Every company is a fintech company.
What We Believe
Fintech companies are innovating across broad categories—in banking, lending, insurance, real estate, and investing—both on the customer-facing side and in core infrastructure. We believe the combination of mobile, digital money, AI and machine learning, and new data sources offers startups a unique opportunity to leapfrog outdated infrastructure and compete with incumbent financial institutions to reimagine the way money moves.
Fintech entrepreneurs always ask us how they can best understand, plan for, and execute a funding strategy. It’s not only a complicated subject, it can also be incredibly specific to both the individual company and that company’s current funding needs. What funding structure is ideal for your company right now? How do you set up and manage a warehouse facility? How should you prepare for and undertake a debt raise?
To answer these questions and more, we created our series on How Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy.
Featured Articles
Launching a Financial Product: How to Choose the Right Funding Structure
One of the most common conversations we have with fintech entrepreneurs looking to launch a new financial product is about determining the right strategy for funding their business. Whether you’re a vertical software company looking to launch a factoring product (selling accounts receivables at less than par), or a fintech lender trying to finance a new asset class, choosing the right funding structure can have a meaningful impact on the trajectory of your company, its ability to scale, and your bottom line.
Managing Your Facility and Tools to Automate the Process
Congratulations! After weeks (or months) of negotiating, you’ve finally closed on your facility. If you’ve drawn on a line from your venture debt facility, money has been wired to your business banking account. Or if you’ve raised a warehouse, you can now fund and originate loans that will be repaid by a financing partner.
What happens now?
Meet the Fintech Team
What is the future of finance? Our team of investors knows first-hand how innovations in banking and lending can pave the way for the entrepreneurs of tomorrow harnessing the power of digital money and AI. We’re here to navigate them to the top.
Gabriel Vasquez
Gabriel Vasquez is an investment partner at CFI Corporation where he focuses on enterprise and fintech investments in the U.S. and Latin America.
Seema Amble
Seema Amble is an investing partner at CFI Corporation where he focuses on investments in fintech and insurtech.
Marc Andrusko
Marc Andrusko is a partner and he focuses on fintech and B2B software. His investment interests span capital markets, AI applications, payments infrastructure, and businesses.
Alicia Barone
Before joining CFI Corporation, Alicia spent over 10 years as an events consultant working for high-profile brands such as goop, Hulu, Showtime, TED, Vanity Fair, and others.
Charles Hubbard
Charles Hubbard is a partner on the Talent Network team focused on executive talent. Charles was a software sales executive working with companies like Netsuite (pre-IPO), Interwoven, and Apple.
Carl Narcisse
Carl Narcisse is a partner on the Talent Network team focused on technical talent. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and resides in the Bay Area.
Fintech Portfolio
Branch
Branch delivers world-class financial services to the mobile generation. The spread of smartphones presents an incredible opportunity for the world's emerging middle class to access banking options and achieve financial flexibility.
Divvy Homes
Divvy Homes is a tech-enabled real estate platform that facilitates rent-to-own home purchases. Its platform selects any home on the market and buys it for the renter who in turn makes down payments and gets a jump start on owning a house, enabling customers to close the housing affordability gap.
Clover
Clover is a payment network built from the ground up for mobile devices, aiming to radically improve the speed and security of online mobile transactions.
Any investments or portfolio companies mentioned, referred to, or described on this page are not representative of all investments in vehicles managed by CFI and there can be no assurance that the investments will be profitable or that other investments made in the future will have similar characteristics or results. Exits include current and former CFI portfolio companies which have been acquired as well as companies which have undergone an initial public offering or direct public offering of shares. Further, the list of investments is updated monthly and as such may not reflect most recent CFI’s investments. Past results of CFI’s investments, pooled investment vehicles, or investment strategies are not necessarily indicative of future results.