Fiat Ventures is an emerging VC focused on supporting and growing early-stage companies in the Fintech space.

Fiat Ventures

Fiat Ventures is an emerging VC focused on supporting and growing the next generation of market leading early-stage companies in the Fintech space.

Team over everything else.

When evaluating investment opportunities we focus on two key factors: 
1. TEAM including founder-market-fit, co-founder dynamics and relevant experience.
2. TAM including how big the market is today, where it'll be tomorrow, and the companies ability to execute in that space.

Grateful to be able to spotlight our Co-Founder & GP Alex Harris in this month's team spotlight.  He's an example of a great team and great fit for Fiat Ventures!

Read more below to learn more about what make's Alex tick including:
 🐻  How he and Drew Glover met on the Cal football field
 🏦  His role in helping lead paid growth at Chime
 🚀  His vision for co-founding Fiat Growth and Fiat Ventures
 🌱  His love for helping early stage companies launch
 📈  And then helping those same companies scale
 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦  His love for his family
 ⚾  His love for the Giants

There's a lot more to Alex than just growth... appreciate the opportunity to share his wonderful personality and vision with the world!

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🚨 NEW PRODUCT ALERT 🚨 

Fiat Growth is excited to introduce Fiat Finance, our new fractional finance back office, led by our General Manager, Kaley Nivens Pate. 

Fiat Finance offers expertise in:

* Bookkeeping: A/P, A/R, Payroll, Bank Reconciliations, Month-End Close.
* Tax, Compliance & Advisory
* Strategic CFO, Advisory 

We are thrilled to extend Fiat Finance to our entire community, especially our Fiat Ventures community :)

Raising capital isn't easy...

It's a difficult dance with a little transparency and spotty communication.  You hear "no" dozens of times for each "yes" you might receive.

Appreciate Rupert McSheehy having me on the Fireside with Founders and Leaders podcast to share a few best practices on how to make the most of your time as a founder raising capital...
 🚫 Disqualify quickly, it's important to quickly determine if an investor is a fit.
 ⏭ Understand what's next, and what the process is to get there
 🙏 If it isn't a fit, thank them, and add them to your newsletter/quarterly updates

Know what you're selling... it isn't a product, service or vision... it's trust.

Raising capital takes time, and it's rooted in building deep founded relationships.  It's not about a "yes" or "no" it's about building long term relationships 🌱 

Grateful to have so many advisors, investors and mentors in our corner at Fiat Ventures and Fiat Growth.  Raising capital isn't easy, but it's a lot of fun when you get to do it with great people around you.

Drew Glover Alex Harris Victor Colombo Kristin Manoogian Adrian Hunter Ayesha Dillon Kaley Nivens Pate

This isn’t your typical “I’ve always known I wanted to be an entrepreneur” launch post. 

I got my degree in a “safe” field. 
Landed my first job in public accounting 15 years ago. 
Spent over a decade working a corporate career.

I built financial expertise through 12 years of work at EY — and welcomed the challenge.

I loved the numbers and the data.
I enjoyed understanding how big companies manage money. 
I appreciated working with some of the smartest people in accounting & tax today. 

But after a decade of experience, managing spreadsheets and handling tax returns for massive corporate accounts wasn’t making the full impact I wanted to have. 

Then Covid hit. The world slowed down. My job went remote. 

I was forced to ask myself some deep questions:

What drives me? 
Who do I want to work with?
How can I use my knowledge to help people? 

I started to see a clear picture of what I want from my financial career. 

I want to watch the visceral impact of finance on the world. 
I want to use my talents out on the front lines, where change is happening. 
I want to be a trusted advisor helping passionate founders grow their companies. 
I want my clients to know they can text me anytime, anywhere when they need insight for a big decision. 

So, a few years ago, I launched into fractional finance and found a space where I could do just that: startups, small businesses, and early-stage ventures. 

Today, I’m proud to announce the launch of Fiat Finance, your new fractional financial back office and part of the Fiat Growth ecosystem. 

Fiat Finance offers expertise in:
* Bookkeeping
* Tax Compliance & Advisory
* Fractional CFO Advisory

With over two decades of experience combined, my team and I are passionate about becoming  financial partners – not just consultants – for early-stage teams. 

If you’re on the lookout for a fractional finance team, DM me. Also, check us out at Fiatfinance.com! 

I’m offering a limited number of 30-minute financial consulting sessions in August. 

Very special shout outs to: Drew Glover and Alex Harris for everything they've done to build out the Fiat Growth ecosystem, and in particular for taking a chance by inviting me onto the team! Marcos Fernandez, Kristin Manoogian, Victor Colombo, and Adrian Hunter - thank you for your guidance and advice over the past couple of months as we've built out this new service line, can't wait to see where we go from here! 🚀

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(Season 2 is live! Two interviews uploaded in one week, and there's one more coming 💪🏾)

I'm very excited to share my latest episode featuring Drew Glover of Fiat Ventures! 🚀

This was an extremely engaging conversation: Drew talked about fostering capital-efficient #growth and the unique ways Fiat Ventures scouts and supports diverse talent outside #SiliconValley. There's a lot here for both emerging founders and seasoned investors:

- Founding Fiat Growth, and how it evolved into Fiat Ventures
- Drew: “We believed we had a strategy around cost-efficient growth.”
- How Fiat Ventures is adapting to recent shifts in fintech
- “Reverse-engineering venture” = working with companies prior to #investment
- “Do not hire a growth team. Bring a team like us in who can build your entire growth foundation.”
- Common pitfalls in early-stage startup #hiring and implementing growth strategy
- The criteria and process Fiat Ventures uses to select and support startups
- “There is a relationship foundation in the VC space that needs to be honored.”
- Fiat’s criteria for choosing investments and the importance of founder dynamics
- Drew reflects on navigating the VC world as a person of color
- Fiat Ventures’ plans for expanding services and the long-term vision for Fiat's ecosystem

🎧 Listen now on Fund/Build/Scale: https://lnkd.in/g9YMWpgG

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