Fenway Summer is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. The firm focuses on providing capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs who are building transformative companies in various sectors such as enterprise software, consumer internet, and healthcare technology.

Fenway Summer

We support bold pioneers tackling challenges at the intersection of finance and technology by helping them build lasting enterprises.  Our firm capitalizes young, fast-growing ventures and is an early partner to the entrepreneurs that lead them.  We have invested in over 50 companies and co-founded several ourselves including advisory firms, a credit card company, a mortgage lender and a private student finance firm.

The team's combination of financial services, technology, capital markets, and credit expertise coupled with deep regulatory, policy, and industry knowledge gives us unique perspective.  We provide insights to entrepreneurs re-inventing the multi-trillion dollar financial services industry and work diligently with teams building innovative companies, strong brands, and world-class organizations.

Advizr

StreetShares Platform

XOR Data Exchange

FS Card

Circle

College Ave Student Loans

PeerIQ

Shift

Pivot Investment Partners

Camp One Ventures

Stonehenge Investments

Miles Reidy

Mark Lefanowicz

Raj Date

Last week Managing Partner Raj Date shared his perspective on the future of the financial regulatory system and what should be top of mind for founders at the ResilienceVC annual meeting. Fenway Summer is a proud LP in emerging managers, and with ResilienceVC we have the distinct pleasure of being both an investor in the fund and co-investor in early stage fintech companies.

We're excited for this week at the Empire Startups - Everything FinTech Conference. We hope to see you there!

Are you driven to create innovative solutions for a more resilient and sustainable future? 🌎  

Circle’s third Unlocking Impact Pitch Competition will be held in Washington D.C. on April 24th, and we are seeking projects focused on:

👉 climate change and environmental conservation
👉 sustainable energy and resource management
👉 economic growth and financial inclusion
👉 disaster preparedness and humanitarian aid delivery

Winning projects are eligible to receive grant funding support of up to $100,000 in #USDC. 

Entries are due by April 12th. Submit your application today.

There is still time to register for next weeks Urban Institute event titled "Private Data, Public Impact: Unlocking Insights to Advance Financial Well-Being." We hope to see you all there!

Thank you to everyone who attended and made this event such a success, especially our hosts Miller & Chevalier Chartered and our speakers!


Cc and thank you: Sen. Mark Warner, Rep. Patrick McHenry, Director Elizabeth Kelly, Peter Freeman, Isaac Boltansky, George Hani, Adam Feinberg, Loren Ponds, Aaron Klein, Trevor N. Tanifum, Aidan Marick, Brian Graham, Jack Thompson, Melissa Koide, Alex McLeod, MBA, Matt Lekawa, Roman Ginis, Sumeet Wadhera

Parlay (Techstars '23) is beyond grateful for the incredible support we've received from #mentors, #investors, and partners following this recent Washington Business Journal article. 🚀

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has been a part of our journey to empower underserved #smallbusiness owners and expand inclusive access to the American dream! 

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#startup #venture #venturecapital #banking #lending
James, Alex, Tim, Jackson, Casey, Doug, Malte, Trisha, John, Spencer, Jesse, TJ, Chase, Nora, Daniel, Jason, THERESA, Ken, Joshua, Rachel, Jason, Lighthouse Labs RVA, Kristin, Andy, Jen

DriveWealth CEO Michael Blaugrund, CFA joined a #wealthtech panel alongside David Fortunato, CEO of Wealthfront, and Patrick Leonard, Managing Director of Citi Investment Banking, at Citi's 13th Annual FinTech Conference.

During the panel, Michael shared how our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform is powering the future of #investing and how our APIs provide a modern, extensible, and flexible toolkit to our partners that helps them develop traditional investment workflows, more innovative techniques and everything in-between.

“The political winds are not favoring the combination of large firms right now, but on the other hand even if you combine these firms together, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JP Morgan are all still three, or four, or five times bigger in terms of asset size. Even for the network business — and this could be a meaningful addition to Discover’s network business in terms of number of transactions — Mastercard is still five times bigger and Visa is ten times bigger. So it’s hard to make a compelling case against the deal, but that’s very much where the political winds are blowing right now.”

Listen below to Raj Date speak on NPR this morning on Capital One’s plans to acquire Discover for more than $35 billion.

We are pleased to share that Parlay (Techstars '23), the first-of-its-kind small business loan readiness platform, announced the closing of $1.3 million in pre-seed financing yesterday. Fenway Summer is proud to be the lead investor in this round, and excited to be part of the continued success of the team at Parlay.

Raj Date, Casey Williams, Deborah Meredith, Jackson Lefelar, Alex McLeod, MBA, Jay Long, James Cho

"Fenway Summer invests in, advises, and builds companies in fintech. We look for founders building at the intersection of financial innovation and financial policy, and provide both capital ($500k-$1M check size) and expertise at the earliest stages to ensure the foundation of any startup we support is solid and poised for exponential growth."

Reach out to one of our team members if you'd like to learn more about Fenway Summer or the opportunity to work together.

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