# R&R Ventures

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

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Annapolis, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.rrventuresdev.com

R&R Ventures is a new fund run by former Time Warner CEO, Dick Parsons, and media investor, Ron Lauder.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 50% |
| FinTech | 3 | 38% |
| Credit | 2 | 25% |
| Payments | 2 | 25% |
| Information Services | 2 | 25% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jacqueline Scalisi | General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacqueline-scalisi |
| Richard Parsons | Founder | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-parsons |
| Ron Lauder | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-lauder |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Percent | Percent is a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Percent's innovative ecosystem enables lenders of any size to raise the most flexible debt capitalat a low cost through dynamic market pricing and standardized terms. To date, its platforms have powered more than $700 million in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar lending market. | $12.5M | Series A | Apr 22, 2021 |  |
| Percent | Percent is a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Percent's innovative ecosystem enables lenders of any size to raise the most flexible debt capitalat a low cost through dynamic market pricing and standardized terms. To date, its platforms have powered more than $700 million in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar lending market. | $12.5M | Series A | Apr 22, 2021 |  |
| Pockyt | Yuansfer is a cross-border payment gateway for brands and retailers who want to unlock sales opportunities for Chinese consumers. It seamlessly integrates Alipay and WeChat Pay to streamline checkout processes both online and in-store, increasing conversion and reaching new customers. Yuansfer is a global company that positions itself in officessuch as New York City, Los Angeles, and China. And they take pride in growing business from local to global, while bridging the gap between US brands and Chinese consumers with our proven payment solutions. | $3M | Seed | Feb 19, 2021 |  |
| Percent | Percent is a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Percent's innovative ecosystem enables lenders of any size to raise the most flexible debt capitalat a low cost through dynamic market pricing and standardized terms. To date, its platforms have powered more than $600 million in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar lending market. | $4M | Seed | Jan 31, 2020 |  |
| Percent | Percent is a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Percent's innovative ecosystem enables lenders of any size to raise the most flexible debt capitalat a low cost through dynamic market pricing and standardized terms. To date, its platforms have powered more than $700 million in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar lending market. | $4M | Seed | Jan 31, 2020 |  |
| Percepto | Percepto is a developer of autonomous drone technology for inspection and surveillance.Drones hold the potential to disrupt multi-billion dollar industries including energy, security, insurance, agriculture, and more. Drones completely change the way inspection, measurement, surveillance, and deliveries are done today. Still, the main barrier tomaking them a must-have platform is the ability of drones to perform tasks autonomously.The company is at the forefront of redefining how industrial sites and critical infrastructure are holistically inspected and monitored, harnessing remote robotics to autonomously collect, aggregate, and analyze visual data.Leveraging its experience with Percepto Sparrow, the most deployed drone-in-a-box solution on the market, Percepto introduced Percepto AIM (Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring) the first end-to-end autonomous inspection and monitoring platform. Percepto AIM empowers the remote operation center of the future to assess risk, minimize downtime, drive efficiency, increase safety, and reduce operational costs. | $15M | Series A | May 22, 2019 |  |
| Celo | Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Its mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.The Celo ecosystem includes a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (Celo Platform), a native asset (CELO), a stablecoin (cUSD) and the CeloAlliance for Prosperity, with over 100 organizations around the world, including Andreesen Horowitz, Anchorage, Coinbase, GSMA, Mercy Corps, Grameen Foundation, Prosegur, Abra, and cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem. | $6.5M |  | Jun 25, 2018 |  |
| MiMedia | MiMedia is a next-generation personal cloud. It is a developer of an automatic cloud storage platform used to backup photos, videos, music, and other files. It provides a secure personal storage cloud storage space that enable users to backup and share all their files, photos, videos, music, and other important documents which can be accessed fromany device. | $15M | Series C | Jan 14, 2016 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fantail Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fantail-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [MGV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maschmeyer-group-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does R&R Ventures invest in?

R&R Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Credit startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

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### Who are the partners at R&R Ventures?

The team at R&R Ventures includes Jacqueline Scalisi (General Counsel), Richard Parsons (Founder) and Ron Lauder (Team Member). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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