A Fintech Fund for the Next Decade
Our Story
Middlegame Ventures is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage fintech startups. Over the past decade, our partners have invested approximately $300M in financial services firms. The next decade will be even better. Because the second wave of fintech innovation will be a tsunami compared to the first wave.
Financial services innovation is our obsession and 100% of our focus. We bring to bear an essential - and differentiated - mix of investment, operations, and regulatory expertise to our investment process and on behalf of our portfolio companies. We create win-wins across our network - spanning entrepreneurs, incumbents, and regulators.
Our Investment Focus
We invest in late seed to Series B fintech companies based in North America or Europe that are developing and using advanced technologies to digitally transform and reimagine the financial services landscape. Our investments range across five key sectors: banking, asset management, insurance, payments, and capital markets.
Our Investment Themes
We believe that four key key secular trends are reshaping financial services:
These trends, coupled with enabling technologies - AI/ML, AR/VR, big data, blockchain, and quantum computing - drive our five investment themes:
Our belief is that technology will completely reinvent financial services as we know it. Our hope is that you can join us on the way.
Middlegame Ventures is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage fintech startups. Over the past decade, our partners have invested approximately $300M in financial services firms. The next decade will be even better. Because the second wave of fintech innovation will be a tsunami compared to the first wave.
Financial services innovation is our obsession and 100% of our focus. We bring to bear an essential - and differentiated - mix of investment, operations, and regulatory expertise to our investment process and on behalf of our portfolio companies. We create win-wins across our network - spanning entrepreneurs, incumbents, and regulators.
Our Investment Focus
We invest in late seed to Series B fintech companies based in North America or Europe that are developing and using advanced technologies to digitally transform and reimagine the financial services landscape. Our investments range across five key sectors: banking, asset management, insurance, payments, and capital markets.
Our Investment Themes
We believe that four key key secular trends are reshaping financial services:
- Data is King (powered by the explosion of data sources and advanced analytical tools)
- End of Systemic Asymmetric Knowledge (between buyers and sellers across markets)
- Intelligent Automation (powered by advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics)
- Hyper-connected Worlds (powered by networks, nodes and platforms everywhere)
These trends, coupled with enabling technologies - AI/ML, AR/VR, big data, blockchain, and quantum computing - drive our five investment themes:
- Starting Over: digital upgrade cycle (core banking, insurance risk management, intelligent payments, user engagement)
- Embryonic Asset Classes: finding the new data giants (identity, data, crypto, trust)
- Innovating Oversight: regtech (regulatory and compliance) with digital tools
- Platforms are the New Silos: financial categories will morph into platforms (open, transparent, interoperable)
- Better is Best: doing well while doing good (financial wellness, literacy, inclusion, optimization, risk management, SME finance)
Our belief is that technology will completely reinvent financial services as we know it. Our hope is that you can join us on the way.