Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed 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 |
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Rincon Venture Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America | ||
Entrada Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America | ||
Engel Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture | Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America | ||
Pivotal Ventures Inc | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America | ||
Noospheric | Seed | Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Seed investors in Santa Barbara. 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 (Santa Barbara)

Rincon Venture Partners
Rincon Venture Partners seeks to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs and support them as they build world-class businesses. Rincon is an early-stage venture capital firm that targets investment opportunities in Web-based businesses that are led by ‘serial founding teams’, have proven recurring revenue models and are pursuing capital-efficient operating plans. They typically invest in companies where initial product or service development is largely complete, and the company’s forward-looking focus is on market engagement and expansion. They take an active role in guiding and supporting portfolio companies by committing resources for such activities as Board representation, providing strategic and tactical guidance, filling key management positions, facilitating subsequent financings and achieving liquidity events.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Entrada Ventures
Entrada Ventures is a late seed stage fund started by passionate, experienced operators and investors who have built multiple successful companies. They work personally and intensely with a few companies each year helping them develop from a startup with product-market fit to a strong business ready for its first round of institutional financing. By investing in and working with strong founders who’ve demonstrated some traction, we can significantly improve those companies’ ability to understand, manage, and scale their business and raise a tier-one Series A on great terms. Entrada Ventures is based in Santa Barbara, California, and invests across a broad range of innovative technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Engel Ventures
Venture investment company that invests in and supports technology and positive impact companies. Portfolio companies include Apeel Sciences, Bark, Cora, SafeGraph, Till, TrackStreet, Blue Triangle, FastSpring, Repurpose, Mobile1st, and others. Engel Ventures has unique expertise in building leading software companies, generating substantial revenue through on and offline customer acquisition, and in marketing in general.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, B2B, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Pivotal Ventures Inc
Pivotal Ventures enables Corporate Innovators, Start-Ups, Growth-Stage Leaders and Investors to accelerate business growth through transforming and focusing people, capital and technology.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Internet
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Noospheric
Noospheric has engaged startup entrepreneurs as well as established organizations to deliver effective business consulting and executive coaching. We have helped create and launch over 20 companies, business units, and advanced over 100 corporate initiatives at an executive level. Five of our startups have been acquired in the last decade.
Stages: Seed
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services
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