# Andrew McCormack

> Andrew McCormack is a Series A investor at Valar Ventures backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 105 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Valar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valar-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 105
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/drewmccormack
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/andrewjmack
- Website: http://www.valar.com

Andrew McCormack is a Series A investor at Valar Ventures in New York focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Andrew McCormack is based out of New York, New York, and is the founder and managing partner of Valar Ventures. Andrew previously worked at Thiel Capital as a principal. Andrew attended the University of Pennsylvania.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 26 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 24 | 23% |
| Finance | 10 | 10% |
| Banking | 9 | 9% |
| E-Commerce | 9 | 9% |

85 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 27 | 26% |
| Series B | 21 | 20% |
| Seed | 17 | 16% |
| Series C | 12 | 11% |
| Series D | 8 | 8% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 17% |
| Germany | 7 | 7% |
| Canada | 5 | 5% |
| New Zealand | 3 | 3% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Octane | Octane provides a digital financing platform that enables consumers to obtain personalized loan offers for powersports vehicles, outdoor equipment, and similar lifestyle purchases, using soft credit checks that do not impact credit scores. The platform connects shoppers with dealer partners to support an end-to-end process from online rate checksto in-store financing and loan servicing. Octane also offers tools for dealers to close deals with digital approvals and paperless workflows while accommodating a range of credit profiles. The company’s services include programs tailored for different buyer types and integration features that simplify purchase decisions for both consumers and dealer partners. | $50M | Series F | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Panacea Financial | Panacea is a financial services company created for doctors, by doctors that provides tailored product offerings and service delivery designed specifically for physicians, dentists, and veterinarians throughout their career: from school, through training, and into practice. Panacea’s products cover the full suite of banking needs for this uniquepopulation, including PRN personal loans, student loan refinancing, and practice loans. | $37M | Series B | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| Syfe | Syfe is an investment and saving platform empowering people to build their wealth. Syfe offers fully managed portfolios, cash management solutions, and self-directed offerings through its unique neo-brokerage, making it the region’s only all-in-one wealth management platform. Syfe is fully licensed and operational for fund management, financialadvisory, and brokerage in Singapore, Hong Kong & Australia. The company has raised US$ 52.4m to date from prominent backers such as Valar Ventures (Transferwise, N26, Qonto), Unbound Capital (Forto, Cars24), and Partners from DST (Robinhood, Revolut, Brex, Coinbase). | $53M | Series C | Jun 05, 2025 |  |
| Neo Financial | Neo Financial is a Canadian financial technology company that directly issues a range of Mastercard credit cards and offers CDIC-insured chequing and savings accounts through partnerships with regulated banks. To help Canadians improve their credit scores, Neo uniquely offers all its cards, including its premium ones, as secured cards. Beyond corebanking, Neo operates a proprietary rewards network of over 11,000 merchant partners, allowing users to earn cashback on everyday spending. | $79M | Series D | Nov 11, 2024 |  |
| Parker | Parker is a developer of a digital financial platform designed to help users to pay expenses and manage their e-commerce finances. | $20M | Series B | Nov 09, 2024 |  |
| Syfe | Syfe is an investment and saving platform empowering people to build their wealth. Syfe offers fully managed portfolios, cash management solutions, and self-directed offerings through its unique neo-brokerage, making it the region’s only all-in-one wealth management platform. Syfe is fully licensed and operational for fund management, financialadvisory, and brokerage in Singapore, Hong Kong & Australia. The company has raised US$ 52.4m to date from prominent backers such as Valar Ventures (Transferwise, N26, Qonto), Unbound Capital (Forto, Cars24), and Partners from DST (Robinhood, Revolut, Brex, Coinbase). | $27M | Series C | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| Octane | Octane provides a digital financing platform that enables consumers to obtain personalized loan offers for powersports vehicles, outdoor equipment, and similar lifestyle purchases, using soft credit checks that do not impact credit scores. The platform connects shoppers with dealer partners to support an end-to-end process from online rate checksto in-store financing and loan servicing. Octane also offers tools for dealers to close deals with digital approvals and paperless workflows while accommodating a range of credit profiles. The company’s services include programs tailored for different buyer types and integration features that simplify purchase decisions for both consumers and dealer partners. | $50M | Series E | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Panacea Financial | Panacea is a financial services company created for doctors, by doctors that provides tailored product offerings and service delivery designed specifically for physicians, dentists, and veterinarians throughout their career: from school, through training, and into practice. Panacea’s products cover the full suite of banking needs for this uniquepopulation, including PRN personal loans, student loan refinancing, and practice loans. | $24.5M | Series B | Jan 16, 2024 |  |
| Petal | Petal  is a credit card company that is built to help people financially succeed. It aims to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. The company uses machine learning to analyze a customer’s full digital financial record—not just their credit score.Petal has pioneered cash flow underwriting, as an alternative to credit scores, to make creditmore accessible, and offers a simple, modern digital experience that encourages members to build credit, avoid debt, and spend responsibly. Petal is based in New York, New York, and Richmond, Virginia. The Petal credit card is issued by WebBank, Member FDIC. | $35M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 10, 2023 |  |
| Parker | Parker is a developer of a digital financial platform designed to help users to pay expenses and manage their e-commerce finances. | $31.1M | Series A | Mar 16, 2023 |  |

10 of 105 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Breyer Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breyer-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Alven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alven-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Core Innovation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/core-innovation-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Valar Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.

5 contacts available at Valar Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alison Berger | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alison-berger-a1ac |
| Andrew McCormack | Founding and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-mccormack |
| Elizabeth Klein | General Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-klein |
| Erin Ashley Porterfield | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erin-ashley-porterfield |
| James Fitzgerald | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-fitzgerald |

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## FAQ

### What does Andrew McCormack invest in?

Andrew McCormack invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 105 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Andrew McCormack last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andrew McCormack closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 105 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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