# Early Impact Ventures

> Early Impact Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jan 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Early Impact Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Early Impact Ventures invests in extraordinary entrepreneurs tackling massive market opportunities with mission-driven companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 57% |
| FinTech | 3 | 43% |
| B2B | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 29% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Germany | 2 | 29% |
| Colombia | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Trader | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-trader |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mercury | Mercury Technologies is a technology-enabled company that provides banking services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company services provide bank accounts designed specifically for startups, combining FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts with tech tools. Immad Akhund, Max Tagher, and Jason Zhang founded the company. | $6M | Seed | Jan 10, 2019 |  |
| Mercury | Mercury Technologies is a technology-enabled company that provides banking services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company services provide bank accounts designed specifically for startups, combining FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts with tech tools. Immad Akhund, Max Tagher, and Jason Zhang founded the company. | $6M | Seed | Jan 10, 2019 |  |
| Tpaga | Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems. | $2.3M | Convertible Note | Aug 29, 2017 |  |
| Atrium LTS | Atrium builds products and services to help automate legal workflows, innovate new processes within law firms, and help firms identify and attract new clients. Its technology provides a better experience for legal clients than they previously thought possible, increasing communication and speed of service.The company collaborates withforward-thinking lawyers to help determine the direction and decisions for these products. | $10.5M | Series A | Jun 15, 2017 |  |
| ELEMENT Insurance | ELEMENT Insurance is a white-label product factory for insurance and a leader in insurance digitalization. It is licensed by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzaufsicht) as a direct insurer for non-life insurance, which enables ELEMENT to act as a risk carrier, including claims settlement, in 28 countriesacross Europe.Founded in March 2017, ELEMENT offers a unique technology platform (‘Insurance as a Platform’) with a focus on the B2B2X value chain: ELEMENT develops for its partners from various industries – from e-commerce to established insurers – custom-made, innovative white-label insurance products at record speed. These products are then marketed by the partners under their own brand. ELEMENT has its headquarters in Berlin and operates across Europe. | $12.1M |  | May 01, 2017 |  |
| Full Harvest | Full Harvest helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market.We are a B2B platform connecting large farms to food businesses to sell significantly discounted, yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste.Approx. 20 billion pounds ofproduce go to waste in the U.S. annually simply because they are not perfectly shaped for strict retailer standards. We aim to solve this problem by creating a marketplace for this unutilized edible and delicious produce.Our vision is three-fold: bring an additional revenue stream to farmers, lower the cost of healthy food production, while significantly reducing wasted food and resources. A win-win for everyone. | $2M | Seed | Apr 12, 2017 |  |
| Finiata | Finiata provides flexible financing to small companies and freelancers through a line of financing and factoring. They believe strongly in the scientific method, listening to customers, solving real problems, and doing the unscalable to find the scalable. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 17, 2017 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chapter One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chapter-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coelius Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coelius-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Homebrew](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/homebrew-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [K5 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k5-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Outlander Fund I Archimedes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arena-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Early Impact Ventures invest in?

Early Impact Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 Early Impact Ventures's check size?

Early Impact Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Early Impact Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Early Impact Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Early Impact Ventures?

The team at Early Impact Ventures includes Andrew Trader (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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