# Gilles Gade

> Gilles Gade is a debt financing investor at Cross River Bank backing FinTech and Marketplace. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cross River Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cross-river-bank)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilles-gade-b4b31812
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gillesgade
- Website: https://x.com/gillesgade

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| Marketplace | 1 | 100% |
| Real Estate | 1 | 100% |
| Commercial Real Estate | 1 | 100% |
| Real Estate Investment | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lev | 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 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Cross River Bank

VC Fund · Fort Lee, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Cross River Bank.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ana Barrancos | Chief Internal Auditor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ana-barrancos |
| David Cotney | Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-cotney |
| Gilles Gade | Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gilles-gade |
| Karan Mehta | Chief Strategy Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karan-mehta |
| Kathy Nelson | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathy-nelson |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### When did Gilles Gade last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gilles Gade closed in May 2022. 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.

### 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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