Spark Capital

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco with offices in Boston and New York. It invests in startups across the United States, spanning early-stage to growth opportunities, focusing on software, internet, media, consumer products and services, fintech, and information technology. The firm backs companies across sectors such as software-as-a-service, digital media, online platforms, and technology-driven consumer products, often supporting ventures at the intersection of entertainment and technology, e-commerce, and education technology. It typically makes investments from formative rounds up to larger growth rounds, and seeks to take a board seat in portfolio companies to help guide strategy and growth. Notable investments include Twitter, Discord, Anthropic, Cruise, Niantic, Oculus, Warby Parker, and Tumblr, illustrating a history of backing influential products and teams.

Coen Armstrong

Investor

Paul Conway

General Partner

Todd Dagres

Partner

Alex Finkelstein

General Partner

Clay Fisher

Investor

Past deals in FinTech

Nuvo

Series A in 2025
Nuvo is a B2B platform that facilitates efficient customer onboarding and risk assessment for trade credit management. It streamlines processes by securely storing and actively monitoring critical credit information, enabling small and medium-sized businesses to manage their credit operations effectively.

Vinyl Equity

Seed Round in 2025
Vinyl Equity develops a digital transfer agent platform that automates workflows for public companies. Its platform connects issuers, shareholders, and service providers, enabling real-time reporting, efficient collaboration across stakeholders, and streamlined management of equity plans, treasury stock, dividend plans, proxy voting, and compliance.

Mercury

Series C in 2025
Mercury specializes in digital banking solutions tailored for startups and tech-focused businesses. It offers business checking and savings accounts, corporate credit cards, cash management tools, payment processing, expense tracking, and seamless integrations with accounting software. Mercury also provides API access for custom financial automation and caters to venture-backed companies with specialized banking services.

Comulate

Series B in 2025
Comulate develops a broker revenue platform designed to streamline money movement and administration within the insurance industry. The platform automates direct bill workflows to reduce costs and identifies missing commissions to increase revenue, providing brokers with automated revenue intelligence.

9fin

Series B in 2024
9fin Limited is a London-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in developing artificial intelligence software designed to provide comprehensive financial data for the bond market, particularly focusing on high-yield bonds. The company offers a data analytics platform that utilizes computer vision and machine learning to facilitate the search, filtering, and analysis of financial information. By delivering real-time market news, deal monitoring, and price data presented in chart formats, 9fin supports professionals in finance, investment banking, and asset management in making informed investment decisions. Its tools foster collaboration among teams and assist users in assessing risks effectively, ultimately streamlining the decision-making process in the credit markets.

Boosted.ai

Venture Round in 2024
Boosted.ai is an artificial intelligence company focused on improving portfolio management for the financial industry through distributed machine learning. Its flagship platform, Boosted Insights, enables portfolio managers to utilize advanced quantitative investing techniques without the need for coding or a data science background. The company develops machine learning software that enhances the investment decision-making process by conducting deep analyses of market data. By automating and simplifying complex tasks, Boosted.ai makes sophisticated investment tools accessible to all investment professionals, empowering them to achieve higher returns.

AnchorZero

Seed Round in 2024
AnchorZero is a fintech company that enables entrepreneurs to use Roth IRAs for tax breaks and financial success. It democratizes advanced tax strategies, simplifying the process of placing startup equity into Roth IRAs, offering significant tax savings and financial growth opportunities. It allows founders and employees to leverage tax benefits while managing startup equity within retirement savings plans.

Cover Genius

Series E in 2024
Cover Genius is a global insurance distribution platform provider that enables e-commerce and digital platforms to offer integrated end-to-end insurance and warranty products to customers. The platform delivers personalized insurance in multiple countries, languages, and currencies, with dynamic product recommendations and pricing optimization, and real-time claim payment. Its solutions include XCover, a global distribution platform for personalized insurance, and RentalCover, which enables car-sharing platforms, rental car companies, online car agencies, and OTAs to sell rental car insurance to customers worldwide. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sydney, Cover Genius operates internationally to extend protection for online shoppers and platform partners.

Midas

Series A in 2024
Midas is Turkey’s largest retail investing app, offering Turkish and U.S. equities at low commissions. We provide the most seamless user experience for investing in equities.

Ramp

Series D in 2023
Ramp offers a comprehensive financial operations platform designed for businesses seeking to streamline their financial tasks. The platform includes corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, and accounting integrations, assisting organizations in managing their finances efficiently.

Nomad

Series B in 2023
Nomad is a fintech company that offers financial services primarily aimed at non-residents in the United States. Its platform enables users to open current accounts, transfer money, and pay bills easily. Additionally, Nomad provides a virtual card for online shopping, allowing Brazilian residents to access these financial services without incurring fees. This innovative approach facilitates hassle-free banking and financial management for individuals who may otherwise face challenges in accessing traditional financial services.

Teamshares

Series D in 2023
Founded in 2019, Teamshares operates an online platform facilitating employee ownership in small businesses. It acquires traditional companies from retiring owners, transitioning them to be majority employee-owned within two decades. The company provides new leadership, financial education, equity management software, and financial products to support this process.

eToro

Venture Round in 2023
eToro is a multi-asset trading and investment platform that enables users to trade currencies, commodities, indices, crypto assets, and stocks, including derivatives related to underlying assets. It supports social trading through features that allow users to follow and copy the approaches of others. The platform serves a global community of investors and traders, offering access to markets and investment ideas. Founded in 2007 and based in London, the company focuses on making markets transparent and accessible for a broad user base.

Finsire

Seed Round in 2023
Finsire operates a digital public infrastructure platform designed to collateralize income and digitize various asset classes. The company provides application programming interfaces that facilitate the identification and verification of assets, allowing users to manage a diverse range of holdings, including mutual funds, stocks, insurance, bonds, and salaries. By offering tools to streamline the pledging of assets, Finsire enables clients to engage in secured lending with greater ease. The platform enhances data analysis and recommendations, supporting users in navigating their financial assets effectively.

