Michael Cichowski
FinTech Growth Investor
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2025 - Current
Partner and Co-head of Ascend
2023
FTV Capital is a growth equity firm focused on enterprise solutions, financial services, and payments and transaction processing.
Head of Growth Equity
2016 - 2022
+ Board Member, Mirador (acquired by iCapital) + Board Member, InsurePay + Board Member, FinDox (acquired by Reorg) + Board Member, Treasury Intelligence Solutions (acquired by Marlin Equity) + Board Member, GAN Integrity (acquired by Apax) + Board Member, Utilant (acquired by Majesco) + Board Member, FRISS + Board Member, Kyron (acquired by Nintex) + Investor, Carpe Data (acquired by THL)
Aquiline Capital Partners provides private capital to innovative businesses in the financial services and technology industries.
Managing Director
2014 - 2016
Family office investor focused on Venture Capital and Growth Equity. Led NYC office and managed direct investment portfolio of 30+ companies. FinTech direct investments include: Kyriba, Eqis, The Zebra, Mighty, Redline Trading, TaxJar Board Observer at Kyriba, Eqis, The Zebra, Eloquii, Tradesy, Mitu Network and Parachute
Principal
2007 - 2014
Focused on and helped build FinTech portfolio across Wealth Management, Banking, Payments, Capital Markets, Insurance and Real Estate. Sourced the following investments: * PHX (acquired by Parthenon to form Zelis) - cost management and payments solutions for health plans and providers * Presidium Learning (acquired by Blackboard) - higher education support services * RewardsNow (acquired by Augeo) - financial institution loyalty provider * Kemp Technologies - load balancing solutions * OptionsCity Software (acquired by Vela) - trading solutions for derivatives * eSentire (acquired by Warburg Pincus) - threat protection and vulnerability assessment * Compliance Science (acquired by Vista Equity) - regulatory trading compliance Board Member at Softgate Systems (acquired by TIO), Andera (acquired by Bottomline) and OptionsCity Software (acquired by Vela). Board Observer at FolioDynamix (acquired by Actua) and Compliance Science (acquired by Vista Equity).
Edison Partners is a growth equity firm that focuses on technology-enabled solutions in fintech, healthcare IT, and enterprise software.
Software Engineer / Product Management
2006 - 2007
Strategy Consultant
2005 - 2006
Product and Data Management
2000 - 2005
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