Techstars is a global platform that provides investment and innovation. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates four divisions: Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Program supercharges success and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate, and connect entrepreneurs. Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in innovative and disruptive companies. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships help brands create products and services. Techstars' accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion.

Techstars

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies. RSCM was established in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Right Side Capital Management

Star Power Partners II is a fund backed by well known investors including Draper Associates, the Foundry Group, Iron Gate Capital, Landscape Capital, Right Side Capital, Silicon Valley Bank and Walt Winshall.

Star Power Partners

MATH Venture Partners is an early to middle-stage fund managed by a seasoned team of hands-on investors and operators. We look for entrepreneurial teams that have customer acquisition as part of their core DNA. It is this maniacal focus, deep appreciation for process and exceptional talent that makes them stand out. MATH forms deep and personal partnerships with entrepreneurs. We have built and scaled many large companies to successful exits. Both of our Managing Directors are serial entrepreneurs and teachers at heart. We love to partner with coachable founding teams that strive to constantly improve. Let's build something great together.

MATH Venture Partners

Zelkova Ventures is a venture capital firm committed to helping entrepreneurs build companies. The firm primarily looks to invest in early stage companies, many times pre-revenue. In many instances they provide a company's first outside/institutional capital. They look to take an active role and partner with the  companies they invest in. Along with their capital, Zelkova brings expertise, insight and execution to all of their portfolio companies. Zelkova, although not exclusively, focuses on several key sectors -   Software Services, Internet Technologies, Environmental Technologies and Consumer Products.

Zelkova Ventures

Techstars Ventures (formerly Bullet Time Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Techstars. Bullet Time Ventures is a $150 million fund based in Boulder, Colorado.

Techstars Ventures

We provide capital and strategic partnership to values-driven, market-leading companies and funds with potential for outsized returns for all stakeholders. We currently have five main practice areas. First, we invest directly in profitable, lower middle market companies with $10 million to $100 million in revenue, and $3 million to $20 million in owner’s earnings. Second, we invest directly in promising, early-stage technology companies across Seed and Series A stages. Third, we invest in publicly traded companies. Fourth we invest in domestic real estate with a primary focus on value-add strategies. Finally, we use a fund of funds strategy to invest in venture and private equity fund managers through primaries, secondaries, co-investments, and GP stakes. We are distinct in our values-driven approach to investing, our ability to hold investments long term, our willingness to customize solutions to owner needs, and the excellence with which we execute through disciplined strategic, operational, and financial partnership. We have investment team members based in Silicon Valley, CA; Atlanta, GA; Chattanooga, TN; Raleigh, NC; and Jakarta, Indonesia.

Sovereign’s Capital

Cantos is a pre-seed venture capital firm with $90M under management that invests in founders audacious enough to believe they can change the world.

Cantos

Anthemis Group is a multi-stage asset management platform that cultivates change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses committed to resiliency, transparency, access and equity. Founded in 2010, our deep understanding of markets and models, passion for emerging technology and values inspire everything we do. By creating fertile ground for a diverse group of startups, investors, entrepreneurs, institutions, academics, and visionaries to converge, we believe we can solve the financial systems’ most pressing challenges faster, better and for the benefit of all.

Anthemis

Route 66 Ventures is a private investment firm focused on helping entrepreneurs shape the financial services landscape of tomorrow by providing Venture Capital and Credit solutions to emerging financial technology and services companies.   Route 66’s Venture Capital team invests globally in early and growth stage disruptors, incumbents and service providers throughout various sectors in the financial services ecosystem.   Route 66’s Credit team seeks to fund alternative lending platforms and business models with balance sheet needs by purchasing whole loans or providing secured debt facilities.

Route 66 Ventures

ThirdStream Partners is an investment firm that invests in venture and strategic opportunities in financial technologies (FinTech) and financial services. They make proprietary investments in a broad spectrum of companies, ranging from early-stage startups to late-stage private companies. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Thirdstream Partners

Formalized in 2015, Assurant Ventures (“AGI”) is the corporate venture capital initiative of Assurant, a global leader in technology-enabled risk management solutions. AGI is focused on making equity investments in venture and growth stage technology companies that may be complementary or disruptive to Assurant’s core businesses.

Assurant Ventures

TTV Capital is a venture capital firm focused on early stage fintech.  Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Atlanta, TTV makes B2B and B2C investments in categories across the financial technology landscape.  Our distinct approach combines deep industry knowledge with connections, resources, and founder-friendly relationships.  TTV’s portfolio includes more than 100 market leaders and emerging pioneers across payments, banking, investing, crypto, embedded finance, among others.

