Communitas Capital Partners

Founded by three former public company CEOs who have each been investors, operators and financial service industry pioneers, Communitas seeks to invest in and partner with some of the most exciting and impactful FinTech and marketplace companies. Communitas will also help democratize the world of venture capital through its crowd-syndication solution that will provide accredited investors, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals a simple way to invest in these same companies on the same terms as their.

Duncan L. Niederauer

Partner and Co-Founder

20 past transactions

Spiral

Series A in 2023
Spiral is the award-winning personalized banking platform that enables banks and credit unions to grow deposits and attract new account holders through financial wellness and community impact. With Spiral, financial institutions can positively impact the lives of their account holders and their communities through any online bank account, debit card, or credit card. Thus, Spiral makes it simple for financial institutions to drive positive change and empower millions of people to build better lives and positively impact their communities. Spiral is spearheaded by fintech serial entrepreneur Shawn Melamed, a former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley's Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. Their mission-driven team has deep banking, nonprofit, and fintech expertise, including Jim Rosenthal, the former COO of Morgan Stanley, who is part of Spiral's board.

Tweed

Seed Round in 2022
Tweed’s end-to-end payment infrastructure enables companies to compliantly onboard and monetize users with zero friction. With Tweed, platforms can sell NFTs or Platform Tokens and deliver a native e-comm experience: buyers pay with card, sellers receive either fiat or crypto without worrying about gas fees. Companies can seamlessly create self-custodial, recoverable, white label wallets for users, eliminating any regulatory custody burden.

Coin Metrics

Series C in 2022
Coin Metrics is the provider of crypto financial intelligence, providing network data, market data, indexes, and network risk solutions to the most prestigious institutions touching crypto-assets. Coin Metrics is an open-source project to determine the economic significance of public blockchains. Today, we expand on that original purpose to empower people and institutions to make informed crypto-financial decisions.

AbbeyCross

Pre Seed Round in 2022
B2B, Trading and Compliance Venue for deliverable (think payments) Emerging Market Currencies. Linking Payments banks to the suppliers of EM Trading and Settlement services

Graphite

Series A in 2021
Graphite is a technology platform that helps companies accelerate business performance with on-demand experts, consultants, and executives. Leading investment firms, professional services firms and Fortune 1000 companies turn to Graphite to access hard-to-find skills, alleviate bandwidth constraints, drive major organizational change, and innovate faster.

Finlync

Venture Round in 2021
Finlync is a FinTech company that manages complex financial needs through its ERP native apps and API connectivity. It transforms corporate finance and treasury offices by collecting global banking APIs to deliver embedded real-time payments and cash management. Its ERP native apps and API connectivity help treasurers to let banking and financial industries optimize cash and reduce the resources needed to manage complex financial needs. FinLync’s largest clients include Fortune 2000 and Fortune 500 companies. The firm has employees from 11 different countries and offices in Singapore, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris.

Coin Metrics

Series B in 2021
Coin Metrics is the provider of crypto financial intelligence, providing network data, market data, indexes, and network risk solutions to the most prestigious institutions touching crypto-assets. Coin Metrics is an open-source project to determine the economic significance of public blockchains. Today, we expand on that original purpose to empower people and institutions to make informed crypto-financial decisions.

Symbiont

Venture Round in 2021
Symbiont has developed the market-leading platform for institutional applications of blockchain technology. Symbiont smart contracts enable complex instruments to live their entire lifecycle on a truly decentralized, enterprise blockchain network with end-to-end privacy. Financial institutions and governments are working with Symbiont to develop new business lines, increase transparency, reduce risk, and save costs. Industry leaders such as Vanguard and the State of Delaware have chosen to partner with Symbiont. Headquartered in New York City, Symbiont is a financial technology company founded by a team of experts in capital markets and blockchain technology.

Spiral

Venture Round in 2021
Spiral is the award-winning personalized banking platform that enables banks and credit unions to grow deposits and attract new account holders through financial wellness and community impact. With Spiral, financial institutions can positively impact the lives of their account holders and their communities through any online bank account, debit card, or credit card. Thus, Spiral makes it simple for financial institutions to drive positive change and empower millions of people to build better lives and positively impact their communities. Spiral is spearheaded by fintech serial entrepreneur Shawn Melamed, a former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley's Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. Their mission-driven team has deep banking, nonprofit, and fintech expertise, including Jim Rosenthal, the former COO of Morgan Stanley, who is part of Spiral's board.

