February 2, 2016
As the FinTech space is tightening up with imaginative entrepreneurs trying to disrupt the market with their solutions, VCs are entering the race to find and fund the most promising one. However, it doesn’t imply an ease of scoring an investment. Behind a successful investment, there is always an unsuccessful one, which makes VCs cautious about their choices. As the LTP team has been at the forefront of profiling FinTech VCs for startups to have a chance of choosing the ones to pitch their solutions, we have developed an expertise in particular interests that groups of VCs have.
The right investors can take a startup long way. Many startups take an exhaustive path of pitching an idea or a product at as many places as possible in the hope of attracting some investors. Instead, FinTech startups should really seek for a particular club of investors that have a particular interest in a field. Expertise, vision and experience make those investors profound in indicating promising opportunities.
Massachusetts
Portfolio: Affirm, Behalf, Bond Street, Plaid, Covestor
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, and later-stage venture investments
Segments: Financial Services, Media & Advertising, Hardware & Infrastructure, Commerce & Marketplaces, Social, Mobile, Software & Services
Portfolio: NetAmbit, United Capital Financial Advisers, Intacct, BillGuard
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture, private equity, and debt financing investments
Segments: Financial Services, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Healthcare, Marketplaces, Mobile Space Tech
Portfolio: Dwolla, Simple, Swift Capital, OnDeck, iSend, Trefis
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture, and private equity investments
Segments: Financial Services, Media
Portfolio: Payclip, Coda, Neogrowth, Zoona, GKN Peru
Stage/Size of Investments: Early-stage equity, quasi-equity financing and loan guarantees
Segments: FinTech, Financial Services
Portfolio: BATS Global Market, BluePay, BillDesk, Smart Stream, Yeepay.com, RGM Advisors
Stage/Size of Investments:
Segments: FinTech, Technology, Financial Services, Healthcare and Consumer businesses, Communications
Portfolio: 360T Group, Progressive, Ogone, Fleetcor
Stage/Size of Investments: Flexible investment approach offering growth equity, venture capital and fixed income ranging between $5 million and more than $500 million
Segments: Financial Technology, FinTech, Healthcare, Internet & E-commerce, Consumer, Educational, Software, Communications, Electronics, Life Sciences
Portfolio: Lendio, MX, Saylent, CashStar
Stage/Size of Investments: Typically $2 to $3 million in proof-of-concept and growth-stage companies
Segments: FinTech, Financial Services
Portfolio: BATS, Ethoca, ExactBid, Ipay Technology, Netquote, Trintech, Seisint
Stage/Size of Investments: All
Segments: Healthcare, Tech, Business Services, Education
Portfolio: Receivables Exchange, TradeBlock, Tradier, Flywire
Stage/Size of Investments: Early-stage companies, but also exceptional teams at any stage
Segments: Biopharmaceuticals, MedTech, Healthcare IT/Services, FinTech
Great Hill Partners
Portfolio: PayChoice, Accelerated, Custom House, GTM Group, Billmatrix
Stage/Size of Investments: All beyond early-stage; $25–$150 million investment size
Segments: E-commerce, IT Services, Media, Software, Cloud, Education, FinTech, Healthcare, Enterprise SaaS
Portfolio: Smava, Tapu.com, Traxpay
Stage/Size of Investments: All stages; investments ranging from €250K to €10M
Segments: FinTech, E-commerce, Software, Media
Portfolio of payments companies: LedgerX, OnDeck, Ripple, LendUp, Upstart, Plaid, CircleUp
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, venture, and growth-stage funding
Segments: Life science, Consumer, Mobile, Commerce, Enterprise & Data
Portfolio: Wave Accounting, Zendesk, OneLogin, SessionM, SignalFx (formerly SignalFuse), Symphony Commerce, RPX, Oportun
Stage/Size of Investments: Series A-focused and occasionally invests in seed and Series-B rounds
Segments: Consumer, Enterprise & SMB
Portfolio: Aria Systems, BevSpot, Billtrust, BloomReach, Chrome River, DocuSign, Dynamics, EverTrue, Justworks, LogicSource, Nomis Solutions, Novus and others
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed/early-stage and growth
Segments: FinTech, SaaS/Data Services, Infrastructure Software, Healthcare, Consumer
California & New York
Portfolio: Abra, Axial, Fundera, Better Finance, Simple, FundersClub
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed-stage funding
Segments: FinTech, Adtech, E-commerce, Hardware, Consumer web, Enterprise
Portfolio of payments companies: Affirm, Behalf, Bond Street, Plaid, Covestor
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, and later-stage venture investments
Segments: Financial Services, Media & Advertising, Hardware & Infrastructure, Commerce & Marketplaces, Social, Mobile, Software & Services
Portfolio of payments companies: Lightspeed, Lenddo, AngelList, Fixmo, Street Contxt
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed and early-stage venture investments (200k–10M)
