Tribeca Early Stage Partners is a network of financial professionals that finances, advises, and supports early-stage FinTech companies. It was formed in 2014 as a FinTech-focused angel club and has brought together a network of entrepreneurs and business leaders with deep domain expertise in institutional finance and technology.  With approximately 50 accredited investors, they have the collective experience and perspective that touches virtually every facet of the institutional finance landscape.

Tribeca Early Stage Partners

Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm backing companies that solve problems in financial services. Building an enterprise software company and selling solutions into financial institutions is hard. We have deep domain expertise, the right industry network and are a trusted partner to our portfolio companies as we help guide them through the early stages of their journey.

Illuminate Financial

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a business.  Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others.

Accel

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

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward. We invest across the life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology sectors. With Alphabet as a sole limited partner, GV operates on long time horizons and deals in decades, not rounds. Our operating partners support startups at the earliest stages of company-building across design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering. We also help startups interface with Google, providing unique access to the world's best technology and talent. Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV has over $8 billion in assets under management and 400 active portfolio companies across North America and Europe. Notable investment outcomes include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, Verve Therapeutics, and One Medical. GV is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.

Google Ventures

Salesforce Ventures helps enterprising founders build companies that reinvent the way the world works. Since 2009, they’ve invested in and partnered with more than 400 of the world's tenacious enterprise software companies from seed to IPO, including Airtable, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, Monday.com, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures leverages decades of expertise in the cloud and long-term relationships with key decision-makers at thousands of businesses around the world to give portfolio companies an unfair advantage, help them build credibility, and accelerate growth.

Salesforce Ventures

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Insight has a deep focus in Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare sectors. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief growth equals opportunity. As of December 31, 2022, the firm has over $75B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO.

Insight Partners

Genesis Global

Genesis Global enables financial markets organizations to innovate at speed through a software application development platform, prepackaged solutions and deep expertise in capital markets and financial services.  In supercharging developers to rapidly deliver high-performance, resilient and secure applications, Genesis replaces the buy vs. build challenge with a buy-to-build solution. The Genesis platform is designed with flexibility and performance at its core, providing developers with the frameworks, integrations and components required to automate manual workflows, enhance legacy systems and build entirely new applications.  Featuring a resilient, real-time service-oriented architecture, Genesis excels across the performance envelope of low-latency, high-throughput and high-scalability, powering mission-critical applications at the world’s leading financial institutions. Strategically backed by Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi, Genesis Global has offices in Miami, New York, Charlotte, London, Leeds, São Paulo, Dublin and Bengaluru.

<div><p>Genesis is a low-code development platform designed to help developers build applications faster. The platform has composable components, a full-featured framework and tools, event-driven architecture, and is built with modern tech. Its use cases include end-user computing, legacy innovation, new industry applications, and new e-platforms. The company serves a customer base that includes Linear, Redburn, Steady, StoneX, XP Investments, BNY Mellon, BMO, and Bank of America. Furthermore, it integrates with internal APIs, third-party and technical platforms. Headquartered in London, the UK, it is privately held with offices in Miami, New York, Dublin, São Paulo, Leeds, Charlotte, and Bangalore.</p></div>

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    Genesis is a low-code development platform designed to help developers build applications faster. The platform has composable components, a full-featured framework and tools, event-driven architecture, and is built with modern tech. Its use cases include end-user computing, legacy innovation, new industry applications, and new e-platforms. The company serves a customer base that includes Linear, Redburn, Steady, StoneX, XP Investments, BNY Mellon, BMO, and Bank of America. Furthermore, it integrates with internal APIs, third-party and technical platforms. Headquartered in London, the UK, it is privately held with offices in Miami, New York, Dublin, São Paulo, Leeds, Charlotte, and Bangalore.
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    100ms is a live audio/video infrastructure that enables developers to build powerful live apps in hours. Its solutions enable users to create virtual events, fitness experiences and audio rooms, with its pre-built templates such as live shopping, gaming, virtual events, telehealth, game streaming, webinars, meetups, classroom, sales, and fitness. Furthermore, the features and functions offered by the privately held company’s infrastructure include private/public chats, dynamic role changes, recording with custom layouts, native mobile SDKs, fully customizable UIs, HD screen sharing, RTMP broadcasts, virtual backgrounds, waiting rooms, custom roles, raw track access for ML processing, extending with plugins, and playing music natively.
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    Amplication is an open-source development tool for developing low-code applications. The project is open-source, provides TypeScript & Node.js source code for customization, has built-in version control, offers the freedom to generate code, facilitates app deployment with Docker, provides a role-based access control model, generates React admin UI, a command-line interface, and it syncs with GitHub and is cloud-agnostic. Amplication generations a self-documenting GraphQL API, production-ready REST API and integrates with external services through custom code or webhooks. Headquartered in Israel, the company is privately held.
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    Appsmith is an open-source low-code platform that enables developers to build, test, and deploy internal applications on top of their data. The platform offers pre-built components and application programming interfaces (APIs) for users to code business logic and connect with any database. The platform also offers more than 45 (as of July 2023) customizable widgets to create their UI using a drag-and-drop interface.&nbsp;
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    The platform&rsquo;s open-source features enable users to sync to a git repository, reuse dev workflows, commit changes, review pull requests, and deploy with their own continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline. The company is also active in launching new features and enhancements, introducing more than 180 new features across 2021 and 2022. As of June 2022, the company had almost 200 contributors and more than 18,000 stars on Github.&nbsp;
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    As of June 2022, the company&rsquo;s software was downloaded over 10 million times and used in more than 10,000 organizations including AWS, Bytedance, Tubi, Dropbox, and GSK.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    In June 2022, Appsmith raised USD 41 million in Series B funding led by global software investor Insight Partners. The company earmarked the funding to support further development of its software and launch a paid version with additional security features for enterprises.
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    Appcues offers a no-code platform that assists non-technical teams in analyzing and tracking product usage and publishing in-app tours, surveys, and announcements. It is a complete solution for measuring and improving product adoption. The platform’s use cases include enhancing user onboarding, improving feature adoption, collecting user feedback, making announcements, and obtaining insights. Appcues has served over 4,000 customers and reached more than 200 million end users. Furthermore, it integrates with popular analytics, email, and data software, including Salesforce, Hubspot, and Slack. The privately held company is trusted by thousands of businesses around the world, including Squarespace, Freshworks, Amplitude, and Yotpo.
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    Builder.ai is an AI-powered software development platform that empowers small businesses, entrepreneurs, and enterprises to build, run, and scale their software. The company’s solutions include Builder Studio, Builder Now, Studio Rapid, Studio Store, Cloud One, Cloud Control, and Cloud Wallet. It serves customers ranging from SMBs like bakeries in Riyadh to globally renowned enterprises such as BBC, Virgin Unite, NBCUniversal, Makro, Pepsi, the US Air Force, and Fujitsu. Headquartered in London, it is privately held with offices operating in Los Angeles, New Delhi, Singapore, Tokyo, and Dubai.
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