Continental Investment Partners
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Continental Investment Partners is a VC fund in Chicago focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Continental Investors is a private equity firm founded in 2006. Continental is investing in private companies primarily in the financial service industry and in consumer businesses where the Internet is important. We are a strategic source of capital and look for opportunities where our industry experience and relationships can benefit managementand other private equity investors.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 54%
Last updated:
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Industries Continental Investment Partners invests in
Stages Continental Investment Partners invests in
Countries Continental Investment Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Philip Purcell
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 6 (46%)
- Financial Services 6 (46%)
- Finance 3 (23%)
- Payments 3 (23%)
- E-Commerce 3 (23%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (38%)
- Seed 3 (23%)
- Series B 2 (15%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
- Private Equity 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Philip Purcell
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Pay with Spire
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BIM provides a mobile commerce platform that verifies and authenticates consumers and transactions. BIM is backed by an impressive board of directors and a leadership team comprised of seasoned executives from technology, payments, and retail. BIM has a number of strategic partners, including Discover, InComm, and INMAR. | $10M / Series B / Feb 05, 2026 | |
Verdata
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Verdata develops a data and insight platform intended to empower POS financing companies to mitigate merchant risk. The company's platform offers underwriting, notifications, and portfolio health check, enabling POS financing companies to avoid fraudulent and poorly behaving merchants. It was headquartered in Richmond, Virginia in 2020. | $8M / Series A / Aug 21, 2025 | |
Gig Wage
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Gig Wage is a fintech payroll company that provides a financial social safety net for gig workers and contractors. Its scalable platform enables businesses to manage contractor payroll, payments, and compliance while delivering greater transparency to their gig workers. Whether they are paying 100 contractors or 100,000 Gig Wage gives the tools toefficiently manage the process while alleviating payments related support.Gig Wage provides an online platform that allows independent contractors to track the amount and type of work they perform for companies, initiate invoices, and receive payments from companies. The partnership also allows Gig Wage the ability to introduce a new debit card with no monthly fee, free online bill pay, and free cash withdrawals at more than 19,000 ATM locations, free cash pick-up at over 7,000 retail locations nationwide, and other products and tools designed for gig workers and their employers. By leveraging Green Dot’s Banking as a Service platform, Gig Wage can now design and deploy its own customized banking and money movement solutions for its customers.Gig Wage is founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA. | $8.3M / Series A / Dec 03, 2024 | |
DAISI Inc
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The first global DtC Streetwear marketplace platform with payment processing advantage. aka FarFetch for 175B primary Streetwear (not secondary / resale market). | $4.6M / Series A / Aug 25, 2021 | |
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Gig Wage
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Gig Wage is a fintech payroll company that provides a financial social safety net for gig workers and contractors. Its scalable platform enables businesses to manage contractor payroll, payments, and compliance while delivering greater transparency to their gig workers. Whether they are paying 100 contractors or 100,000 Gig Wage gives the tools toefficiently manage the process while alleviating payments related support.Gig Wage provides an online platform that allows independent contractors to track the amount and type of work they perform for companies, initiate invoices, and receive payments from companies. The partnership also allows Gig Wage the ability to introduce a new debit card with no monthly fee, free online bill pay, and free cash withdrawals at more than 19,000 ATM locations, free cash pick-up at over 7,000 retail locations nationwide, and other products and tools designed for gig workers and their employers. By leveraging Green Dot’s Banking as a Service platform, Gig Wage can now design and deploy its own customized banking and money movement solutions for its customers.Gig Wage is founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA. | $7.5M / Series A / Oct 27, 2020 | |
Aeropay
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Aeropay is America’s pay by bank network, making payments simpler and smarter for the digital economy.Our integrated products and national network turn bank linking, money movement, and risk prevention into a seamless and reliable part of any payment experience.Businesses of every size use Aeropay to lower payment costs, accelerate cashflow,and guarantee success—at scale. | Seed / Sep 29, 2020 | |
CampusLogic
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CampusLogic provides critical tools and resources for the 15 million students who travel the higher education journey each year. The company currently serves more than 750 schools increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates with a platform, which includes a net price calculator, complete scholarship management, personalized digitalcommunications, simplified financial aid verification, 24×7 personalized virtual advising, tuition, and scholarship crowdfunding, and integrated data visualizations. | $7.5M / Series A / Oct 01, 2015 | |
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CampusLogic
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CampusLogic provides critical tools and resources for the 15 million students who travel the higher education journey each year. The company currently serves more than 750 schools increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates with a platform, which includes a net price calculator, complete scholarship management, personalized digitalcommunications, simplified financial aid verification, 24×7 personalized virtual advising, tuition, and scholarship crowdfunding, and integrated data visualizations. | $4.1M / Seed / Jul 06, 2015 | |
Aura Financial
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Aura is a technology-powered, Community Development Financial Institution that provides fair, affordable loans to working families in America. Aura's mission is to build financially healthy low-income communities, by providing empowering financial services to underbanked and unbanked.Aura uses its proprietary scoring algorithms to review andapprove credit applications and offers free credit scores and personalized expense management guidance to borrowers, allowing the working population to access loans in a simplified manner.Aura was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. | $17.2M / Series B / Jul 01, 2014 | |
Drizly
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Drizly is an alcohol marketplace that offers a variety of beer, wine and, spirits online.With the speed and convenience of on-demand delivery and shipping, Drizly partners with retailers in 235 markets to offer consumers of legal drinking age unrivaled selection and a transparent, personalized shopping experience. Backed by institutionalinvestors, Drizly partners with retailers to bring their shelves online, helping them to reach new customers, tap into key market and customer insights, and diversify their business to grow sales.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $2.5M / Seed / May 21, 2014 | |
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What does Continental Investment Partners invest in?
Continental Investment Partners invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Continental Investment Partners includes Philip Purcell (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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