1/0 Capital builds and invests in companies at the nexus of consumer credit and technology.  They've grown a portfolio of companies addressing major problems in consumer credit: enabling lending in novel educational markets, streamlining the mortgage application process, and providing advanced analytics on asset-backed securities and whole loans.

1/0 Capital

IA Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed-stage investments in the fintech sector.  The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in information technology, e-commerce, software, financial services, healthcare, media, big data, and business services sectors.

IA Ventures

Pine Brook is a New York-based investment firm that provides “business building” and other equity to new and growing businesses, primarily in the energy and financial services sectors. It was founded in 2006.

Pine Brook Partners

Moderne Ventures is a strategic venture capital and growth equity firm with a 16-year track record, generating top tier returns across four funds.  Moderne is a generalist investor with vertical expertise with a particular focus on technologies like Enterprise SaaS, AI, Robotics, Deep Tech, Sustainability, Data and Digital Transaction Management and targets technologies that can apply to both Moderne’s core industries and expand beyond them to deliver outsized venture returns.

Moderne Ventures

KCK is a family investment fund that invests in a diverse set of industries, including medical technologies. KCK interests in Life Sciences - Biopharm/ Biotech & MedTech, Energy, Science-rich companies and Industrial Technologies. KCK invest at all stages of a startup's from early stage to growth rounds and also invest in public companies. KCK is the private equity arm of a family office which seeks to partner with experienced management teams, focused on niche markets, deploying long-term flexible capital to generate high risk-adjusted returns.

As part of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, GS Growth is the firm’s investment platform dedicated to providing preferred equity and mezzanine capital to high-growth companies. As of June 2019, Goldman Sachs' investing groups (Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Principal Strategic Investments, and Private Capital Investing) have combined to form the GS Growth team. The team targets investments of $20-250 million.

GS Growth

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

Goldman Sachs

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on early computer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

Kleiner Perkins

Fantail Ventures invests in and advises early-stage companies in the fields of data and analytics, digital media, e-commerce, fintech, and wellness.

Fantail Ventures

Activant is a global investment firm that partners with high-growth companies that are transforming commerce. The firm was founded in 2015 by Steve Sarracino and has offices in Greenwich, Connecticut and Berlin, Germany.

Activant Capital

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides financial products and services. The company operates through two segments, Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and Institutional Clients Group (ICG). The GCB segment offers traditional banking services to retail customers through retail banking, commercial banking, Citi-branded cards, and Citi retail services. The ICG segment offers various banking, and financial products and services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. This segment provides wholesale banking products and services, including fixed-income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivative services, equity and fixed-income research, corporate lending, investment banking, and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. Citi is committed to sustainability and social responsibility, and the company invests in initiatives that promote economic progress.

Citi

Ally Financial Inc. is a automotive financial services company powered by a top direct banking franchise. Ally's automotive services business offers a full suite of financing products and services, including new and used vehicle inventory and consumer financing, leasing, inventory insurance, commercial loans and vehicle remarketing services. Ally Bank, the company's direct banking subsidiary, offers an array of deposit products, including certificates of deposit, savings accounts, money market accounts, IRA deposit products and interest checking. Ally's Commercial Finance unit provides financing to middle-market companies across a broad range of industries.

Ally Financial

American Express Ventures is American Express's strategic investment group. They invest in innovative startups in order to enhance American Express’s core capabilities and accelerate the company’s efforts in consumer commerce and B2B services.

American Express Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Alumni Ventures

9Yards Capital provides entrepreneurs with long-term, strategic capital and have a deep understanding of how governments and regulators operate. They take a focused approach to the industries they invest in and have a proven track record in financial services and logistics investing.

9Yards Capital

Established by Ping An Group, Ping An Global Voyager is a Hong Kong-based investor in growth stage fintech and healthtech companies. Global Voyager typically invests between US$15 million and US$50 million in non-control positions where an affiliation with Ping An has the potential to meaningfully accelerate a target company’s growth. Global Voyager has active investments in Europe, Asia and North America.

Ping An Global Voyager

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan is providing retirement security to healthcare workers. HOOPP is a multi-employer defined benefit pension plan for Ontario's hospital and community-based healthcare sector that serves more than 400,000 members who provide valued healthcare services at more than 610 employers across the province. It provides a stable and reliable pension for its members that starts in retirement and is paid for life. The Toronto, Ontario-based retirement security company was established in 1960.

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)

AGNC Ventures

L Catterton provides capital to companies to support acquisitions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. They consider investments across many targeted industry verticals within the consumer industry: food and beverage, retail and restaurants, consumer products and services, and media and marketing services.

L Catterton

Founded in 2019, Parkway operates at the intersection of vision and execution with a focus on cutting-edge technologies and business models. The firm is largely focused on the trend of digital transformation of businesses, products and systems with software and hardware technologies in data science, artificial intelligence (AI), simulation, automation, spatial computing, internet of things (IOT), augmented reality (AR), generative design and optimization technologies.  Parkway primarily targets investments in the Climate Tech, Construction Tech (Contech), Property Tech (Proptech), Generative Design, Business Intelligence, Health Tech, Metaverse and Direct-to-Consumer sectors. Companies in which Parkway investments typically have a software as a service, unique technology, valuable patents and intellectual property that make them highly competitive in the market, valuable to potential strategic acquirers and/or display the potential for high growth annual recurring revenue.

Parkway Venture Capital

Empede Capital is a Venture Capital investor with a clear focus on innovation & industry disruption

Empede Capital

a generalist investment firm focused on hyper growth-stage companies, following sectors from Seed to Series C.

Montauk Ventures

Better.com

London House Exchange is a technology-backed property investment platform. The platform helps users to invest in multiple properties at the touch of a button. London House Exchange is fractional property investment platform and a stock exchange for individual properties.

Better.com democratized the home-financing ecosystem, replacing it with a digitized process that eliminates commissions, fees, unnecessary steps, and time-wasting branch appointments. In addition to providing mortgage rates in seconds, Better.com’s platform offers a digital marketplace featuring competitive quotes from an array of insurance providers for the seamless purchase of a homeowner's insurance policy and instant access to leading real estate agents across the country. To date, Better.com has done $7.9B in home loans and $1B in insurance.

Better Home and Finance

Better.com hires Misti Snow as SVP of operations

New insurance models are disrupting a centuries-old industry with a focus on personalization and convenience

InsurTech: Personal Lines

Startups in the automobile insurance space, predominantly providing usage-based insurance using telematics devices and/or smartphone sensors.

Startups that offer homeowners and renters insurance using artificial intelligence (AI) and smart home devices to issue policies and validate claims.

Startups that provide life insurance through digital channels personalized to an individual’s circumstances and replacing traditional practices, such as medical tests, with data-driven underwriting.

Companies that offer personal line covers for travel and pets through digital channels and use technologies such as flight tracking and online claims processing.

Providers of comparison websites and tools for carriers, agents, and consumers to compare and purchase policies.

Companies that provide personalized health insurance to consumers via digital channels and use technology such as wearable medical devices to monitor health and improve user experience and underwriting.

Companies that offer digital-only insurance for personal belongings (bicycles, mobile phones, laptops, and cameras), providing protection against theft, loss, or damage, with financial reimbursement or replacement.

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