# Nick Evens

> Nick Evens is a funding round investor at Curql (Waterloo) backing Software and FinTech. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Curql](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curql)
- Location: Waterloo, United States
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 54%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-evens-76b75316/

Nick Evens is a funding round investor at Curql in Waterloo focused on Software and FinTech. Nick Evens is the President & Chief Executive Officer at Curql. He Attended University of Northern Iowa.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 24% |
| FinTech | 8 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 16% |
| Finance | 5 | 14% |
| Banking | 3 | 8% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 16% |
| Series A | 5 | 14% |
| Seed | 3 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 3 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 49% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wagmo | Wagmo is a fantastic service that basically provides reimbursement for doing all the things that we already do to keep our dog. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Alacriti | Alacriti stands at the forefront of payments innovation, delivering comprehensive payment and money movement solutions to financial institutions and businesses. Our commitment is to empower our clients and their users with seamless, easy-to-use, and secure real-time payment experiences across all preferred channels, rails, types, and devices.Alacriti’s innovative solutions provide cutting-edge payment technologies that integrate effortlessly with existing infrastructures. Discover more about how we are transforming payments at Alacriti.com. |  | Private Equity | May 20, 2026 |  |
| equipifi | equipifi provides buy now, pay later software for financial institutions. The company offers embedded payment and installment lending tools that integrate with digital banking platforms and core banking systems. Its platform enables banks and credit unions to provide pre-qualified financing offers, split-payment options, and short-term installmentloans through existing checking accounts and debit cards. equipifi also provides loan management, risk configuration, reporting, and customer engagement tools to support digital payment and lending programs. | $34M | Series B | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Allure Security Technology | Allure's anti-phishing solution defends enterprise customers from attacks. Allure detects phishing campaigns in near real-time from the first customer attack. It identifies which customers are being phished and devalues anything the cybercriminal may have stolen from the customer and assists the enterprise in destroying the malicious site bytaking it down. It was developed with $10M in DARPA funding by a team of Columbia University scientists. It is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | $17M | Series B | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| PortX | ModusBox's mission is to improve lives by accelerating universal access to reimagined financial services. They believe that technology is the key to driving this access for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people. And, it is the underlying network infrastructure that exploits and excludes.ModusBox's suite of no-code, cloud-native,drop-in integration tools are primarily focused on two major industries - Payment Networks and Supply Chains. They provide open source, real-time payment network (RTPN) and payment management software that enables central banks and payment hub operators to build, deploy, and connect to real-time payment networks. Additionally, ModusBox solutions enable financial institutions (FIs) to achieve interoperability by integrating their core banking technology with other modern platforms, currencies, and protocols to stay relevant in the digital world.By combining their tools and deep roots in the integration space, ModusBox digitally transforms companies and countries around the world to drive inclusion and connectivity. |  | Series B | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| BlastPoint | BlastPoint provides big data solutions that help companies optimize revenue growth. Its user-intuitive software platform is customizable, interactive, and stays constantly up to date. It provides services to customers in retail, the utility industry, emerging franchises, and nonprofit organizations.The company was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | $10.6M | Series A | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| Splash Financial | Splash Financial is a financial education and student loan refinancing company that gives young professionals more financial freedom. It helps students refinance medical school loans into one simple payment, and offering financial flexibility during residency, with a $1 minimum monthly payment throughout the training. The company believes ineducating customers to help find financial freedom. The company wants students to be able to chase both career and life goals without worrying about student loan debt. Splash Financial was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. | $70M | Series C | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Castellum.AI | Our mission is to make preventing financial crime easy and effective.Risk data like sanctions, politically exposed persons and export controls are publicly available, but not in one place, language and data architecture. Clients are tired of cobbling together multiple vendors to get one source of truth. To solve this problem, Castellum.AI builtthe world’s most accurate, reliable and fastest compliance solution. Don't take our word for it, try our platform for free at www.castellum.ai. | $8.5M | Series A | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Trust & Will | Trust & Will is an online service providing legal forms and information that makes creating estate planning easy, fast, and secure. It is not a law firm and is not a substitute for a lawyer’s advice about complex estate planning. The company is backed by some venture capital firms including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, Western TechnologyInvestments, Luma Launch, Halogen Ventures, and Techstars, as well as angel investors.Trust & Will was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | $4.5M | Series C | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Trust & Will | Trust & Will is an online service providing legal forms and information that makes creating estate planning easy, fast, and secure. It is not a law firm and is not a substitute for a lawyer’s advice about complex estate planning. The company is backed by some venture capital firms including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, Western TechnologyInvestments, Luma Launch, Halogen Ventures, and Techstars, as well as angel investors.Trust & Will was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | $29.5M | Series C | Mar 11, 2025 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Btech Consortium](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/btech-consortium) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Commerce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerce-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Reseda Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reseda-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Curql

VC Fund · Des Moines, United States

Curql is an investment management that specializes in the fields of fintech and banking services.

3 contacts available at Curql.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nick Evens | President & Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-evens |
| Dave Tucker | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-tucker-1671 |
| Scott Hoekman | Partner (Fintech VC) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-hoekman |

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## FAQ

### What does Nick Evens invest in?

Nick Evens invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 37 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 Nick Evens last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nick Evens closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 37 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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