9fin

Series A in 2022
9fin Limited is a London-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in developing artificial intelligence software designed to provide comprehensive financial data for the bond market, particularly focusing on high-yield bonds. The company offers a data analytics platform that utilizes computer vision and machine learning to facilitate the search, filtering, and analysis of financial information. By delivering real-time market news, deal monitoring, and price data presented in chart formats, 9fin supports professionals in finance, investment banking, and asset management in making informed investment decisions. Its tools foster collaboration among teams and assist users in assessing risks effectively, ultimately streamlining the decision-making process in the credit markets.

Nomad

Series B in 2022
Nomad is a fintech company that offers financial services primarily aimed at non-residents in the United States. Its platform enables users to open current accounts, transfer money, and pay bills easily. Additionally, Nomad provides a virtual card for online shopping, allowing Brazilian residents to access these financial services without incurring fees. This innovative approach facilitates hassle-free banking and financial management for individuals who may otherwise face challenges in accessing traditional financial services.

Deel

Venture Round in 2022
Deel is a payroll and compliance platform designed to simplify hiring, paying, and managing a global remote workforce. The platform combines contract creation and templates, payroll processing, tax compliance, and localized benefits administration in a single interface, enabling employers to onboard international employees and contractors efficiently. It provides tools for payments, invoicing, receipts, and customer support, along with guidance on local labor regulations and tax requirements. Deel supports global contractors by facilitating contract generation, onboarding, and compliant payment workflows, and helps organizations manage cross-border teams across multiple countries. By integrating hiring, payroll, taxes, and benefits, the platform aims to streamline international talent management and payroll operations, reducing administrative burdens and risk for businesses expanding worldwide.

Rapyd

Secondary Market in 2022
Rapyd is a payments platform that integrates fintech services into applications, streamlining access to a variety of local payment methods. It empowers e-commerce merchants, gig platforms, challenger wallets, remittance services, online lenders, and traditional banks to overcome the constraints of outdated infrastructure. By facilitating the creation of innovative, mobile-friendly payment solutions, Rapyd enhances the financial capabilities of its users, allowing them to adapt to the evolving demands of the digital economy.

Capitolis

Series D in 2022
Capitolis develops an online SaaS platform that connects global banks with institutional investors. Its technology enhances the efficiency of capital markets by facilitating seamless transactions, improving access to diversified capital, and optimizing risk management.

Ramp

Series C in 2022
Ramp offers a comprehensive financial operations platform designed for businesses seeking to streamline their financial tasks. The platform includes corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, and accounting integrations, assisting organizations in managing their finances efficiently.

Zeller

Series B in 2022
Zeller is an Australian fintech company that provides an integrated payments and financial services platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Based in Melbourne and founded in 2020, Zeller enables businesses to accept payments in-store and online, manage finances, and pay recipients, with direct connectivity to bank accounts for fast transfers. The platform consolidates payments, finance management, and payouts into a single ecosystem to simplify cash flow and bookkeeping, reducing the time spent onboarding and coordinating multiple providers. It emphasizes a simple online sign-up and, in some offerings, no contract necessary, helping Australian businesses get paid, access their money, and better manage their finances.

Standard Metrics

Series A in 2022
Standard Metrics is a platform that automates financial data management for venture capital teams and their portfolio companies. It provides real-time access to firm-wide data, enabling investors and founders to make informed decisions.

Midas

Seed Round in 2022
Midas is Turkey’s largest retail investing app, offering Turkish and U.S. equities at low commissions. We provide the most seamless user experience for investing in equities.

Boosted.ai

Series B in 2022
Boosted.ai is an artificial intelligence company focused on improving portfolio management for the financial industry through distributed machine learning. Its flagship platform, Boosted Insights, enables portfolio managers to utilize advanced quantitative investing techniques without the need for coding or a data science background. The company develops machine learning software that enhances the investment decision-making process by conducting deep analyses of market data. By automating and simplifying complex tasks, Boosted.ai makes sophisticated investment tools accessible to all investment professionals, empowering them to achieve higher returns.

Taptap Send

Series B in 2021
Taptap Send is a mobile application that facilitates instant money transfers for immigrants sending funds back to Africa at low costs. Launched in the summer of 2018, the platform has successfully processed hundreds of millions of dollars and serves hundreds of thousands of customers. It operates in seven European countries and enables payments to various countries, including Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Guinea, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Kenya, Madagascar, Zambia, Vietnam, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with plans for further expansion. Taptap Send simplifies the remittance process by allowing users to transfer money directly to mobile money wallets using just a debit card, eliminating the need for physical deposits and saving time for its clients.

Voltage Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Voltage Finance is a decentralized finance platform that provides users with a comprehensive suite of financial tools for exchanging crypto assets. Designed with a user-friendly interface, Voltage allows for seamless trading without incurring fees. The platform operates on a non-custodial basis, ensuring users retain control of their assets while benefiting from automated trading solutions. Accessible on smart devices, Voltage Finance aims to enhance the efficiency of trading compared to traditional exchanges, making advanced financial tools available to a broader audience.

Fireblocks

Series E in 2021
Fireblocks develops a blockchain-based platform focused on securely managing and transferring digital assets between exchanges, wallets, custodians, and counterparties. It caters to various financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, hedge funds, and liquidity providers.

