# Curql

> Curql is a VC fund in Des Moines backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 68 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Des Moines, United States
- Total investments: 68
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/curql/
- Website: https://www.curql.com/

Curql is an investment management that specializes in the fields of fintech and banking services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 16 | 24% |
| Financial Services | 16 | 24% |
| Software | 11 | 16% |
| SaaS | 6 | 9% |
| Finance | 6 | 9% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 18% |
| Series B | 7 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 7% |
| Seed | 4 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 33 | 49% |
| Ireland | 1 | 1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nick Evens | President & Chief Executive Officer | 37 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-evens |
| Dave Tucker | Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-tucker-1671 |
| Scott Hoekman | Partner (Fintech VC) | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-hoekman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wagmo | Wagmo is a fantastic service that basically provides reimbursement for doing all the things that we already do to keep our dog. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Reset Financial Technologies | Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology. | $6M | Seed | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| Alacriti | Alacriti stands at the forefront of payments innovation, delivering comprehensive payment and money movement solutions to financial institutions and businesses. Our commitment is to empower our clients and their users with seamless, easy-to-use, and secure real-time payment experiences across all preferred channels, rails, types, and devices.Alacriti’s innovative solutions provide cutting-edge payment technologies that integrate effortlessly with existing infrastructures. Discover more about how we are transforming payments at Alacriti.com. |  | Private Equity | May 20, 2026 |  |
| equipifi | equipifi provides buy now, pay later software for financial institutions. The company offers embedded payment and installment lending tools that integrate with digital banking platforms and core banking systems. Its platform enables banks and credit unions to provide pre-qualified financing offers, split-payment options, and short-term installmentloans through existing checking accounts and debit cards. equipifi also provides loan management, risk configuration, reporting, and customer engagement tools to support digital payment and lending programs. | $34M | Series B | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Allure Security Technology | Allure's anti-phishing solution defends enterprise customers from attacks. Allure detects phishing campaigns in near real-time from the first customer attack. It identifies which customers are being phished and devalues anything the cybercriminal may have stolen from the customer and assists the enterprise in destroying the malicious site bytaking it down. It was developed with $10M in DARPA funding by a team of Columbia University scientists. It is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | $17M | Series B | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| RenoFi | RenoFi Loans use the after renovation value instead of your home's current value, enabling you to borrow the most money at the lowest rates. RenoFi is not a lender, rather we’ve partnered with lenders who offer RenoFi Loans. These lenders leverage RenoFi's technology platform to seamlessly offer RenoFi Loans. | $22M | Series B | Mar 03, 2026 |  |
| UPTIQ | Uptiq is a technology company that provides an AI-driven platform designed to support financial services firms with real-time analytics, risk assessment, and decision-making workflows. The company’s platform uses machine learning to process and interpret large volumes of financial data, identify trends, and generate actionable insights that helpteams evaluate credit risk, detect anomalies, and inform portfolio strategies. Its tools support integration with existing data systems and workflows, enabling users to automate data ingestion, modeling, and reporting across lending, investment, and compliance functions.Uptiq also offers customizable dashboards and APIs that help financial analysts, risk officers, and product teams operationalize insights and align them with business objectives. The company works with banks, fintechs, and financial institutions to tailor AI models and analytic frameworks to specific use cases such as credit scoring, customer lifetime value prediction, and loss forecasting. Its platform emphasizes scalable data processing and transparent model outputs to support informed decision-making in financial operations. | $25M | Series B | Feb 12, 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 |  |
| BlastPoint | BlastPoint provides big data solutions that help companies optimize revenue growth. Its user-intuitive software platform is customizable, interactive, and stays constantly up to date. It provides services to customers in retail, the utility industry, emerging franchises, and nonprofit organizations.The company was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | $10.6M | Series A | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| Splash Financial | Splash Financial is a financial education and student loan refinancing company that gives young professionals more financial freedom. It helps students refinance medical school loans into one simple payment, and offering financial flexibility during residency, with a $1 minimum monthly payment throughout the training. The company believes ineducating customers to help find financial freedom. The company wants students to be able to chase both career and life goals without worrying about student loan debt. Splash Financial was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. | $70M | Series C | Sep 17, 2025 |  |

10 of 68 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TruStage Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmfg-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Canapi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canapi) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Btech Consortium](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/btech-consortium) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Reseda Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reseda-group) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [BankTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banktech-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Georgian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/georgian-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Curql invest in?

Curql invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 68 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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### Who are the partners at Curql?

The team at Curql includes Nick Evens (President & Chief Executive Officer), Dave Tucker (Partner) and Scott Hoekman (Partner (Fintech VC)). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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