# Phin Upham

> Phin Upham is a seed investor at Haymaker Ventures backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Haymaker Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haymaker-ventures-c523)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phinupham
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/phinupham
- Website: http://www.haymakercapital.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/phinupham

Phin Upham is a seed investor at Haymaker Ventures in New York focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Phin Upham is the Managing Partner-VC/Fintech at Haymaker Ventures. He attended Harvard University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 64% |
| FinTech | 7 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 36% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Finance | 2 | 14% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Series A | 5 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 64% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Mexico | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## 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 |  |
| FlexPoint | LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold. | $12M | Series A | May 13, 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 |  |
| Brightflow AI | Brightflow AI is a financial intelligence company that provides small business owners with forecasting and financing tools. The platform enables users to monitor the cash flow on their Shopify and Amazon stores. Brightflow AI was founded by Jeffrey Priebe and Robbie Bhathal in 2019 and is based in Walnut, California. | $15M | Series A | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Brightflow AI | Brightflow AI is a financial intelligence company that provides small business owners with forecasting and financing tools. The platform enables users to monitor the cash flow on their Shopify and Amazon stores. Brightflow AI was founded by Jeffrey Priebe and Robbie Bhathal in 2019 and is based in Walnut, California. | $15M | Series A | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Rosaly | Rosaly gives you the ability to manage advance payment requests automatically and provide your staff with a financial management tool without having any negative effects on your cash flow.Rosaly is a fintech with real social effect that helps businesses improve the financial well-being of their employees by providing on-demand pay, budgetmanagement, and education through an app. Rosaly was started by Arbia Smiti at the end of 2019. | $7.5M | Seed | Sep 13, 2022 |  |
| Silverbird | Silverbird is a digital bank for international trade. We serve SMEs participating in global trade and provide them with online banking, global business accounts, and high-value cross-border payments. We onboard international SMEs using our data-driven AI-powered KYC technology to make them bankable in Europe and beyond. We work with banks,regulators, payment networks, and trade finance companies so businesses who bank with Silverbird don’t have to. We believe we can eliminate most of the international payment hurdles for global merchants and unlock even greater growth in international trade. |  | Seed | Aug 07, 2022 |  |
| AI Insurance | AI Insurance builds claims management software for small insurance companies. By introducing digital workflows and predictive analytics into a 300-year-old space, AI Insurance is changing how claims are handled. They put the tools of the big companies in the hands of the small ones so that claims close faster, insureds get paid faster, and insurerssave money. | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bonfire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonfire-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Far Out Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/far-out-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FOVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fovc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cascade Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cascade-angels-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fin-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Haymaker Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Early Stage Fintech Venture Capital Firm spun out of Thiel Capital. Notable investments of Partners include SoFi, TruMid, Flyr Labs, OnDeck and AvidxChange.

3 contacts available at Haymaker Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Phin Upham invest in?

Phin Upham invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Phin Upham last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Phin Upham closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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