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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for FinTech startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MaC Venture Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Los Angeles, California, United States, North America | ||
MAGIC Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Los Angeles, California, United States, North America | ||
Fika Ventures | Seed | Los Angeles, California, United States, North America | ||
Act One Ventures | Seed | Los Angeles, California, United States, North America | ||
Type One Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Los Angeles, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top FinTech Seed investors in Los Angeles. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top FinTech Investors & Funds (Los Angeles)
MaC Venture Capital
MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace. MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful Los Angeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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MAGIC Fund
Magic Fund is built on a thesis that smaller funds run by founders perform best in early-stage investing (pre-seed/seed). We’re a fund of micro-funds run by repeat founders with strong expertise in specific industries and geographies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Developer Tools, E-Commerce, Emerging Markets, FinTech, Health Care, Real Estate, SaaS
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Fika Ventures
Fika Ventures is a LA-based boutique seed fund that invests in founders solving massive, systemic problems through the use of data, related AI-enabled technologies, and automation. Our core focus areas will be enterprise & B2B software, fintech, marketplaces and digital health. Fika will be investing predominantly in LA and the Bay Area, while opportunistically making a few bets in burgeoning markets like Seattle and New York. Fika Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care, Marketplace, Venture Capital
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Act One Ventures
Act One Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund that focuses on investing in business software. The firm leads pre-seed and seed rounds. The team is made up of founders who understand the journey of building companies having founded and taken a company public. Alejandro Guerrero and Michael Silton formed the fund in Los Angeles, California in 2016. Act One Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider. Focus areas include e-commerce infrastructure software, Vertical SaaS and Fintech
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: E-Commerce Platforms, FinTech, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Type One Ventures
Inspired by astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev’s method for measuring a civilization’s level of technological advancement – the Kardashev scale. As we progress towards a Type I civilization on the Kardashev Scale, we believe we are entering a new age of innovation aimed at solving humanity’s biggest obstacles. We have created Type One Ventures to empower the entrepreneurs providing the technology, infrastructure, and services that will be integral to the growth and advancement of mankind.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Hardware, Robotics, Software, Space Travel
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Walkabout Ventures
Walkabout Ventures is an investment fund focused on venture funds investing in financial service startups. The firm prefers to invest in the financial services and information technology sectors. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Inevitable Ventures
Inevitable Ventures is an investment partnership founded by billionaire investor Ron Burkle, prominent VC fund manager Chris Hollod, and recording artist and investor D.A. Wallach. It invests opportunistically in radical emerging technologies that seek to solve challenging problems and create novel consumer experiences. Inevitable Ventures will support entrepreneurs who are pursuing difficult problems in industries that are central to human life, including but not limited to healthcare, media, life sciences, financial services, food, and logistics. Based in LA, the fund will devote particular attention to companies being built in Southern California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, E-Commerce, FinTech, Health Care, Internet, Logistics
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digi Ventures
Digital Ventures (“digi.”) is the personal investment vehicle of Michael Pierce. We invest in early and later stage seed companies and are both based in Southern California. They invest across a spectrum of sectors and geographies. They are equally excited about consumer and enterprise focused solutions. They are drawn to businesses at have light capital costs requirements to get to demonstrable market validation (think <$3m). Accordingly, all their companies leverage the Mobile Web or Native Mobile Apps to scale. And, of course, they expect the markets our companies are transforming to be BIG (think >$10b) but they also need to feel confident that the solutions and products being developed can create meaningful and repeatable revenue at sustainable, industry leading gross margins.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Crowdfunder
Crowdfunder is an equity crowdfunding platform connecting investors with early-stage entrepreneurs. It sources and funds high-growth ventures with a network of over 130,000 entrepreneurs and investors. Crowdfunder and its VC Index Fund provide the opportunity for direct online investment into single ventures, as well as diversification into a broad VC-led portfolio (Index Fund) of early-stage startups backed by many of the world’s leading Venture Capital firms and private investors. Crowdfunder was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Crowdfunding, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Small and Medium Businesses, Venture Capital
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Untapped Ventures
Untapped Ventures is a venture studio and pre-seed fund in Los Angeles on a mission to help people achieve the best version of themselves, personally and professionally. Leveraging our powerful network and unique methodology, we found and fund companies at the intersection of the Future of Work, HRTech, and Mental Wellness.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Talino Venture Labs
Born in the intersection of Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, Talino Venture Labs is on a mission to bridge the $5.2 trillion financial inclusion gap for over 1.7 billion people around the world. Talino Venture Labs uses the successful venture studio model to build repeatable, scalable, and profitable fintechs that empower underserved, underrepresented groups around the world with financial access and mobility. Our proprietary tech stack, Talino Financial Inclusion Technology (Talino FIT), is already being used by financial institutions across our existing startups, impacting 10 million users across Asia and the United States. Talino FIT gives us the capability to build, deploy, and scale new technologies and businesses with greater agility and efficiency.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Software, Software Engineering
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