George C. Kenney
Angel Investor
George C. Kenney is a seed investor focused on Banking and FinTech. George Kenney, a Managing Director and co-founder of Shepherd Ventures, has a strong technical background combined with extensive Wall Street and financial industry experience. George has been a successful manager in rapid growth environments, turning around struggling operations and developing and mentoring high technology companies. Hespecializes in information systems, semiconductors, components and networking, and pioneered optical recording technology.Before forming Shepherd Ventures, George was CTO and Partner at Nicholas-Applegate, a money management firm in San Diego, where he directed the technology infrastructure expansion necessary to grow the company from a local presence to a network of international locations. Prior to Nicholas-Applegate, George was CTO and Managing Director at Kidder Peabody in New York City. Previously he held top information technology positions at Swiss Bank, Salomon Brothers and the American Stock Exchange. As Director of Research for North American Philips and co-founder of Digital Measurements Corp., George obtained numerous US and foreign patents.George holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, an MSEE from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Additionally, he attended the Optics Program at Londons Imperial College and is a graduate of Harvard Universitys Industrial Management Program. A noted technology futurist, George has been a keynote speaker at financial conferences on The Future of Technology. He has served as a Trustee for the San Diego Museum of Art and as pro-bono Chairman of the museum's Investment Committee. He has also served on the Board of Governors of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies and is currently a board member of several technology companies.
- Total investments:
- 1
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Investment Focus
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- Banking 1 (100%)
- FinTech 1 (100%)
- Financial Services 1 (100%)
- Information Technology 1 (100%)
Investments
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| Mirador is the leading front-end small business lending platform supporting established lenders with borrower acquisition, digital application, decisioning, and borrower communication. Mirador leverages a streamlined, delightful user experience to create profitability and efficiencies in the lending process, giving traditional lenders the edge theyneed to compete. Mirador’s core lending platform can be supplemented with two modules that support highly prequalified lead generation and a second look program, enabling lenders to implement or expand a fully functioning small business loan program with a single trusted partner. Through the implementation of Mirador’s core platform, lenders have seen a 69% increase in efficiency in the small business lending process and an average reduction of $1550 in the cost to originate a loan, supporting greater profitability in the small business lending business unit. Mirador supports small business lending products including term loans, collateralized loans, SBA guaranteed loans, commercial real estate, and quick decision or docless loans, from $1k-$20M+. | $2.7M / Seed / Nov 24, 2014 |
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What does George C. Kenney invest in?
George C. Kenney invests primarily in Banking, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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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The most recent investment recorded for George C. Kenney closed in Nov 2014. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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