Brian McGrath
Managing Director @ Jefferies
New York, United States
Brian McGrath is a General Partner at Ribbit Capital.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Brian McGrath invests in
Stages Brian McGrath invests in
Countries Brian McGrath invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $5M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 5 (71%)
- FinTech 4 (57%)
- Banking 2 (29%)
- Payments 2 (29%)
- Apps 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Series D 1 (14%)
- Debt Financing 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 5 (71%)
- Pakistan 1 (14%)
- Argentina 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Valon develops software infrastructure for mortgage servicing and other regulated financial workflows. Its ValonOS platform combines mortgage data, servicing operations, financial transactions, workflow management, and compliance processes within a unified system of record. The platform provides tools for managing loan information, payments, escrow activity, exceptions, audit records, and operational tasks across mortgage servicing operations. Valon also uses AI agents within defined workflows to automate document reviews, routine decisions, task routing, and other operational processes while maintaining controls and audit trails. Its technology supports integrations with mortgage investors, custodians, vendors, and other participants in the servicing ecosystem. The company also extends its platform architecture to other regulated financial workflows, including lending, insurance, asset finance, and payment processing. | $150M / Series D / Oct 05, 2026 | ||
| Fortunafi is an on-chain financial institution that delivers solutions for stablecoin issuers, protocol treasuries, and traditional entities. Our offerings include a variety of investment products, such as private and public debt funds. | $9.5M / Seed / May 29, 2024 | ||
| SadaPay developed a digital bank application that includes a debit card feature. The company's application provides features such as online shopping, automatic savings, payment sharing with friends, and other relevant functions, allowing customers to manage their accounts through the application. | $7.2M / Seed / Mar 31, 2021 | ||
| Unybrands is an e-commerce platform to buy, build, and boost online brands. The platform specializing in categories, such as personal care, pet care, household products, and juvenile and baby, unybrands also provides exit opportunities for entrepreneurs, including cash-upfront deals or long-term partnerships for sellers who wish to stay involved.Unybrands was founded in 2020 and is based in Miami, Florida with offices in Berlin, London, and Seattle. | $25M / Seed / Feb 17, 2021 | ||
| Qwil provides individual contractors, freelancers, and small businesses with financial tools and solutions. It offers an application that enables its users to manage and spend their earnings through their Qwil debit card. Qwil also enables its users to earn and spend money before they are paid for their services.The company was founded in 2015and is based in San Francisco, California. | $200M / Debt Financing / Dec 11, 2019 | ||
| Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS. | $10M / Series A / Feb 06, 2018 | ||
| dv01 is the world’s first end-to-end data management, reporting and analytics platform offering loan level transparency and insight into lending markets, making them more efficient for institutional investors and safer for the world. In a nutshell, we’re doing our part to prevent a repeat of 2008.As the technological hub between lenders andcapital markets, dv01 provides all parties with unprecedented data transparency, insight, and analytics. dv01 has integrated data from 16 marketplace lending platforms, including LendingClub, Prosper and SoFi and multiple mortgage servicers. To date, dv01 has provided reporting and analytics on $105 billion of online lending and mortgage loans and $35 billion of securitization coverage. | $5M / Seed / Jun 29, 2016 |
Co-Investors
About Jefferies
Jefferies provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets. Jefferies, a major global securities and investment banking group, has served companies and their investors for nearly 50 years and operates in more than 25 cities around the world. They provide world-class investment banking, sales and trading, research and asset management to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net worth individuals. They are industry experts, specializing in aerospace and defense, consumer energy, financial services, gaming and leisure, healthcare, industrials, maritime, media, real estate & lodging, technology, and telecommunications, with a dedicated private equity coverage group.
Jefferies Contacts
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Joe Ziemer
Managing Director, Head of Global Strategic Communications
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Paul G. Furer
Analyst (M&A)
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Steve West
Managing Director
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Todd Breeden
Managing Director, Head of Venture Directs
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Boyd Jefferies
Founder
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FAQ
What does Brian McGrath invest in?
Brian McGrath invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Banking startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Brian McGrath invest in?
Brian McGrath typically joins rounds of $5M–$25M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Brian McGrath's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Brian McGrath took part in.
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When did Brian McGrath last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brian McGrath closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 7 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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