Ally Ventures
VC Fund
Detroit, United States
Ally Ventures is a VC fund in Detroit focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Ally Ventures looks for opportunities to work with businesses that align with Ally's strategic objectives. We help them grow through investment, a commercial relationship and mentorship with access to a broad range of resources. We collaborate throughout the entire process to ensure a win-win for their business and ours.Our team also workswith three accelerator programs — FinTech Innovation Lab, Plug and Play, and Queen City Fintech — to identify commercial opportunities and investments at earlier stages of development.Ally is a leading digital financial services company and a top 25 U.S. financial holding company offering financial products for consumers, businesses, automotive dealers and corporate clients.We have an award-winning online bank, rewarding credit and lending experiences and a growing wealth management and brokerage platform. Ally is one of the largest full service auto finance operations in the country with a complementary auto-focused insurance business. Our corporate finance division provides senior secured loans to private equity-owned, U.S.-based middle market companies.For nearly 100 years, we've been committed to creating innovative experiences that make life easier, products that are never status quo and diverse thinking that inspires new ideas.Our headquarters are in Detroit, MI and have additional locations across the US.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
Last updated:
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Industries Ally Ventures invests in
Stages Ally Ventures invests in
Countries Ally Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Peter Greene
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3 more contacts available
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 6 (55%)
- FinTech 5 (45%)
- Automotive 4 (36%)
- Fleet Management 3 (27%)
- Banking 2 (18%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (36%)
- Funding Round 3 (27%)
- Series A 2 (18%)
- Series D 1 (9%)
- Convertible Note 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Jesse Podell
Sr. Director
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Sr. Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Peter Greene
Founder, Managing Director, Strategy and Corporate Development; Head of M&A
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Founder, Managing Director, Strategy and Corporate Development; Head of M&A | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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HopDrive
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Social Auto Transport offers a turnkey solution that automates short distance car moving services for auto dealers and rental car companies.The company's services include non-disruptive delivery, instant moves, access to trusted drivers, and real-time tracking, enabling auto dealers to increase shipping efficiency and automate workflow.Itwas founded by Nick Mottas and Rob Newton in Richmond, Virginia in 2017. | $8M / Series A / Jan 24, 2023 | |
Champ
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Through the application of its secure, patent-pending technology, CHAMPtitles ends the reliance on legacy systems to manage U.S. automobile titles. CHAMPtitles partners with each party in the vehicle title ecosystem to reduce their costs in handling titles, turning the burdensome administrative process of issuing a vehicle title into a profitableactivity. | $12.9M / Series B / Sep 22, 2022 | |
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Champ
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Through the application of its secure, patent-pending technology, CHAMPtitles ends the reliance on legacy systems to manage U.S. automobile titles. CHAMPtitles partners with each party in the vehicle title ecosystem to reduce their costs in handling titles, turning the burdensome administrative process of issuing a vehicle title into a profitableactivity. | $8.5M / Series A / Aug 11, 2021 | |
Car IQ
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Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQconsolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively. | $15M / Series B / Aug 11, 2021 | |
Deserve Inc.
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Deserve Inc. is a leading mobile-first credit card platform built on a cloud-native and API-enabled architecture, which allows partners to offer superior personalized experiences for cardholders. We partner with financial institutions, fintechs, lenders, and merchant co-brands. | $50M / Series D / Jun 24, 2021 | |
StreetShares
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StreetShares is a small business banking software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology company that powers community banks, credit unions, and non-financial organizations. | $10M / Oct 23, 2020 | |
StreetShares Platform
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StreetShares Platform is an as-a-service technology that powers banks, credit unions, and non-financial organizations to make more small business loans. Its team has been recognized as EY Entrepreneurs Of The Year, Innovator of the Year, and other honors. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Reston, Virginia. | $10M / Oct 22, 2020 | |
Lively
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Lively is a modern Health Savings Account (HSA) platform for employers and individuals. Lively’s user-centric solution creates an intuitive user experience allowing consumers to get the most out of their HSA. | $27M / Series B / Oct 16, 2019 | |
Status Money
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Status Money is a personal finance app that shows consumers how they compare with their peers and gives them cash and crypto rewards for engaging with targeted offers designed to improve their finances. It's introducing its own suite of financial services starting with a credit card in 2021. | $1M / Convertible Note / Aug 31, 2019 | |
Modal
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At Modal, we build the future of auto commerce for the world’s largest auto brands and retailers. We take the moving parts of an auto purchase transaction and assemble them into a simple, digital transaction flow that seamlessly fits any webpage and transforms any showroom. We are a team of leaders from the world’s top technology companies likeGoogle, Facebook, Tesla, Paypal, Accenture and backed by notable investors like Y Combinator, Peter Thiel, Khosla Ventures, and Ally Financial. With our commerce, design, and technology expertise, we’re not just modernizing auto retail, we’re redefining auto ownership. To quote Peter Thiel, Modal is a “complex coordination” of many different technologies, driving billions of dollars in transaction volume every year.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $6M / Jun 14, 2019 | |
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FAQ
What does Ally Ventures invest in?
Ally Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Automotive startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Ally Ventures?
The team at Ally Ventures includes Jesse Podell (Sr. Director) and Peter Greene (Founder, Managing Director, Strategy and Corporate Development; Head of M&A). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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