# Core Innovation Capital

> Core Innovation Capital is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 112 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 112
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 17%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Apr 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/core-innovation-capital
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/therealcorevc
- Website: http://www.corevc.com

Core Innovation Capital is a fintech venture capital firm investing in companies committed to empowering small businesses and everyday Americans. Their portfolio companies deliver more efficient, well-designed solutions that save people time and money, create upward mobility, and scale broadly — driving both profit margins and consumer value.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$16M |
| Series A | $6M–$40M |
| Series B | $16M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 36 | 32% |
| FinTech | 34 | 30% |
| Software | 16 | 14% |
| Finance | 13 | 12% |
| Banking | 9 | 8% |

109 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 38 | 34% |
| Seed | 37 | 33% |
| Series B | 17 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 4% |
| Series C | 2 | 2% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 68 | 61% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Roos | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-roos |
| Zev Wexler | CFO and COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zev-wexler |
| Gregg Schoenberg | Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gregg-schoenberg |
| Susan Ehrlich | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susan-ehrlich |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Transparency Analytics | Transparency Analytics is a company that offers banking and financial services. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Arrived Homes | Arrived Homes is a provider of rental home investment services intended to help people achieve financial independence. It allows anyone to purchase shares of rental properties and earn a passive income while the company handles everything from property acquisition to necessary improvements and management of daily operations. The platform purchasesand manages residential rental properties as well as allows its residents to co-invest in its fund. | $27M | Series B | Nov 07, 2025 |  |
| Flex | Flex is a financial services company that provides analysis, integration, and management solutions for HSA/FSA payments. | $15M | Series A | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Asepha | Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions. | $4M | Seed | Jun 06, 2025 |  |
| Abode Money | Abode Money offers a suite of AI-driven services designed to help homeowners monitor and reduce recurring housing expenses: *Property Tax Appeals – Helps homeowners save thousands by automating the appeal process through self-service filing or full-service representation. *Utility Switching – Analyzes local utility plans and automates switching tolower cost providers. *Insurance Monitoring – Continuously tracks homeowners insurance premiums and coverage to identify potential savings or better options. *PMI and Mortgage Monitoring – Assesses eligibility for private mortgage insurance removal and improved financing terms. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Reelist | Reelist enables companies to hire the next generation of talent, faster. | $3M | Seed | Feb 14, 2025 |  |
| Transparency Analytics | Transparency Analytics is a company that offers banking and financial services. | $3.2M | Seed | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| Finli | Finli is an enterprise payment platform intended to empower neighborhood schools & studios, online and offline, for the changing world. The company's platform allows schools and service providers to transfer administrative tasks such as invoicing, payment collection, reconciliation, and customer management seamlessly, helping users tomanage their entire business in one place. | $150K | Seed | Sep 06, 2024 |  |
| Lumanu | Lumanu builds technology that makes doing business in the creator economy easy, collaborative and fun. With Lumanu, creators and freelancers can send and receive payment instantly, manage, protect, and grow their business, and benefit from a community that’s built to support them at every step of their journey. By helping them manage operations,Lumanu empowers creators to live life on their own terms. |  | Series A | Nov 22, 2023 |  |
| Prism Data | Prism Data is a software platform that helps to analyze financial transaction data. | $5M | Seed | Oct 23, 2023 |  |

10 of 112 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Valar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valar-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Morpheus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morpheus-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Obvious Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/obvious-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Core Innovation Capital invest in?

Core Innovation Capital invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 112 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Core Innovation Capital's check size?

Core Innovation Capital typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$16M at Seed, $6M–$40M at Series A and $16M–$45M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Core Innovation Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Core Innovation Capital?

Public channels for Core Innovation Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Core Innovation Capital?

The team at Core Innovation Capital includes David Roos (Vice President), Zev Wexler (CFO and COO) and Gregg Schoenberg (Advisor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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