Deel

Series D in 2021
Deel is a payroll and compliance platform designed to simplify hiring, paying, and managing a global remote workforce. The platform combines contract creation and templates, payroll processing, tax compliance, and localized benefits administration in a single interface, enabling employers to onboard international employees and contractors efficiently. It provides tools for payments, invoicing, receipts, and customer support, along with guidance on local labor regulations and tax requirements. Deel supports global contractors by facilitating contract generation, onboarding, and compliant payment workflows, and helps organizations manage cross-border teams across multiple countries. By integrating hiring, payroll, taxes, and benefits, the platform aims to streamline international talent management and payroll operations, reducing administrative burdens and risk for businesses expanding worldwide.

Alpaca

Series B in 2021
Alpaca is an embedded financial technologies platform that provides real-time market data, crypto and stock investing, and end-to-end brokerage infrastructure via modern APIs. It serves hundreds of global applications and businesses, with tens of thousands of active developers.

Ramp

Series C in 2021
Ramp offers a comprehensive financial operations platform designed for businesses seeking to streamline their financial tasks. The platform includes corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, and accounting integrations, assisting organizations in managing their finances efficiently.

Fireblocks

Series D in 2021
Fireblocks develops a blockchain-based platform focused on securely managing and transferring digital assets between exchanges, wallets, custodians, and counterparties. It caters to various financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, hedge funds, and liquidity providers.

Nomad

Series A in 2021
Nomad is a fintech company that offers financial services primarily aimed at non-residents in the United States. Its platform enables users to open current accounts, transfer money, and pay bills easily. Additionally, Nomad provides a virtual card for online shopping, allowing Brazilian residents to access these financial services without incurring fees. This innovative approach facilitates hassle-free banking and financial management for individuals who may otherwise face challenges in accessing traditional financial services.

Zeller

Series A in 2021
Zeller is an Australian fintech company that provides an integrated payments and financial services platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Based in Melbourne and founded in 2020, Zeller enables businesses to accept payments in-store and online, manage finances, and pay recipients, with direct connectivity to bank accounts for fast transfers. The platform consolidates payments, finance management, and payouts into a single ecosystem to simplify cash flow and bookkeeping, reducing the time spent onboarding and coordinating multiple providers. It emphasizes a simple online sign-up and, in some offerings, no contract necessary, helping Australian businesses get paid, access their money, and better manage their finances.

Lithic

Series B in 2021
Lithic is a technology company that develops a card issuing platform for creating and managing virtual payment cards. The platform enables individuals and businesses to transact online with privacy and security in mind, reducing exposure of sensitive financial information. It allows users to issue configurable cards, control spending, and monitor activity, offering a secure alternative to traditional cards. By focusing on ease of use and rapid deployment, Lithic supports secure online transactions for a range of applications, from consumer to enterprise use cases, while helping organizations protect financial data and maintain oversight over card activity.

Alpha Impact

Seed Round in 2021
Alpha Impact is a technology platform that facilitates non-custodial, real-time trade signals. It integrates with interoperable real-world signals, enabling multi-exchange trade execution and advanced portfolio risk management. The platform empowers signal providers to monetize their expertise within a social community.

Deel

Series C in 2021
Deel is a payroll and compliance platform designed to simplify hiring, paying, and managing a global remote workforce. The platform combines contract creation and templates, payroll processing, tax compliance, and localized benefits administration in a single interface, enabling employers to onboard international employees and contractors efficiently. It provides tools for payments, invoicing, receipts, and customer support, along with guidance on local labor regulations and tax requirements. Deel supports global contractors by facilitating contract generation, onboarding, and compliant payment workflows, and helps organizations manage cross-border teams across multiple countries. By integrating hiring, payroll, taxes, and benefits, the platform aims to streamline international talent management and payroll operations, reducing administrative burdens and risk for businesses expanding worldwide.

Ramp

Series B in 2021
Ramp offers a comprehensive financial operations platform designed for businesses seeking to streamline their financial tasks. The platform includes corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, and accounting integrations, assisting organizations in managing their finances efficiently.

Plaid

Series D in 2021
Plaid is a technology platform that provides APIs and developer tools to connect consumer bank accounts and financial data with applications. It enables developers to build modern financial services by offering infrastructure and intelligence tools that allow access to transactions, authentication for bank accounts, identity verification, real-time balances, asset verification, and income data. Its products include Transactions, Auth, Identity, Balance, Assets, and Income, supporting personal finance, consumer payments, lending, banking and brokerage, and business finance solutions. Plaid serves developers from startups to large financial institutions, helping democratize financial services with a developer-friendly experience. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rapyd

Series E in 2021
Rapyd is a payments platform that integrates fintech services into applications, streamlining access to a variety of local payment methods. It empowers e-commerce merchants, gig platforms, challenger wallets, remittance services, online lenders, and traditional banks to overcome the constraints of outdated infrastructure. By facilitating the creation of innovative, mobile-friendly payment solutions, Rapyd enhances the financial capabilities of its users, allowing them to adapt to the evolving demands of the digital economy.

Capitolis

Series C in 2021
Capitolis develops an online SaaS platform that connects global banks with institutional investors. Its technology enhances the efficiency of capital markets by facilitating seamless transactions, improving access to diversified capital, and optimizing risk management.

Flywire

Series F in 2021
Flywire facilitates global payments for educational institutions and their students worldwide. It offers a secure platform supporting diverse payment methods in over 140 currencies across 240 countries.

eToro

Venture Round in 2021
eToro is a multi-asset trading and investment platform that enables users to trade currencies, commodities, indices, crypto assets, and stocks, including derivatives related to underlying assets. It supports social trading through features that allow users to follow and copy the approaches of others. The platform serves a global community of investors and traders, offering access to markets and investment ideas. Founded in 2007 and based in London, the company focuses on making markets transparent and accessible for a broad user base.

