Investment Area
Fintech
Fintech is a core area of our investment strategy, where we focus on companies that modernize financial services, insurance, and risk management through technology. Our portfolio targets businesses that streamline payments, underwriting, compliance, fraud detection, analytics, and operational workflows—creating faster, more transparent, and scalable solutions for enterprises and consumers alike. We prioritize companies that combine proprietary data, intelligent automation, and platform integration to deliver durable value, reduce friction, and drive long-term growth across the financial ecosystem.
Sub Team
Portfolio Companies
News & Thought Leadership
HockeyStack Raises $50M to Build Revenue Agents for the Enterprise
Apr 2026HockeyStack·PR Newswire
Y Combinator-backed HockeyStack secures $50M, launches AI revenue agents
Apr 2026HockeyStack·Crypto Briefing
Iterable Launches Advanced Insights and Control Features
Feb 2026Iterable·BusinessWire
Uptiq Raises $25 Million Series B to Scale Industry-Ready AI Solutions and Launch Qore for Builders
Feb 2026UPTIQ·Business Wire
FiscalNote Unveils New Breakthrough in PolicyNote: AI-Powered, Personalized Impact Summaries
Dec 2025FiscalNote·BusinessWire
Abacus AI's ChatLLM Delivers Advanced AI Chat Performance in 2025
Nov 2025Abacus·Blockchain.News
Iterable Launches Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
Nov 2025Iterable·BusinessWire
Uptiq Unveils Qore at Money20/20: The AI Platform That Turns Financial Services Teams Into Builders
Oct 2025UPTIQ·Yahoo Finance
Uptiq.ai Raises $12 Million to Build the Future of AI Infrastructure for Financial Services
Oct 2025UPTIQ·Business Wire
FiscalNote Introduces AI-Powered Bill Comparison in PolicyNote
Oct 2025FiscalNote·FiscalNote Investors
Sequence Secures $20M Series A to Scale Revenue Automation
Oct 2025Sequence·Sequence
Introducing Sequence 2.0: AI-Native Revenue Automation
Oct 2025Sequence·Sequence
AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews
Sep 2025Alex·TechCrunch
Ex-Blackstone Investor Raises $7M for Meridian, Private Equity’s New AI Operating System
Jun 2025Meridian·William Hess
Ex-Blackstone Investor Raises $7M for Meridian, Private Equity's New AI Operating System
Jun 2025Meridian·BusinessWire
ECL Debuts 1 GW Off-Grid Hydrogen-Powered 'AI Factory' Data Center On 600 Acres Near Houston
Jun 2025ECL·Data Center Frontier
FiscalNote Accelerates AI Innovation with New Enhancements to PolicyNote for Legislative Forecasting, Alerts, and Bill Discovery
Jun 2025FiscalNote·Yahoo Finance
FiscalNote Enhances PolicyNote Platform With Launch of Dedicated Tariff Tracker
Apr 2025FiscalNote·BusinessWire
Iterable Unveils Iterable Nova A New AI Agent to Power Moments-Based Marketing
Apr 2025Iterable·BusinessWire
Thinknum Gets $11.6M Funding for Alternative Data Platform
Feb 2025Thinknum·FinTech Futures
ECL Raises $11M in Series A Funding
Aug 2024ECL·YourStory
FiscalNote Celebrates Public Company Debut
Aug 2022FiscalNote·Fiscalnote
FiscalNote Strikes $1.3 Billion SPAC Deal
Nov 2021FiscalNote·WSJ
Iterable Surpasses $100M in ARR
Oct 2021Iterable·Iterable
Iterable adds Confluent CMO to BoD
Sep 2021Iterable·Iterable
Iterable Hires a new Head of D&I
Aug 2021Iterable·Iterable
Multichannel Marketing Platform Iterable Raises $200M
Jun 2021Iterable·VentureBeat
Iterable Announces $2B Valuation
Jun 2021Iterable·Forbes
ElectroNeek raises $20M Series A
Jun 2021ElectroNeek·Forbes
FiscalNote buys English advisory firm Oxford Analytica
Feb 2021FiscalNote·Business Journals
FiscalNote raises $160M to fund expansion
Dec 2020FiscalNote·Business Journals
ElectroNeek raises $2.5M
Apr 2020ElectroNeek·Forbes
Eliminating Repetitive Tasks for Employees
Feb 2020ElectroNeek·Forbes
Started With A Cold Email To Mark Cuban
Aug 2019FiscalNote·Forbes
Iterable lands $50M Series C
Mar 2019Iterable·TechCrunch
FiscalNote To Buy CQ Roll Call
Jul 2018FiscalNote·Washington Post
Abacus acquired by Certify
Jul 2018Abacus·Certify
Can big data predict what will pass Congress?
Jan 2018FiscalNote·Washington Post
ALICE acquired by Expedia
Aug 2017Alice·TechCrunch
Iterable Raises $23 Million Series B
Dec 2016Iterable·WSJ
FiscalNote snares $7M from the Winklevoss and Others
Nov 2014FiscalNote·Washington Post
The Next Gen Of Email Campaign Software
Oct 2014Iterable·Forbes
FiscalNote Raises $1.2M From Mark Cuban And Others
Sep 2013FiscalNote·TechCrunch

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