Mark Gabriel has done a great job building up this program.

Kreighton Reed heads up the FinTech partnerships for Solera National Bank.

A payments-centric partner bank that has built out their own API’s for partner FinTechs to connect into. They also run an accelerator. Nikkee Rhody is a great person to reach out to here.

Melissa Eggleston is a great point of contact for them.

Mike McCrary runs the FinTech partnerships with LSB.

Very interesting FinTech bank that’s been in the business longer than most. Cort Christensen is a great point of contact here.

They’ve partnered with some incredible FinTechs and were early to the FinTech partnership game. They also work with several different processors, which makes them quite flexible. Aaron Bright would be a good person to reach out to at Meta Bank.

Mainly focused on lending opportunities, likely because of the Industrial Loan Charter. Shawn Brock is the right person to get in touch with at Celtic Bank.

They’ve partnered with some incredible FinTechs including Rapyd and Stripe.

Payments program including sponsorship to RPPS, RTP, and other payment platforms.

Has a host of incredible FinTech partners including Affirm, Coinbase, and many more.

Famous for being the partner bank for the likes of Chime, and other top FinTechs.

Nick Sweeney is a great person to connect with here. Full-service Banking-as-a-Service option. Not sure of the status on this one with the Lending Club news.

CorePro - Is being used by many of the best FinTechs in the industry for FBO, Checking, Savings, and ACH. Those include Acorns, Qapital, and Joust. You can also go directly to Q2’s Banking as a Service page for this service.

powering a many of the largest Fintechs, Galileo has an impressive customer rolodex that includes Chime, Monzo, Robinhood, and MoneyLion. While they got their start in payments, they now offer Checkings, Savings, and more.

Open source software created by an incredible team with deep FinTech experience. Moov is used by many of the leading FinTechs to expedite development of key features like ACH validation and processing, FBO accounts, and more.

working with several of the best names in FinTech, Marqeta boasts Kabbage, Square, Affirm, and many more as having built on their platform.

known for providing key Banking as a Service products like card issuance, savings accounts, one-time loans, and basic payment functionality.

delivers as payment-centric Banking as a Service platform. Some of their customers include Payoneer and Sightline Payments.

Payment-focused Banking as a Service platform with a worldwide network. Rapyd has been growing like crazy and is extremely well regarded in the industry.

Both Digit and Catch have chosen to build on the BBVA Open Platform, as well as several other FinTech startups.

Building some great stuff and used by Hurry Home, as well as several other providers building FinTech applications.

Developing an API service to help FinTechs and Brands stand up their own financial services products in partnership with banks.

Started in Europe they’re now working with US based banks and FinTechs.

The FAST Agreement is used by tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and advisors per year to establish productive working relationships, trading advice and support for a standardized amount of equity.

Y Combinator introduced the safe (simple agreement for future equity) in late 2013, and since then, it has been used by almost all YC startups and countless non-YC startups as the main instrument for early-stage fundraising.

Below is what a Series A term sheet looks like with standard and clean terms from a good Silicon Valley VC. Bracketed items (besides the names of the company and lead investor) are always or frequently negotiated. Items not in brackets are sometimes negotiated, but this has more to do with the idiosyncratic features of the company or the situation, and generally aren’t terms that parties intend to heavily bargain over during the negotiation.

Even enables financial institutions to programmatically connect with and convert customers — and thus lower their cost of acquisition — by providing real-time, personalized financial product offers through any digital touchpoint. Shwetabh Gautam is the right person to reach out to at Even.

Infrastructure for connecting to Payroll. Helping update the direct deposit, verify income / employment, and verify identity.

move your customers payments over from their old payment method to the card you just shipped to them!

switch your bill payments off of slow traditional rails and onto card rails.

powering the future of payments with their recurring payment infrastructure.

increase card usage and transaction volume by providing cardholders a way to instantly add or update cards online.

Andreessen Horowitz needs no introduction. In recent years they’ve brought on an excellent FinTech team to help them find and invest in the very best FinTechs. Anish Acharya and Rex Salisbury are two team members that deal with FinTech.

founders have a bunch of experience in FinTech and they’ve made investments in several FinTech companies. You reach out to are Andy Ravreby.

The team at Clocktower includes Ben Savage. They typically don’t lead rounds, but are an excellent source of follow on capital. They’ve invested in Chime, MoneyLion, Nav, and several other top notch FinTechs.

Arjan, Kat, and team run a fantastic fund focused on FinTech. They’ve invested in companies like Nova, Oportun, Ripple, and other great FinTechs.

the team at Commerce Ventures is well-connected and they’re excellent to work with. Some of their portfolio companies include MX, Bill.com, and Marqeta. Dan Rosen is the founder of Commerce Ventures.

the team at Crosslink has invested in the likes of Chime, Nav, Personal Capital, and many more. Joseph Guzel is a great person to get to know there.

Both an investment group and an accelerator. Joon Cho is the right person to connect with.

Invested in several great FinTechs. Reach out to Tim Wang if trying to connect with this group.

while not entirely focused on FinTech, they’ve certainly build out quite the FinTech portfolio that includes MX and Divvy.

Financial services focused VC firm that focused FinTech and Insuretech. They’ve invested in the likes of Albert, Clearbanc, Quovo, and many others. Steph Choo is a great person to connect with at Portage.

They’ve invested in companies like AvidExchange, Credit Karma, and Albert. They have an incredible FinTech portfolio. Matt Risley is a great person to meet with here.

Nikita Singareddy is a good person at RRE that we’ve worked with the most. They’ve invested in several incredible FinTechs and are an excellent source of capital and connections in the industry. Their portfolio companies include Bank Novo and Ripple.

with locations in New York, London, and Tel Aviv, we’ve heard great things about this accelerator.

run by Central Payments, this FinTech accelerator is a great program and they’ve been operating through COVID. Central Payments has done a lot of work in FinTech and we’re very excited about this accelerator. There’s an opportunity to get investment from this accelerator.

this program has graduated a bunch of FinTech companies and they have a global presence.

Brian and team at ICBA run a fantastic accelerator. They often invest in the companies that get into the program and they have an extensive network that can help them accelerate their startups.

Early stage investors that also provide a lot of help and founders and startups. They also run a fantastic program for those companies that get accepted. Ryan Falvey is a good person to reach out to there.

The team at FIS Ventures includes Joon Cho. They have an accelerator and also invest in startups. Given the reach of FIS, you can imagine this accelerator is extremely helpful for FinTechs.

this program is run by Jeff Cain. We’ve worked with several startups coming out of this program and they have wonderful things to say about it.

a great FinTech accelerator with locations all over the globe. Luke Lennon is a great person to reach out to here.

while not FinTech specific, they have a lot of FinTechs enter their program. They are widely known as one of the best accelerators in the country.

As you create your pitch presentation it might be helpful to see the decks used by several legendary FinTechs to help them raise early rounds of financing.

As you create your pitch presentation it might be helpful to see the decks used by several legendary FinTechs to help them raise early rounds of financing.

As you create your pitch presentation it might be helpful to see the decks used by several legendary FinTechs to help them raise early rounds of financing.

As you create your pitch presentation it might be helpful to see the decks used by several legendary FinTechs to help them raise early rounds of financing.

As you create your pitch presentation it might be helpful to see the decks used by several legendary FinTechs to help them raise early rounds of financing.

As you create your pitch presentation it might be helpful to see the decks used by several legendary FinTechs to help them raise early rounds of financing.