Gilles Gade
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman @ Cross River Bank
Gilles Gade is a founder of Cross River Bank (CRB) and has served as its Chairman, President and CEO since its inception in 2008. Gilles is steering CRB as an innovation-driven state-chartered bank and a provider of fully compliant financial solutions to the marketplace lending and payments sectors. Gilles possesses over 20 years of experience ininvestment banking and venture capital including Co-Founder and Managing Director of Chela Technology Partners and Chela Internet Ventures, a boutique investment bank and venture fund focusing on emerging technologies and telecommunications; technology investment banker at Barclays Capital; and FIG investment banker at Bear Stearns. Gilles started his career in 1990 at Citicorp Venture Capital. Gade graduated from the MBA Institute IMIP (Groupe IPESUP) in Paris with an MS in International Management.
- Total investments:
- 1
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- Lead investor:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 1 (100%)
- Marketplace 1 (100%)
- Real Estate 1 (100%)
- Commercial Real Estate 1 (100%)
- Real Estate Investment 1 (100%)
Investments
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| Lev provides a technology platform for digitizing commercial real estate transactions. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in New York, New York, USA. | $100M / Debt Financing / May 05, 2022 |
About Cross River Bank
Cross River combines innovative technologies with the expertise of a bank to create new services and solutions for fintech companies that are redefining global financial services. In addition to traditional banking, the company has developed partnerships with financial technology leaders to build compliant and integrated products for themarketplace lending and payment processing arenas.
Cross River Bank Contacts
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Ana Barrancos
Chief Internal Auditor
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David Cotney
Board Member
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Gilles Gade
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman
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Karan Mehta
Chief Strategy Officer
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Kathy Nelson
Chief Operating Officer
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What does Gilles Gade invest in?
Gilles Gade invests primarily in FinTech, Marketplace and Real Estate startups, most often at Debt Financing 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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