TTV Capital

Founded in 2018, Fin Capital is a global asset manager focused on full lifecycle investing in B2B Fintech Software companies. Fin Capital is passionate about rolling up its sleeves and partnering with repeat entrepreneurs that have deep financial services experience, differentiated products, and a global mindset. Fin is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Los Angeles, London, Miami, and New York. To learn more, visit www.fin.capital.

Fin Capital

Prudence is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies leading the global transformation of the built world. The firm invests across multiple verticals, including construction, real estate, infrastructure, and climate/energy adaptation. Prudence is an early investor in companies such as AI Clearing, CASAFARI, Compass (NYSE: COMP), CREXi, Evernest, Hemlane, Maxwell, Morty, Propexo, Salus, Sundae, and VendorPM. The firm is headquartered in New York City and invests globally. Learn more at www.prudence.vc.

Prudence

The Mortgage Collaborative is an independent network of mortgage lending institutions.

The Mortgage Collaborative

Rotor combines the cornerstones of substantial personal capital investment, an entrepreneurial mind-set.

Rotor Capital

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital is a principal investing and merchant division of Wells Fargo & Company. Wells Fargo Strategic Capital provides structured financing to small and mid-cap companies in the United States and Canada. Product capabilities include project/development financing, mezzanine financing, and other subordinated debt financing as well as equity financing, including both preferred and common.

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital

Cohen Circle is an investment firm founded by financial services pioneers, Betsy Cohen and her son Daniel Cohen. Since 2015, the firm has provided transformative capital to late stage fintech growth companies. Today, we make investments across the capital structure in the fintech, technology, and impact spaces, with $5bn+ in capital raised. Our decades-long experience as founders, operators, and innovators uniquely positions us to capitalize and transform companies through our significant networks and expertise. For more information visit cohencircle.com.

Cohen Circle

Maxwell Financial Labs

We built Maxwell to give local lending teams a permanent, disruptive financial advantage. Today, our suite of technology-powered solutions addresses the entire mortgage loan process, from intake of application to the secondary market. Through our Mortgage Optimization Platform, we help hundreds of non-depository mortgage banks, credit unions, brokers, and local banks connect their communities with the life-changing benefits of homeownership.

Maxwell Financial Labs is a digital mortgage platform for small and mid-sized lenders. It offers a range of mortgage-related solutions and services including underwriting, processing, due diligence, and access to secondary markets on lending products. The platform serves several mortgage lending institutions across the US, encompassing non-depository mortgage banks, credit unions, brokers, and community banks. In August 2023, Maxwell launched Maxwell Mortgage Intelligence, a business intelligence platform designed for mortgage providers capable of integrating with existing systems, detecting team performance trends, and simplifying financial reporting while providing ready-made analytics.

Democratizing financial technology with a suite of API-based solutions

FinTech Infrastructure

Maxwell Financial Labs is a digital mortgage platform for small and mid-sized lenders. It offers a range of mortgage-related solutions and services including underwriting, processing, due diligence, and access to secondary markets on lending products. The platform serves several mortgage lending institutions across the US, encompassing non-depository mortgage banks, credit unions, brokers, and community banks. In August 2023, Maxwell launched Maxwell Mortgage Intelligence, a business intelligence platform designed for mortgage providers capable of integrating with existing systems, detecting team performance trends, and simplifying financial reporting while providing ready-made analytics.In May 2023, Maxwell acquired LenderSelect Mortgage Group for an undisclosed sum. Through this acquisition, Maxwell intended to leverage LenderSelects' client base to grow its secondary market trading platform (i.e., Maxwell Capital), market share, and customer numbers. In September 2023, Maxwell <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22237">acquired Revvin </a>, a digital mortgage lending platform, for an undisclosed amount. Through this acquisition, Maxwell planned to collaboratively support mortgage originators in lowering costs, enhancing quality, and increasing margins.Funding and financialsIn October 2021, Maxwell raised USD 52.5 million in funding led by Fin VC. The funding round consisted of USD 28.5 million in equity funding and USD 24 million in debt financing, with a post-money valuation of USD 450 million. The company earmarked the funds for achieving business targets and expanding its product offerings.As of October 2023, the platform had serviced over USD 230 billion in total transaction value for more than 500,000 homeowners via more than 300 lending institutions.

