# Ben Britt

> Ben Britt is a Series A investor at Route 66 Ventures backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Route 66 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/route-66-ventures)
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benbritt
- Website: http://route66ventures.com/

Ben Britt is a Series A investor at Route 66 Ventures in Washington focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Ben is a General Partner at Route 66 Ventures, where he leads the venture capital team and focuses on investments in early stage financial and insurance technology companies. Prior to joining Route 66, Ben was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he advised leading organizations around the globe on lean operations, strategy, andproduct design. Previously, Ben was a co-founder and executive of an innovative web services start-up called WiseChoice, an online college counseling resource that helped high school students and their families navigate and find “best fit” colleges. He also served in various senior roles at Goal Financial, a major student loan originator, and was responsible for capital markets transactions, securitizations, and financial analysis. Ben began his career as a submarine officer and nuclear engineer in the U.S. Navy. He holds an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. from the University of Maryland – College Park, and a B.S. in Economics from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he graduated with honors.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 43% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 29% |
| Finance | 3 | 21% |
| SaaS | 1 | 7% |
| Advice | 1 | 7% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Series B | 3 | 21% |
| Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Series C | 2 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 14% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 36% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 14% |
| Germany | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Switchboard Health | Switchboard Health helps payers, health systems, employers, and at-risk providers leverage virtual care solutions at scale. Switchboard Health activates people who need care, match them to the right provider, tracks the quality of their care, and supports them across their entire care journey. It was founded in 2023 and was headquartered in Boise,Idaho. | $6.5M | Seed | Nov 13, 2023 |  |
| Change Foods | Change Foods is a food-tech company developing animal-free cheese and dairy products. Its products are created by leveraging precision fermentation technology, starting with cheese, by harnessing the power of microbes instead of animals to create bio-identical dairy proteins and ingredients. | $12.1M | Seed | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| Payzer | Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time trackingacross their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014. | $23M | Series D | Jun 21, 2021 |  |
| Maxwell Financial Labs | Hi, we're Maxwell. We’re on a mission to revolutionize the $8.5T residential mortgage market by reimagining how mortgage lenders collaborate with homebuyers and real estate agents to buy a home. We connect our hundreds of lenders onto one seamless, intuitively-designed platform, so the focus isn’t the paperwork, it’s the place to call home.Today, hundreds of lenders across the United States use Maxwell’s digital mortgage platform to originate billions in mortgage loans each month at a cycle time 45 percent faster than the national average. | $16.3M | Series B | Mar 25, 2021 |  |
| Maxwell Financial Labs | Hi, we're Maxwell. We’re on a mission to revolutionize the $8.5T residential mortgage market by reimagining how mortgage lenders collaborate with homebuyers and real estate agents to buy a home. We connect our hundreds of lenders onto one seamless, intuitively-designed platform, so the focus isn’t the paperwork, it’s the place to call home.Today, hundreds of lenders across the United States use Maxwell’s digital mortgage platform to originate billions in mortgage loans each month at a cycle time 45 percent faster than the national average. | $5M | Series A | Jun 30, 2020 |  |
| AccessPay | AccessPay develops and offers cloud-based payment and cash management solutions. The company’s cloud-based service provides ease of integration with any ERP, TMS, or other back-end systems. It also enables the straight-through processing of domestic and international payments via BACS, FPS, CHAPS, and SWIFT. By connecting an organization’s backoffice systems with its banks and providing a consolidated view of all banking relationships, AccessPay gives corporate enterprises real-time visibility of all cash balances and offers a detailed analysis, which helps financial professionals maximize the use of working capital. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom. | $11.8M |  | Jan 14, 2019 |  |
| Payzer | Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time trackingacross their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014. | $9.2M | Series C | Nov 19, 2018 |  |
| Clearmatics | Founded in 2015, Clearmatics is a London-based blockchain company. We build member-owned and governed decentralised network platforms for the peer-to-peer exchange of tokenised value between network members. Our ethos and architecture is grounded in protocol, peer-to-peer architecture, removing friction and market inefficiencies, strong securityguarantees and interoperable exchange across platforms to build a peer-to-peer ecosystem for market infrastructure. Our focus is capital markets; we work with firms that have the ambition to reinvent the industry's business models.Our technology is p2p network platforms and protocol first - protocol suite, software that implements those protocols and provides client software and infrastructure for p2p networks. Its based on Ethereum and we call it Autonity - the protocol, the Geth-based client.We use our technology to build p2p networks and dFMI.P2p networks are private, member-owned and governed networks that enable peer-to-peer transfer of financial value and automation of contractual and fiduciary operations without reliance on trusted third-parties. Such decentralised networks can interact with one another, creating a wider ecosystem of value and leveraging the network effect, and they can form part of a dFMI.dFMI is a new concept, one that builds on the security and resilience guarantees of distributed ledger and systems engineering to provide a platform for tokenising value and transferring its ownership between participants on that or, by cross-platform exchange, on other platforms.We believe that our technology will drive adoption of a next-generation dFMI where intermediaries are removed, incentive structures encourage self-regulation, and risks are mitigated and reduced to the maximum. dFMI doesn't just provide a cryptographically secure environment for market participants to transact, it provides a peer-to-peer model that removes financial intermediaries and engenders a wider ecosystem for value transfer across platforms and pre- post-trade processes. dFMI works to mitigate concentration and liquidity risk, reduce settlement cycles to real-time, remove friction, and lower the transaction cost of economic exchange.Clearmatics is a company with a strong belief in the open source movement and good ties to the Ethereum community. We also work closely with the Ethereum Foundation, and are an active member of the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance (EEA). | $12M | Series A | Oct 10, 2018 |  |
| Payzer | Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time trackingacross their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014. |  | Series B | Jun 06, 2018 |  |
| NextCapital | NextCapital partners with world-class institutions to deliver personalized planning and managed accounts to individual investors across multiple channels including 401(k), IRA, and taxable brokerage accounts. Their open-architecture digital advice solution provides integrated account aggregation, analytics, planning, and portfolio management, andallows partners to customize advice methodology and fiduciary roles.The company was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $30M | Series C | Jan 04, 2018 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Grotech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grotech-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [IDEA Fund Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idea-fund-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ferguson Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ferguson-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Manulife Financial](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manulife-financial) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Transamerica Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/transamerica-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Route 66 Ventures

VC Fund · Alexandria, United States

Route 66 Ventures is a private investment firm focused on helping entrepreneurs shape the financial services landscape of tomorrow by providing Venture Capital and Credit solutions to emerging financial technology and services companies. Route 66’s Venture Capital team invests globally in early and growth stage disruptors, incumbents andservice providers throughout various sectors in the financial services ecosystem. Route 66’s Credit team seeks to fund alternative lending platforms and business models with balance sheet needs by purchasing whole loans or providing secured debt facilities.

4 contacts available at Route 66 Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Britt | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-britt |
| Robert Peterson | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-peterson |
| Ryan Katz | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-katz |
| Stuart Fox | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stuart-fox-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ben Britt invest in?

Ben Britt invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 14 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 Ben Britt last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ben Britt closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 14 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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