# ICBA

> ICBA is a VC fund in Washington backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icba
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ICBA
- Website: https://www.icba.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/icbaorg

ICBA is a VC fund in Washington focused on FinTech and Financial Services. ICBA creates and promotes the interests of the community banking industry and its membership through advocacy, education, and high-quality products and services.It supports fair competition for financial institutions, maintaining the separation of banking and commerce, and a balanced financial system to prevent the concentration of economic andfinancial-services resources. ICBA member community banks create symbiotic relationships with the communities they serve, favor local decision-making, while adhering to the highest business practices and ethical standards, and support a democratically governed association where each member bank has a voice and a vote. The organization is committed to upholding the highest professional standards in community banking and providing programs tailored specifically for community bankers. Through ICBA educational courses, certification options, and continuing education programs, community bankers are better able to serve their customers and stay profitable.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for ICBA. Shizune tracks 3 team members at ICBA. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/icba?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 63% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 50% |
| Banking | 3 | 38% |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 38% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rob Birgfeld | Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-birgfeld |
| Wayne Miller | SVP Innovation Programs | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wayne-miller-f886 |
| Tom Hershberger | Instructor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-hershberger-0837 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Attune | Attune's end-to-end solution automates & digitizes lending and home buying operations for banks, credit unions, and non-bank lenders. Current lending and home buying processes are long and cumbersome. Applying for a loan or home mortgage can take weeks, or even months, to complete. Lendsmart's home buying marketplace and lendingplatforms automate and digitize the process, allowing borrowers to get a loan, refinance, or buy a home in record time. | $2.2M | Seed | Jan 25, 2024 |  |
| upSWOT | UpSWOT is a fintech platform that enables banks to connect, collect, and normalize data from business software tools they regularly use.The company's technology serves financial institutions to help them build loyalty and grow engagement among their SMB clients. Its platform is a white-labeled portal deployed into customers’ private cloudand connected with the online banking application. Using an approach similar to Plaid, SMBs connect their data for continuous, API-enabled access to QuickBooks, Xero, Salesforce, and 120+ other business-critical SaaS applications. Data is aggregated in real-time and thousands of signals are analyzed to help SMBs better understand the health of their businesses via interactive dashboards. On the back-end, Upswot surfaces meaningful data for relationship managers to upsell the right products and services while building more meaningful and longer-lasting relationships.The Berkeley, Califoria-located company was co-founded by Aleksander Simeiko, Andrey Davydchuk, Dmitriy Syvolap, and Dmitry Norenko in 2019. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 15, 2021 |  |
| Quilo | Qoosh Technology is a Digital, Mobile centric FIntech Platform that enables community banks & credit unions to provide "Quilos", instant installment loans to account holders with immediate access to funds and no hidden fees. 'Quilo' is the trademark of Qoosh Technology. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Adlumin | Adlumin empowers modern organizations with advanced technology and top talent for cybersecurity and efficient IT operations. Adlumin was founded with the mission of addressing this challenge through the provision of a platform that proactively identifies the most recent vulnerabilities being exploited and swiftly responds to them in real-time.With the backing of an exceptional team of experts, Adlumin serves as a dedicated partner throughout the entire process, guiding users every step of the way. | $6M | Series A | Sep 28, 2020 |  |
| Attune | Attune's end-to-end solution automates & digitizes lending and home buying operations for banks, credit unions, and non-bank lenders. Current lending and home buying processes are long and cumbersome. Applying for a loan or home mortgage can take weeks, or even months, to complete. Lendsmart's home buying marketplace and lendingplatforms automate and digitize the process, allowing borrowers to get a loan, refinance, or buy a home in record time. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| 3E Software | 3E Software provides software platforms that empower financial institutions to better serve their customers through smarter processes. 3E Software was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 27, 2019 |  |
| Agora Financial Technologies | Agora offers financial institutions a robust and customizable cloud-based offering that enables banking customers to utilize and manage accounts in real-time. Community banks and credit unions leveraging Agora Services’ product offerings accelerate their digital experience without replacing their core banking system while they improve the userexperience and create opportunities to increase deposits and revenues. Financial Institutions and Fintech can also launch complete stand alone digital solutions by leveraging Agora's challenger bank platform and most advanced Fintech ecosystem.Agora Services’ product lines are built to attract specific audiences that sit outside of the traditional banking customer. For instance, the three product sets built offer a customized banking experience for teens and their parents, gig economy worker, contractor or individuals outside of the traditional working circumstances, and elderly accounts.The parent and teen account offering provide parents access and oversight to a separate account offered to their teens that give the teen financial freedom but allows the parents oversight into the account. Through this product offering, teens can have a virtual or physical card, p2p payments offering and for the parent an easier way to pay allowance or loan money with insight into the transactions and parameters of the teen’s banking experience.For gig economy workers, contractors and individuals who do not have the typical type of work, Agora Services offers a banking experience that provides offerings like virtual onboarding, physical and digital cards as well as transaction oversight for an easier way to manage their unique business.The elderly and their caretakers often struggle when it comes to finances to make sure there are adequate funds, ensuring the transactions are legitimate and that they have what they need to complete a payment. This is where Agora Services comes in to play. Through this product line, Agora offers both account holder and either family or caretaker access to the account to ensure banking and transactional needs are fulfilled as well as the ability to stop any potential fraud that could be detrimental.Through Agora Services, financial institutions can implement solutions that ensure the customer and their unique banking needs are met. |  | Seed | Jan 09, 2019 |  |
| KapitalWise | Our mission at Kapitalwise is to seamlessly connect client data through engagement automation. We deliver these capabilities through a "no-code" client engagement platform, which is capable of linking client information, external data, and financial wellness content to client engagement. Kapitalwise also delivers Deep Learning and AIcapability; measuring and assessing behavior delta to optimize engagement strategy. We help financial institutions to service clients faster and more holistically through our platform. | $400K | Seed | Sep 17, 2018 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BREEGA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breega-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cadron Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cadron-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [Common Ocean Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/common-ocean-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fin-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does ICBA invest in?

ICBA invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Banking startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact ICBA?

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### Who are the partners at ICBA?

The team at ICBA includes Rob Birgfeld (Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer), Wayne Miller (SVP Innovation Programs) and Tom Hershberger (Instructor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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