# Ryan Gilbert

> Ryan Gilbert is a seed investor at Launchpad Capital backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Launchpad Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchpad-capita)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanpropel/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/rgoffice
- Website: https://x.com/rgoffice

Ryan Gilbert is a seed investor at Launchpad Capital in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Ryan Gilbert is the Founder at Launchpad Capital. He attended University of the Witwatersrand.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 11 | 48% |
| FinTech | 9 | 39% |
| Software | 5 | 22% |
| Finance | 3 | 13% |
| Payments | 3 | 13% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 35% |
| Series A | 4 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 9% |
| Series C | 2 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 9% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 74% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MIC Global | MIC Global is a full-stack digital micro-insurance company that provides embedded micro-insurance products and underwriting solutions. | $6M | Seed | Jan 25, 2024 |  |
| MIC Global | MIC Global is a full-stack embedded micro insurance provider purpose-built to transform the insurance industry by reimagining and integrating simple and relevant insurance products that provide protection for people so that they can provide for their families and recover swiftly. We were founded with an aspirational goal to help close the insuranceprotection gap by providing inclusive and affordable insurance to people and to support them in their time of need. | $6M | Seed | Jan 25, 2024 |  |
| Immediate | Immediate provides a financial wellness solution that delivers on-demand access to earned wages. The company allows employees to smooth out the peaks and valleys of a bi-weekly pay cycle by creating consistent streams of income, breaking cycles of debt, and reducing the need for predatory alternative lending sources. | $16M |  | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Inbanx | inbanx’s budget and spending control solution enables businesses to budget, manage their card program, and control spending across divisions, departments, and teams. The solution presents real-time data in an elegant UX, leverages AI-generated insights, and reports expenses automatically. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 21, 2023 |  |
| RiskScout | RiskScout is a software that provides cloud banking and infrastructure services to financial institutions that resolve financial risks. |  | Seed | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Pinnacle Realty Advisors | Pinnacle Realty Advisors offers real estate services. They provide real estate brokerage, property sales, and rental services. | $5M | Seed | Oct 05, 2022 |  |
| Rocketplace | Rocketplace is a cryptocurrency trading platform that charges 0% commission to buy and sell crypto. Rocketplace also provides free weekly articles about cryptocurrency, NFTs, and the rest of the Web3 to allow people to study while earning. Rocketplace is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and was founded in 2021. | $9M | Seed | Aug 18, 2022 |  |
| Central Payments | Central Payments provides payments technology and issuing solutions for fintech and embedded finance businesses. The company’s Open*CP API Marketplace℠ is one of the only true banking-as-a-service payments platforms built by fintech bankers with issuing capability embedded. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 11, 2022 |  |
| Ovation Ventures | Ovation builds the infrastructure that powers modern financial experiences for credit unions, employers, wealth managers, and retirement plan advisors — including Bravo, its financial intelligence layer — reaching 150+ financial institutions and EAPs nationwide. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 25, 2022 |  |
| Watalook | Watalook is a beauty freelancers booking platform with SaaS and marketplace. It is a mobile application that will allow you to reveal yourself and manage service orders efficiently and conveniently. | $997.1K | Pre-Seed | Aug 18, 2021 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Xfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cross River Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cross-river-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Freestyle Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freestyle-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Launchpad Capital

VC Fund · Oakland, United States

The world of financial services is transforming and more ready than ever for thoughtful disruption.The combination of permanent structural changes to the global financial services industry and readily accessible infrastructure will unlock empowering financial and technology innovation at across the FIRE sector - from finance, to insurance andreal estate - through products and services that are fair, transparent and give consumers and businesses full control of their hard earned money and the data tied to it. LaunchPad Capital builds and invests in pre-seed and seed stage Fintech companies.

2 contacts available at Launchpad Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ryan Gilbert | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-gilbert |
| Dominykas Stankevicius | Investment Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominykas-stankevicius |

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## FAQ

### What does Ryan Gilbert invest in?

Ryan Gilbert invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 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 Ryan Gilbert last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ryan Gilbert closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 23 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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