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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Financial Services startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
gener8tor | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Madison, Wisconsin, United States, North America | ||
Baird Capital | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, North America | ||
Golden Angels Investors | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed | Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States, North America | ||
Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, North America | ||
CSA Partners LLC | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Early Stage Venture investors in Wisconsin. 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 Financial Services Investors & Funds (Wisconsin)
gener8tor
Gener8tor is a nationally ranked accelerator that invests in high-growth startups. Three times a year we invest $100K in each of five startups who receive a concierge experience during our 12-week accelerator program. Gener8tor supports the growth of these startups through our network of experienced mentors, technologists, corporate partners, angel investors, and venture capitalists. Gener8tor invests in high-growth startups, including software, IT, web, SaaS, life science, MedTech, e-commerce, and hardware. Accepted startups receive $100K and 12 weeks of mentorship-driven programming. Gener8tor is a member of the Global Accelerator Network (GAN).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Baird Capital
Baird Capital makes venture capital, growth equity, and private equity investments in strategically-targeted sectors around the world. The company values its creators who identify exceptional opportunities and partners with senior industry executives to build world-class companies. Its in-depth sector knowledge, deep relationships with entrepreneurial management teams, and global network of 60 investment and operating professionals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia help ensure that the company consistently drives value in its portfolio companies. Baird Capital was founded on January 1, 1919 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Golden Angels Investors
Golden Angels Investors is an angel investment group making investments in entrepreneurial ventures. The firm’s members bring a track record of business success and a deep commitment to assisting entrepreneurs in building great companies. It leads opportunities directly as well as participates in opportunities led by other investors. Golden Angels Investors was established in 2002 and is headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures
Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures is an investment firm that provides life insurance services. Northwestern Mutual has a 160-year-old track record of industry-leading financial strength, client-centricity and entrepreneurial culture, which has not only enabled but driven us to always innovate for our clients. Plus, we know what it’s like to be a start-up because we have successful entrepreneurs on our team. In 2015, we combined forces with LearnVest through an acquisition that began as a strategic investing partnership.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services
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CSA Partners LLC
CSA Partners, LLC is a venture fund that invests in early-stage, high-growth companies. They partner with entrepreneurs to help them build and grow great innovative companies. They invest in startups that have a well-defined vision and bring elegant solutions to clearly articulated problems. They utilize a lean, tenacious and responsible management style that is data-driven and outcome-focused.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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4490 Ventures
4490 Ventures is a technology-focused, early-stage venture capital fund based in Madison, Wisconsin. The fund seeks to invest in companies in the Midwest. It seeks to invest between $5 million to $8 million per investment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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DaneVest Capital
Located in Dane County, Wisconsin at the center of science, education, government, technology, business and commerce, DaneVest Capital is in tune with current investment opportunities. Working with a variety of industries that are looking for capital solutions, they provide an efficient structure, through a variety of private equity funds, for investors to participate in the growth of local businesses and communities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Middleton, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Rock River Capital Partners
Rock River Capital is a midwest based, early stage venture firm looking for companies with initial product/market fit & positioned for growth. They are industry agnostic, but look for some form of technical disruptor to that industry, often in the form of software. Investments made by Rock River Capital are done with the entrepreneur in mind. Their goal is to keep the deal terms straight forward & aligned with the founder. They prefer to be the lead investor and take a board seat with the intention of adding value where needed. Rock River Capital reserves significant funds for follow on investment to continue supporting their portfolio in later rounds. They partner with some of the largest Venture Capitalists in the midwest to help our companies graduate to the next level of investment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Kegonsa Capital Partners
The Kegonsa Seed Fund—Wisconsin’s premier seed venture investment fund—was named one of the Top 100 seed venture capital funds in the United States in Entrepreneur’s July 2007 issue. The Kegonsa Seed Fund invests in people. They have invested in experienced entrepreneurs launching their next startup. They have also worked with inventors to hire experienced entrepreneurial management to develop and market a product based on their invention. The Kegonsa Seed Fund I has completed its investment period; at this time, we are no longer making investments in new portfolio companies. Their focus now is on helping current portfolio companies succeed through continuing investments and commitments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Rose Ventures
Rose Ventures invests in companies developing innovative life science research products that enable customers to make new discoveries and develop new products in fields such as academic research, healthcare, agriculture, energy and consumer products . Whereas most funds diversify across multiple industries to protect against variation in sector performance, we focus on one industry in which we have extensive knowledge, direct operational expertise, and access to a deep network of successful entrepreneurs and leading scientists. We believe life science tools will be a strong industry for the foreseeable future. Our goal is to work with the best companies in the industry, helping management teams remove barriers to growth so they can create substantial value for their shareholders.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Robert W. Baird & Co.
Baird is an employee-owned wealth management, capital markets, asset management and private equity firm on a mission to provide the best financial advice and service to their clients and be the best place to work for our associates. With offices and operating affiliates in the United States, Europe and Asia, thwy’re dedicated to providing the best investment advice and service to their individual, institutional, corporate and municipal clients.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services
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Rotella Capital Management
Rotella Capital Management is original quant systematic CTA’s. Founded in 1995 by Robert Rotella, a pioneer in systematic trading, they apply proprietary quantitative research to managed futures programs in global markets. Their flagship Polaris Program has a track record since 1991. Their firm is heavy on research, with most members of that team having advanced degrees in hard sciences, mathematics, or computer science. Their infrastructure includes on-site: Accounting, Legal, Compliance, Trading, IT, and Operations as well. In its capacity as an asset manager for institutions, fund of funds, and family offices worldwide, Rotella offers several quantitative strategies, directly or through affiliated management companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Wausau, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Asset Management, Banking, Finance, Financial Services
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