# Elle Bruno

> Elle Bruno is a seed investor at Western Union Accelerator Powered by Techstars backing FinTech. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Western Union Accelerator Powered by Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/western-union-accelerator-powered-by-techstars)
- Location: Denver, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 76%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elle-navarro-bruno-25ab961

Elle Bruno is a seed investor at Western Union Accelerator Powered by Techstars in Denver focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Elle Bruno - Managing Director @ Techstars

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $20k–$5.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $20k–$120k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 9 | 24% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 16% |
| Software | 4 | 11% |
| Finance | 3 | 8% |
| Wellness | 3 | 8% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 24% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 21% |
| Series A | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 29% |
| Peru | 1 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Colombia | 1 | 3% |
| Philippines | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Beans | The Beans offers a software application platform that creates personalized cash flow plans designed for its users. The Beans is Simplifying the path to financial balance through design and technology so that people can focus on what they love. | $5.4M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 | https://www.thebeans.io/ |
| FlexPoint | LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 25, 2023 | https://www.lendarr.com/ |
| FlexPoint | LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2022 | https://www.lendarr.com/ |
| FlexPoint | LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold. |  |  | Jul 18, 2022 | https://www.lendarr.com/ |
| Swipe Credit | Swipe is the best-in-class revenue-accelerating risk and compliance solution that helps lenders grow faster and wiser with financial inclusion behavior intelligence. The platform speaks to your data to help you better understand the life of each customer, so you can make faster, more informed decisions and drive growth by reaching untapped marketsegments. |  |  | Jul 19, 2021 | https://www.exploreswipe.com/ |
| Sunny Day Fund | Sunny Day Fund offers banking and emergency savings services. They help workers save for brighter days ahead and grow with resiliency. Their solutions include employer-funded emergency savings and a financial well-being diagnostic. An online inquiry form is available on their website. |  |  | Jul 19, 2021 | https://www.sunnydayfund.com/ |
| The Beans | The Beans offers a software application platform that creates personalized cash flow plans designed for its users. The Beans is Simplifying the path to financial balance through design and technology so that people can focus on what they love. |  | Seed | Jul 19, 2021 | https://www.thebeans.io/ |
| Zirtue | Zirtue, a relationship based mobile lending application that allows friends & family to easily lend & borrow money with each other on their terms by automating the payment process and taking the awkwardness out of the loan process. |  | Seed | Jul 19, 2021 | https://www.zirtue.com |
| Swipe Credit | Swipe is the best-in-class revenue-accelerating risk and compliance solution that helps lenders grow faster and wiser with financial inclusion behavior intelligence. The platform speaks to your data to help you better understand the life of each customer, so you can make faster, more informed decisions and drive growth by reaching untapped marketsegments. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Jul 19, 2021 | https://www.exploreswipe.com/ |
| Sunny Day Fund | Sunny Day Fund offers banking and emergency savings services. They help workers save for brighter days ahead and grow with resiliency. Their solutions include employer-funded emergency savings and a financial well-being diagnostic. An online inquiry form is available on their website. | $20K | Pre-Seed | Jul 19, 2021 | https://www.sunnydayfund.com/ |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Western Union Accelerator Powered by Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/western-union-accelerator-powered-by-techstars) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Chicago Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chicago-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Far Out Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/far-out-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forward Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Garuda Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garuda-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Western Union Accelerator Powered by Techstars

VC Fund · Denver, United States

The Western Union Accelerator, Powered by Techstars will help entrepreneurs create innovative solutions to some of the industry’s latest challenges including ML/AI, crypto and blockchain technologies, analytics and omni-channel platforms while leveraging the creative and agile thinking of some of the fintech industries brightest minds.

1 contacts available at Western Union Accelerator Powered by Techstars.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ethan Austin | Director for Los Angeles | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethan-austin |

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## FAQ

### What does Elle Bruno invest in?

Elle Bruno invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 38 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 Elle Bruno's check size?

Elle Bruno typically joins rounds of $20k–$5.4M at Seed and $20k–$120k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Elle Bruno participates in.

### How do I contact Elle Bruno?

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### When did Elle Bruno last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Elle Bruno closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 38 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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