Fintech71
VC Fund
Columbus, United States
Fintech71 is a startup accelerator that provides fintech startups with funding up to $100k, access to the top financial service companies and mentors in the industry. The 10-week intensive program is a state-wide collaborative ecosystem and innovation outpost for the top financial services companies in the state.Partner Companies Include: KeyCorp, Grange Insurance, Huntington, Accenture and VisaMentors From: Safelite AutoGlass, Fifth Third, Progressive, Root Insurance, JP Morgan Chase, Kroger, Silicon Valley Bank, First Federal of Lakewood, 84:51, Capital One, First Financial Bancorp, Apex Supply Chain Technology, Diebold Nixdorf, Holland Fintech, Visa, JobsOhio and Lumos Accelerator.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Fintech71 invests in
Stages Fintech71 invests in
Countries Fintech71 invests in
Contacts
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Kevin Pohmer
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Matt Armstead
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Rajat Bhakhri
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Tim Fulton
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 6 (67%)
- Software 4 (44%)
- Financial Services 4 (44%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (33%)
- Mobile 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (56%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (33%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 6 (67%)
- Israel 1 (11%)
- Ireland 1 (11%)
- United Kingdom 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Kevin Pohmer
Founding Member
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Founding Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Matt Armstead
Executive Director
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Executive Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Rajat Bhakhri
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Tim Fulton
Director of Marketing
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Director of Marketing | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| SafeWire provides software to title companies to combat wire fraud in real estate transactions. | $3M / Seed / Jun 25, 2018 | ||
| ID-Pal enables businesses to verify the identity of customers in real-time simply, securely, and conveniently. Their identity verification solution is simple to use, easy to integrate and instantly customizable to the specific needs of any business, eliminating the complexity, cost, timelines, and risk typically associated with regulatorycompliance. | Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2018 | ||
| Ask any parent and they’ll tell you the same thing: paying for the countless number of athletics, after-school care, lunch, classroom supplies, donations, field-trips, and other school-related fees is extremely difficult to keep up with. Add in multiple kids at different schools with different payment procedures and systems and the process getsdownright impossible. Ask any school business manager and they'll tell you how hard it's to collect and track payments. That's where Skookii comes in.Skookii is the first and only completely free online payment/finance system for schools and educational nonprofits. It’s simple: schools get a robust SaaS solution in less than 20 minutes and parents get a simple web/mobile app to instantly pay for their kids’ aftercare, donations, athletics, or anything else. | $100K / Seed / Sep 18, 2017 | ||
| Billon Group is a fintech company that provides an enterprise DLT system for accounts and transactions and targets at bank accounts. The technology is optimized for regulated institutional use as a scalable private, permission DLT (outperforming cryptocurrency adaptations). It is fully regulatory compliant for both money and document applications.Billon offers near real-time settlement of domestic and cross border payments. It also enables fiat money to be digitized and the firm is registered as an e-money issuer in the UK and Poland. The partners with enterprise customers to create DLT based solutions on it’s a full platform. Reusable modules & APIs allow for rapid creation and delivery. The platform combines the blockchain and distributed ledger is built for enterprise implementations and achieved full compliance with data and money regulations.Billon Group was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Sep 18, 2017 | ||
| James is an online credit risk management platform that provides risk management tools to financial institutions. Through the application of advanced scientific computing capabilities like machine learning, it enables risk departments to prepare against cyclical crisis and help protect their reputation, making the global financial system safer inthe long run.James was established in 2013 and is based in New York. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Sep 17, 2017 | ||
| HEXANIKA provides customers with innovative and self service data solutions to address various data challenges such as data quality, governance and cost of data management. Customers can leverage our out-of-the-box, ready to use, patented algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data. HEXANIKA also offers out of the box regulatoryreports for Banking and financial institutions that can be availed on a subscription basis. | $100K / Seed / Sep 17, 2017 | ||
| Steady removes barriers to earn through its income intelligence that supports over 3 million hourly, 1099 and mixed-earners in earning more, an average of over $5,500 per year. Steady's view of income also applies its technology for purposes of income measurement that fills the wage data gap for public and private sector entities that servicethis worker population in areas such as the administration of public sector benefits.Steady was founded in 2017. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 01, 2017 | ||
| PayKey enables banks to provide their customers with the ability to initiate and complete a range of financial services, including P2P payments, chatbot engagement, balance check, cardless withdrawal, and more, from within any mobile application. Offering a cross-platform banking button on the smartphone’s keyboard boosts the bank’s brandengagement while making the banking experience quick, contextual, and simple for users. Banks are battling to remain relevant as they face an unprecedented competitive environment coupled with changing consumer expectations for instantaneous, highly-efficient, and seamless financial experiences. In a time where consumers expect to access services from any channel at any time, PayKey is helping banks to improve their user experience and boost their brand engagement by enabling their customers to access financial services from within any mobile application. | $10M / Series B / Jun 26, 2017 | ||
| Elafris is a developer of an AI-driven digital assistant platform that helps financial institutions to engage consumers via social media.The platform enables insurers to engage consumers via messenger applications such as Facebook Messenger, SMS, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, WhatsApp, and WeChat. The AI-driven insurance-specific chatbot technologylearns from customer interactions to help them identify and purchase the right insurance coverage, provide convenient payment reminders and credit card processing, and provide guided insurance claims processes via a smartphone.The San Francisco, California-located company was founded by Michael Shapiro and Jake Diner in 2017. | Seed / Jun 01, 2017 |
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1 deal together
Digital Ventures
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What does Fintech71 invest in?
Fintech71 invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 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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