# Christopher Sugden

> Christopher Sugden is a funding round investor at Edison Partners backing FinTech. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Edison Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edison-ventures)
- Location: Princeton, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 74%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherssugden
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sugdenvc

Christopher Sugden is a Managing Partner at Edison Partners. He was a Member of the Board of Directors at Billtrust. He attended Michigan State University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 7 | 37% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 37% |
| Finance | 3 | 16% |
| Software | 3 | 16% |
| Wealth Management | 3 | 16% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 5 | 26% |
| Series B | 4 | 21% |
| Series A | 3 | 16% |
| Private Equity | 3 | 16% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 58% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| K1x | K1x is a SaaS financial technology company with long-established tax technology provides the first-ever, all-digital K-1 experience to the capital markets. | $175M | Private Equity | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Payra | PAYRA drives the cash flow of American companies. Our program was developed with the goal of eradicating accounts receivable. | $15M | Series A | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| Willow Wealth | Willow Wealth enables you to build a complete private markets portfolio across real estate, private credit, private equity, and more. Our platform provides access to differentiated individual investments and diversified funds, as well as an automated investing solution that handles everything for you. No matter your goals, our platform aims to makeprivate markets investing simple and accessible. Join more than 500,000 members and start investing in private markets today at willowwealth.com. | $77M | Series D | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Willow Wealth | Willow Wealth enables you to build a complete private markets portfolio across real estate, private credit, private equity, and more. Our platform provides access to differentiated individual investments and diversified funds, as well as an automated investing solution that handles everything for you. No matter your goals, our platform aims to makeprivate markets investing simple and accessible. Join more than 500,000 members and start investing in private markets today at willowwealth.com. | $45M | Series D | Jun 02, 2025 |  |
| Recycle Track Systems | Recycle Track Systems (RTS) is changing the way companies manage waste and recycling by combing technology with high-touch service to make disposal easier, smarter and more responsible. RTS helps companies easily track and optimize their pickup, from on-demand removal to fully integrated waste management solutions. Using this data insight, RTSempowers companies with visibility into their waste habits and tangible figures on their climate impact to improve their waste and recycling practices.RTS is a certified B-Corporation, reflecting its dedication and commitment to meeting stringent standards of environmental transparency and performance. | $40M |  | Jan 24, 2025 |  |
| Fingercheck | Fingercheck helps small business owners manage hourly employees more easily. The platform offers customizable apps to assist with payroll, time sheets, benefits, and hiring, reducing the time and stress involved in these tasks. | $115M |  | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Fingercheck | Fingercheck helps small business owners manage hourly employees more easily. The platform offers customizable apps to assist with payroll, time sheets, benefits, and hiring, reducing the time and stress involved in these tasks. | $115M | Private Equity | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| GoHenry | Gohenry helps young people learn how to earn, save and spend responsibly. Combining web and mobile apps with a debit card with parental controls, the company gives 6 to 18-year-olds hands-on experience in managing money within a safe environment. Parents set rules and limits, can allocate pocket money automatically, or set tasks and chores fortheir children to earn extra money. They and the kids can see their earnings, spending, and saving on graphs. Children and teens can also use budgeting tools to set savings goals and track and filter spending by retailer, size of spend, and category. It’s a way to give young people financial independence so they can learn by doing, but under a watchful eye and with no danger of debt. | $55M | Series B | Oct 12, 2022 |  |
| Prepaid Technologies | Prepaid Technologies combines deep banking relationships and payments system expertise with innovative technology to manage efficient payments programs for banks and businesses.Prepaid Technologies was founded in 1998, in Birmingham Alabama, by bank industry veterans who understand both the intricacies of running a financial institution, and thetechnology that is shaping the future of business payments. | $96M | Private Equity | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| GoHenry | Gohenry helps young people learn how to earn, save and spend responsibly. Combining web and mobile apps with a debit card with parental controls, the company gives 6 to 18-year-olds hands-on experience in managing money within a safe environment. Parents set rules and limits, can allocate pocket money automatically, or set tasks and chores fortheir children to earn extra money. They and the kids can see their earnings, spending, and saving on graphs. Children and teens can also use budgeting tools to set savings goals and track and filter spending by retailer, size of spend, and category. It’s a way to give young people financial independence so they can learn by doing, but under a watchful eye and with no danger of debt. | $40M |  | Dec 08, 2020 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FinTech Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintech-collective) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Revaia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaia-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [StepStone Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stepstone-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Citi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Columbus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/columbus-capital-b060) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mayfair Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mayfair-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Edison Partners

VC Fund · Princeton, United States

Edison Partners assist their executive teams to grow and scale their companies. The firm’s investment team brings more than 275 years of combined investing and operating experience to each investment. Through a unique combination of growth capital and the Edison Edge platform, consisting of operating centers of excellence, executive educationprograms, and the Edison Director Network, the firm employs a truly integrated approach to accelerating growth and creating value for businesses. With experts in enterprise solutions, financial technology and healthcare IT, Edison targets high-growth companies located outside Silicon Valley with $10 million to $30 million in revenue. Investments also include buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, and secondary stock purchases. Its active portfolio has created aggregated market value exceeding $10 billion. Today, the firm manages $1.6 billion in assets.

5 contacts available at Edison Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Sugden | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-sugden |
| Gregg Michaelson | General and Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gregg-michaelson |
| Jennifer Lee | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-lee-6 |
| Joe Allegra | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-allegra |
| John Martinson | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-martinson |

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## FAQ

### What does Christopher Sugden invest in?

Christopher Sugden invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 19 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 Christopher Sugden last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Christopher Sugden closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 19 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?

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