What we do
Ardsley, New York · est. 2015
The interesting part of finance is a thin layer over software nobody wants to talk about.
Ledgers that do not balance, settlements that fail overnight, compliance reports assembled by hand at month end. It is dull work and it is worth an enormous amount, because the alternative is a bank paying forty people to do it manually.
Every partner here has shipped inside a regulated institution. We know why the procurement takes fourteen months, and we size the first cheque so a company survives it.
“The procurement takes fourteen months. We fund for eighteen.”
A regulated buyer
A bank, an insurer, a broker. Someone whose auditor asks hard questions.
A founder who has shipped inside one
Someone who has survived a vendor review from the other side of the table.
Eighteen months of runway
Enough to close two enterprise deals at the speed those deals actually move.
Fourteen months to a signature
Why the first cheque funds eighteen
Month 1
Sponsor found
One person inside who wants the problem solved.
Month 3
Security review
A questionnaire with four hundred rows. There is no shortcut.
Month 6
Pilot, ring-fenced
Real data, one team, nothing in production.
Month 9
Vendor risk and legal
Where most startups quietly die. We help here.
Month 12
Budget cycle
Approved money exists only in a window. Miss it, wait a year.
Month 14
Signed
And then it renews for a decade.
People
Twenty-five people, grouped by what they are responsible for.
Leadership 5
Aaron Fenwick
Managing Partner
Aaron Jennings
Managing Partner
David Livingston
General Partner
Dennis Quincy
General Partner
Grace Ingram
General Partner
Investment 10
Gregory Drummond
Partner
Jessica Prescott
Partner
Jonathan Ives
Partner
Kenneth Beaumont
Principal
Laura Lancaster
Principal
Lisa Grantham
Principal
Patrick Ives
Investor
Walter Carrington
Investor
Beatrice Larkin
Investor
Roger Underhill
Investor
Platform and operations 10
Eleanor Fairbanks
Head of Platform
Malcolm Quimby
Head of Talent
Adele Bramwell
Head of Research
Theodore Kingsbury
Chief Financial Officer
Sylvia Thorndike
General Counsel
Desmond Ellsworth
Director of Data
Margaret Pemberton
Director of Communications
Roland Ashcroft
Investor Relations
Vivian Hollister
Head of Operations
Arthur Standish
Portfolio Controller
Open role
We are hiring an investor, in New York.
Four years in payments, banking infrastructure or regulatory technology. Banking background welcome, not required.