Cross River Bank provides a white-label banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform for enterprises, combining banking services, payments, and marketplace lending infrastructure to build fintechs. Its solutions comprise demand deposits, savings accounts, credit and debit cards, and payment clearing services, including automated clearing house (ACH) and real-time payments. The company also provides banking and payment infrastructure for the crypto industry, including risk management services for its crypto clients. Key customers and partnerships As of December 2020, the company had over 400 employees, and had entered into more than 30 partnerships. Moreover, as of March 2021, the platform had been used to support over 375,000 small businesses through the paycheck protection program (PPP).Cross River Bank teamed up with UK-based BaaS provider <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/421515">Railsr </a>in January 2019 to launch a common API for their platforms to be used globally. As of April 2022, Cross River had over 80 clients including lenders such as Affirm, Best Egg, and Upstart, neobanks such as <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/220119">Revolut </a>, and blockchain-based payment processing platform GreenBox. The platform reportedly originated over USD 24 billion in loans per annum, around 10x the value of loans it originated in 2015. Cross River Bank has expanded its operations by acquiring Betterfin, a platform offering lending-as-a-service (LaaS) solutions, in November 2021. Through the acquisition, Cross River Bank leveraged Betterfin’s software to digitize parts of the small-business lending process (such as origination and underwriting).The company partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/1643">American Express </a>(Amex) to enable FinTechs to issue credit cards through Cross River Bank, on the Amex network, while also providing select Amex benefits to the FinTechs.Funding and financials The company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9458">raised USD 620 million in funding </a>co-led by Eldridge and a16z, at a valuation of over USD 3 billion, to invest in product developments, recruitment, international expansion, and boosting strategic partnerships.

Cross River Bank

Synctera was co-founded in 2020 by Peter Hazlehurst, the former head of Uber Money, who previously led the development of Google Wallet. The company offers an API-based infrastructure platform for community and regional banks to find and partner with FinTechs. This enables FinTechs to leverage the former’s licenses to embed FDIC-insured mobile checking, debit cards, savings accounts, and payment innovations, among other features. The API platform offered to the banks will then be sold to the FinTechs to code on. Although the end customers interact with the FinTechs, they legally belong to the bank.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8117">Synctera mainly charges the banks </a>based on the interchange fees they earn (half of the interchange fees, as of January 2022) from the services provided. It does not charge them an initial amount to use the platform. Moreover, the platform also embeds fraud-as-a-service and charges FinTechs on a per transaction basis (4 cents per transaction) should they choose to use it. It subsequently shares that revenue 50/50 with the banks.The company launched the “t-minus10” project in January 2022, which offers a live sandbox for FinTechs to build apps, test, and go to market, enhancing their access to banking partners. It subsequently launched a “Smart Charge Card” (APIs to build, launch, and issue charge cards) and “White-label Banking App” (a codebase for developers to build embedded banking products or neobank apps) infrastructure in October 2022.Key customers and partnershipsIn February 2022, Lineage Bank (a community bank in Tennessee) and GoGetr (FinTech aiming to promote health and wealth management) became the first companies to launch a banking solution using the Synctera platform. As of March 2023, the platform was working with around 50 fintechs, of which 14 were live (including Wayapay and Float). Synctera reportedly had over 20 implementations set for launch in the following two months.Synctera announced a new card issuing and management infrastructure offering (Card-as-a-Service), in July 2021, which it developed in partnership with Mastercard and leading card issuing infrastructure disruptor, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/64287">Marqeta</a>.Funding and financialsIn March 2024, Synctera raised USD 18.6 million in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27244">Series A1 extension</a> co-led by Lightspeed and Fin Capital. The company earmarked the funds to support business growth by facilitating more complex use cases across the US and international markets. The company also <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16980?industryIds=53">raised USD 15 million</a> in funding led by NAventures in March 2023, to invest in expanding the platform’s use cases and broadening its geographic footprint beyond the US (including expanding to Canada). Meanwhile, Synctera has also partnered with the National Bank of Canada to enable companies to launch FinTech apps and embedded banking products in Canada.