Rapyd

Series D in 2021
Rapyd is a payments platform that integrates fintech services into applications, streamlining access to a variety of local payment methods. It empowers e-commerce merchants, gig platforms, challenger wallets, remittance services, online lenders, and traditional banks to overcome the constraints of outdated infrastructure. By facilitating the creation of innovative, mobile-friendly payment solutions, Rapyd enhances the financial capabilities of its users, allowing them to adapt to the evolving demands of the digital economy.

Reggora

Series B in 2021
Reggora is a Boston-based technology company established in 2016. It specializes in providing a cloud-based platform that streamlines the mortgage appraisal process for lenders and appraisers. The platform automates manual tasks, reduces turnaround times, and offers tools to enhance efficiency.

ThriveCash

Series A in 2020
Thrive is a technology company focused on creating innovative financial products tailored for students and young professionals, emphasizing their future potential rather than their past financial histories. Founded by individuals who faced financial challenges while pursuing their education in the United States, Thrive aims to address the needs of students who lack credit or substantial financial support. The company's flagship application allows students to access funds based on their job offers, enabling them to cover essential expenses such as security deposits, moving costs, and credit card payments while still in school. By investing in human potential, Thrive seeks to empower the next generation to thrive financially as they transition into their professional lives.

1inch Labs

Series A in 2020
1inch Labs is a developer of a decentralized finance platform that aggregates multiple decentralized exchanges across various blockchains. Founded in 2019 and based in the United States, the company focuses on enhancing the efficiency of cryptocurrency trading. Its suite of protocols, including the 1inch Aggregation Protocol, 1inch Liquidity Protocol, and 1inch Limit Order Protocol, work together to facilitate cost-effective and secure swap transactions. This integration allows users to access better rates than those available on individual exchanges, thereby optimizing their trading experience in the decentralized finance sector.

Found

Series A in 2020
Found is a financial platform tailored for self-employed individuals, offering a suite of services that simplifies business banking, bookkeeping, and tax management. The platform features built-in expense tracking and a dedicated tax savings account, allowing users to manage their finances efficiently. With no account fees and real-time business reporting, Found aims to streamline operations for self-employed professionals, enabling them to focus on growing their businesses. By addressing the unique challenges faced by self-employed individuals, Found is dedicated to helping them achieve their entrepreneurial goals.

Liquidity Group

Series A in 2020
Liquidity Group is a New York City based lending and financing firm that uses artificial intelligence and decision science to provide growth capital to mid-market and late-stage companies. It offers growth credit, term loans for expansion, revolving credit lines for working capital, and acquisition financing across technology, e-commerce, retail, information technology, and life sciences sectors, with a focus on rapid capital deployment and long-term client relationships.

Alpaca

Series A in 2020
Alpaca is an embedded financial technologies platform that provides real-time market data, crypto and stock investing, and end-to-end brokerage infrastructure via modern APIs. It serves hundreds of global applications and businesses, with tens of thousands of active developers.

Affirm

Series G in 2020
Affirm is a financial technology company that offers consumer installment loans at the point of sale through its Buy with Affirm platform. Shoppers can select Affirm at checkout and pay for purchases in fixed monthly installments with real-time decisioning and upfront, transparent terms, avoiding hidden fees. The company provides a digital and mobile‑first platform that includes a point‑of‑sale payment solution for merchants and a consumer app, and it partners with thousands of merchants across categories such as home, travel, electronics, apparel, and beauty. Revenue comes from merchant networks and related services, including virtual card networks, with the majority of business generated in the United States, and ongoing activity in Canada and other regions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Chicago, Affirm aims to offer an accessible alternative to traditional credit that improves budgeting and financial clarity for consumers.

Deel

Series B in 2020
Deel is a payroll and compliance platform designed to simplify hiring, paying, and managing a global remote workforce. The platform combines contract creation and templates, payroll processing, tax compliance, and localized benefits administration in a single interface, enabling employers to onboard international employees and contractors efficiently. It provides tools for payments, invoicing, receipts, and customer support, along with guidance on local labor regulations and tax requirements. Deel supports global contractors by facilitating contract generation, onboarding, and compliant payment workflows, and helps organizations manage cross-border teams across multiple countries. By integrating hiring, payroll, taxes, and benefits, the platform aims to streamline international talent management and payroll operations, reducing administrative burdens and risk for businesses expanding worldwide.

Relay Payments

Venture Round in 2020
Relay Payments Inc. is a fintech company that operates an electronic payments platform tailored for the transportation, logistics, and supply chain industries. Founded in 2018 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Relay Payments offers a solution called Relay One, which enables merchants to accept payments from various forms around the globe. The platform facilitates direct and instant electronic payments, addressing the industry's reliance on cash and checks. By processing over 300,000 transactions monthly, Relay Payments enhances the efficiency of operations for carriers, freight brokers, and third-party logistics providers, ensuring that consumer products are delivered swiftly to retail shelves. The company's innovations in payment processing aim to modernize the logistics sector, particularly in response to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Standard Metrics

Seed Round in 2020
Standard Metrics is a platform that automates financial data management for venture capital teams and their portfolio companies. It provides real-time access to firm-wide data, enabling investors and founders to make informed decisions.

Reggora

Series A in 2020
Reggora is a Boston-based technology company established in 2016. It specializes in providing a cloud-based platform that streamlines the mortgage appraisal process for lenders and appraisers. The platform automates manual tasks, reduces turnaround times, and offers tools to enhance efficiency.

Capitolis

Series B in 2019
Capitolis develops an online SaaS platform that connects global banks with institutional investors. Its technology enhances the efficiency of capital markets by facilitating seamless transactions, improving access to diversified capital, and optimizing risk management.

Alpaca

Series A in 2019
Alpaca is an embedded financial technologies platform that provides real-time market data, crypto and stock investing, and end-to-end brokerage infrastructure via modern APIs. It serves hundreds of global applications and businesses, with tens of thousands of active developers.

