Ally Ventures

Ally Financial Inc. is a bank holding company based in Detroit, Michigan, offering a range of digital financial products and services primarily in the United States and Canada. The company operates through several segments, including Automotive Finance, Insurance, Mortgage Finance, and Corporate Finance. The Automotive Finance segment provides various automotive financing solutions, such as retail installment sales contracts, loans, leases, and dealer floorplan financing. The Insurance segment delivers consumer protection and commercial insurance products through automotive dealers. The Mortgage Finance segment manages a portfolio of consumer mortgage loans and offers direct-to-consumer mortgage services. Additionally, the Corporate Finance segment extends senior secured loans to middle-market companies across diverse industries, including healthcare, media, and technology, primarily focusing on private equity-owned businesses. Ally Bank, a subsidiary of Ally Financial, also provides commercial banking products such as deposit accounts and investment services. Established in 1919, Ally Financial was formerly known as GMAC Inc. and rebranded in 2010.

Daniel M. Duffy

Senior Managing Director

Peter Greene

Founder, Managing Director, Strategy and Corporate Development; Head of M&A

Russ Hutchinson

CFO

Michael Rhodes

Incoming CEO

20 past transactions

Champ

Series B in 2022
Through the application of its secure, patented SaaS technology, Champ Titles (www.champtitles.com) digitizes the process of vehicle titling between state government, insurance carriers, financial institutions, vehicle sellers, consumers, and others. Champ Titles, founded in 2018, is focused on creating efficiencies and benefits for all vehicle title ecosystem members. Champ Titles has developed several solutions, all of which are built on a shared platform that serves different industry verticals. This common chassis has allowed the company to adapt its technology for insurance carriers, automotive retailers, and state governments, resulting in lower costs, increased security, and the easy transfer of ownership, benefiting all members of the vehicle title ecosystem.

Champ

Series A in 2021
Through the application of its secure, patented SaaS technology, Champ Titles (www.champtitles.com) digitizes the process of vehicle titling between state government, insurance carriers, financial institutions, vehicle sellers, consumers, and others. Champ Titles, founded in 2018, is focused on creating efficiencies and benefits for all vehicle title ecosystem members. Champ Titles has developed several solutions, all of which are built on a shared platform that serves different industry verticals. This common chassis has allowed the company to adapt its technology for insurance carriers, automotive retailers, and state governments, resulting in lower costs, increased security, and the easy transfer of ownership, benefiting all members of the vehicle title ecosystem.

Car IQ

Series B in 2021
Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively.

Deserve Inc.

Series D in 2021
Deserve Inc. is a leading mobile-first credit card platform built on a cloud-native and API-enabled architecture, which allows partners to offer superior personalized experiences for cardholders. We partner with financial institutions, fintechs, lenders, and merchant co-brands.

Better.com

Series D in 2020
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.

StreetShares

Venture Round in 2020
StreetShares, Inc. is a peer-to-peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. Based in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a lending-as-a-service platform that enables community banks and credit unions to efficiently provide loans to small businesses. Its product offerings include term loans, business bonds, and both secured and unsecured small business loans. StreetShares facilitates an accessible and streamlined lending experience, allowing financial institutions to connect with borrowers through a digital platform featuring quick underwriting processes. Founded in 2013, the company has garnered recognition for its innovative solutions in small business financing.

StreetShares

Venture Round in 2020
StreetShares, Inc. is a peer-to-peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. Based in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a lending-as-a-service platform that enables community banks and credit unions to efficiently provide loans to small businesses. Its product offerings include term loans, business bonds, and both secured and unsecured small business loans. StreetShares facilitates an accessible and streamlined lending experience, allowing financial institutions to connect with borrowers through a digital platform featuring quick underwriting processes. Founded in 2013, the company has garnered recognition for its innovative solutions in small business financing.

Lively

Series B in 2019
Lively is a modern Health Savings Account (HSA) platform for employers and individuals. Lively’s user-centric solution creates an intuitive user experience allowing consumers to get the most out of their HSA.

Status Money

Convertible Note in 2019
Status Money is a personal finance app that shows consumers how they compare with their peers and gives them cash and crypto rewards for engaging with targeted offers designed to improve their finances. It's introducing its own suite of financial services starting with a credit card in 2021.

Fair

Debt Financing in 2019
Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time.

Health Credit Services

Acquisition in 2019
At the core of HCS is their belief that more individuals should have access to quality-of-life procedures – it’s what motivated the HCS founders to transition from jobs in banking to careers in healthcare financing. It’s also why we specialize in only healthcare financing and are committed to devising new ways for patients to receive care. Simply put, they are driven to invent smart, simple solutions that not only make healthcare financing more affordable, but also deliver a seamless customer experience. They recognize and empathize with the barriers to care that impact providers and patients daily. It is this fact that impassions us to embrace the bold ideas of many, both internally and externally, to deliver creative financing solutions. Ownership of the end-to-end lending process gives us the freedom to implement immediate change. They are invested in the future of the industry and therefore, feel it is imperative to adapt to the needs of their customers – doctors, office managers, schedulers and patients alike. Their team is accessible, knowledgeable and prepared to listen. From practices delivering more care to patients successfully managing their health, they take pride in empowering and equipping their customers to take charge of both their physical and financial well-being.

