# Btech Consortium

> Btech Consortium is a VC fund in El Segundo backing Software and Information Technology. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: El Segundo, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/banktech-consortium
- Website: https://btechconsortium.com/

Btech Consortium is a VC fund in El Segundo focused on Software and Information Technology. Btech Consortium invests in emerging technology companies serving the community bank sector.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 50% |
| SaaS | 2 | 33% |
| Banking | 2 | 33% |
| Compliance | 2 | 33% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Saris AI | Saris AI is an artificial intelligence company that builds agent-based workflow automation systems for financial institutions, particularly banks and credit unions. The company develops AI “agents” that handle back-office operations such as lending workflows, document processing, compliance checks, data extraction, and internal operational tasks.Its platform integrates directly with existing banking systems like core banking software and loan origination systems, allowing institutions to automate processes without replacing their current infrastructure. The system is designed to reduce manual workload by executing multi-step workflows such as data validation, case handling, and administrative processing while keeping humans in control of approvals and oversight.Saris AI focuses on improving operational efficiency by reducing processing costs and increasing output capacity through automation of repetitive and rules-based tasks. The company positions its technology as a way for financial institutions to streamline operations, improve compliance tracking, and enhance customer service responsiveness. | $28.8M | Series A | May 28, 2026 |  |
| PortX | ModusBox's mission is to improve lives by accelerating universal access to reimagined financial services. They believe that technology is the key to driving this access for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people. And, it is the underlying network infrastructure that exploits and excludes.ModusBox's suite of no-code, cloud-native,drop-in integration tools are primarily focused on two major industries - Payment Networks and Supply Chains. They provide open source, real-time payment network (RTPN) and payment management software that enables central banks and payment hub operators to build, deploy, and connect to real-time payment networks. Additionally, ModusBox solutions enable financial institutions (FIs) to achieve interoperability by integrating their core banking technology with other modern platforms, currencies, and protocols to stay relevant in the digital world.By combining their tools and deep roots in the integration space, ModusBox digitally transforms companies and countries around the world to drive inclusion and connectivity. |  | Series B | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| Castellum.AI | Our mission is to make preventing financial crime easy and effective.Risk data like sanctions, politically exposed persons and export controls are publicly available, but not in one place, language and data architecture. Clients are tired of cobbling together multiple vendors to get one source of truth. To solve this problem, Castellum.AI builtthe world’s most accurate, reliable and fastest compliance solution. Don't take our word for it, try our platform for free at www.castellum.ai. | $8.5M | Series A | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| DefenseStorm | DefenseStorm is a network security company that provides a cloud-based cybersecurity management platform. Its platform offers a bank, management oversight, and reporting, smart threat response, security expert, big data, and community intelligence solutions. The company combines and automates in real-time cybersecurity and cyber compliance builtfor banking, so financial institutions can achieve cyber safety and soundness according to regulations and their own policiesEdgardo Nazario, Harold Brewer, Jeffrey Lunsford, and Sean Cassidy founded Praesidio on May 1, 2014, that became DefenseStorm in June 2016. It has its headquarters in Seattle in Washington. |  | Series C | May 01, 2024 |  |
| PortX | ModusBox's mission is to improve lives by accelerating universal access to reimagined financial services. They believe that technology is the key to driving this access for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people. And, it is the underlying network infrastructure that exploits and excludes.ModusBox's suite of no-code, cloud-native,drop-in integration tools are primarily focused on two major industries - Payment Networks and Supply Chains. They provide open source, real-time payment network (RTPN) and payment management software that enables central banks and payment hub operators to build, deploy, and connect to real-time payment networks. Additionally, ModusBox solutions enable financial institutions (FIs) to achieve interoperability by integrating their core banking technology with other modern platforms, currencies, and protocols to stay relevant in the digital world.By combining their tools and deep roots in the integration space, ModusBox digitally transforms companies and countries around the world to drive inclusion and connectivity. | $16.5M | Series B | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Vikar Technologies, Inc | We provide people centric innovation to reinvent your business for the digital age. |  | Series A |  |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Curql](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curql) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [BankTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banktech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Georgian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/georgian-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Allied Solutions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allied-solutions-llc-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [American Bankers Association](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/american-bankers-association) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Btech Consortium invest in?

Btech Consortium invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 6 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 Btech Consortium last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Btech Consortium closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 6 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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