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Dec 23, 2020


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With the holidays upon us and as 2020 comes to a close, we would like to thank all those who have been so supportive to us and our portfolio companies throughout the last extraordinary 12 months.

The team here at FinTech Collective wishes you all the very happiest and healthiest holiday and we sincerely hope we can see as many of you as possible IRL “in real life” in 2021.

To celebrate the good in 2020, we wanted to highlight the teams and companies in our portfolio who are working tirelessly, with limited resources, to reimagine the way money flows through the world.

New Additions to the Portfolio in 2020


Bottlepay is a next-generation bitcoin wallet and frictionless payment rail across social and commerce. Link

Fondeadora is building an elegant, savings-focused challenger bank in Mexico. Link

IMMO is a next-gen real estate asset manager; data-driven, tech-enabled and focusing on unlocking the single family rental asset class in Europe. Link

NYDIG provides a complete range of institutional digital asset solutions including insured custody, execution, asset management, financing, and research. Link

Oyster is building a holistic digital financial institution for SMEs in Latin America. Link

Stealth Company #1 is the financial single source of truth for the modern company, housing the company’s complete books, records, and financial data. Launching in 2021.

Stealth Company #2 is building an integrated platform to securely build machine learning models, without moving data or compromising privacy. Launching in 2021.

Capital Markets


Axoni is overhauling the back office post trade systems of the world's biggest broker dealers using blockchain-based smart contracts. Link

Dharma is the first mobile native, borderless trading application that is powered by cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance protocols. Link

Oxio is a cloud-based platform that allows any brand or enterprise to become an MVNO in a matter of minutes - offering mobile connectivity to its users. Link

Parkside aims to bring 500m people into the US stock market through regulatory innovation, a full-stack fractional trading platform and a US-regulated broker dealer. Link

Reonomy is the largest database of CRE properties, companies and people in the US. Link

Reorg empowers finance and legal professionals with tools to find and use complex and opaque business information delivered in a clear, actionable way. Exited to Warburg Pincus. Link

TradeBlock is a leading institutional provider of digital currency market infrastructure and data analytics. Link

Universal Market Access (UMA) is an open-source and decentralized platform for financial contracts. Link

Wealth And Asset Management


Antler is a global startup generator and emerging asset manager at scale that is building the next big wave of tech. Link

Artivest has been helping financial advisors and high-net-worth investors across the Americas, Europe, and Asia build better portfolios since 2011. Exited to iCapital. Link

NextCapital is a leading provider of enterprise-focused digital financial advice, including 401(k) auto-enrollment, IRA rollovers, brokerage accounts, and other retirement accounts. Link

Openfolio is a social investing platform that leverages data from over 100k users to make personal finance simpler, more relevant, and more transparent. Exited to Stoneridge. Link

Quovo is a data platform providing insights and connectivity for millions of financial accounts across thousands of institutions. Exited to Plaid, Visa. Link

Rainbow is a smart contract based wallet that aims to serve as the primary interface for interacting with DeFi protocols and Web 3.0 experiences. Link

Underline is driven to ensure the vibrancy of the United States through building intelligent community infrastructure. Link

Vestwell is a new kind of digital retirement platform transforming the way plans are offered and administered — for the benefit of advisors, employers, and employees alike. Link

Banking Lending Payments


Anyfin is a mission-driven, Swedish digital lender that simplifies the process of refinancing consumer debt. Link

APDS provides secure technology to U.S. prisons to make incarceration cheaper, safer, and more effective, with the goal of reducing recidivism. Link

Centrifuge is an open, decentralized platform to connect the global supply chain. Link

Contabilizei is a Brazilian SaaS accounting platform that replaces the traditional outsourced accounting firm. Link

Extend helps launch and scale B2B virtual card programs instantly. Link

Flutterwave is building modern payments technology and infrastructure for Africa. Link

Mighty helps lien holders and law firms manage personal injury liens without the headache of emails, phone calls, and faxes. Link

Migo is an embedded lending platform partnering with banks, merchants, fintech start-ups and telcos. Link

Minka is bringing real-time payment infrastructure to Latin America. Link

MoneyLion is America's all-in-one challenger bank. Link

Ocrolus is an intelligent automation platform that analyzes financial documents with over 99% accuracy. Link

Octane Lending is a provider of point of sale financing for powersports dealers. Link

Rebel is a digital-first, data-driven consumer finance company changing the way middle-class Brazilians interact with financial services on a daily basis. Link

Runa offers a complete cloud-based human resources and payroll software solution for SMEs in Latin America. Link

Sigma Ratings is the world's first AI-enabled, non-credit ratings agency, focused on evaluating the governance and financial crime controls of financial institutions and corporates. Link

Slide is the first gift card app that allows users to seamlessly store and manage all of their open-loop and closed-loop prepaid cards in one secure, central location. Exited to Raise. Link

Wunder Capital provides construction and term financing for commercial solar projects. Link

Insurance


Embroker is a digital insurance company that's radically improving the way insurance works for businesses. Link

WorldCover seeks to help high value crop growers manage their financial risk to climate change, unpredictable weather and natural disasters. Link


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