Premise Data

Series E in 2021
Premise is a data and analytics platform that empowers decision-makers with real-time, actionable intelligence. By combining the power of a global network of on-the-ground contributors with industry-leading data science and machine learning Premise is ‘The Source of Ground Truth.’ A $66M Series C venture capital organization, we are backed by Valor Equity Partners, Social Capital, Google Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz, among others. Premise is headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Portland.

iCreditWorks

Seed Round in 2021
iCreditWorks provides application of mobile loan process. It helps to apply for loans. They send communications via electronic means. They allows consumers to directly buy using a web browser or a mobile app.

Coin Metrics

Series A in 2020
Coin Metrics is the provider of crypto financial intelligence, providing network data, market data, indexes, and network risk solutions to the most prestigious institutions touching crypto-assets. Coin Metrics is an open-source project to determine the economic significance of public blockchains. Today, we expand on that original purpose to empower people and institutions to make informed crypto-financial decisions.

Alchemy

Venture Round in 2019
Alchemy is a web3 developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications. Its mission is to provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology without the hassle of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house.

SHOWFIELDS

Seed Round in 2019
SHOWFIELDS is the most interesting store in the world; a revolutionary retail concept that invites you to discover and engage with the brands of tomorrow.

ComplyAdvantage

Series B in 2019
ComplyAdvantage offers AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. ComplyAdvantage’s aim is to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. More than 500 enterprises in 75 countries rely on ComplyAdvantage to understand the risk of who they’re doing business with through the world's only global, real-time database of people and companies. The company actively identifies tens of thousands of risk events from millions of structured and unstructured data points every single day.

Credit Benchmark

Series C in 2018
Credit Benchmark, a financial data analytics company, unlocks insights from actual market participants in order to offer an entirely new source of credit risk data: banks’ aggregated credit views. The company supplies probability of default and loss given default data on sovereign, corporate, bank, and non-bank financial entities by aggregating and anonymizing banks’ in-house credit estimates.

Datavore

Seed Round in 2018
Datavore is a data analytics software company founded in 2014. Our team has a successful track record of building technology in the financial services sector. They have experience working at companies such as Goldman Sachs, Thomson Reuters, Gerson Lehrman Group, M Science, Ernst & Young, and KPMG.

Gloat

Series A in 2017
Gloat is the first-ever Internal Talent Marketplace, used by the world’s leading enterprises. Gloat enables enterprises to harness the hidden potential of talent throughout the organization by matching people's skills and aspirations to internal career opportunities that are right for them and provides mission-critical organizational agility, visibility, and insights. Gloat is deployed at some of the most respected brands in the world with global deployments in over 120 countries across Unilever, PepsiCo, Standard Chartered Bank, Schneider Electric, Nestlé, HSBC, Seagate and many more.

Street Context

Venture Round in 2017
Street Context is the only email intelligence software purpose-built for the pace and scale of global capital markets. We power the email infrastructure that connects capital markets. In this industry, deals are won and lost in the inbox within minutes, but CRMs and email marketing tools don’t provide the timely, streamlined data firms need to act first and fast. Our software enables buy- and sell-side teams to cut through the email chaos so they can focus on high-value conversations. We’re not just analytics — we’re the Street's call list. With timely, streamlined data, Street Context infuses insight into every outreach, enabling buy- and sell-side teams to target high-value conversations first and fast. That’s why the world’s sharpest capital markets firms — 150 of them across 21 countries — leverage our email intelligence to maximize their time, keep the intel flowing, and make every conversation count.

CoLoadX

Seed Round in 2016
CoLoadX is an online high-frequency freight marketplace providing instant search, booking, and tracking using a cargo visibility system and real-time rich data. Selected for the 2019 Freightwaves FreightTech 100 Award, honoring innovation and disruption within the freight industry: https://www.freightwaves.com/awards/freighttech
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