FinTech Ventures Fund

FinTech Ventures Fund is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, established in 2015. It specializes in investing in early-stage and growth companies within the fintech and insurtech sectors, particularly those that cater to underbanked or unbanked customers. The firm focuses on technology-enabled financial services, including non-banking lending, payments, alternative lending, and data analytics. FinTech Ventures Fund prefers to invest between $1 million and $10 million, with the potential for transactions up to $30 million, typically seeking minority stakes or control positions as a lead investor. Its investment strategy is concentrated in the NAFTA region, which includes the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Sergei Kouzmine

Founder

Lucas Timberlake

Co-Founder and General Partner

24 past transactions

Pull Logic

Seed Round in 2024
Pull Logic is a SaaS platform that addresses lost sales due to stockout for the retail industry. It empowers retailers with IntelLogicTM, a sophisticated predictive product, and product substitute analytics tool, and AgileNetworkLogicTM, a reimagined data-driven product availability network that adapts quickly to customer demands. Powered by the work of Dr. Benoit Montreuil, a Chair at Georgia Tech's Dept of Systems and Industrial Engineering, Pull Logic created proprietary, AI-fueled technology solutions that seamlessly work together to achieve accurate demand forecasting and attain precise inventory optimization giving retailers a competitive advantage and to drive profitability. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

battleface

Series B in 2024
battleface, Inc. is a global travel insurance agency that specializes in providing tailored insurance services for travelers and expatriates. The company offers a range of unique travel insurance products and benefits designed to meet the specific needs of individuals traveling or working internationally. Utilizing an API-based distribution system, battleface enables partners to access custom and white-label insurance options, allowing for flexibility in services, benefits, and pricing. With a focus on delivering a simplified and responsive customer experience, battleface ensures that customers can easily select and manage their insurance products from any device at any time.

Vint

Seed Round in 2022
Vint is an investment platform that enables investors to acquire shares in curated collections of investment-grade wines and spirits. By securitizing these collections with regulatory approval, Vint offers fractional ownership, allowing individuals to diversify their portfolios through wine investments. The company utilizes data models and analytics, alongside a team of industry experts, to source high-quality wines and spirits. These assets are securely stored in a network of cellars until optimal market conditions arise. At that point, Vint collaborates with merchant partners, auction houses, and private buyers to sell the assets, distributing the proceeds to investors on a pro-rata basis.

Steady Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Steady is a leading technology platform for property managers and owners of single-family rental homes. Steady offers a suite of tailored financial and insurance products that are designed to reduce risk for the owners generate ancillary revenue for our property manager partners. Steady’s technology provides property managers with products that benefit their owners, while also giving them competitive differentiation to grow their businesses.

Kredit

Seed Round in 2022
Kredit specializes in facilitating communication for the settlement of credit card debts and overall debt resolution. Its software serves as a centralized platform where consumers can engage with loan providers, collection agencies, and debt buyers to explore flexible payment options. This system empowers distressed borrowers by enabling them to present valid claims for relief, highlighting their needs for debt restructuring or forgiveness. Additionally, Kredit assists users in identifying the flexible resolution options available to them, allowing for seamless interaction with various financial product providers in one comprehensive location.

Vero Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Vero Technologies is a commercial lending platform that specializes in inventory loan management software for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Founded in 2020 and based in New York, the company offers a comprehensive solution that combines technology and services to assist financial institutions, wholesalers, and dealers in managing inventory loans efficiently. Its platform facilitates underwriting, funding, risk assessment, and portfolio management, allowing bank and credit union partners to provide floor plan financing without the need for new systems or additional personnel. Additionally, Vero Technologies equips SMB owners with tools to effectively oversee their treasury and capital outflows, enabling them to scale their lending programs through an automated funding system.

