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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Solidus Company | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America | ||
Mountain Group Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America | ||
Chattanooga Renaissance Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, North America | ||
FINTOP Capital | Early Stage Venture, Venture | Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America | ||
Clayton Associates | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Early Stage Venture investors in Tennessee. 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 (Tennessee)
Mountain Group Capital
Mountain Group Capital invests based on 4 core principles: Invest in the team first, idea second Invest based on business fundamentals, not financial engineering Invest as if you will own the business forever If possible, own the business forever
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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Chattanooga Renaissance Fund
Chattanooga has been called the “Dynamo of Dixie” and has a rich history of entrepreneurship and philanthropy. Chattanooga is on a roll with the recent string of billion dollar investments in the area by multi-national companies such as Alstom, Volkswagen, Wacker and Amazon. Coupled with the rich technological environment including the computational Simulation Center at UTC and the EPB powered citywide gigabit fiber network, Chattanooga is poised for growth. The only missing piece was a formalized network of capital and mentors to encourage, support and sustain the next wave of entrepreneurs. The Chattanooga Renaissance Fund seeks to fill that need.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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FINTOP Capital
FINTOP Capital seeks B2B SaaS companies in the FinTech space. Target companies have a proven product in the market, real revenues, and are helmed by veterans of the industries they’re looking to shape. The firm was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Venture
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Clayton Associates
Clayton Associates is an investment firm founded in 1996 by R. Clayton McWhorter, former founder of HealthTrust, Inc. and Chairman of Hospital Corporation of America (NYSE:HCA). We’ve built on our extensive operating experience and relationships to partner with entrepreneurs and help them build successful businesses. Clayton Associates makes seed, angel, and venture stage investments in healthcare technology companies. The firm’s seed investments are done via Bullpen Ventures in the form of $25-75K investments to help companies get started. Rolling Hills Ventures is an angel fund investing $500K-$1.5M in companies that are beginning to see traction. The firm’s venture capital manager, FCA Venture Partners, has managed a total of five funds, including exited funds FCA I and FCA II, as well as three active funds, FCA III, IV, and their most recent fund, FCA V. Typical investment sizes range from $2 million to $6 million of equity in companies with experienced management teams who are implementing proven business models with well-defined exit strategies. In 2013, the firm founded Clayton Advisors, a consulting division that strives to accelerate the growth and profitability of companies by focusing on innovation, strategy, and stakeholder relationships. Since inception, Clayton Associates, FCA Venture Partners, and its affiliates have invested in over 100 companies, representing greater than $7 billion in annualized revenue and the creation of over 20,000 jobs.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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TriStar Health Partners
TriStar Health Partners is an investment firm focused on pre-seed and seed stage healthcare innovation companies. It invests in life sciences, diagnostics, medical devices and technologies, IT, and healthcare companies. TriStar Health Partners was founded in 2009 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Heritage Group
Heritage Group is a unique venture capital firm with a track record of investing in, operating and advising innovative industry leading healthcare companies. Heritage Group serves as the general partner of the Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund which closed in 2012 with $157M of committed capital from strategic limited partners including some of the nation’s leading hospital, health systems and healthcare companies.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Health Care, Venture Capital
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Martin Ventures
Martin Ventures provides capital, operational support and mentoring to assist entrepreneurs who want to be catalysts for change. Focusing primarily on health care and technology initiatives, Martin Ventures’ unique approach allows the leadership of our portfolio companies to more acutely focus on the optimal execution of their vision and strategy while quickly scaling and growing their businesses into successful, profitable organizations.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Claritas Capital
Claritas Capital is a private investment firm providing capital to entrepreneurs involved in health care, technology and business services, with a focus on late stage venture and growth capital opportunities. The firm has invested in 44 companies since 2002.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Commercial, Financial Services, Health Care, Real Estate
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Altitude Ventures
Altitude Ventures aims to maximize value creation through value-added partnerships. AV provides early-stage venture capital financing to healthcare services and technology startups that improve healthcare. Our firm leverages its combined industry expertise, relationships, investment experience, and infrastructure to benefit entrepreneurs, investors, and the overall healthcare system. Originally founded in 2013 as a product of Nashville-based investment firm Clayton Associates, AV has a track record of more than two decades of healthcare venture capital and angel investing experience.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Health Care, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Lamp Post Group
Lamp Post Group is a venture incubator. They help aspiring entrepreneurs take their ideas from the planning stages to reality through financial investment and business guidance. LPG combines the talent of a small venture incubator with the financial capabilities of a venture capital firm to create a system that encourages fast, independent company growth.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Veteran Ventures Capital
Veteran Ventures Capital invests in vetted investment opportunities to qualified veteran-affiliated businesses. We interact in businesses with military veteran leadership exclusively because we recognize the value of their experience, training, and character. We are a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) full-service investment and consulting firm. Veteran Fund I (Fund) is a venture fund formed in Knoxville, TN, in partnership with Shefford Capital and InfraLinx Capital. VVC is linked to the Sheltowee Capital Network and Appalachian Angel Investor Alliance, both of which are devoted to identifying high-growth ventures throughout the country. The Fund is engaged in the business of investing exclusively in veteran-led companies that the Managers believes are viable but, require new strategies, more capital, and enhanced management. Using multiple strategies, the Fund seeks to achieve a high level of absolute returns that are uncorrelated with the market. The Fund pursues its investment objective focused on capital appreciation while reducing volatility. The Fund was initially capitalized at $1M, but will continue to raise funds until $50M is reached or the Fund is fully invested. The Fund plans to typically invest $250K-$1M at the early stage, where investors are actively involved with the founders to help them build successful companies, and may provide larger follow-on investments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, Cyber Security, Drones, Financial Services, Government, Logistics, Military, National Security, Supply Chain Management
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The Angel Roundtable
The Angel Roundtable was founded in 2012 by a group of successful “serial entrepreneurs”, seasoned executives and professionals who invest in early stage companies. The group meets periodically and listens to presentations from entrepreneurs representing candidate companies. Each member acts on her / his own behalf making their own individual investment decisions but the group works together to leverage the experiences of its members to strengthen due diligence, negotiated terms and to minimze investment costs.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Johnson City, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Wolf River Angeles
Wolf River Capital Management is a Registered Investment Adviser focused on distressed investments. The Firm seeks opportunities at the intersection of Structured Finance and Small and Mid-Cap Financial Institutions. Founded in 2008, Wolf River was formed to capitalize on the dislocation in the credit markets. Their team has extensive experience, both operational and investment, within the banking, insurance and securitization industries. The Firm prides itself on bringing a unique understanding to a unique market. Wolf River combines its proprietary credit and structure models with its first-hand knowledge of the pooled trust preferred sector with the goal of delivering an unparalleled edge to the investment space.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Memphis, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: Association, Financial Services, Hedge Funds
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