Lucas Timberlake
Founder & General Partner at Fintech Ventures Fund
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & General Partner
2016 - Current
Fintech Ventures Fund ("FVF") is an investment firm hyperfocused on supporting founders building businesses with banking/capital markets, lending, and insurance use cases, through providing customized debt and equity financing solutions. Follow-on strategic investors in FVF's portfolio companies include Amazon, Apollo, Blackstone, Credit Suisse, Ford Motors, Jefferies, and KKR, among others. Our portfolio companies have also raised venture capital/growth equity from Drive Capital, Edison Partners, Goodwater Capital, Google, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Montage Ventures, Slow Ventures, and Softbank. Acquirers of FVF portfolio companies include Neuberger Berman, Visa, and Vouch Insurance. Select Portfolio: - battleface/Robin Assist - GROUNDFLOOR - Instantor (Acquired by Tink/Visa) - IOU Financial (Acquired by Neuberger Berman) - Kredit - Marble (Acquired by the Zebra) - Momnt - Pull Logic - Quera Computing - Startsure (acquired by Vouch Insurance) - Upright (fka Fund that Flip) - Vero Technologies - Vint
Pre-seed/seed venture capital fund with hyperfocused on fintech and insurtech
Guest Lecturer - Entrepreneurial Law
2022
Strategic Advisor - US GTM Lead
2024
-AI/Financial Services-focused software development firm
Lead Investor (acquired by Neuberger Berman)
2016
Board Member
2019 - 2024
- Publicly traded on TSX prior to acquisition by Neuberger Berman - Member of HR/Compensation Committee
IOU Financial focuses on providing small businesses with investments, loans, and advisory services.
Raised $137,888,040.00 from Fintech Ventures Fund, Neuberger Berman and Fintech Ventures Fund.
Seed Round Co-Lead Investor
2020
Board Member
2020 - 2024
Series A Lead Investor
2019
- Also extended asset-backed credit facility
Board Member
2019 - 2024
GROUNDFLOOR is a crowdsourced real estate investing and lending platform that makes private capital markets open to all.
Raised $81,403,492.00 from Medipower and E. Mackey.
Seed Round Lead Investor
2020
- Also structured company's first asset-backed credit facility
Board Member
2020 - 2023
Momnt is a financial technology platform that offers point-of-need lending solutions to businesses.
Raised $33,000,000.00 from TruStage, Saluda Grade and Rockefeller Capital Management.
Seed Investor
2021
PAXAFE develops an AI-enabled, device-agnostic risk-management platform.
Raised $21,215,000.00 from Gaingels, Rosecliff Ventures, Venture 53, Mana Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Framework Venture Partners, Elevate Ventures, AngelList and Ubiquity Ventures.
Seed Round Lead Investor
2016
Board Member
2016 - 2021
Upright is an end-to-end real estate investment platform.
Pre-Seed Lead Investor (Acquired by Vouch Insurance)
2021 - 2025