Synctera

Based in the UK, Weavr, formerly known as Open Payments Cloud, was spun out of payment provider Ixaris in 2019. Weavr offers the infrastructure for enterprises to embed banking services across various industries, including education, fitness, logistics, etc. Weavr’s “Meta” platform combines multiple banking and payments partners in one platform through application programming interfaces (APIs). Using the APIs, enterprises can embed virtual banking services such as card payments, fund transfers, and international banking accounts.Weavr expanded its operations to Singapore in November 2022, as part of its global expansion plans.Key customers and partnershipsAs of July 2021, Weavr’s customers included Finway, Thanks Ben, and MySkillCamp, among others.In October 2019, Weavr partnered with payment service providers Global Processing Services (GPS), Paynetics, and iDenfy to enable developers to create and run sophisticated and streamlined payment experiences for their European customers through Weavr.Funding and financialsWeavr <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8647?industryIds=53">raised USD 40 million </a>in Series A funding in February 2022, led by Tiger Global, less than a year after <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/4166">raising GBP 4 million (USD 5.5 million) </a>in seed funding in July. The funds were earmarked for business development and recruitment to support Weavr’s expansion to the US market, while also supporting its continued expansion in the UK and Europe.

Weavr

MX offers an open finance portal, data connectivity application programming interface (API), and MX platform API for banks, credit unions, and other financial service providers. The company’s solutions allow its clients to utilize financial data to reduce fraud, approve loans faster, and improve their customer experiences. In addition to APIs and connections, MX also offers a range of capabilities, including data aggregation, analytics, financial feed insights, wealth and investment services, and verification services. MX looks to enable banks and financial institutions to launch next-generation services and apps that automate and personalize financial experiences. As of January 2021, the company noted that it worked with more than 2,000 banks, credit unions, and FinTech companies, and its platform reached over 200 million end-users. Moreover, it also powered 43 of the top 50 digital banks as of the same period. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8753?industryIds=53">February 2022, MX partnered </a>with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/361160">Rize </a>, to enable users to access Rize’s banking infrastructure to build, launch, and scale financial products through a single API, thereby reducing the development time and cost. In January 2021, MX raised USD 300 million in a Series C funding round led by TPG Capital, at a valuation of USD 1.9 billion. The newly raised funds are to be invested in improving MX’s capabilities, expanding its global presence, and increasing its workforce. In January 2021, MX noted that its headcount tripled over the past two years, reaching 550 staff members. The company appointed Shane Evans as interim chief executive officer (CEO) in January 2022, to prepare the company for an IPO or sale (at a valuation of over USD 5 billion) and oversee its growth.

Bankable is a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) infrastructure provider allowing financial institutions and corporations to utilize its API to integrate banking services. It provides a platform for its enterprise customers to offer modular banking services, including ledger management (process data from multiple banks to support cash management for global corporate affairs), digital banking, payment cards, and e-wallets. The company expanded its platform by <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19662">acquiring Arex Markets </a>in June 2023, to embed working capital solutions (such as flexible invoice financing, corporate credit cards, lodged cars, and revolving credit). The company has a global presence, with operations spanning from the US to the Middle East as of January 2021. Bankable noted that the expansion of its global footprint also helps its European and US FinTech clients expand their operations internationally. Key customers and partnerships In January 2020, the company partnered with the diversified FinTech infrastructure provider <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/85350">Plaid </a>, which enabled Bankable’s customers to use Plaid’s tech to connect to more than 15,000 banks in the US and Europe. Funding and financialsIn April 2019, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/13061">Visa </a>invested an undisclosed sum in Bankable and entered a partnership with the startup. Through the partnership, Visa members obtained access to Bankable’s platform, while Bankable used VisaNet (Visa’s electronic global payments network) to extend its international payment and banking solutions.

Bankable

Platforms that allow FinTechs to integrate banking services such as opening and maintaining accounts, facilitating card payments, etc.


Platforms that enable FinTechs to integrate a range of payment-related services such as one-time payments, subscriptions, and receipt management for domestic and cross-border transactions.


Companies that enable organizations to embed anti-money laundering (AML), identity verification, and know-your-customer (KYC) solutions.


Platforms that allow FinTechs to integrate lending services,  by typically applying AI/ML technology to a spending analysis to analyze creditworthiness.

Companies providing APIs and integrations for FinTechs to access securities markets, facilitate transactions and clearing, and provide insights to help end-users manage their finances.

May specialize in promoting inclusiveness in financial services, primarily in the investment and lending spaces

AI/ML can improve the quality of their offerings, such as using AI/ML to reduce biases

Used for payment completions, accessing banking and transaction data, and providing financial insights, among others

Maxwell, a point-of-sale technology provider for mortgage lenders, has acquired Revvin, a digital mortgage lending platform. The acquisition aims to help mortgage originators lower costs, improve quality, and increase margins. Maxwell is a digital mortgage platform that serves small and mid-sized lenders in the US, including non-depository mortgage banks, credit unions, brokers, and community banks. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Revvin focuses on delivering lending experiences within front and back-end workflows.

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