# East West Bank

> East West Bank is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Pasadena, United States
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/14528
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/EastWestBank
- Website: http://eastwestbank.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eastwestbancorp

East West Bank is a VC fund in Pasadena focused on Financial Services and FinTech. East West Bancorp is a publicly owned company with $22 billion in assets. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, East West Bank, is one of

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 8 | 20% |
| FinTech | 6 | 15% |
| Health Care | 5 | 13% |
| SaaS | 4 | 10% |
| Real Estate | 4 | 10% |

80 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 21 | 53% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 7 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 8% |
| Seed | 1 | 3% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 35 | 88% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Diana Liu | Executive Assistant and Project Manager | 0 | — |
| Andrew Stein | Executive Vice President | 1 | — |
| Betty Chu | Founder | 0 | — |
| Catherine Zhou | EVP and Head of Consumer Banking | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catherine-zhou |
| Christopher L. Pocino | Founder | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lendistry | Lendistry is a fintech company that offers business loans, SBA loans, and commercial real estate loans for small business owners. The company's personalized service and accessibility to private capital and government-backed programs give the business the service they expect from a community bank, with the expertise of its veteran financialprofessionals with national bank experience.Lendistry was founded in 2015 and Is headquartered in Brea, California. | $100M | Debt Financing | Jul 09, 2026 |  |
| Bright Night | Bright Night provides renewable power solutions in a safe and reliable way. | $850M | Debt Financing | Mar 24, 2026 |  |
| Peregrine Energy | Peregrine Energy is a manufacturing company that specializes in the acquisition, development, and operations of renewable assets. |  | Debt Financing | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Go Digital Music | Go Digital Music is media and technology holding company. | $230M |  | Nov 03, 2025 |  |
| Chestnut Carbon | Chestnut Carbon develops afforestation projects to generate carbon removal credits and support net-zero goals. The company plants and maintains forestland, ensuring long-term carbon sequestration through conservation easements. Using proprietary technology and data, Chestnut Carbon identifies optimal land parcels, accelerates carbon measurement,and reduces monitoring costs. The company partners with landowners, farmers, and community organizations to enhance biodiversity, restore land, and create economic opportunities. Chestnut Carbon’s projects adhere to the Gold Standard® for rigorous verification, ensuring the credibility of its carbon credits while contributing to environmental restoration and sustainable development. | $210M | Debt Financing | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Sunrise Realty Trust | Sunrise Realty Trust is an institutional commercial real estate lender that offers flexible financing solutions to commercial real estate sponsors in the Southern United States. The Company focuses on transitional commercial real estate business strategies with near-term value creation opportunities, which are supported by top-tier real propertyassets in established Southern cities as well as Southern cities with great growth prospects. | $90M | Post-IPO Debt | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Spearmint Energy | Spearmint aims to be the preeminent green merchant trading company developing, owning, operating, and trading around Battery Energy Storage, Solar, and Wind to reduce grid volatility, increase system resiliency, and help to reduce Carbon emissions in a responsible and efficient way. | $154M | Debt Financing | Apr 17, 2025 |  |
| Southern Realty Trust | Southern Realty Trust offers various financial products and services such as loans, equity investments, or joint venture partnerships to support property development, acquisition, and management in the southern U.S | $100M | Debt Financing | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| Granite Comfort | Granite Comfort was founded in 2018 by Alex Black and Tiger Infrastructure Partners to invest in and partner with established, market-leading HVAC contractors in the United States. The company augments the business model of partner businesses by enabling them to add a rental offering to their existing portfolio of home comfort solutions, creating aunique and differentiated selling proposition that is proven to result in accelerated and more predictable business growth.Granite Comfort has partnered with Tiger Infrastructure Partners, an institutional infrastructure investor with a long-term investment strategy, to support the acquisition of established leading HVAC contractors and the capital invested in ramping up the rental model. Tiger Infrastructure Partners manages approximately $950 million in assets. |  | Debt Financing | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| Drip Capital | Drip Capital offers trade financing product targeted towards SMEs in developing markets. Its automated risk assessment model allows rapidly growing SMEs quick and easy access to finance. With a focus on technology, Drip aims to eliminate the hassle of paperwork and bureaucracy and create a seamless borrowing experience for its clients.The companyconsists of a team of financial consultants, engineers and analysts from Wharton, Stanford, and IITs with years of experience at Standard Chartered, Black Rock and Yahoo. They are backed by leading Silicon Valley investors - Y Combinator and StartX. They are always eager to connect with sharp minds to grow within their quest to becoming the future of global trade finance.Drip Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $90M | Debt Financing | Sep 05, 2024 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Oxford Finance LLC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oxford-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Barclays Investment Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Investec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investec) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ABN AMRO Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abn-amro) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bank of America](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bank-of-america) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bank of Montreal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bank-of-montreal) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does East West Bank invest in?

East West Bank invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Health Care startups, most often at Debt Financing and Post-IPO Debt stage. Most of the 40 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 East West Bank?

The team at East West Bank includes Diana Liu (Executive Assistant and Project Manager), Andrew Stein (Executive Vice President) and Betty Chu (Founder), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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