Mercury

Series A in 2019
Mercury specializes in digital banking solutions tailored for startups and tech-focused businesses. It offers business checking and savings accounts, corporate credit cards, cash management tools, payment processing, expense tracking, and seamless integrations with accounting software. Mercury also provides API access for custom financial automation and caters to venture-backed companies with specialized banking services.

Fundbox

Series C in 2019
Founded in 2013, Fundbox operates a payments network that facilitates transactions between businesses. It provides credit and payment solutions to small businesses serving other businesses (SMB2B), empowering them with fast and intuitive access to business credit.

Affirm

Series F in 2019
Affirm is a financial technology company that offers consumer installment loans at the point of sale through its Buy with Affirm platform. Shoppers can select Affirm at checkout and pay for purchases in fixed monthly installments with real-time decisioning and upfront, transparent terms, avoiding hidden fees. The company provides a digital and mobile‑first platform that includes a point‑of‑sale payment solution for merchants and a consumer app, and it partners with thousands of merchants across categories such as home, travel, electronics, apparel, and beauty. Revenue comes from merchant networks and related services, including virtual card networks, with the majority of business generated in the United States, and ongoing activity in Canada and other regions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Chicago, Affirm aims to offer an accessible alternative to traditional credit that improves budgeting and financial clarity for consumers.

Reggora

Seed Round in 2019
Reggora is a Boston-based technology company established in 2016. It specializes in providing a cloud-based platform that streamlines the mortgage appraisal process for lenders and appraisers. The platform automates manual tasks, reduces turnaround times, and offers tools to enhance efficiency.

EarnIn

Series C in 2018
Earnin is a financial technology company that offers a payroll disbursement platform, allowing employees to access their earned wages in real time without incurring interest or fees. Launched in 2014, the company utilizes mobile technology to empower users by providing the flexibility to receive their pay anytime, directly from their smartphones. The platform tracks an employee's worked hours through electronic timesheets and facilitates direct deposits, enabling individuals to manage their finances more effectively and avoid late payment or overdraft fees. By breaking the traditional biweekly pay cycle, Earnin aims to enhance financial control for users, making it easier to meet their financial obligations as they arise.

Plaid

Series C in 2018
Plaid is a technology platform that provides APIs and developer tools to connect consumer bank accounts and financial data with applications. It enables developers to build modern financial services by offering infrastructure and intelligence tools that allow access to transactions, authentication for bank accounts, identity verification, real-time balances, asset verification, and income data. Its products include Transactions, Auth, Identity, Balance, Assets, and Income, supporting personal finance, consumer payments, lending, banking and brokerage, and business finance solutions. Plaid serves developers from startups to large financial institutions, helping democratize financial services with a developer-friendly experience. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rare Bits

Series A in 2018
Rare Bits, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that operates an online marketplace for buying and selling cryptocurrency-based assets. Founded in 2017, Rare Bits offers a peer-to-peer platform where users can discover, manage, and trade over 500,000 unique items on the blockchain. The company's marketplace allows users to buy and sell non-fungible crypto assets through auctions without incurring any fees. By leveraging blockchain technology and web browser extensions, Rare Bits aims to transform digital ownership and keep users informed about market trends in the rapidly evolving landscape of cryptocurrency.

Wealthfront

Series E in 2018
Wealthfront Inc. is a privately owned investment manager based in Redwood City, California, specializing in automated wealth management services. The company focuses on helping individuals, particularly young professionals and families, build long-term wealth through a combination of diversified investing, high-yield savings, and low-cost loans. Wealthfront's mobile application functions as a robo-advisor, providing users with access to investment strategies and comprehensive financial planning services. The firm leverages in-house research to guide its investments in public equity, fixed income funds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. With over 500,000 clients in the United States, Wealthfront manages more than $30 billion in assets and has received numerous accolades for its innovative financial products and services.

Affirm

Series E in 2017
Affirm is a financial technology company that offers consumer installment loans at the point of sale through its Buy with Affirm platform. Shoppers can select Affirm at checkout and pay for purchases in fixed monthly installments with real-time decisioning and upfront, transparent terms, avoiding hidden fees. The company provides a digital and mobile‑first platform that includes a point‑of‑sale payment solution for merchants and a consumer app, and it partners with thousands of merchants across categories such as home, travel, electronics, apparel, and beauty. Revenue comes from merchant networks and related services, including virtual card networks, with the majority of business generated in the United States, and ongoing activity in Canada and other regions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Chicago, Affirm aims to offer an accessible alternative to traditional credit that improves budgeting and financial clarity for consumers.

Carta

Series C in 2017
Carta is a software company that operates a SEC-registered transfer agent and equity management platform for private companies. The platform helps private firms manage cap tables, corporate governance, 409A valuations, and compliance, issue stock electronically, and share equity information among shareholders, employees, auditors, and counsel. It digitizes stock certificates, stock options, warrants, and derivatives to provide a real-time view of ownership and enables employees to track vesting and exercise rights. Carta serves venture-backed startups, pre-IPO companies, and other private enterprises in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company maintains additional offices in the United States, Brazil, and Canada.

Coinbase

Series D in 2017
Founded in 2012, Coinbase operates a platform enabling merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. It offers products such as Coinbase Wallet, USD Coin, Coinbase Pro, and custody services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.

Verse

Series B in 2017
Verse is a payments technology platform that simplifies storing, spending, and sharing money. Its mobile app enables easy, instant, and fee-free transactions, with optional privacy settings for financial activities. Available on Android and iOS, Verse completes transactions within two business days.

Fig

Series A in 2017
Fig Publishing, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in designing and developing gaming software. Founded in 2015, Fig operates an online crowdfunding and publishing platform that enables non-accredited investors to financially support video game development. The platform combines rewards-based community funding with investment opportunities, fostering a collaborative environment for both developers and players. By facilitating direct engagement between creators and their audience, Fig aims to create a more balanced and sustainable approach to game development. The company functions as a subsidiary of OpenDeal Portal LLC.

