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 20 of 27 portfolio companiesFintech ×15SaaS ×6AI & Machine Learning ×4Enterprise Software ×4InsurTech ×4Logistics & Supply Chain ×3PropTech ×3Consumer ×2
HQs:United States×8Spain×1
Investments · 27 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2024 · 12021 · 12016 · 12015 · 14 dated
Groundfloor is a private markets investing platform offering professionally managed products across fixed income, real estate-backed loans, and emerging alternative asset classes, with low minimums (from $10) aimed at everyday and accredited investors.
FintechPropTechAtlanta, US
RICHARD TULEY(Director)NIKHIL BHARGAVA(Executive Officer, Director)BRUCE BOEHM(Director)MICHAEL D. OLANDER(Director)BRIAN DALLY(Executive Officer, Director)Brian Dally(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatSergei Kouzmine· per SEC Form D
Atlanta, US
Chris Bracken(Executive Officer, Director)Kevin Cooper(Executive Officer)Brad Friedlander(Director)Brian Lanehart(Director)Chris Johnson(Executive Officer)Barclay Keith(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatLucas Timberlake· per SEC Form D · $4.4M raise · filed Jul 2021
Co-investorsSaluda GradeYamaha Motor Ventures
Co-investorsBeresford VenturesCrosscut VenturesIPD Capital
battleface provides travel insurance and 24/7 travel assistance services for travelers, including adventure travelers heading to unique destinations, with coverages such as trip cancellation, emergency medical evacuation, and baggage protection.
FintechInsurTechTravel & HospitalityColumbus, US
"Alexander ""Sasha""" Gainullin(Executive Officer, Director)Christopher Paul Catrambone(Director)ALEXANDER "SASHA" GAINULLIN(Executive Officer, Director)CHRISTOPHER PAUL CATRAMBONE(Executive Officer, Director)SUSAN SILFEN(Director)GIORGOS ZACHARIA(Director)
Co-investorsDrive CapitalHudson Structured Capital Management
Finizens is a roboadvisor that builds and automatically manages diversified portfolios of index funds for retail investors, starting from 1,000€.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsAxon Partners Group
Groundfloor is a private markets investing platform that lets everyday and accredited investors put money into real estate-backed loans, fixed-income notes, and other private-market alternatives with low minimums.
FintechPropTech
Co-investorsOlive Tree Capital
IOU Financial is a lender that provides small businesses in the United States with funding products such as term loans and lines of credit, offering amounts up to $1.5 million with flexible repayment schedules.
FintechMontreal, US
Philippe Marleau(Executive Officer, Director)Jason Cawley(Director)Yves Roy(Director)David Kennedy(Executive Officer)Evan Price(Director)
BoardSerguei Kouzmine(Director)
Kredit provides a debt clearing solution built for financial institutions, aiming to speed up operational cycle times.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsAltari VenturesGreen Egg VenturesMaccabee VenturesRosecliff VenturesImpression Ventures
Marble is a digital platform that consolidates, monitors, and manages consumers' insurance policies (home, auto, life, and others) in one dashboard, and automatically scans the market for lower-priced quotes on existing coverage.
ConsumerFintechInsurTech
Co-investorsBlue CollectiveDistributed VenturesMS&AD Ventures
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
Co-investorsDundee Venture Capital
Momnt operates a financing platform that lets merchants send loan applications and offer pre-qualified, point-of-sale financing to their customers, with a focus on home improvement renovations and repairs.
FintechSaaS
Co-investorsTruStage VenturesYamaha Motor Ventures
Enterprise Software
Co-investorsBonfire VenturesCommerce VenturesConexus Venture CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)Emery CapitalMassChallenge Mexico
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)Ashok Seetharam(Founder)in
BoardPETER MISEK(Director)inMATTHEW LAUTZ(Director)
Co-investorsElevate VenturesFramework Venture PartnersM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Rosecliff VenturesTech Square VenturesGaingels+1 more
Pull Logic builds availability intelligence software that shifts enterprise supply chains from static planning to continuous, real-time readiness to protect product availability, capture demand, and reduce excess inventory.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain
Co-investorsNewBuild.VCSilicon Road Ventures
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)inMikhail Lukin(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)Markus Greiner(Co-founder)Takuya Kitagawa(President)inDean Bogdanovic(SVP Engineering)in
Co-investorsCarbide VenturesSafar PartnersSoftBank Vision FundNVentures
Redkik provides embedded, transactional insurance software that integrates via API at the point of sale, using AI and machine learning to analyze data points and generate dynamic quotes and risk-management tools for cargo, warehouse, gap, and spike coverage.
AI & Machine LearningInsurTechLogistics & Supply ChainEaston, US
Chris Kalinski(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsMS&AD VenturesGreenlight ReRedstone
StartSure provides business insurance brokerage, giving companies access to 80+ carriers to find coverage along with industry-specific advisors and digital tools to manage policies, certificates of insurance, and billing.
FintechInsurTech
Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)
Co-investorsAltari Ventures
Co-investorsAccelCanvas VenturesEQUIAMFloodgateIA Capital GroupKoch Disruptive Technologies+2 more
Tink operates a cloud-based open banking platform accessed through a single API, offering payment initiation and account data aggregation/enrichment services under its own PSD2 license.
Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaS
Daniel Kjellén(Founder)in
Co-investorsDawn CapitalInsight PartnersOpera Tech VenturesSunstone Capital
Upright operates a real estate investment platform offering short- and long-term real estate-backed offerings, originating every loan on its platform.
FintechPropTech
Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)GPO Fund
Vero Technologies offers VeroOS, a cloud-native platform for managing floor plan and asset-based lending, covering origination, funding, servicing, audits, and collections along with risk and title management.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.BankTech Ventures
Vint is an investment platform that provides access to fine wine and spirits as an asset class, and also operates a retail marketplace at vintmarketplace.com.
FintechMarketplaces
Co-investorsAllied Venture PartnersGoat Rodeo CapitalMS&AD VenturesirrvrntVCMontage Ventures
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.
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioTinkacq. by Visa
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesGroundfloor · altstreet.investments · Aug 18, 2026
named · lonelyentrepreneur.com · Aug 14, 2026
Vint · angelinvestorsnetwork.com · Jul 15, 2026
Pull Logic · hypepotamus.com · Jan 22, 2026
IOU Financial · ioufinancial.com · Nov 27, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has FinTech Ventures made?
- FinTech Ventures has 24 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- 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.
- Who does FinTech Ventures co-invest with?
- FinTech Ventures most often shares deals with MS&AD Ventures, Altari Ventures, Canvas Ventures, among 69 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamInterview with Lucas Timberlake, General Partner at Fintech Ventures Fund
Andres Sandate · Lucas Timberlake
Co-investors · 1
The TruStage Ventures Discovery Fund invests in early-stage fintech companies led by underrepresented founders building solutions for financial inclusion.
Firms observed investing alongside FinTech Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with FinTech Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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