Segments: Financial Services, SaaS, Software, E-Commerce, Adtech, FinTech, Digital Media, Connected Devices
Portfolio of payments companies: Kabbage, PayPal
Stage/Size of Investments: Focus on early-stage investments
Segments: FinTech, Mobile Software & Services, Big Data, Commerce, Internet, Hardware
Portfolio of payments companies: Lending Club, Yes Bank, Induslnd Bank, Motif Investing
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture, private equity, and debt financing investments
Segments: Financial Technology, Financial Services, Healthcare, SaaS & Enterprise, Internet & Consumer, Cloud & IT Infrastructure
Portfolio of payments companies: Lending Club, Cardlytics, eBillMe, Loylty Rewardz, itBit
Stage/Size of Investments: Focused on seed and early-stage
Segments: FinTech, Advertising & Marketing, Big Data & Cloud, Hardware, Consumer, Enterprise/SaaS
Portfolio: Lending Club, Future Advisor, Evernote, Houzz, MuleSoft, and Siri
Stage/Size of Investments: Early-stage investments, Series A, Series B
Segments: FinTech, Marketplaces, Digital Health, Enterprise, Software
Portfolio: ASPire Financial Services, Cedar Capital, eBaoTech, ETF Securities, Swan Global Investments, World First, WePay, CashStar
Stage/Size of Investments: Multi-stage growth equity investments ranging from $10–$75 million
Segments: Enterprise solutions (business services & technology), FinTech, Financial Services, Payments and Transaction Processing
Portfolio: FundShop, WIDMEE, FLYR, Policy Genius
Stage/Size of Investments: All stages
Segments: Alternative Business Models, Big Data, Climate Change, Financial Inclusion and Health
Portfolio: Adyen, Avant, Klarna
Stage/Size of Investments: Early-stage venture, later-stage venture and private equity investments
Segments: Financial services, Business Services, Retail and Consumer, Healthcare, Internet and Technology
Portfolio of payments companies: Capital First, Santander Asset Management, China Huarong, Au Financiers
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture and private equity investments
Segments: Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare and Consumer, Industrial and Business Services, Real Estate, Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Portfolio: Better Than Cash Alliance, Cignifi
Stage/Size of Investments: All stages
Segments: Consumer Internet and Mobile, Education, Financial Inclusion, Governance & Citizen Engagement and Property Rights
Portfolio of payments companies: BATS Global Market, BluePay, BillDesk, Smart Stream, Yeepay.com, RGM Advisors
Stage/Size of Investments:
Segments: FinTech, Technology, Financial Services, Healthcare and Consumer businesses, Communications
Portfolio: Grand Intent, Emailage, Penango, Verifico
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed-stage companies
Segments: Internet Software and Media
Portfolio of payments companies: 360T Group, Progressive, Ogone, Fleetcor
Stage/Size of Investments: Flexible investment approach offering growth equity, venture capital and fixed income ranging between $5 million and more than $500 million
Segments: Financial Technology, FinTech, Healthcare, Internet & E-commerce, Consumer, Educational, Software, Communications, Electronics, Life Sciences
Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV)
Portfolio of payments companies: Merkle, WorldRemit, Elevate, Think Finance, Trading Screen
Stage/Size of Investments: Early-stage venture, later-stage venture, and private equity investments
Segments: Internet, Business & Financial Services, Infrastructure and Software, FinTech
Portfolio of payments companies: Bitpay, Adyen, Tilt, FundersClub, Plaid, Mint, Credit Karma
Stage/Size of Investments: Angel investments, incubation, seed and startup, early-stage and later-stage financing.
Segments: FinTech, Mobile, E-commerce, Education, Enterprise, Health & Bioinformatics
Portfolio of payments companies: Mint, Simple, Outright, Swipely
Stage/Size of Investments:
Segments: FinTech, Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
Portfolio of payments companies: Cloud Lending, Credit Shop, Auditfile.com, FiscalNote, Clearserve, Simpl
Stage/Size of Investments: Focused on early-stage companies
Segments: FinTech
Portfolio of payments companies: Payfone, Sequent Software
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed and early-stage ventures
Segments: FinTech, Enterprise Application Software, Enterprise Infrastructure, Internet, Semiconductors, Wireless
Portfolio of payments companies: Chain, Xapo, Ripple, Gem, BTCC, Bonafide, ChangeTip, itBit, LedgerX
Stage/Size of Investments: Multi-stage venture capital (seed, early-stage ventures, later-stage ventures)
Segments: FinTech (Blockchain)
Portfolio: Capital SLI Group LLC
Stage/Size of Investments: Long-term equity capital appreciation
Segments: Clean Technology, Communications, Financial Services, Enterprise Infrastructure, Healthcare, Industrial & Diversified, Growth, Internet, Digital Media & Consumer, Semiconductors & Semiconductor Capital Equipment, Software & Services
Portfolio: Smava, Tapu.com, Traxpay
Stage/Size of Investments: All stages; investments ranging from €250K to €10M.
