# Haymaker Ventures

> Haymaker Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/haymakerventures
- Website: http://www.haymaker.com

Haymaker Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Early Stage Fintech Venture Capital Firm spun out of Thiel Capital. Notable investments of Partners include SoFi, TruMid, Flyr Labs, OnDeck and AvidxChange.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.8M–$11M |
| Series A | $8M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 12 | 60% |
| FinTech | 8 | 40% |
| Software | 4 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 20% |
| Finance | 3 | 15% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 50% |
| Seed | 8 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 55% |
| Mexico | 2 | 10% |
| France | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Austria | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nicolas Westphal | Co-Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicolas-westphal |
| Olivia Baribeau | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/olivia-baribeau-4977 |
| Phin Upham | Managing Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phin-upham |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spring Labs Holdings, Inc. | Spring Labs is building an AI-native operational risk and compliance platform for financial institutions. Zanko automates post-contact operations from intake through resolution across complaints, disputes, QA, issue management, and customer operations workflows. By combining conversational intelligence, AI agents, workflow automation, and embeddedcompliance guardrails, the platform helps institutions accelerate resolution times, reduce operational overhead, surface emerging risk earlier, and maintain audit-ready execution across every customer interaction. | $5M | Seed | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Coral Care | Coral Care is a technology company for in-person specialized pediatric developmental healthcare. It aims to improve access to pediatric developmental health services from infancy to adolescence. The platform serves as a marketplace, offering a simplified path to care by matching families with Coral Care’s team of trusted, local, in-networkpediatric specialists available for in-person and in-home sessions.Coral Care’s platform provides pediatric specialists with the infrastructure needed to grow their private practices and deliver quality in-person care. The company offers administrative support and tools, content, credentialing services, and marketing services, which enable pediatric specialists to focus on care, not managing their businesses. | $13M | Series A | Feb 23, 2026 |  |
| FlexPoint | LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold. | $12M | Series A | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Utila | Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure. | $18M | Series A | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Sunfish Technologies | Sunfish makes parenthood attainable for all types of families. Whether you're exploring surrogacy, IVF, egg freezing, or single parenthood by choice — Sunfish helps aspiring parents explore low-interest loans and financial planning tools. | $10M | Series A | Jan 29, 2025 |  |
| Altscore | AltScore enables any B2B company to create and manage their own credit products. Our 'Rails of Lending' APIs shorten the launch time of new lending products from years to just weeks, while delivering fintech-level capabilities at every stage of the loan process—from onboarding and underwriting to collections and renovations. | $8.5M | Series A | Aug 28, 2024 |  |
| FlexPoint | LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold. | $5M | Seed | Mar 18, 2024 |  |
| Ribbon | Ribbon is the estate center for financial institutions that allows them to capture the next generation of customers. Ribbon finds an inheritance you may not even know you had and has real people to help you in case you have questions. It was founded in 2023 and is located in San Francisco, California. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| Mundi | Mundi provides financial, trade development, strategy, freight and reinventing international trade services. | $15M | Series A | Sep 25, 2023 |  |
| hi.health | We are reinventing the claims process in private health insurance (PHI). Existing claims processes suffer from significant friction in the user journey and a lack of cost control for insurers. We eliminate the friction in this process while putting effective cost controls in place. Our solution is to provide insurers with co-branded debit cardsdistributed to their members. Each member can use their card at any health-related facility in the world - eliminating out-of-pocket expenses entirely. Think of corporate spend management providers like Payhawk, only for international and domestic private health insurers. So, the advantages are obvious: we help insurers to provide a 10x better user experience and to achieve substantial cost savings by providing structured data, offering real-time visibility on claims costs, minimizing fraudulent claims, and implementing a reward/cashback program to steer user behavior. | $6.6M |  | Jan 11, 2023 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fin-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Far Out Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/far-out-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FOVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fovc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bonfire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonfire-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Calm/Storm VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calm-storm-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Haymaker Ventures invest in?

Haymaker Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 20 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 Haymaker Ventures's check size?

Haymaker Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.8M–$11M at Seed and $8M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Haymaker Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Haymaker Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Haymaker Ventures?

The team at Haymaker Ventures includes Nicolas Westphal (Co-Managing Partner), Olivia Baribeau (Principal) and Phin Upham (Managing Partner). 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 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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