# Andrew Steele

> Andrew Steele is a seed investor at Activant Capital (New York) backing Software and FinTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Activant Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/activant-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-steele-562308a0/

Andrew Steele is a Partner at Activant. He was a Co-Founder of IvyMinded before that. Mr. Steele attended Harvard University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 33% |
| FinTech | 3 | 25% |
| Finance | 2 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 17% |
| Credit | 1 | 8% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Velocity | Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains. | $38M | Series A | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Adapt | Adapt builds a unified AI layer that connects company tools to enable shared context, insights, and automation. | $10M | Seed | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Cardless | Cardless provides a platform for businesses to launch and manage integrated credit card experiences. The service includes application processing, customer support, and account management, ensuring a seamless experience for users. | $60M | Series C | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| XOPS | XOPS delivers autonomous IT, finally. We eliminate the need for human middleware—the manual coordination between systems that drains resources and morale—by deploying a legion of goal-oriented robots that actually do the work. Unlike traditional automation that creates workflows in siloes or merely orchestrates human tasks, or systems ofintelligence that gather data but don’t act on it, XOPS provides an active system of intelligence that delivers truly autonomous IT operations through: 1. Total Enterprise Visibility that transforms fragmented data across IT, HR, and Finance systems into unified clarity. Our platform creates a single source of truth, eliminating the silos and blind spots that plague enterprise operations. 2. Unprecedented Operational Intelligence to let organizations make sense of the mass amounts of valuable telemetry they generate every day. 3. Complete Lifecycle Context, powered by our living knowledge graph, maintains real-time relationships between every employee, device, software component, and infrastructure element. This enables our software robots to understand dependencies, predict impacts, and execute with full lifecycle context. 4. A Legion of Goal-oriented Robots that don't just automate workflows or orchestrate employees but perform actual work autonomously. From employee onboarding to software license optimization, from device provisioning to infrastructure management and beyond, our robots execute complete processes end-to-end, 24x7, based on an organization’s policies. The result is IT that runs itself, with the sophistication and precision the world’s biggest enterprises need to keep hundreds of thousands of workers productive. That means IT teams shift to strategic oversight while leadership reclaims resources for innovation and sets a new bar for operational excellence. | $40M | Seed | Aug 14, 2025 |  |
| Ekho Dealer | Ekho Dealer is a licensed dealership that vehicle manufacturers can integrate into their websites, enabling them to compliantly sell new vehicles online. Ekho Dealer was founded in 2022. | $15M | Series A | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Velocity | Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains. | $10M | Pre-Seed | May 28, 2025 |  |
| Neuron Factory | Neuron Factory is an AI technology company specializing in the development of advanced AI coworker platforms designed for complex enterprise environments, with an initial focus on the construction industry. The company’s platform leverages a proprietary enterprise task graph, enabling AI agents to intelligently coordinate, delegate tasks, andfacilitate real-time decision-making across large organizations. | $6M | Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Sardine | Sardine specializes in providing risk management solutions primarily for the financial services sector. They focus on using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help enterprises manage risks associated with fraud, credit, and compliance. The company aims to serve businesses in the digital economy by offering tools and services thatenhance operational efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance. | $70M | Series C | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Cardless | Cardless provides a platform for businesses to launch and manage integrated credit card experiences. The service includes application processing, customer support, and account management, ensuring a seamless experience for users. |  |  | Nov 26, 2024 |  |
| Cardless | Cardless provides a platform for businesses to launch and manage integrated credit card experiences. The service includes application processing, customer support, and account management, ensuring a seamless experience for users. | $30M | Series C | Nov 26, 2024 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NAventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/naventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Commerce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerce-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Industry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industry-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Pear VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pejman-mar-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/american-express-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Activant Capital

VC Fund · Greenwich, United States

Activant is a global investment firm that partners with high-growth companies that are transforming commerce. The firm was founded in 2015 by Steve Sarracino and has offices in Greenwich, Connecticut and Berlin, Germany.

5 contacts available at Activant Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Maximilian Mayer | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maximilian-mayer-7c47 |
| Richard Benson-Armer | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-benson-armer |
| Steve Sarracino | Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-r-sarracino |
| Andrew Steele | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-steele-d4cc |
| JJ Brink | Research Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jj-brink |

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## FAQ

### What does Andrew Steele invest in?

Andrew Steele invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 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 Steele last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andrew Steele closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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