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C Squared Ventures

Venture capital

Scottsdale · 9 people tracked

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Investment thesis

C Squared Funds is an investment firm focused on emerging and future technologies.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

HQ
Scottsdale, US
Tracked investments
6

Team · 9 people

from the firm's website
Jerry Verbeck· Founder

Co-founder of C Squared and co-inventor of FinaTech's technology. A veteran CFO and banker who worked on early mortgage pass-through and REMIC structures and, with Scott Smith, structured the nation's first mixed-property CRE mortgage pool.

Rick Thabet· Founder

Co-founder of C Squared and board member of MPT and Fathym. Founder and CEO of ThoraGenix Innovations, with over twenty years of entrepreneurial experience across medical device sales and company-building.

Scott Smith· Founderin

Co-founder of C Squared and co-inventor of FinaTech's technology. A structured finance pioneer on Wall Street who helped develop early loan securitization models and structured financing for South Africa's Mandela-era redevelopment program; author of 'A Tale of Two Economies.'

Christopher Smith

Joined C Squared at inception and is a co-inventor of FinaTech's IP. A Stanford graduate in neuroscience and emerging technologies, he supports IP development, licensing, asset protection, legal documentation, and go-to-market strategy.

Glenn Allmendinger· Advisor

Advises C Squared on its portfolio companies and serves on Fathym's board. President of Harbor Research, a consulting firm serving Fortune 500 industrial automation and Industrial IoT companies.

J. C. Boggs· Advisor

A Washington DC-based partner at law firm King and Spalding who advises FinaTech on regulatory and business development matters, including SEC engagement, and helped shape FinaTech's channel partnership program.

John Gustafson· Advisor

Advises C Squared on MPT's patent portfolio. A renowned computer scientist known for Gustafson's Law and the Unum number format, a former Intel Labs director and AMD chief product architect, and currently a Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University.

Kevin Howard

Co-founder of portfolio company Massively Parallel and inventor of MPT's technology and patent portfolio, plus a co-inventor of FinaTech's IP. A computational expert and Mensa member with 40+ patents and multiple DARPA grants.

Shannon Kendall· Managing Member, Investor Relationsin

Joined C Squared as a managing member in 2012, overseeing investor relations and helping manage business development and partner alliances for Massively Parallel. Previously spent 20+ years in the medical device field and earlier worked in food and beverage capital investment.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through C Squared Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.

What they invest in

from 2 of 6 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×2Data & Infrastructure ×1Deep Tech ×1Developer Tools ×1Enterprise Software ×1Fintech ×1SaaS ×1

HQs:United States×1

Investments · 6 tracked

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Fathymfathym.comin𝕏

Fathym builds an independent, git-backed context layer that installs into AI coding agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Aider) so a developer's or company's accumulated context and knowledge is captured, owned, and versioned rather than locked into a vendor's model.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

FinaTechfinatech.llc

FinaTech develops computational technologies for modeling and simulating complex systems, including structured finance instruments (CMBS, private equity funds, REITs), high-performance parallel processing methods (TALPs), and agentic AI platforms for industrial and bio-industrial automation.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechFintechBoulder, US

Scott Smith(Co-founder)inJerry Verbeck(Co-founder)in

Matchboxdaomatchboxdao.comAug 2022

MatchboxDAO is a blockchain gaming DAO building and incubating on-chain games and developer tooling on StarkNet.

Co-investorsBitkraft Esports VenturesLemniscap1kxBig Brain HoldingsChapter OneFabric Ventures+7 more

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

FinaTech Structured SolutionsMassively ParallelMassively Parallel Technologies

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has C Squared Ventures made?
C Squared Ventures has 6 tracked investments.
What sectors does C Squared Ventures focus on?
C Squared Ventures focuses on Crypto & Web3.
Where is C Squared Ventures located?
C Squared Ventures is headquartered in Scottsdale, US.

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