Steve McLaughlin
Founder, CEO & Managing Partner @ Financial Technology Partners
San Francisco, United States
Steve McLaughlin is a seed investor at Financial Technology Partners in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Steve McLaughlin is the Founder and CEO of FT Partners and former senior banker at Goldman Sachs covering FinTech and Financial Services for over 20 years. Steve was recently named “Investment Banker of the Year”, ranked #2 Investment Banker in Silicon Valley by The Information and ranked Top 5 on Institutional Investor’s “Online Finance 35” listof most influential people in FinTech.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Steve McLaughlin invests in
Stages Steve McLaughlin invests in
Countries Steve McLaughlin invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (43%)
- Financial Services 3 (43%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (43%)
- Blockchain 2 (29%)
- B2B 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (29%)
- Series A 2 (29%)
- Series B 2 (29%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 3 (43%)
- United Kingdom 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Model ML is an artificial intelligence platform for private equity firms and investment banks. | $75M / Series A / Nov 24, 2025 | ||
| The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank | $39M / Series A / Oct 23, 2025 | ||
| Combining the best of CeFi & DeFi. | $30M / Seed / Sep 18, 2025 | ||
| Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQconsolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively. | $8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 29, 2025 | ||
| The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank | $5.2M / Seed / Dec 13, 2023 | ||
| Lula Technologies is a provider of insurance services. With Lula, customers are able to better assess their customer's risk, administer policies, manage their claims, and embed their own insurance products into their business flows. | $35.5M / Series B / Aug 03, 2023 | ||
| Forge Global is a private securities marketplace that serves the complex and emerging needs of the private market ecosystem by forging new connections through its technology, data, and expertise. Founded in 2014, the firm empowers investors and shareholders by facilitating liquidity in the private markets. Forge is backed by top Silicon Valleyinvestors and large, global institutions including Deutsche Börse, Temasek, Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, FT Partners, Draper Associates, Peter Thiel, Munich Re Ventures, and LUN Partners Group. | $50M / Series B / Jul 25, 2018 |
Co-Investors
Financial Technology Partners LP and FTP Securities LLC ("FT Partners") is the only investment banking firm focused exclusively on the financial technology sector. They broadly define the sector as the dynamic convergence of technology-based solutions and financial services. FT Partners was recently recognized as "Dealmaker of theYear" and "Investment Banking Firm of the Year" by The M&A Advisor.The firm was founded by Steve McLaughlin, Managing Partner, formerly a senior investment banker in Goldman Sachs & Co.'s Financial Technology Group and Financial Institutions Group in New York and San Francisco. The firm's Founder and senior bankers are all highly experienced investment bankers formerly with the financial technology, M&A and investment banking groups of Goldman Sachs & Co in New York, San Francisco, London and Los Angeles.
Financial Technology Partners Contacts
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Daniil Danilov
FinTech Investment Banking
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Dean Casalena
VP of Engineering
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Steve McLaughlin
Founder, CEO & Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Steve McLaughlin invest in?
Steve McLaughlin invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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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When did Steve McLaughlin last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Steve McLaughlin closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 7 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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