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Michael Cichowski

FinTech Growth Investor

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Michael Cichowski is a FinTech Growth Investor based in the New York City Metropolitan Area, with a background that includes roles such as Partner and Co-head of Ascend at FTV Capital and Managing Director at Daher Ventures. He has served as a Board Member at Validus Risk Management and has a strong educational foundation with an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from Rutgers University.

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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