FinTech Collective
VC Fund
New York, United States
FinTech Collective is a global, early stage venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs who are rewiring the way money moves through the world. Founded in 2012 with offices in New York City and London, the firm has deep experience investing across capital markets, wealth and asset management, banking, lending, payments, insurance, and DeFi. Themanaging partners of FinTech Collective met in their mid 20’s and helped build, scale, and successfully exit four fintech businesses. Backed by some of the world’s leading institutional investors, FinTech Collective manages close to $1b in regulatory assets. Over the last decade the firm has had 10 exits, taken one company from pitch deck to public markets and invested in 96 portfolio companies including well known firms such as Anyfin in Stockholm, Flutterwave in Lagos, IMMO in London, Minu in Mexico City, Mondu in Berlin, Simetrik in Columbia, and several important businesses in NYC including MoneyLion, NYDIG, Ocrolus, Quovo (acquired by Plaid) and Vestwell.The firm publishes a weekly newsletter, delivered every Saturday, which provides a tightly edited rundown of global fintech news, along with a bit of original analysis (available at fintech.io/newsletter).
- Total investments:
- 176
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
- Fund size:
- $92M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries FinTech Collective invests in
Stages FinTech Collective invests in
Countries FinTech Collective invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$14M
- Series A
- $3.7M–$24M
- Series B
- $13M–$55M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 45 (26%)
- Financial Services 44 (25%)
- Software 18 (10%)
- Finance 12 (7%)
- Blockchain 12 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 43 (24%)
- Series A 36 (20%)
- Series B 17 (10%)
- Funding Round 14 (8%)
- Series C 4 (2%)
Country
- United States 46 (26%)
- Germany 5 (3%)
- United Kingdom 5 (3%)
- Mexico 4 (2%)
- Brazil 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brooks Gibbins
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
Carlos Alonso-Torras
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Faisal Kawar
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Gareth Jones
Co-founder and Managing Partner
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Co-founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Samantha Wulfson
Sr. Associate
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Sr. Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
HelmGuard AI
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HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders. | $7.3M / Seed / Sep 09, 2026 | |
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Valence
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Valence is a wealth management firm focused on the complex needs of high-net-worth individuals and families. The company provides integrated services including investment and portfolio management, tax planning, estate planning, retirement and income planning, liquidity management, generational wealth and family engagement, philanthropic giving, andfamily office accounting. Valence uses a proprietary AI-native platform and client-centric data model to connect accounts, assets, entities, documents, and decisions into a unified view of a client’s financial life. Its specialized agent framework monitors markets, taxes, estate considerations, life events, and other factors to surface and coordinate actions. Human advisors then focus on oversight, judgment, and client relationships while the system supports continuous understanding and execution across the client’s financial affairs. | Seed / Jun 17, 2026 | |
bunch
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Bunch is a financial technology company that provides software and operational infrastructure for private market fund management. Its platform supports the full fund lifecycle, including investor onboarding, fund administration, accounting, compliance, reporting, and transaction management for venture capital, private equity, and other alternativeinvestment structures. The company combines proprietary software with integrated operational services to help asset managers and investors manage funds and special purpose vehicles through a centralized system. Bunch also offers tools designed to improve data management and automate workflows across fund operations and regulatory processes. The platform is used by asset managers and investors across multiple European jurisdictions to manage investment structures and administrative activities. | $35M / Series B / May 19, 2026 | |
Performativ
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Performativ provides a cloud-based wealth management platform that brings portfolio management, investment analytics, trading, reporting, compliance, client communication, and workflow automation into one system. The platform supports wealth managers, asset managers, investment advisors, private banks, financial institutions, and multi-familyoffices, with tools for multi-custodian data aggregation, portfolio rebalancing, order management, digital client portals, integrations, access controls, and audit trails. | $14M / Series A / Apr 28, 2026 | |
Astraeus
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Astraeus aims to transform wealth management firms by embedding artificial intelligence directly into their internal systems. | Seed / Nov 12, 2025 | |
Finster AI
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Finster AI offers AI agents that can read, analyse and integrate disparate sources of financial and market data. | $10M / Series A / Oct 20, 2025 | |
Extend
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Extend provides digital card solutions for businesses. Using their existing credit card, companies and innovators everywhere can now access the full power of virtual cards for their businesses, products, and clients. Extend offers several products, including a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card app, and anindustry-first card tokenization service. | $20M / Sep 18, 2025 | |
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Extend
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Extend provides digital card solutions for businesses. Using their existing credit card, companies and innovators everywhere can now access the full power of virtual cards for their businesses, products, and clients. Extend offers several products, including a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card app, and anindustry-first card tokenization service. | $20M / Sep 18, 2025 | |
Zefir
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An all-in-one platform that allows people to sell or buy in one simple, certain transaction | $17.5M / Series B / Sep 04, 2025 | |
Monato
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Monato is a fintech that builds modular, scalable financial infrastructure that allows companies to integrate financial services in compliance with regulations. | $13M / Seed / Aug 05, 2025 | |
| See all 176 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does FinTech Collective invest in?
FinTech Collective invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 176 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 FinTech Collective's check size?
FinTech Collective typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$14M at Seed, $3.7M–$24M at Series A and $13M–$55M 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 FinTech Collective participates in.
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Who are the partners at FinTech Collective?
The team at FinTech Collective includes Brooks Gibbins (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Carlos Alonso-Torras (Partner) and Faisal Kawar (Venture Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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