FinTech Ventures
Venture capitalAtlanta · Pre-Seed–Seed · 2 people tracked
Investment thesis
Fintech Ventures Fund focuses exclusively on early-stage fintech, investing at the pre-seed and seed stages as a high-conviction, first-check investor. It prefers companies using B2B or B2B2C customer acquisition models and located in North America outside Silicon Valley. Beyond equity, the firm structures the first institutional credit facilities for portfolio companies, leads rounds, and often takes board seats. The team draws on deep financial services experience, having founded and exited financial services companies, acquired a community banking license, served on SEC-regulated boards, and completed a take-private of a listed portfolio company. Portfolio companies have exited to strategic acquirers and raised follow-on capital from leading institutional investors.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 3 of 29 portfolio companiesConsumer ×1Data & Infrastructure ×1Deep Tech ×1Fintech ×1Hardware ×1Healthtech ×1IoT ×1Logistics & Supply Chain ×1
HQs:United States×4
Investments · 29 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAtlanta
RICHARD TULEY(Director)NIKHIL BHARGAVA(Executive Officer, Director)BRUCE BOEHM(Director)MICHAEL D. OLANDER(Director)BRIAN DALLY(Executive Officer, Director)SERGEI KOUZMINE(Director)
Board seatSergei Kouzmine· per SEC Form D · $5M raise · filed Dec 2015
Atlanta, US
Chris Bracken(Executive Officer, Director)Ryan Craft(Director)Christopher Randazzo(Director)Kevin Cooper(Executive Officer)Samanttabhiram Das(Director)John Stepp(Director)
Board seatLucas Timberlake· per SEC Form D · $4.4M raise · filed Jul 2021
Columbus, US
"Alexander ""Sasha""" Gainullin(Executive Officer, Director)Molly Bonakdarpour(Director)Christopher Paul Catrambone(Director)Susan Sufen(Director)Andrew Sagon(Director)Lucas Timberlake(Director)
MaxRewards is an app that helps credit card holders optimize their rewards by recommending the best card for each purchase, auto-activating bonus categories, and tracking merchant offers.
ConsumerFintech
PAXAFE is a logistics orchestration platform that helps cold chain manufacturers and logistics service providers reduce monitoring costs and automate lane validation and risk assessments using IoT device data and prescriptive recommendations.
Data & InfrastructureHealthtechIoTLogistics & Supply ChainCarmel, US
ILYA PRESTON(Executive Officer, Director)ASHOK SEETHARAM(Executive Officer, Director)MATTHEW LAUTZ(Director)
BoardPETER MISEK(Director)
Pull Logic is an AI supply chain decision platform that uses multi-agent AI to predict demand shifts and supply risk and autonomously execute replenishment, substitutions, and exception handling to keep products available.
QuEra develops neutral-atom quantum computers, building both the quantum hardware and the classical control systems that operate them, along with related software and applications.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum Computing
Nate Gemelke(Co-founder, Chief Technology Strategist)Vladan Vuletić(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)Mikhail Lukin(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)Markus Greiner(Co-founder)Takuya Kitagawa(President)Dean Bogdanovic(SVP Engineering)
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does FinTech Ventures invest at?
- FinTech Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is FinTech Ventures's typical check size?
- FinTech Ventures typically writes checks of $250K – $2M.
- What sectors does FinTech Ventures focus on?
- FinTech Ventures focuses on Fintech, InsurTech.
- Where is FinTech Ventures located?
- FinTech Ventures is headquartered in Atlanta, US.
- Does FinTech Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, FinTech Ventures leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamInterview with Lucas Timberlake, General Partner at Fintech Ventures Fund
Andres Sandate · Lucas Timberlake
Co-investors · 1
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