Segments: FinTech, E-commerce, Software, Media
Portfolio: Bitnet, LevelUp, WePay, etc.
Stage/Size of Investments: All
Segments: Consumer technology, Enterprise Technology, Bitcoin, Mobile Payments
BBVA Ventures
Portfolio: Prosper, DocuSign, Simple, Radius, Coinbase, SumUp, Personal Capital, Ribbit Capital
Stage/Size of Investments: Early-stage venture to later-stage venture investments
Segments: FinTech, Financial Services
Amex Ventures
Portfolio: Bill.com, Kiip, Learnvest, Retailnext, Savingstar
Stage/Size of Investments: All stages after seed funding
Segments: Digital Commerce, Financial Inclusions, Core Capabilities, FinTech
Portfolio: LedgerX, OnDeck, Ripple, LendUp, Upstart, Plaid, CircleUp
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, venture and growth-stage funding
Segments: Life science, Consumer, Mobile, Commerce, Enterprise & Data
Portfolio: FundersClub, Swipely, Card Spring, Boku
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed investment
Segments: Software, Mobile, Consumer, Marketplaces, Sharing Economy, FinTech
Portfolio: Circle, Card Spring, Gumroad, Clinkle, Lenddo, Braintree, Nomi, Yodlee
Stage/Size of Investments: Accel invests in companies from their genesis to growth. Its funding rounds include seed, early-stage venture and later-stage ventures.
Segments: Technology Companies, Infrastructure, Internet & Consumer Services, Mobile, Software & Cloud-enabled Services.
Portfolio: Authy, Standard Treasury, Ready For Zero, Smart Asset, Buxfer
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed funding
Segments: Web applications, Mobile Application, Internet & Consumer, FinTech & more
Portfolio: Stripe, Square, Citrus Pay, Prizm Payment
Stage/Size of Investments: Sequoia is primarily known to invest in seed-stage, early-stage and growth-stage companies.
Segments: Energy, Financial, Healthcare, Internet, Mobile and Technology
Portfolio: Square, Gumroad, Lend Street Financial
Stage/Size of investments: Crunchfund invests in seed-stage, early-stage ventures and later-stage ventures. It is also involved in debt financing investments.
Segments: Mobile, Curated Web, Software, Bitcoin, Information Security, Enterprise and SaaS.
Portfolio: Square, Shopkick, LendingClub, ZenPayroll
Stage/Size of Investments: KPC is primarily known to invest in early-stage ventures. It invests in incubation, seed-stage, early-stage venture, later-stage venture, growth capital and expansion companies.
Segments: Technology companies, Consumer Digital, Enterprise Digital, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Digital Health and Sustainability.
Portfolio: Alibaba Group, Cast & Crew, Global Blue, Interactive Data Corporation, Renovate America
Stage/Size of Investments: Later-stage venture, private equity, and debt financing investments
Segments: FinTech, Financial Services, E-commerce, IT & Cloud Computing, Healthcare, Mobile Communications
Portfolio: BATS, Ethoca, ExactBid, Ipay Technology, Netquote, Trintech, Seisint
Stage/Size of Investments: All
Segments: Healthcare, Tech, Business Services, Education
Portfolio: Jumio, Belly, Earnest, TransferWise, Coinbase, Balanced, PayTango
Stage/Size of Investments: Andreessen Horowitz invests in every stage from seed to growth.
Segment: Enterprise Software, Software, Mobile.
Portfolio: Wave Accounting, Zendesk, OneLogin, SessionM, SignalFx (formerly SignalFuse), Symphony Commerce, RPX, Oportun
Stage/Size of Investments: Series A-focused and occasionally invests in seed and Series-B rounds
Segments: Consumer, Enterprise & SMB
Portfolio: Aria Systems, BevSpot, Billtrust, BloomReach, Chrome River, DocuSign, Dynamics, EverTrue, Justworks, LogicSource, Nomis Solutions, Novus and other
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed/early-stage and growth
Segments: FinTech, SaaS/Data Services, Infrastructure Software, Healthcare, Consumer
Portfolio: AvantCredit, BitPay, Payfone, OnDeck
Stage/Size of Investments: RRE primarily invests in early and mid-stage companies while remaining active throughout the growth life of a venture.
