Hyperfocused support for early-stage fintech founders
We Help Build
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We’ve led early-stage fintech investments, and also extended the first credit facilities for many of our portfolio companies.
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We’ve evaluated nearly 5,000 different fintech startups and chosen to partner with 20 best-in-class operators with unique perspectives on their markets.
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Our portfolio companies have sold to strategic acquirers, which include Neuberger Berman, Visa, and Vouch Insurance.
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Our portfolio has secured follow-on funding from leading institutional financial services investors, including Apollo, Blackstone, Credit Suisse, Jefferies, and Macquarie.
We’ve also helped our portfolio founders raise VC/growth equity from firms, such as Drive Capital, Edison Partners, M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), KKR, and Neuberger Berman.
Our team has spent the majority of our careers within financial services, and we’ve founded and successfully exited several financial services companies.
Our experience also includes acquiring a community banking license, serving on multiple SEC-regulated boards of directors, and completing a successful take-private of a publicly-listed portfolio company.
We founded Fintech Ventures Fund in 2016, with the primary mission of partnering with early-stage fintech entrepreneurs to accelerate their growth by offering hands-on support in the trenches, tailored network expansion, and other value-add resources.
Stage/Business Model
Pre-Seed/Seed
We are usually “first check ” and always high-conviction investors.
We prefer companies that use B2B or B2B2C means to acquire customers.
Geography
North America
Great companies can be founded anywhere, but we prefer companies outside Silicon Valley.
Investment Amount
$250,000 - $2,000,000
Equity+ Structured Credit
We lead rounds and often take board seats.
We also structure the first institutional credit facilities for our portfolio companies.