How many investments has Catalyze Advisors made?

Catalyze Advisors has 17 tracked investments.

What stage does Catalyze Advisors invest at?

Catalyze Advisors invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.

What sectors does Catalyze Advisors focus on?

Catalyze Advisors focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Software, Fintech, SaaS.

Catalyze Advisors

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Pre-Seed–Seed · 8 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Catalyze Advisors was started by a team that first met as early employees at Stripe, where they helped scale the company. Drawing on their operating backgrounds, they provide early-stage funding alongside hands-on advisory services, helping technology startups establish foundational accounting, corporate, regulatory, tax, partnership, and product strategies. The goal is to help founders identify and navigate the key initial challenges that come with starting and growing a company, positioning them for continued growth and success.

Invests inAI & Machine Learning Cybersecurity Enterprise Software Fintech SaaS North America

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Stage

Pre-Seed–Seed

Instruments

Equity

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Team · 8 people

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Jon

A founder of Catalyze Advisors who previously served as General Counsel of Stripe for over 8 years, overseeing legal, public policy, compliance, and corporate security. He also founded Responsible Innovation Labs and earlier worked at Microsoft and Perkins Coie.

Dave

Spent 12 years at Ernst & Young as an auditor before serving as Chief Accounting Officer at Facebook through its 2012 IPO, then joined Stripe as its Chief Accountant and first finance hire, building a 100+ person finance team. He also helps run operations and finance for a small family-office investing fund.

David

An intellectual property expert and former Managing Director and Global Head of IP at BlackRock and Stripe's first Head of IP; he currently serves as Head of IP at Anthropic. A PhD biophysicist turned lawyer, he is an inventor on 25 US patents and advises startups at the Atlanta Tech Village.

Jacques

Former General Counsel of Calm and Head of Corporate Affairs at Stripe, where he handled fundraising, corporate development, governance, and equity matters. Previously a Director at BlackRock and a corporate attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Kay

A financial services veteran with 20+ years working with financial institutions and regulators, including Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Her expertise spans risk management, compliance, operations, business development, and international expansion, and she contributed to the growth of PayPal and Stripe.

Mary

An equity expert specializing in global tax compliance, platform management, and equity compensation. Formerly Head of Global Equity at Stripe, she now holds the concurrent role of Head of Equity at Anthropic.

Michael

A tax advisor experienced in payments, web3, e-commerce, and hardware. He was previously Head of Tax at Stripe and led tax operations and web3/blockchain tax initiatives at Facebook.

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What they invest in

from 5 of 17 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×3Enterprise Software ×3SaaS ×3Fintech ×2Cybersecurity ×1Deep Tech ×1Logistics & Supply Chain ×1Robotics ×1

HQs:United States×4South Africa×1

Investments · 17 tracked

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Agencygetagency.com inSeed

Agency provides outsourced security and compliance operations for enterprise companies, combining forward-deployed U.S.-based compliance engineers with proprietary AI.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US

Amir Tarighat(Founder)in Tyler Carbone(Founder)in

Co-investorsBBQ Capital Leonis Capital ManchesterStory Group, LLC Phoenix Fund Soma Capital Y Combinator +7 more

AIM Intelligent Machinesaim.vision in

AIM develops autonomous technology for earthworks and mining operations, combining robotics and AI built by engineers from Waymo, SpaceX, Google, and Tesla.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsMonroe, US

Adam Sadilek(CEO)in

Board Sven Strohband(Director)in

Co-investorsDCVC (Data Collective)General Catalyst Human Capital Khosla Ventures Daft Capital Ironspring Venture +3 more

Eisenwitheisen.com in

Eisen builds compliance operations infrastructure to help companies manage unclaimed property and escheatment obligations, enabling them to proactively identify customer funds before they are escheated to the state.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York, US

Allen Osgood(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in

Co-investorsCowboy Ventures First Round Capital Homebrew Index Ventures MissionOG

Hophop.exchange

Hop is a cross-chain token bridge protocol that moves assets between Ethereum and its layer-2 scaling networks.

Co-investors1confirmation Coinbase Ventures Devika Ventures

Khotan (formerly Pollinate)pollinate.tech inSeed

Pollinate builds AI agents for supply chain operations, starting with procurement automation that extracts supplier invoices from email and reconciles them against purchase orders and receipts across ERP systems.

Enterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSan Francisco, US

Adeep Mitra(Founder)in Corey Berther(Founder)inNam Le(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investors77 Partners ilab Accelerator Y Combinator CRV (Charles River Ventures)Hassan Lantry (Blast)Insight Partners +2 more

Stitchstitch.money in 𝕏

Stitch provides payment infrastructure enabling businesses to accept, send and manage online and in-person payments while offering consumers in South Africa financial management tools.

FintechSaaSSouth Africa, ZA

Mohamed Oueida(Founder & CEO)Kiaan Pillay(Founder)in Junaid Dadan(Founder)in

Co-investors500 Global CRE Venture Capital Digital Currency Group Expansion Capital Future Africa Glynn Capital Management +13 more

Other

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

AnrokBalance PaymentsCrosswalk LabsFormaFragmentLocatiblemameonProspectPulleyRibbonWarden Global

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

🦋 Pollinate – Agents that automate data entry into your ERP built in days not quarters.

Khotan (formerly Pollinate) · ycombinator.com · Feb 5, 2026

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Catalyze Advisors made?: Catalyze Advisors has 17 tracked investments.
What stage does Catalyze Advisors invest at?: Catalyze Advisors invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
What sectors does Catalyze Advisors focus on?: Catalyze Advisors focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Software, Fintech, SaaS.