Route 66 Ventures
Investor - Venture Capital
Overview
Route 66 Ventures is a Virginia-based private investment firm that makes investments in high-growth companies in FinTech. Their most recent investment came in FinTech came in May 2017, already their third of the year to-date.
Country: United States
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: 118 King St, 2nd Fl Alexandria, VA 22314
703-828-4198
Investment Strategy
Geography
- North America
- Europe
Sector Focus
- Marketplace Lending
- WealthTech
- Payments and Remittances
- Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
- Cryptocurrencies
Investment Stage
- Seed
- Early Stage Venture
- Series A
- Series B
- Series C
Summary
Founded in 2012, Route 66 Ventures is a venture capital investment firm. They state they invest globally in early-to-growth stage companies who disrupt the financial services industry, as well as incumbents and service providers throughout the financial services ecosystem.
Route 66 Ventures have made several investments into FinTech in the last few years, confined exclusively to North Ameirca and Europe so far. The venture firm has had concerted interest in the InsurTech and WealthTech sub sectors thus far for investments, although their largest round was actually in the Marketplace Lending sector in 2015 – where they participated in a debt financing round for US-based LQD Business Finance.
They have made several investments at Seed level all the way up to Series C.
Investments
Date
Name
Size
Round
Co-Investors
Sector
Country
Bunker
Series A
Omidyar Network
InsurTech
United States
Simplesurance
N/D
Rakuten
InsurTech
Germany
Sunlight Financial
Private Equity
Marketplace Lending
United States
Payzer
Series B
IDEA Fund Partners
Payments & Remittances
United States
Bunker
Seed
American Family Ventures
InsurTech
United States
Tandem
Series B
Financial Inclusion Initiative
Infrastructure & Enterprise Software
United Kingdom
NextCapital
Series B
Manulife Financial Corp
Infrastructure & Enterprise Software
United States
LQD Business Finance
Debt Financing
Fintech Ventures Fund
Marketplace Lending
United States
Knip
Series B
Creathor Venture
InsurTech
United States
Moven
Series B
Anthemis Group
Infrastructure & Enterprise Software
United States
CoverHound
Series C
Bullpen Capital
InsurTech
United States
QuanTemplate
Seed
Techstars Ventures
InsurTech
United Kingdom
Mirror
Series A
Battery Ventures
Infrastructure & Enterprise Software
United States
Ripple
Series A
AME Cloud Ventures
Payments & Remittances
United States
Trusted Insight
Series A
Entrepreneurs Fund
Infrastructure & Enterprise Software
United States
Payzer
Series A
Grotech Ventures
Payments & Remittances
United States
DriveWealth
Series A
Fenway Summer Ventures
WealthTech
United States
Simplesurance GmbH
Series B
Allianz
InsurTech
Germany
Judo Payments
Series B
Payments & Remittances
United Kingdom
vaamo
Seed
WealthTech
Germany
Key Employees
Ben Britt
General Partner
Robert Peterson
General Partner
Pat Wilson
Principal
Dan Dall'Asta
Principal
David Sullivan
Associate