Segments: Software & Internet Technology, Hardware & Technology-enabled Services, Energy IT, Cloud Computing, Advertising Platforms, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Payments, Crowdsourcing, Business Intelligence, Data Security, Consumer Internet, Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things, Robotics, 3D Printing, Enterprise Hardware, Venture Capital and Financial Services
Portfolio: PayClip, BTCjam, CoinPip, Coinding, Rover, Lendsquare, Lenda, PayByGroup, Coinalytics, Monetsu, GogoCoin, UniPay, StackCommerce
Stage/Size of Investments: 500 Startups focuses on all multi-stage investments including seed, early-stage venture and later-stage venture investments.
Segments: Mobile, E-commerce, SaaS, Bitcoin, Transportation, Adtech, Food Tech, Consumer Commerce and Online Video
Portfolio: Coinbase, Remitly, Coinplug, LendKey Technologies, Kout, Prosper, FundersClub, TrialPay
Stage/Size of Investments: DFJ investments are focused on venture and growth capital and early and growth-stage companies.
Segments: Consumer, Disruptive & Enterprise-focused companies in Clean-tech and Digital
Portfolio: iZettle, Clinkle, TransferWise, Funding Circle, Xapo, Swipely, BitPay, iZettle, CrowdRise, Funding Circle
Stage/Size of Investments: Index invests in various multiple stages including seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture and private equity investments.
Segments: Information Technology, Life Sciences
Portfolio: NetAmbit, United Capital Financial Advisers, Intacct, BillGuard
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Segments: Financial Services, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Healthcare, Marketplaces, Mobile Space Tech
Portfolio: Plastiq, Affirm, BillGuard, BlockScore, BlockStream, Boku, Chain, Fundbox, Fundera, PayNearMe, Square, Stripe
Stage/Size of Investments: Khosla Ventures is focused on early-stage companies and it invests at multiple stages including seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture, private equity, debt financing and post-IPO equity investments.
Segments: Advertising, Agriculture/food, Big Data, Chemicals/Fuels, Consumer, Education, Efficiency, Enterprise, Financial Services, Health, Materials, Power, Robotics, Space, Storage and Transportation.
Portfolio: ZenPayroll, Coinbase, BTCjam, Invoice2go, Funding Circle, Xapo, Credit Karma, Fuze Network, Borro
Stage/Size of Investments: Ribbit invests at multiple stages including seed, early-stage venture, and later-stage venture investments.
Segments: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services, Lending, Payments, Insurance, Accounting & Tax.
Portfolio: Chain, Betterment, Square, DocuSign, Trade It
Stage/Size of Investments: All stages
Segments: FinTech, Big Data & Analytics, Commerce & Payments, Security & Enterprise IT
Portfolio: Nymi, Payfone, CashEdge, TouchBistro
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, and later-stage venture investments
Segments: Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile, Software, Advertising
Portfolio: BillGuard, Transferwise, Mighty, Simple
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed and early-stage venture investments
Segments: Financial services, FinTech, Big Data
Portfolio: Lending Club, Yes Bank, Induslnd Bank, Motif Investing
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture, private equity, and debt financing investments
Segments: Financial Technology, Financial Services, Healthcare, SaaS & Enterprise, Internet & Consumer, Cloud & IT Infrastructure
Portfolio: Alegeus, Argus Software, Clarion Partners, Goldleaf, Ridgeworth Investments
Stage/Size of Investments: Later-stage venture investments (focused on buyouts and growth capital)
Segments: Asset Management, FinTech, Banks, Brokerage, Insurance, Speciality Finance
Portfolio: APDS, Artivest, Embroker, Mighty, MoneyLion, NextCapital, Openfolio,Quovo, Reonomy, Reorg Research, Slide and TradeBlock.
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, Series A
Segments: FinTech, Financial Services
Portfolio: Lending Club, Finexkap, Delta Pay, Banki.ru, Platiza, Badoo
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture
Segments: FinTech
Portfolio: Clear2Pay, BI-SAM Technologies, HedgeServ Holdings
Stage/Size of Investments: Aquiline invests in startups and has been involved in growth capital, buyouts and turnaround investments.
Segments: Financial services, Banking and Credit, FinTech, Insurance Services and Investment Management.
Portfolio: Square
Stage/Size of Investments: Tiger Global is a hedge fund that invests in early-stage ventures and later-stage ventures.
