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Clocktower Ventures
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Clocktower Ventures invests in extraordinary people who are reinventing financial services through technology. For more than a decade, the firm has wielded deep expertise and relationships in the industry to support exceptional fintech entrepreneurs, investing across both consumer and enterprise financial innovation — spanning lending, credit & banking, payments, insurance, capital markets & investments, personal finance, enterprise financial stack, and real estate finance. The firm has partnered with more than 250 portfolio companies including iconic businesses like Chime, Melio, and Mercury, investing opportunistically from seed stage through growth, with a focus on the US and Latin America. Clocktoer Ventures is the technology investing arm of Clocktower Group, a global asset management firm based in Santa Monica, CA. Its distinctive approach to fintech venture capital is crafted around a curated network of global macroeconomic thinkers and investors. The firm currently deploys from its third flagship vehicle and manages more than $350m of committed capital.
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“The simplest thesis that we had when we launched our business and continues to really be the thesis today is that if you look at the dollars that get pointed at innovation in our financial system — just take the venture capital dollars in any given year and allocate those dollars against sectors of the economy — there's a pretty good correlation between GDP share and market cap share. Financial services has had a smaller share of venture capital dollars pointed at it since the inception of the venture capital industry.”
“Our investment process at Clocktower Ventures is calibrated almost from the beginning to try to form as holistic a view as possible of the management teams and founders that we're engaging with. We spend a lot of time trying to understand in our very first conversation, why are you doing this? Motivations really matter. Don't tell me about your business — we've read your pitch deck.”
“We partner with phenomenal entrepreneurs who have the vision and drive to reinvent financial services, investing from the earliest seeds of startup life to businesses scaling for growth. Our distinctive approach to fintech venture capital is crafted around a curated network of global macroeconomic thinkers and investors.”
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Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Canary VC | 3 |
| 500 Startups / 500 Fintech | 3 |
| AlleyCorp | 2 |
| Speedinvest | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) | 2 |
| Commerce Ventures | 2 |
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