Route 66 Ventures

Investor - Venture Capital

Overview

Route 66 Ventures invests and guides emerging financial technology companies, helping to revolutionize the field in a variety of sector.

Country: United States

Founded: 2012

Headquarters: Alexandria, Virginia

703-828-4198

Investment Strategy

Geography

  • North America
  • Europe

Sector Focus

  • Marketplace Lending
  • WealthTech
  • Payments and Remittances
  • Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
  • Cryptocurrencies

Investment Stage

  • Seed
  • Series A
  • Series B
  • Series C

Summary

The financial services space is radical and inspiring, with new technologies and business models disrupting or helping banking, insurance, payment, or asset management incumbents every day. We’re innovators, believers in this dynamic shift, on the lookout for new companies and ideas that match our vision. We invest in innovative or disruptive ideas at any stage, support our portfolio companies at every level, and look to collaborate with like-minded investors.

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Investments

Date

Name

Size

Round

Co-Investors

Sector

Country

June 2016

Bunker Protect

$2m

Seed

American Family Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Hiscox

InsurTech

United States

May 2016

Tandem

£22m

Series B

Financial Inclusion initiative, e.ventures, Omidyar Network, Nigel Morris

Infrastructure & Enterprise Software

United Kingdom

December 2015

NextCapital

$16m

Series B

Manulife Financial Corp, FinTech Collective, AllianceBernstein, Kelvingrove Ventures, Transamerica Ventures, Vermont Seed Capital Fund

Infrastructure & Enterprise Software

United States

November 2015

LQD Business Finance

$30m

Debt Financing

Fintech Ventures Fund

Marketplace Lending

United States

October 2015

Knip

$15.7m

Series B

Creathor Venture, Orange Growth Capital (OGC), QED Investors

InsurTech

United States

October 2015

Moven

$12m

Series B

Anthemis Group, New York Angels, Standard Bank

Infrastructure & Enterprise Software

United States

September 2015

CoverHound

£830.28k

Series C

Bullpen Capital, American Family Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Core Innovation Capital, Source Interlink Companies, Tugboat Ventures

InsurTech

United States

June 2015

Mirror

$8.8m

Series A

Battery Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Digital Currency Group, RRE Ventures, Promus Ventures

Infrastructure & Enterprise Software

United States

May 2015

Ripple

$28m

Series A

AME Cloud Ventures, Camp One Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital

Payments & Remittances

United States

May 2015

Trusted Insight

$5.5m

Series A

Entrepreneurs Fund, 500 Startups, BootstrapLabs, Data Collective, Initialized Capital, Lauder Partners, Subtraction Capital

Infrastructure & Enterprise Software

United States

April 2015

Payzer

$4.2m

Series A

Grotech Ventures, Square 1 Bank

Payments & Remittances

United States

April 2015

DriveWealth

$4.4m

Series A

Fenway Summer Ventures, SenaHill Partners

WealthTech

United States

March 2015

SimpIesurance GmbH

$8M

Series B

Allianz, German Startups Group, Rouven Dresselhaus

InsurTech

Germany

January 2015

Judo Payments

£6m

Series B

Payments & Remittances

United Kingdom

September 2014

Hedgeable

$1.75m

Seed

Pascal Bouvier, SixThirty - FinTech Accelerator, Ynext Incubator

WealthTech

United States

Key Employees

Robert Peterson
Partner

Dan DallAsta
Principal