Verse

Series A in 2016
Verse is a payments technology platform that simplifies storing, spending, and sharing money. Its mobile app enables easy, instant, and fee-free transactions, with optional privacy settings for financial activities. Available on Android and iOS, Verse completes transactions within two business days.

Behalf

Series C in 2016
Behalf, Inc. is a financing provider based in New York, established in 2011, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in facilitating commerce between business-to-business merchants and their customers by offering automated payment solutions, including instant credit and flexible payment terms at the point of sale. Behalf integrates seamlessly into merchants' sales and invoicing processes or online checkout systems, allowing business customers to access financing regardless of the invoice or transaction size. By paying merchants upfront, Behalf enhances their sales and cash flow, while also enabling small businesses to manage their operational efficiency through short-term financing and flexible repayment options.

Colu Technologies

Series A in 2016
Colu Technologies develops an open-source blockchain protocol for direct digital cash exchanges. It offers a control panel for creating local currencies, inviting businesses, tracking economic data, and mobile apps for sending/receiving payments. Founded in 2014, it aims to drive positive change in local communities by empowering users and businesses.

Plaid

Series B in 2016
Plaid is a technology platform that provides APIs and developer tools to connect consumer bank accounts and financial data with applications. It enables developers to build modern financial services by offering infrastructure and intelligence tools that allow access to transactions, authentication for bank accounts, identity verification, real-time balances, asset verification, and income data. Its products include Transactions, Auth, Identity, Balance, Assets, and Income, supporting personal finance, consumer payments, lending, banking and brokerage, and business finance solutions. Plaid serves developers from startups to large financial institutions, helping democratize financial services with a developer-friendly experience. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Haven

Series A in 2016
Haven, Inc. is a cloud-based logistics platform that specializes in providing trade management software for commodity producers, traders, and their customers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Switzerland, Haven's platform automates and streamlines logistics processes, including procurement, documentation, tracking, and payments. By utilizing advanced technologies such as Automatic Identification System (AIS) for real-time location data, Haven enhances visibility and coordination in global trade, allowing businesses to manage complex international logistics more efficiently. The company aims to improve productivity for its clients by simplifying shipping management and enabling seamless collaboration within the supply chain.

Affirm

Series D in 2016
Affirm is a financial technology company that offers consumer installment loans at the point of sale through its Buy with Affirm platform. Shoppers can select Affirm at checkout and pay for purchases in fixed monthly installments with real-time decisioning and upfront, transparent terms, avoiding hidden fees. The company provides a digital and mobile‑first platform that includes a point‑of‑sale payment solution for merchants and a consumer app, and it partners with thousands of merchants across categories such as home, travel, electronics, apparel, and beauty. Revenue comes from merchant networks and related services, including virtual card networks, with the majority of business generated in the United States, and ongoing activity in Canada and other regions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Chicago, Affirm aims to offer an accessible alternative to traditional credit that improves budgeting and financial clarity for consumers.

Fundbox

Series B in 2015
Founded in 2013, Fundbox operates a payments network that facilitates transactions between businesses. It provides credit and payment solutions to small businesses serving other businesses (SMB2B), empowering them with fast and intuitive access to business credit.

Orchard Platform

Series B in 2015
About Orchard Orchard Platform has built a centralized marketplace where loan originators and institutional investors can come together to explore and evaluate opportunities for funding, buying, and selling loans. By providing a global network of institutional buyers and sellers with high-quality data services, advanced analytics and reporting, and robust capital management tools through an innovative, end-to-end platform, Orchard has created a smarter way for participants in the private credit markets to interact, evaluate deals, and move forward with simple and complex transactions more efficiently. Orchard Platform does not provide legal advice, tax advice, or accounting advice. Before making any investment or executing any transaction, you should consult with your legal, tax, and accounting advisors with respect to the suitability, value, and risk of such investment or transaction. Investment advisory services are provided to clients by Orchard Platform Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in New York, N.Y. Orchard produces the Orchard U.S. Consumer Marketplace Lending Index—the only industry-wide direct lending performance benchmark—and has been named one of the Next Billion Dollar Startups by Forbes. The commentary and insights posted on its blog, and the data and research available to everyone on its platform, have cemented Orchard as a thought leader in its industry. For more information, visit www.orchardplatform.com. About Orchard Platform Markets, LLC Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orchard App Inc., and is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. The mission of Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is to provide a transparent, technologically optimized platform for loan originators and institutional investors to safely and securely connect, evaluate potential deals, and move forward with multiple types of transactions. For more information, visit www.orchardplatformmarkets.com.

Fig

Seed Round in 2015
Fig Publishing, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in designing and developing gaming software. Founded in 2015, Fig operates an online crowdfunding and publishing platform that enables non-accredited investors to financially support video game development. The platform combines rewards-based community funding with investment opportunities, fostering a collaborative environment for both developers and players. By facilitating direct engagement between creators and their audience, Fig aims to create a more balanced and sustainable approach to game development. The company functions as a subsidiary of OpenDeal Portal LLC.

Carta

Series B in 2015
Carta is a software company that operates a SEC-registered transfer agent and equity management platform for private companies. The platform helps private firms manage cap tables, corporate governance, 409A valuations, and compliance, issue stock electronically, and share equity information among shareholders, employees, auditors, and counsel. It digitizes stock certificates, stock options, warrants, and derivatives to provide a real-time view of ownership and enables employees to track vesting and exercise rights. Carta serves venture-backed startups, pre-IPO companies, and other private enterprises in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company maintains additional offices in the United States, Brazil, and Canada.

