Fenway Summer Ventures

Investor - Venture Capital

Overview

FSV supports bold pioneers tackling challenges at the intersection of finance and technology. Helping entrepreneurs tackle problems and build lasting enterprises.

Country: United States

Founded: 2014

Headquarters: Bethesda, Maryland

Investment Strategy

Geography

  • North America
  • Europe

Sector Focus

  • Marketplace Lending
  • Institutional Investments and Trading
  • WealthTech
  • RegTech
  • Payments and Remittances
  • Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
  • Data and Analytics

Investment Stage

  • Angel
  • Seed
  • Early Stage Venture
  • Later Stage Venture
  • Series A
  • Series B
  • Series C

Summary

FSV provides insights to entrepreneurs re-inventing the multi-trillion dollar financial services industry by building innovative companies, strong brands, and world-class teams. FSV primarily makes early stage investments, but will also consider promising growth stage investments.

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Investments

Date

Name

Size

Round

Co-Investors

Sector

Country

September 2016

Trunomi

$3m

Seed

Fintonia Group, Saturn Partners, SenaHill Partners, WorldQuant

RegTech

United States

September 2016

Nav

$25m

Series B

Crosslink Capital, CSC Upshot, Experian, Kickstart Seed Fund, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Tencent Holdings, ZenStone Venture Capital

Marketplace Lending

United States

July 2016

PayJoy

$8.5m

Series A

Core Innovation Capital, Draper Nexus Ventures

Payments and Remittances

United States

July 2016

Earn Up

$3m

Seed

Blumberg Capital, Camp One Ventures, Kapor Capital

WealthTech

Ireland {Republic}

April 2016

Advizr

$1m

Convertible Note

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

March 2016

Future Finance

£19m

Series B

Colchis Capital Management,DW Healthcare Partners, Fenway Summer Ventures,

Marketplace Lending

United States

March 2016

Wunder

$3.6m

Series A

Right Side Capital Management, FinTech Collective, Techstars

Institutional Investment and Trading

United States

February 2016

CARD.com

undisclosed

Series C

Payments and Remittances

United States

February 2016

StreetShare

$4.5m

Series A

Accion Venture Lab, New Dominion Angels

Marketplace Lending

United States

January 2016

College Ave Student Loans

$20m

Series C

Comcast Ventures

Marketplace Lending

United States

December 2015

Bee

undisclosed

Seed

AXA Strategic Ventures

WealthTech

United States

November 2015

Bee

$4.6m

Venture

AXA Strategic Ventures, Blue Collective, FoundersGuild, One Financial Holdings, T5 Capital

WealthTech

United States

November 2015

CARD.com

$9m

Series B

Anthem Venture Partners, Aslanoba Capital, Flight Ventures

Payments and Remittances

United States

September 2015

Advizr

$1.74m

Seed

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

September 2015

PeerIQ

$2.5m

Seed

Panorama Point Partners, The Uprising Creative, Victory Park Capital

Data and Analytics

United States

September 2015

Trunomi

$3m

Seed

Saturn Partners, SenaHill Partners, Persistent Ventures

RegTech

United States

September 2015

Nav

$8.5m

Venture

Crosslink Capital, CSC Upshot, Tencent Holdings

Marketplace Lending

United States

August 2015

XOR Data Exchange

$4.2m

Series A

Chicago, Ventures, KGC Capital

Data and Analytics

United States

August 2015

Applied Data Finance

undisclosed

Seed

Data and Analytics

United States

July 2015

Align Commerce

$5m

Series A

Pivot Investment Partners

Payments and Remittances

United States

June 2015

StreetShares

$2.5m

Seed

Raj Date, Accion Venture Lab, New Dominion Angels, Signatures Capital, Stony Lonesome Group

Marketplace Lending

United States

June 2015

College Ave Student Loans

undisclosed

Series B

Marketplace Lending

United States

June 2015

Sipree, Inc,

$2.5m

Seed

Dave Brown, Temerity Capital Partners, Tim Brinkman

Payments and Remittances

United States

June 2015

Support Pay

$1.5m

Seed

Aspect Ventures, Draper Associates

Payments and Remittances

United States

August 2015

Circle

$50m

Series C

Goldman Sachs, Accel Partners, BoomStartup, Breyer Capital, Digital Currency Group, General Catalyst Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Pantera Capital

WealthTech

Ireland {Republic}

April 2015

Align Commerce

$1.5m

Seed

Pantera Capital, Boost VC, Nyca Partners, Philippe Suchet, Solon Mack Capital, The Whittemore Collection

Payments and Remittances

United States

April 2015

DriveWealth

$4.4m

Series A

Route 66 Ventures, SenaHill Partners

WealthTech

United States

December 2014

Selfscore

$1m

Seed

Aspect Ventures, SparkLabs Global Ventures

Data and Analytics

United States

August 2014

College Ave Student Loans

undisclosed

Seed

Marketplace Lending

United States

July 2014

Align Commerce

$1.25m

Seed

Pivot Investment Partners

Payments and Remittances

United States

March 2014

Circle

$17m

Series B

Breyer Capital, Digital Currency Group, General Catalyst Partners, Leonard Schrank, Michele Burns, Oak Investment, Partners, Pantera Capital

WealthTech

Ireland {Republic}

February 2014

Trunomi

$2.3m

Angel

Saturn Partners, KPMG, Persistent Ventures, SenaHill Partners

RegTech

United States

Funds Raised

Vintage

Fund Name

Amount

2014

Series A

$2.9M

Key Employees

Raj Date
Managing Director & Chair of the Investment Committee

Alex Acree
Managing Director & General Counsel

Javier Saade
Managing Director

Mark Lefanowicz
Managing Director