Fintech Ventures Fund ("FVF") is an investment firm hyperfocused on supporting founders building businesses with capital markets, lending, and insurance use cases. We take a "private equity" approach to fintech investing and often extend the first institutional credit facilities from an affiliated financing vehicle. We've invested over $38 million into 19 portfolio companies and have helped our founders secure over $2 billion in follow-on financing from leading institutional investors. Follow-on strategic investors into FVF's portfolio companies include Amazon, Apollo, Blackstone, Credit Suisse, Fairfax Financial, Ford Motors, Greenlight Re (founded by David Einhorn), Jefferies, KKR, Macquarie, Mass Mutual, Northwestern Mutual, and Rockefeller Capital Management. Our portfolio companies have also raised venture capital/growth equity from Drive Capital, Edison Partners, Goodwater Capital, Hudson Structured Capital Management, M12 (Microsoft's venture fund), Montage Ventures, Slow Ventures, and Yamaha Motor Ventures. Members of the FVF portfolio have successfully exited to strategic acquirers, including Neuberger Berman, a subsidiary of Visa, and The Zebra. To get in touch, please reach out to us directly through Linkedin or via our website!
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Atlanta, GA/New York, NY, US
New York, New York 10036, US
Great to see PAXAFE's Co-Founder and CEO, Ilya Preston's thoughts featured by FreightWaves, as Ilya Preston underscores some of the uses of AI within the cold chain storage sector!
Paxafe CEO and co-founder Ilya Preston said AI technology and accurate data can improve the global cold chain dramatically, helping reduce food waste and emissions. https://lnkd.in/eQKQbheZ
Exciting news from the team at battleface!
📢 Exciting news! 📢 We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with HBX Group to provide highly-customisable tech-driven insurance products. HBX Group will offer battleface products in phases to its clients and partners, such as travel agencies, tour operators and OTAs, across the EU, UK, US, Canada, Mexico and Australia, followed by Latin America and Asia. Daniel Nordholm, Chief Product and New Business Officer at HBX Group, said: “Our partnership with battleface is a pivotal moment in our mission to transform the travel landscape and a major step forward for our Fintech and Insurance business, as we continue to drive innovation and expand our offerings.” battleface CEO Sasha Gainullin added: “With HBX Group, we have a global platform to accelerate our reach and deliver best-in-class support to travellers worldwide.” Read the full Press Release here: https://lnkd.in/dTcQ4c9r #insurtech #travelinsurance #insurancenews
Excited to announce that Groundfloor Finance has reached the 2024 Inc. Magazine 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies! This year, the company placed in the top 25% of all recognees and ranked as the 7th-fastest growing financial services firm in Georgia.
We're excited to announce that we made it onto the Inc 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for the fifth year in a row! 🎉 #Inc5000
In this week of Fintech Ventures Fund founder podcast appearances, we encourage you to tune into this recent episode with Brian Dally, Co-Founder/CEO of Groundfloor Finance, as he joins the Vincent Alternative Investments Podcast! 👇
New episode of the podcast just dropped! Slava Rubin talked with Brian Dally, co-founder and CEO of Groundfloor Finance. Here, Brian talks about the reasons to invest into real estate debt. Full episode here: https://lnkd.in/ghRJrhbt
A great way to learn more about our newest portfolio company, Pull Logic, and Co-Founder/CEO, Karl Swensen 👇
Karl Swensen and Joe Lynch discuss solving the $1.8 trillion distortion inventory problem. Karl is the CEO and Co-founder of Pull Logic, an AI-enabled tech company focused on reducing lost sales for retailers, brands, and manufacturers due failure points in the supply chain and selling processes. #logistics #supplychain #manufacturing #technology #artificialintelligence #ai #podcast https://lnkd.in/eYCs6mjr
Congratulations to Chris B. on his promotion to CEO of Momnt! We thank Barclay Keith (Co-Founder), who will remain on as a Special Advisor to the company, for his leadership, and look forward to what lies ahead!