Behalf

Series B in 2015
Behalf, Inc. is a financing provider based in New York, established in 2011, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in facilitating commerce between business-to-business merchants and their customers by offering automated payment solutions, including instant credit and flexible payment terms at the point of sale. Behalf integrates seamlessly into merchants' sales and invoicing processes or online checkout systems, allowing business customers to access financing regardless of the invoice or transaction size. By paying merchants upfront, Behalf enhances their sales and cash flow, while also enabling small businesses to manage their operational efficiency through short-term financing and flexible repayment options.

Bond Street

Series A in 2015
Bond Street is a startup focused on transforming small business lending through technology, data, and design. Small business owners are the foundation for growth in the economy, and yet today’s banking system has left them behind. It is building a better future where access to financing is simple, transparent, and fair. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Affirm

Series B in 2015
Affirm is a financial technology company that offers consumer installment loans at the point of sale through its Buy with Affirm platform. Shoppers can select Affirm at checkout and pay for purchases in fixed monthly installments with real-time decisioning and upfront, transparent terms, avoiding hidden fees. The company provides a digital and mobile‑first platform that includes a point‑of‑sale payment solution for merchants and a consumer app, and it partners with thousands of merchants across categories such as home, travel, electronics, apparel, and beauty. Revenue comes from merchant networks and related services, including virtual card networks, with the majority of business generated in the United States, and ongoing activity in Canada and other regions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Chicago, Affirm aims to offer an accessible alternative to traditional credit that improves budgeting and financial clarity for consumers.

Colu Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Colu Technologies develops an open-source blockchain protocol for direct digital cash exchanges. It offers a control panel for creating local currencies, inviting businesses, tracking economic data, and mobile apps for sending/receiving payments. Founded in 2014, it aims to drive positive change in local communities by empowering users and businesses.

Flywire

Series C in 2015
Flywire facilitates global payments for educational institutions and their students worldwide. It offers a secure platform supporting diverse payment methods in over 140 currencies across 240 countries.

Carta

Series A in 2015
Carta is a software company that operates a SEC-registered transfer agent and equity management platform for private companies. The platform helps private firms manage cap tables, corporate governance, 409A valuations, and compliance, issue stock electronically, and share equity information among shareholders, employees, auditors, and counsel. It digitizes stock certificates, stock options, warrants, and derivatives to provide a real-time view of ownership and enables employees to track vesting and exercise rights. Carta serves venture-backed startups, pre-IPO companies, and other private enterprises in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company maintains additional offices in the United States, Brazil, and Canada.

Carta

Series A in 2015
Carta is a software company that operates a SEC-registered transfer agent and equity management platform for private companies. The platform helps private firms manage cap tables, corporate governance, 409A valuations, and compliance, issue stock electronically, and share equity information among shareholders, employees, auditors, and counsel. It digitizes stock certificates, stock options, warrants, and derivatives to provide a real-time view of ownership and enables employees to track vesting and exercise rights. Carta serves venture-backed startups, pre-IPO companies, and other private enterprises in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company maintains additional offices in the United States, Brazil, and Canada.

Plaid

Series A in 2014
Plaid is a technology platform that provides APIs and developer tools to connect consumer bank accounts and financial data with applications. It enables developers to build modern financial services by offering infrastructure and intelligence tools that allow access to transactions, authentication for bank accounts, identity verification, real-time balances, asset verification, and income data. Its products include Transactions, Auth, Identity, Balance, Assets, and Income, supporting personal finance, consumer payments, lending, banking and brokerage, and business finance solutions. Plaid serves developers from startups to large financial institutions, helping democratize financial services with a developer-friendly experience. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wealthfront

Series D in 2014
Wealthfront Inc. is a privately owned investment manager based in Redwood City, California, specializing in automated wealth management services. The company focuses on helping individuals, particularly young professionals and families, build long-term wealth through a combination of diversified investing, high-yield savings, and low-cost loans. Wealthfront's mobile application functions as a robo-advisor, providing users with access to investment strategies and comprehensive financial planning services. The firm leverages in-house research to guide its investments in public equity, fixed income funds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. With over 500,000 clients in the United States, Wealthfront manages more than $30 billion in assets and has received numerous accolades for its innovative financial products and services.

Orchard Platform

Series A in 2014
About Orchard Orchard Platform has built a centralized marketplace where loan originators and institutional investors can come together to explore and evaluate opportunities for funding, buying, and selling loans. By providing a global network of institutional buyers and sellers with high-quality data services, advanced analytics and reporting, and robust capital management tools through an innovative, end-to-end platform, Orchard has created a smarter way for participants in the private credit markets to interact, evaluate deals, and move forward with simple and complex transactions more efficiently. Orchard Platform does not provide legal advice, tax advice, or accounting advice. Before making any investment or executing any transaction, you should consult with your legal, tax, and accounting advisors with respect to the suitability, value, and risk of such investment or transaction. Investment advisory services are provided to clients by Orchard Platform Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in New York, N.Y. Orchard produces the Orchard U.S. Consumer Marketplace Lending Index—the only industry-wide direct lending performance benchmark—and has been named one of the Next Billion Dollar Startups by Forbes. The commentary and insights posted on its blog, and the data and research available to everyone on its platform, have cemented Orchard as a thought leader in its industry. For more information, visit www.orchardplatform.com. About Orchard Platform Markets, LLC Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orchard App Inc., and is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. The mission of Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is to provide a transparent, technologically optimized platform for loan originators and institutional investors to safely and securely connect, evaluate potential deals, and move forward with multiple types of transactions. For more information, visit www.orchardplatformmarkets.com.

