I recently met with a friend who’s a senior executive at a large investment management organization. She said, “fintech is really interesting, but I don’t have a clue as to how to get started.” So I shared with her my notes on who the players are in the ecosystem. If there are additional players I should add, please ping me and I’ll add them.
NY Fintech Hubs
FinTech Innovation Lab
FinTech New York Accelerator
MetaProp (real estate technology)
Rise New York (good mailing list) – includes the Barclays Accelerator, in partnership with Techstars, and a coworking space for fintech startups
Startupbootcamp Fintech New York
Technyc.org (not fintech specific)
Work-Bench (enterprise startups, sometimes fintech applicable)
Selected NY VCs Focused Primarily on Fintech
(Most significant VCs in New York, including ff Venture Capital, are active investors in fintech. I’ve listed here only the firms I’m aware of that have an explicit focus primarily or exclusively on fintech.)
Anthemis Group
Aquiline Capital Partners
Broadhaven
Conversion Capital
Digital Currency Group
FinTech Collective
FTV Capital
Green Visor Capital
IA Capital Group
Motive Partners
NYCA Partners
Pivot Investment Partners
QED Investors
SenaHill Partners
Value Stream Labs
Tribeca Angels
Other East Coast VCs:
Fenway Summer Ventures (DC)
Route Sixty-Six Ventures (DC)
Vestigo (Boston)
A Few Selected NY Corporate Fintech VCs
(Note that most of the major banks, insurance companies, and other financial services companies have a fintech investment effort, and most of them have a NY presence. Many do not have a dedicated website. So this list is inherently quite incomplete. See CB Insights’ list of Major Bank Investments in VC-backed Fintech Companies.)
AXA Strategic Ventures
Citi Ventures
Capital One Growth Ventures
Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments
Point72 Asset Management
Santander InnoVentures
Transamerica Ventures
Worldquant Ventures
Most Active Individual Fintech Angels on AngelList (across their database)
(Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY has a lot of individuals with expertise in fintech.)
Peter Kellner – 122 investments (NY)
Garry Tan – 102 investments
Gil Penchina – 93 investments
Anthony Saleh – 81 investments
Kal Vepuri – 80 investments (NY)
Dharmesh Shah – 77 investments (Boston)
Felix Shpilman – 75 investments
Bobby Yazdani – 72 investments
Lance White – 73 investments
Brett Jackson – 64 investments
Conferences/Events
Benzinga Fintech Awards
Coastal Shows
CB Insights Future of Fintech
DataDisrupt
Data Driven (not strictly fintech)
DealFlow Events
Digital Banking Summit
Empire Startups Conferences
FinDEVr
Finovate
Fintech Week NYC
Fintech Rising
InsureTech Connect
LendIt
Money 20/20
Nexchange Fintech O2O
Next Money
O’Reilly Conferences
The Future of Money & Technology Summit
StartupBootCamp Fintech
Tradestreaming
Consensus (crypto and blockchain conference)
News
TheFinancialRevolutionist
FinTech Collective News
FinTech Weekly
FinTech Business
TechCrunch fintech section
VentureBeat fintech section
CB Insights Newsletter
Podcast: Rise Radio
Calendars of Events
GarysGuide (NY specific)
FinTech Profile
Fintech Weekly
Empire Startups
Generalist NY VC Associations
NYVCA
NYPEN
NYCVC.org
Fintech Industry Overviews
84 FinTech VC Firms to Consider If You Are a FinTech Startup Raising Money
Fintech New York: Partnerships, Platforms and Open Innovation
FinTech Industry Report 2016
Fintech 2.0: Creating new opportunities through strategic alliance
The Fintech 2.0 Paper: rebooting financial services
Invest Trends in Fintech
Fintech Survey Report 2016
The FinTech Opportunity
The Future of FinTech: A Paradigm Shift in Small Business Finance
FT Partners Fintech Research
14 Industry Trends the Top FinTech Execs are Watching (Institutional Investor)
Thanks to many for feedback, especially to Jon Zanoff and Kate Christensen. All mistakes are mine.
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