MobiTV

Venture Round in 2019
MobiTV delivers live and on-demand video to any screen, connecting media reliably and securely anytime, anywhere, on any device. The company’s end-to-end platform delivers a true TV everywhere experience that helps service providers reduce time to market and control costs associated with the deployment and operation of high concurrency, multiple platform services. MobiTV’s connected media solutions solve the complexity of delivering video across networks, operating systems, and devices while managing associated rights. The company efficiently optimizes for network conditions to deliver multiscreen media services that center on empowering the viewer. MobiTV’s connected media solutions are tailored for IPTV operators, as well as mobile TV and over-the-top customers including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, T-Mobile, TELUS, US Cellular, and Verizon among others.

Modal

Venture Round in 2019
Modal, previously known as Drive Motors Inc., specializes in online car-buying solutions tailored for auto dealer groups, banks, and brands in the United States. The company provides a platform that facilitates digital transactions seamlessly integrated into existing websites and showrooms. Modal's technology functions as a transparent transaction layer, enhancing the user experience while maintaining the original interface. The platform includes features such as Checkout, which enables digital transactions directly on web pages, Shop, a connected sales tool that streamlines the commerce experience, and Trade, which integrates with the buying journey. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Modal is supported by a team with backgrounds in leading technology firms and backed by significant investors, positioning itself as a transformative force in the automotive retail industry.

Better.com

Series C in 2019
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.

Carvana

Debt Financing in 2017
Founded in 2012 and based in Phoenix, Carvana’s mission is to change the way people buy cars. By removing the traditional dealership infrastructure and replacing it with technology and exceptional customer service, Carvana offers consumers an intuitive and convenient online car buying and financing platform. Carvana.com enables consumers to quickly and easily shop more than 15,000 vehicles, finance, trade in or sell their current vehicle to Carvana, sign contracts, and schedule as-soon-as-next-day delivery or pickup at one of Carvana’s patented, automated Car Vending Machines.

Carvana

Debt Financing in 2016
Founded in 2012 and based in Phoenix, Carvana’s mission is to change the way people buy cars. By removing the traditional dealership infrastructure and replacing it with technology and exceptional customer service, Carvana offers consumers an intuitive and convenient online car buying and financing platform. Carvana.com enables consumers to quickly and easily shop more than 15,000 vehicles, finance, trade in or sell their current vehicle to Carvana, sign contracts, and schedule as-soon-as-next-day delivery or pickup at one of Carvana’s patented, automated Car Vending Machines.

West Star Aviation

Private Equity Round in 2016
West Star Aviation specializes in airframe repair and maintenance, engine repair and maintenance, major modifications, avionics installation and repair, interior refurbishment, paint, parts, surplus avionics sales, window repair, and accessory services. The company also provides complete FBO services for transient aircraft at its East Alton and Grand Junction facilities.

TradeKing

Acquisition in 2016
TradeKing is a socially-enabled equity and options trading service, offering users low-cost trading with enhancements like daily blogs on the financial markets and the ability to collaborate with other members who use the same trading strategy or adhere to the same research related to the markets. All options and equity trades are $4.95 per trade with a $.65 charge per options contract. CEO Don A. Montanaro was also founder of SureTrade in 1997, one of the first electronic trading operations to be launched. [Zecco](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zecco), which offers a limited number of free trades per month and operates the investor community ZeccoShare, has a similar offering to TradeKing.

SheMedia

Debt Financing in 2016
SheMedia is a prominent women’s digital lifestyle media company that operates a diverse portfolio of media properties, including SheKnows.com, BlogHer.com, and StyleCaster.com. Following its acquisition of BlogHer in 2014, the company now attracts over 70 million unique visitors monthly and engages more than 147 million social media followers. SheMedia focuses on empowering women through a platform that integrates users, editors, and content creators, fostering a community where women can discover, share, and create content across various interests such as parenting, fashion, and DIY. The company’s editorial team, along with experts and influencers, produces authentic and relevant content aimed at resonating with its audience. Additionally, SheMedia offers a comprehensive suite of branded content and influencer marketing solutions, generating over 1.7 billion ad impressions each month, enabling brands to effectively distribute content and advertising at scale.

Marco

Private Equity Round in 2015
Marco was founded in 1973 and serves over 25,000 customers nationally. Marco provides copiers/printers, business IT services, managed services, hosted/cloud services, carrier services, phone systems, document management and audio/video systems
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