Quantopian

Series B in 2014
Quantopian, Inc. is an online platform that facilitates the development and testing of quantitative trading algorithms. Established in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers a comprehensive suite of tools and infrastructure that enables users to learn about quantitative finance, engage in community discussions, and explore algorithms created by other members. The platform allows users to create and backtest their own algorithms, analyze results, and evaluate risk metrics. Quantopian also fosters an engaged community of approximately 195,000 quants, who share insights and learn from each other. The company provides capital for algorithm authors to trade, both through monthly contests and a selection process aimed at high-quality strategies. By combining education, data, and a collaborative research environment, Quantopian inspires individuals worldwide to innovate in algorithmic investing.

Privlo

Seed Round in 2014
Privlo is an online lender for well-qualified borrowers who have fallen through the cracks inherent in the traditional agency and qualified mortgage (QM) process. At the heart of its commonsense approach is a proprietary decision-making process that values each individual's unique financial picture. Privlo offers an incredible customer experience and speed and certainty of close. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Pasadena, California.

Cover

Series A in 2014
Cover, Inc., established in 2012 and headquartered in New York, develops a mobile dining application. It offers a service that allows users to split, tip, and pay their restaurant bills directly through their smartphones in select cities, including New York City, the Bay Area, Miami, and Los Angeles. As of 2015, Cover operates as a subsidiary of Velocity Mobile Limited.

Coin

Series A in 2014
Coin is a San Francisco-based company established in 2012 that specializes in smart payment solutions. It offers Coin 2.0, an electronic device designed to consolidate multiple debit, credit, gift, loyalty, and membership cards into a single, portable unit. This device facilitates magnetic stripe and NFC tap-to-pay transactions, streamlining the payment process for users. Coin's innovative platform also features a Developer Program that collaborates with major payment networks to enable the integration of secure payment functionalities into wearable technology, such as fitness trackers, smartwatches, and jewelry. By providing a wallet-sized card that securely stores users' card information and includes alerts for device separation from smartphones, Coin enhances the convenience and security of digital payments.

Flywire

Series B in 2014
Flywire facilitates global payments for educational institutions and their students worldwide. It offers a secure platform supporting diverse payment methods in over 140 currencies across 240 countries.

Orchard Platform

Seed Round in 2013
About Orchard Orchard Platform has built a centralized marketplace where loan originators and institutional investors can come together to explore and evaluate opportunities for funding, buying, and selling loans. By providing a global network of institutional buyers and sellers with high-quality data services, advanced analytics and reporting, and robust capital management tools through an innovative, end-to-end platform, Orchard has created a smarter way for participants in the private credit markets to interact, evaluate deals, and move forward with simple and complex transactions more efficiently. Orchard Platform does not provide legal advice, tax advice, or accounting advice. Before making any investment or executing any transaction, you should consult with your legal, tax, and accounting advisors with respect to the suitability, value, and risk of such investment or transaction. Investment advisory services are provided to clients by Orchard Platform Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in New York, N.Y. Orchard produces the Orchard U.S. Consumer Marketplace Lending Index—the only industry-wide direct lending performance benchmark—and has been named one of the Next Billion Dollar Startups by Forbes. The commentary and insights posted on its blog, and the data and research available to everyone on its platform, have cemented Orchard as a thought leader in its industry. For more information, visit www.orchardplatform.com. About Orchard Platform Markets, LLC Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orchard App Inc., and is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. The mission of Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is to provide a transparent, technologically optimized platform for loan originators and institutional investors to safely and securely connect, evaluate potential deals, and move forward with multiple types of transactions. For more information, visit www.orchardplatformmarkets.com.

Quantopian

Series A in 2013
Quantopian, Inc. is an online platform that facilitates the development and testing of quantitative trading algorithms. Established in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers a comprehensive suite of tools and infrastructure that enables users to learn about quantitative finance, engage in community discussions, and explore algorithms created by other members. The platform allows users to create and backtest their own algorithms, analyze results, and evaluate risk metrics. Quantopian also fosters an engaged community of approximately 195,000 quants, who share insights and learn from each other. The company provides capital for algorithm authors to trade, both through monthly contests and a selection process aimed at high-quality strategies. By combining education, data, and a collaborative research environment, Quantopian inspires individuals worldwide to innovate in algorithmic investing.

Plaid

Seed Round in 2013
Plaid is a technology platform that provides APIs and developer tools to connect consumer bank accounts and financial data with applications. It enables developers to build modern financial services by offering infrastructure and intelligence tools that allow access to transactions, authentication for bank accounts, identity verification, real-time balances, asset verification, and income data. Its products include Transactions, Auth, Identity, Balance, Assets, and Income, supporting personal finance, consumer payments, lending, banking and brokerage, and business finance solutions. Plaid serves developers from startups to large financial institutions, helping democratize financial services with a developer-friendly experience. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Behalf

Series A in 2013
Behalf, Inc. is a financing provider based in New York, established in 2011, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in facilitating commerce between business-to-business merchants and their customers by offering automated payment solutions, including instant credit and flexible payment terms at the point of sale. Behalf integrates seamlessly into merchants' sales and invoicing processes or online checkout systems, allowing business customers to access financing regardless of the invoice or transaction size. By paying merchants upfront, Behalf enhances their sales and cash flow, while also enabling small businesses to manage their operational efficiency through short-term financing and flexible repayment options.

Flywire

Series B in 2013
Flywire facilitates global payments for educational institutions and their students worldwide. It offers a secure platform supporting diverse payment methods in over 140 currencies across 240 countries.

Covestor

Series B in 2013
Covestor, established in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in London, operates as a registered investment adviser. It specializes in an online investment marketplace, connecting self-directed investors with skilled portfolio managers, hedge funds, and money managers. Covestor's platform offers a range of investment advisory services, including active and passive investing solutions, and provides access to institutional-style strategies. Its proprietary Portfolio Sync technology facilitates automatic trade replication, ensuring convenience and protection for clients. Covestor is recognized for pioneering the online marketplace for separately managed accounts (SMAs).
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