Redkik

Seed Round in 2022
Redkik is a global Insurtech company focused on enhancing the insurance landscape for logistics and transportation. Its innovative platform streamlines the insurance process by replacing traditional, complex annual policies with on-demand, per-shipment cargo insurance. By integrating with licensed insurance providers, Redkik enables transport intermediaries to offer customized insurance solutions at the point of sale. This approach allows clients in the logistics and transportation sectors to access tailored, competitive quotes instantly, transforming the way insurance is managed within the industry. With a team experienced in logistics, risk management, and technology, Redkik aims to bring intelligence and efficiency to insurance, ultimately providing peace of mind for businesses and their customers.

QuEra Computing

Venture Round in 2021
QuEra Computing is a company focused on developing quantum computing technology. They specialize in building large-scale quantum computers using neutral atoms. QuEra uses innovative techniques to manipulate and control qubits for quantum computation, aiming to solve complex problems in fields like chemistry, materials science, and machine learning. Their quantum computers operate on a platform that leverages arrays of neutral atoms that are highly scalable, providing a path toward achieving quantum advantage for practical applications.

Vint

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Vint is an investment platform that enables investors to acquire shares in curated collections of investment-grade wines and spirits. By securitizing these collections with regulatory approval, Vint offers fractional ownership, allowing individuals to diversify their portfolios through wine investments. The company utilizes data models and analytics, alongside a team of industry experts, to source high-quality wines and spirits. These assets are securely stored in a network of cellars until optimal market conditions arise. At that point, Vint collaborates with merchant partners, auction houses, and private buyers to sell the assets, distributing the proceeds to investors on a pro-rata basis.

StartSure

Seed Round in 2021
StartSure is a software platform that focuses on simplifying the acquisition of business insurance for small businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, and independent contractors. By streamlining the process of obtaining, reviewing, and purchasing comprehensive insurance, the platform allows users to receive tailored quotes with minimal effort. StartSure aims to provide affordable insurance plans that meet the specific needs of its clients, thereby making it easier for them to secure the coverage necessary to protect their businesses.

Momnt

Seed Round in 2021
Momnt is a provider of embedded financial services that specializes in modern lending solutions, enabling businesses to offer affordable financing at the point of need. Utilizing an API-based platform, Momnt leverages alternative data and advanced technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver real-time, customized loan offers to borrowers. This approach ensures compliance with existing financial regulations while creating a transparent borrowing experience for consumers. By streamlining digital lending and payment processes, Momnt not only supports individual borrowers but also provides merchants with opportunities for business growth, all while maintaining the essential role of financial institutions in the lending landscape.

PAXAFE

Seed Round in 2021
PAXAFE, Inc. specializes in developing innovative hardware and software solutions for packaging, focusing on Internet of Things (IoT) technology to enhance the security and traceability of high-value shipments. Founded in 2018 and based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the company offers a risk management platform that utilizes telematics and data integration to monitor shipments of items such as jewelry, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and luxury goods. PAXAFE's solutions aim to prevent theft and ensure chain-of-custody integrity while improving operational efficiency for shippers and carriers. By providing insights into potential supply chain disruptions and facilitating intelligent cargo insurance, PAXAFE enhances decision-making processes and helps businesses mitigate losses associated with adverse shipping events.

Marble

Seed Round in 2021
Marble is a developer of a digital wallet and loyalty platform for insurance. It also offers a platform where users can organize all their policies in one singular digital wallet and compare rates and find the right policy for them.

IOU Financial

Post in 2020
Having funded over $200 million is small business loans; IOU Financial has the experience to help any business get what they need. They have offices all over the world and the knowledge and flexibility to get your business the capital it needs to seize the growth opportunities that will help you realize their potential

Momnt

Seed Round in 2020
Momnt is a provider of embedded financial services that specializes in modern lending solutions, enabling businesses to offer affordable financing at the point of need. Utilizing an API-based platform, Momnt leverages alternative data and advanced technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver real-time, customized loan offers to borrowers. This approach ensures compliance with existing financial regulations while creating a transparent borrowing experience for consumers. By streamlining digital lending and payment processes, Momnt not only supports individual borrowers but also provides merchants with opportunities for business growth, all while maintaining the essential role of financial institutions in the lending landscape.

battleface

Seed Round in 2019
battleface, Inc. is a global travel insurance agency that specializes in providing tailored insurance services for travelers and expatriates. The company offers a range of unique travel insurance products and benefits designed to meet the specific needs of individuals traveling or working internationally. Utilizing an API-based distribution system, battleface enables partners to access custom and white-label insurance options, allowing for flexibility in services, benefits, and pricing. With a focus on delivering a simplified and responsive customer experience, battleface ensures that customers can easily select and manage their insurance products from any device at any time.

