# Rory Eakin

> Rory Eakin is a seed investor at CircleUp (San Francisco) backing Banking and FinTech. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CircleUp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/circleup-growth-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/roryeakin
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/roryeakin
- Website: https://x.com/roryeakin
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rory.eakin.9

Rory Eakin is a seed investor at CircleUp in San Francisco focused on Banking and FinTech. Rory has supported entrepreneurs nearly all his career, most recently as Director of Investments at Humanity United, part of the Omidyar family enterprises. At Humanity United, he invested in small businesses and social enterprises to stimulate job creation and promote stability in fragile economies. He began his career at a startup providingfinancial training to small businesses in Cape Town, South Africa. Rory is a former consultant with The Boston Consulting Group.Rory received his MBA from Stanford as well as a public policy degree from Princeton. He holds Series 24, 63, and 82 licenses, and enjoys listening to weekend NPR quiz shows a little too much.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 1 | 100% |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| Finance | 1 | 100% |
| Lending | 1 | 100% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 100% |

8 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jia | Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.3M | Seed | Apr 26, 2023 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BlockTower Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blocktower-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Canonical Crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canonical-crypto) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Draft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draft-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Flori Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flori-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global Coin Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-coin-research) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hashed Emergent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-emergent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About CircleUp

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

CircleUp is an investment platform that provides capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands with a modern, scalable approach to private markets. CircleUp is comprised of internally-managed equity funds, a credit program, and an Insights and Connections team - all powered by Helio, CircleUp's proprietary machine learningplatform. Helio collects and analyzes billions of data points to evaluates 1.3 million consumer businesses and predict future business success.

5 contacts available at CircleUp.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aditi Dashputre | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditi-dashputre |
| Ben Lee | Investment Committee, CircleUp Funds | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-lee-3 |
| Karen Howland | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karen-howland |
| Patrick Robinson | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-robinson |
| Rory Eakin | Co-Founder, Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rory-eakin |

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## FAQ

### What does Rory Eakin invest in?

Rory Eakin invests primarily in Banking, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed stage. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Rory Eakin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rory Eakin closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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