# Maria Gotsch

> Maria Gotsch is a seed investor at FinTech Innovation Lab backing Software and Analytics. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FinTech Innovation Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintech-innovation-lab-london)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-gotsch-15401583

Maria Gotsch is a seed investor at FinTech Innovation Lab in New York focused on Software and Analytics. Maria is the co-founder of FinTech Innovation Lab. She is also the president and CEO of the New York City Investment Fund and serves as president of the Fund's Civic Capital Corporation, which manages the Fund's charitable investments. Prior to joining the Fund in 1999, Maria was a managing director at BT Wolfensohn (now part ofDeutsche Bank), providing strategic and financial advice related to mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and the development of business strategies. Before starting with Wolfensohn, Maria worked at LaSalle Partners in the New York area and for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York and London. Maria has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Wellesley College.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Analytics | 3 | 23% |
| SaaS | 2 | 15% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |
| Electric Vehicle | 2 | 15% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 38% |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |
| Private Equity | 2 | 15% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 46% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Popwheels | PopWheels is an urban mobility company with a cutting-edge e-bike battery exchange network. | $2.3M | Seed | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Bags | Bags operates as a financial services company that offers small businesses a suite of bookkeeping, accounting, and funding-support tools. The company provides a platform to manage financial records, generate monthly profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow reports, and offer AI-powered CFO-style financial insights. Bags couples those serviceswith a financing network that helps businesses explore debt funding: it offers funding plans and connects clients to lenders, and provides a funding coach to guide businesses through the loan application process if they choose to seek capital. The company also offers optional services such as historical financial cleanup, payroll and tax-preparation support, giving businesses flexibility in how much they outsource. | $2.8M | Seed | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| Radical AI | Radical AI is a technology startup focusing on changing materials science and advanced manufacturing through artificial intelligence. | $55M | Seed | Jul 18, 2025 |  |
| LeapXpert | LeapXpert enables enterprises to embrace consumer messaging applications and integrate them into their business-critical applications and processes. The company's Federated Messaging Orchestration Platform (FMOP™) is an enterprise conversational solution between Employees and Clients. It empowers companies to securely communicate from acentral source while allowing customers to use the messaging app of their choice. FMOP elevates messaging to a formal business communication channel, similar to calling or emailing. It allows companies to control communications between employees, suppliers, customers, and other interested parties. It resolves the business, compliance, and regulatory challenges the rise of messaging applications’ use in business channels has created. It currently has three of the ten top global banks as customers, with tens of thousands of users. | $20M | Series B | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| itselectric | Itselectric is a curbside EV charging system designed especially for urban areas and to advance the adoption of electric vehicles. They increased access to public charging, which encourages the adoption of EVs and leads to cleaner air and healthier communities. | $6.5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2024 |  |
| LeapXpert | LeapXpert enables enterprises to embrace consumer messaging applications and integrate them into their business-critical applications and processes. The company's Federated Messaging Orchestration Platform (FMOP™) is an enterprise conversational solution between Employees and Clients. It empowers companies to securely communicate from acentral source while allowing customers to use the messaging app of their choice. FMOP elevates messaging to a formal business communication channel, similar to calling or emailing. It allows companies to control communications between employees, suppliers, customers, and other interested parties. It resolves the business, compliance, and regulatory challenges the rise of messaging applications’ use in business channels has created. It currently has three of the ten top global banks as customers, with tens of thousands of users. | $22M | Series A | Mar 29, 2023 |  |
| Circular Services | Circular Services operates as a developer of circular economy and recycling infrastructure. Circular Services owns and operates municipal recycling facilities across the U.S. that enable municipalities and businesses. | $200M | Private Equity | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| SkyHive | SkyHive is the developer of a SaaS platform that enables workforce reskilling and labor market intelligence. They provide quantum labour analytics services. They also optimizes human economies in real-time and provide customized workforce solutions. | $40M | Series B | Oct 20, 2021 |  |
| MoCaFi | MoCaFi is a developer of a personal finance platform designed to leverage mobile technologies, data analytics, and strategies to improve the financial behaviors of underbanked communities. The company's platform offers financial products and services in the areas of check cashing, custom loans, debit cards, financial literacy, data analytics,and personal finance via its mobile application and financial card, enabling users to check their balance, cash their paychecks and send money safely at no extra cost. | $12M | Series A | Feb 12, 2021 |  |
| CLEAR | CLEAR, the secure identity company, uses biometrics to build a connected world that’s smarter and more secure. It links identity with different information sets, including credit cards, tickets to the game, reservations, frequent flyer numbers, flight manifests, health care identification, driver's licenses, and passports. CLEAR's datasecurity framework meets the highest standards for performance and for protecting sensitive information — FISMA High- and SAFETY Act-certified by the Department of Homeland Security. CLEAR's users are always in control of their data and do not sell user information. CLEAR was founded by Caryn Seidman-Becker and Ken Cornick in November 2010 and is based in New York, United States. | $100M | Private Equity | Feb 08, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Portfolia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portfolia) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Radicle Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/radicle-impact) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Accenture Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accenture-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AllegisCyber](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allegis-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Infinite Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infinite-capital-b86b) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Innovation and Technology Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-and-technology-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About FinTech Innovation Lab

VC Fund · New York, United States

The FinTech Innovation Lab is a highly competitive, 12-week program that helps early- to growth-stage enterprise technology companies refine and test their value proposition with the support of the world’s leading financial service firms.After a successful inaugural year, they will continue to operate an insurtech track to bring emergingsolutions to an expanded list of insurance partners and provide insurtech entrepreneurs with the guidance that will take their technologies from nice-to-have to mainstays within the industry.

5 contacts available at FinTech Innovation Lab.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cristóbal Conde | Executive-in-Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristbal-conde |
| Andy Brown | CTO in Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-brown-5 |
| Dominic Paolino | Program Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominic-paolino |
| Maria Gotsch | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-gotsch |
| Ryan Teksten | Industry Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-teksten |

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## FAQ

### What does Maria Gotsch invest in?

Maria Gotsch invests primarily in Software, Analytics and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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 Maria Gotsch last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Maria Gotsch closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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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