lead her to advocate and shape the future of work for companies and workers.

Liza graduated with honors with a degree in Computer Science from the University of South Alabama.  She is in the top 3% of graduates from the Founder Institute, and alumni of the Blue Startups Accelerator, named one of the Top 25 SheEO and a published Forbes author.   She is also a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Council and serves as a mentor for female founders.

She is currently the Founder and CEO of Instant Teams, a remote-first, tech-enabled solution building high-quality customer support and operational teams. Our remote teams are built with military spouse and underserved talent communities enabling 24/7 support around the globe.

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Erica McMannes

Erica McMannes is COO and co-founder of Instant Teams and the Instant Teams Academy. Erica found her calling in Silicon Valley in 2012, as a founding member of 3 startups focusing on user acquisition and community growth. She has been an Active Duty Army Spouse for 19 years and found the mobility and freedom as a remote professional to be something she wanted to replicate for more people. 

Erica is an expert at leading teams in a remote environment and starting and running a successful business as a military spouse and female founder. 

She is currently the Founder and COO of Instant Teams, a remote-first, tech-enabled solution building high-quality customer support and operational teams. Our remote teams are built with military spouse and underserved talent communities enabling 24/7 support around the globe.