Big news at Momnt! 📢 We're very excited to announce the appointment of Chris B. as our new CEO! Bracken formerly served as Momnt's Chief Revenue Officer and his extensive consumer lending experience will lead Momnt to capitalize on industry disruptions in moment-of-need lending. “Momnt is leading the way in the moment-of-need financial services space, and I am honored to continue the work our leadership team and employees have done to establish Momnt as a trusted partner for so many home improvement contractors, healthcare professionals, lenders, and capital providers,” said Bracken. “Looking ahead, our team is primed to continue serving our partners and customers as well as strengthen our technology along the way.” In addition to Bracken being named CEO, current CEO and Co-Founder, Barclay Keith, will take on a more strategic role to provide industry insight and guidance to both the company and Board. We deeply thank Barclay Keith for his significant contributions to Momnt and look forward to his insight and guidance on our Board. Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/eGe9s5FF #momnt #fintech #atlanta #embeddedfinance #embeddedlending #pressrelease
We're excited to announce our Seed Round investment in Pull Logic, joining Silicon Road Ventures and Pax Momentum on the Atlanta-based company's cap table! Pull Logic uses AI and predictive analytics to reduce inventory costs for businesses selling large-ticket items, leveraging Professor Benoit Montreuil's research (the Coca-Cola Endowed Professor of Supply Chain at the Georgia Institute of Technology). Pull Logic has some interesting fintech and insurtech use cases/overlap with our existing portfolio, and look forward to partnering with Karl Swensen, Taresh Grover, and the Pull Logic team on the company's next chapter of growth! Read more about the company and its plans for the future in this Hypepotamus feature (with a link to the full press release in the comments): https://lnkd.in/ezCd9UMJ
Exciting stuff from Sasha Gainullin, the Co-Founder/CEO of our portfolio company, battleface!
This morning we welcomed battleface CEO, Sasha Gainullin, to MarketHub Americas, where he delivered an insightful keynote on how travel should be protected, the importance of this, and the available services for the travellers of today. With travel evolving as it is, insurers must be forward thinking in order to provide personalised solutions and a world class service. This can be done through customised plans, technology and automation, and innovation to meet traveller needs. #MHub2024 #HBXGroup
With over 400 indications of interest, we are blown away by the level of response for this event featuring our Co-Founder & GP, Lucas Timberlake! While the event may be at capacity, there is still time left to register for a waitlist, and this will allow us to keep you in the loop for our future events (please stay tuned)!
As part of NYC TECH WEEK by a16z, our Co-Founder & GP, Lucas Timberlake, is speaking at an event on June 4th: ➡ "FinTech Investors and Founders: How to Find the Right Investor for Your Fintech Startup" Lucas will join: 🎤 Anna Garcia, CFA, Founder & GP of Altari Ventures 🎤 Arina Shulga, Partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough 🎤 John Clark Higgins, Co-Founder/CEO of Fintech Ventures Fund portfolio company, Steady Technologies, Inc We hope to see you there! The event is primarily geared towards Pre-Seed/Seed-stage #fintech founders. Please use the link below to register your interest: https://lu.ma/1ky2ev9u
We're excited to announce our Seed Round investment in Pull Logic, joining Silicon Road Ventures and Pax Momentum on the Atlanta-based company's cap table! Pull Logic uses predictive analytics to reduce inventory costs for businesses selling large-ticket items, and leverages the research of Professor Benoit Montreuil (Coca-Cola Endowed Professor of Supply Chain at the Georgia Institute of Technology). We see some interesting fintech and insurtech use cases/overlap with our existing portfolio, and look forward to partnering with Karl Swensen and the Pull Logic team on the company's next chapter of growth! We intend to share more information on this investment in coming weeks, so please stay tuned!
Exciting News!!! We are thrilled to announce that we've successfully closed our seed funding round to fuel our mission of helping customers reduce lost sales and unproductive Inventory. This milestone wouldn't have been possible without the incredible support of our investors, team, and community. A huge thank you to Silicon Road Ventures, Fintech Ventures Fund and Pax Momentum for believing in our vision and joining us on this journey. With this funding, we're ready to take Pull Logic to new heights and bring our solution to more customers. Stay tuned for the exciting developments ahead! #FundingSuccess #StartupJourney #NextChapter #Innovation #ThankYou #Inventoryoptimization