Segment: Social Media, Mobile Payments, Mobile
Portfolio: AvantCredit, BitPay, Payfone, OnDeck
Stage/Size of Investments: RRE primarily invests in early and mid-stage companies while remaining active throughout the growth life of a venture.
Segments: Software & Internet Technology, Hardware & Technology-Enabled Services, Energy IT, Cloud Computing, Advertising Platforms, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Payments, Crowdsourcing, Business Intelligence, Data Security, Consumer Internet, Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things, Robotics, 3D Printing, Enterprise Hardware, Venture Capital and Financial Services.
Portfolio: Coinbase, Dwolla, Funding Circle, Auxmoney, CrowdRise, CircleUp, SigFig, Lending Club, Kickstarter
Stage/Size of Investments: The fund’s investments are focused on early-stage, growth capital, late-stage and startup financing.
Segments: AdTech, Creator Platforms, Data, Design, Dev Tools, Developer Tools, Drones, Education, Enterprise, Finance, Food, Games, Hardware, Health, Information, Labor, Local, Machine Learning, Manufacturing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networking, Philanthropy, Publishing, Science, Search, Security, Social, Sports, Transportation, Finance, Law.
Portfolio: Bonsuly, Dashlane, Emergent Payments, Greenphire, SecondMarket, Payoff, OpenGamma, MarketFactory, Insikt Inc., ActionIQ, Symphony Commerce
Stage/Size of Investments: Early-stage
Segments: AdTech, Applications, E-Commerce, Education, FinTech, Gaming, Hardware, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Media, Mobile
Portfolio: Xignite, Transactis, NewComLink, Receivables Exchange, Insurance.com
Stage/Size of Investments: All
Segments: Xignite, Transactis, NewComLink, Receivables Exchange, Insurance.com
Connecticut
Oak HC/FT & Oak Investment partners
Portfolio: Digital Currency Group, Fastpay, Feedzai, Insureon, Poynt
Stage/Size of Investments: Early-stage startups
Segments: Healthcare information and FinTech (next-generation payments, data-driven solutions, and services that offer the following: efficiencies, cost savings, transparency, fraud reduction or risk mitigation.)
Activant Capital Group
Portfolio: Celect, RetailNext
Stage/Size of Investments: As little as $3 million or over $100 million
Segments: Software, Enterprises, Cloud Data Services
Washington, DC
Portfolio: Ethos Lending, FS Card Inc., Fenway Summer Ventures
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed
Segments: Consumer Finance
Maryland
Portfolio: Planet Payments, Network for Good, In Go, BlueFin Payments
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed- and growth-stage companies
Segments: Healthcare, Tech, Business Services, Education
Pennsylvania
Portfolio: 29 west, Ballista, CashEdge, Derivix, ESP, Plimus, Versafe
Stage/Size of Investments: All stages
Segments: SaaS, FinTech, HealthTech, Internet, Info Services, Marketplaces
Georgia
Portfolio: MX, PayGo, Green Dot, Bill.com, eWise, Cardlytics, Bitpay
Stage/Size of Investments: Venture capital that does early-stage venture and later-stage venture investments
Segments: Financial Technology, Financial Services
Illinois
Portfolio: Correlix, Quadriserv, firm58, Currensee
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture, large private equity funds
Segments: Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
Portfolio: Ascend, National Billing Partners, TradeKing
Stage/Size of Investments: Early-stage (Seed, Series A, and Series B) venture capital firm focused on equity investments.
Segments: Technology, Financial Services, Education and Healthcare Technology
Virginia
Portfolio: Avant Credit, Card.com, Credit Karma, PeerTransfer, Lendup, Prosper, SoFi
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed, early-stage venture, later-stage venture, and private equity investments
Segments: Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile, Internet & Technology, Advertising
Portfolio: Billtrust, EdgeTrade, Rewards Now, Gain Capital, BFS Capital
Stage/Size of Investments: Early-stage venture, later-stage venture and private equity investments ranging between $8–$20 million
Segments: FinTech, Healthcare IT, Interactive Marketing, Enterprise 2.0
Portfolio: Moven, Ripple, Access Pay, Tandem, Mirror
Stage/Size of Investments: Minimum of $2 million for early-stage companies, later-stage companies with annual EBITDA of $1–$10 million and up to $30 million of financing for secured debt facilities.
Segments: Asset management, Lending, Capital markets, Insurance, Payments, Blockchain Technology and Crypto Platforms.
Philadelphia
Portfolio: Abra, Axial, Fundera, Better Finance, Simple, FundersClub
Stage/Size of Investments: Seed-stage funding
Segments: FinTech, Adtech, E-commerce, Hardware, Consumer Web, Enterprise
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