Finero

Pre Seed Round in 2019
FinTech focused on the unbanked in emerging markets.

MaxRewards

Pre Seed Round in 2019
MaxRewards, Inc. is a personal finance application based in Atlanta, Georgia, that assists users in managing their credit card accounts and maximizing rewards. Launched in 2016, the app consolidates various functions, allowing users to track credit card rewards, bills, transactions, and credit scores from all connected cards in one place. It offers personalized, real-time recommendations on card usage to help users optimize their rewards and savings on every purchase. The platform also includes features for analyzing spending and reward activities, as well as tools for monitoring credit scores, thereby providing a comprehensive resource for users to effectively manage their credit cards and financial health.

Instantor

Corporate Round in 2017
Instantor helps organisations understand their customers´ true financial capacity. Instantor’s solutions process transactional data from bank accounts, support financial data aggregation and improve credit risk management. Instantor empowers customers to accurately predict the possibilities of defaulting – making credit risk decisions faster, easier, and fairer for all. With Instantor’s fully digitalised solutions, financial organisations can increase acceptance, reduce risk, and streamline credit risk management. Instantor has 300+ integrated banks in over 25 markets, with 200 clients in Europe, Latin America and Asia. In March 2019, the Financial Times ranked Instantor as the second fastest growing Fintech in Sweden. Instantor is the first authorised FinTech by the Financial Swedish Authority (FSA) to operate as AISP under PSD2.

IOU Financial

Post in 2016
Having funded over $200 million is small business loans; IOU Financial has the experience to help any business get what they need. They have offices all over the world and the knowledge and flexibility to get your business the capital it needs to seize the growth opportunities that will help you realize their potential

LQD Business Finance

Series A in 2016
LQD Business Finance is a Chicago-based, technology-enabled company that provides small and medium sized businesses with structured loans. The company develops a whole-business financing solution through a single loan product that meets all the aspects of a business’ financing requirements such as acquisition, working capital, purchase orders, and refinancing solutions. LQD Business Finance generates revenue as a percent of its clients’ loan amount. It evaluates the risk of each potential loan by using a proprietary risk management and backing software known as LQD Matrix.

Fund That Flip

Seed Round in 2016
Fund That Flip, Inc. operates an online investment platform focused on short-term residential real estate redevelopment projects. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Cleveland, the company sources and underwrites various redevelopment initiatives, allowing accredited investors to invest in borrower-dependent notes associated with each project. Fund That Flip provides short-term loans to real estate redevelopers who acquire and renovate residential properties, ultimately aiming to restore communities across the United States. The platform connects experienced redevelopers with a diverse base of institutional and individual investors, facilitating passive wealth generation in the residential rehab loan market. The company has been recognized for its rapid growth, ranking on the 2019 Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the nation.

IOU Financial

Post in 2015
Having funded over $200 million is small business loans; IOU Financial has the experience to help any business get what they need. They have offices all over the world and the knowledge and flexibility to get your business the capital it needs to seize the growth opportunities that will help you realize their potential

GROUNDFLOOR

Series A in 2015
GROUNDFLOOR is an online platform that facilitates financing for commercial and residential real estate projects by connecting property developers with investors. Founded in 2013 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, the company allows developers to raise funds for their projects through crowdsourced investments. It specializes in construction and acquisition loans, providing a streamlined process for sourcing and managing individual lenders. GROUNDFLOOR is notable for being the first company approved by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission to offer direct real estate debt investments under Regulation A, making these opportunities accessible to both accredited and non-accredited investors. The platform allows investors to build customizable real estate debt portfolios that aim for short-term, high-yield returns, while offering borrower-friendly loan terms to support developers in managing their cash flow.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.