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 |
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Stephens Group | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, North America | ||
The FIS FinTech Accelerator in Partnership with The Venture Center | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, North America | ||
Tyson Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Springdale, Arkansas, United States, North America | ||
NewRoad Capital Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Venture | Rogers, Arkansas, United States, North America | ||
Cadron Capital Partners | Early Stage Venture | Conway, Arkansas, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Early Stage Venture investors in Arkansas. 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).
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Top Financial Services Investors & Funds (Arkansas)

Stephens Group
The Stephens Group is a private, family-owned firm that invests its capital in private and public companies with exceptional management teams resulting in high returns on invested capital in growing industries. They invest in businesses across a broad range of industries, providing growth equity, recapitalization and leveraged buy-out financing to both private and public companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Financial Services, Journalism, Venture Capital
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The FIS FinTech Accelerator in Partnership with The Venture Center
The FIS FinTech Accelerator is a 12-week, intensive program designed to accelerate the growth of early stage financial technology companies. We are the ONLY accelerator with an open door to the executive suite of the global fintech leader, FIS™, and access to their 20,000 financial institution customers across 130 countries. FIS is the world’s largest global provider dedicated to banking and payments technologies. FIS empowers the financial world with payment processing and banking solutions, including software, services and technology outsourcing. The highly selective program will admit up to 10 financial technology startups poised to challenge the status quo in the financial services sector. Startups chosen to participate in the VC FinTech Accelerator will enter a 12-week on-site program, complete with curriculum that will help them plan strategically, address business and finance challenges, and provide rigorous mentorship from successful fintech and entrepreneurial experts. How can VC FinTech and FIS help your startup? FIS serves the largest players in the financial world, processing 27 billion transactions and $9 trillion annually. FIS is committed to disrupting the FinTech space with innovation centers in San Francisco, New York, London, Bangalore, Bangkok–and Little Rock, Arkansas. FIS stands uniquely poised to support your startup in ways that no other organization can. By joining with VC FinTech, you aren’t just getting an accelerator. The Venture Center is a strategic partner that can help you transform your company and gain access to some of the inaccessible decision-makers in the world! Our next Accelerator begins May 8, 2017.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Gaming, Venture Capital
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Tyson Ventures
Tyson Ventures is the investment arm of Tyson Foods. We aim to be the strategic partner of choice for disruptive innovators transforming the food industry, and provide sustainable nutrition to a growing global population. Our current areas of interest focus on emerging proteins, technology enablers and sustainability. Let’s build the future of food… together.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Springdale, Arkansas, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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NewRoad Capital Partners
NewRoad Capital Partners is a growth equity capital firm based in Rogers, AR, that invests in proven and innovative technologies, products, and services that serve existing, unmet needs in the marketplace. NewRoad focuses on investing in and acquiring demand-driven businesses in the Retail and CPG and Business Services industries with an emphasis on Supply Chain and Logistics, Consumer Goods, Outdoor Goods, Healthcare Technology, Media and Retail Technology. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Rogers, Arkansas.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Venture
Location: Rogers, Arkansas, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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The Venture Center
The Venture Center is an early-stage startup acceleration and investment firm. They help startups scale revenues through systematic programming, premium mentorship, and strategic acceleration with an eye on reaching scale and creating measurable economic impact.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Arvest Bank Group
Arvest Bank, named by Forbes magazine as one of “America’s Best Large Employers” for 2017, operates more than 250 bank branches in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas through a group of 16 locally managed markets, each with its own local board and management team. These banks serve customers in more than 120 communities, with extended weekday banking hours at many locations. Arvest also provides a wide range of banking services including loans, deposits, treasury management, credit cards, mortgage loans and mortgage servicing. Arvest is an Equal Housing Lender and Member FDIC.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Lowell, Arkansas, United States, North America
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services
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