# Calano Funds

> Calano Funds is a VC fund in Orlando backing FinTech, Sports and Travel. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Orlando, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/calanofunds/
- Website: https://x.com/CalanoVC

Calano Funds is a VC fund in Orlando focused on FinTech and Sports. Seed and Early stage investors: SaaS, eSports, eComm

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 67% |
| Sports | 1 | 33% |
| Travel | 1 | 33% |
| Finance | 1 | 33% |
| Mortgage | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Genius | We are building the first end-to-end agentic mortgage platform that automates the entire lending lifecycle—from lead generation and customer engagement to loan origination, processing, underwriting, closing, and post-closing operations. By replacing fragmented software, manual workflows, and repetitive administrative tasks with intelligent AIagents, our platform enables loan officers, processors, underwriters, and lenders to operate at unprecedented levels of efficiency. The result is faster closings, lower costs, better borrower experiences, and a scalable infrastructure capable of powering the next generation of mortgage lending. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 09, 2024 |  |
| Bookseats | BookSeats.com started with a simple question; with events and travel being obvious complements, why was there no platform that allowed fans to customize sports or event tickets, flights, and hotel packages under one roof?BookSeats.com's mission is to bridge that gap and connect these services that otherwise were only offered by separateproviders | $1M | Seed | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| MaxRewards | MaxRewards is the #1 app to manage your credit card accounts and maximize your rewards. It's the only app where you can track credit card rewards, credit card bills, credit scores, transactions, offers and much more for all of your connected cards. MaxRewards also gives you personalized, real-time recommendations for card usage so you canmaximize credit card rewards & offers on every purchase. | $3M | Seed | Sep 10, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dundee Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dundee-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fintech Ventures Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintech-ventures-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KB Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kb-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Phoenix Capital Ventures (PCV)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phoenix-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Service Provider Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/service-provider-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Calano Funds invest in?

Calano Funds invests primarily in FinTech, Sports and Travel startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 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 Calano Funds last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Calano Funds closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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