Welcome to the November installment of Fin Capital's newsletter. It’s been a busy month for the team and our portfolio companies!

Fin Capital’s 2024 AGM, Navigator Day

Earlier this month, we hosted Fin Capital’s 2024 AGM, Navigator Day, in San Francisco with our Managing Partner, Logan Allin, kicking off the event with his State of The Union, and founders Jason Lee and Jack Alton sharing their experience working alongside Fin Capital on their recent exits to Chime and Experian. We also had the privilege of hearing from outstanding innovators Rob Mee and Arun Subramaniyan on what’s real in Artificial Intelligence and we finished the day with Jon Briggs discussing how KeyBank builds effective technology partnerships with many of Fin Capital’s portfolio companies. Thank you to all who joined us and we appreciate your continued support.

Fin Capital is proud to participate in High Alpha’s 2024 SaaS Benchmarks Report

Fin Capital is proud to have partnered with High Alpha on their 2024 SaaS Benchmarks Report. Get insights on everything from how SaaS metrics like growth rates, net revenue retention, ARR per FTE, and more have evolved over the past year, to what’s keeping founders up at night.

To get the full details, visit the report below.

The latest GTM Navigator

In our latest episode, Ren Riley, General Partner at Fin Capital, speaks with Matt Wolf, SVP of Business Development at Fin portfolio company, Greenlight.

In this discussion, you'll gain insights into Greenlight’s expansion from a B2C to a B2B2C go-to-market motion, the challenges and opportunities this shift presents, and strategic advice on building and scaling B2B operations. We're grateful to Matt for sharing his expertise and hope this episode of GTM Navigator empowers you to enhance your B2B partnership strategies. 

Affirm’s integration into Apple Pay - what does it mean for fintechs and broader financial services?

Fin Capital Managing Partner, Logan Allin, recently spoke with MarketWatch about Affirm’s integration into Apple Pay and how this is democratizing access to financial services, delivering greater transparency, and creating new customer experiences.

To watch the full video, see below.

Attending AWS re:Invent? Be sure to check out some of Fin Capital’s portfolio companies in action!

Catch some of Fin’s portfolio companies at AWS re:Invent from December 2-6, including:

• Poolside, who will be conducting live demos and sharing how they can help organizations with next generation AI for software engineering

• Articul8, who will be showcasing some of the latest capabilities of Articul8's GenAI enterprise software platform and will also be sharing some exciting news on Wednesday, December 6^th

Portfolio Spotlight

It’s been a busy month, sharing some of the latest moments from across portfolio…

• Aiera has welcomed Gavin Skinner, a Wall Street veteran and most recently the Global COO for Research at Citi, as Chairman and COO to lead Aiera’s AI-Driven innovation in financial services.

• Banyan’s CPO, Vish Shastry, joined PYMNTS for a discussion on how Banyan’s item-level transaction data fuels insights and decisions for payments companies, retailers and more.

• Congratulations to Cart.com on being named Scaleup of the Year at the Houston Innovation Awards!

• Middleware has expanded its full-stack cloud observability platform with the introduction of Large Language Model (LLM) Observability and Query Genie. These updates aim to streamline data analysis, enhance decision-making, and optimize LLM performance.

• Ocrolus has introduced Inspect, a new solution within its AI-driven mortgage document automation technology, to improve efficiency and scalability in loan origination as the industry anticipates an increase in application volume spurred by lower interest rates.

• OpenYield announced the close of a new funding round which will propel its mission to modernize the bond market.

• Congratulations to Talos on winning “Best Trading and Execution Solution Provider for Digital Assets” at The Digital Banker’s Digital Assets Awards 2024!

• Thoropass has opened its London office, representing a major milestone to house the growing team and continue its hypergrowth in EMEA.

• Trovata has integrated with KeyBank’s Commercial’s payments API, enabling clients to process domestic payments with no extra fees.

What We’re Reading

INDUSTRY RESEARCH 

• Adyen & BCG: The $185B Embedded Finance Opportunity for SaaS Platforms (Read More).  

BLOGS, PODCASTS AND VIDEOS 

• Growth Unhinged: How to Build your GTM Strategy from Scratch (Read More).

• Mostly Metrics: My Favorite Benchmarking Reports (2024) (Read More).

• Rainforest: Embedded Payments Pricing Guide for Vertical SaaS Platforms (Read More).

Thanks for reading!

We are grateful for your partnership and support, and welcome any feedback you have. We’ll see you next month with more!

-The Fin Capital team

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