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BankTech Ventures, a strategic investment fund redefining the landscape of community banking through innovative investments, today announced its recent investments in three bank-enabling technology companies: Equabli, Filejet, and Monit. These investments aim to deliver essential solutions tailored to address critical challenges faced by community banks, including impending increase in customer delinquencies and attracting and retaining small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and adding more value to them.

BankTech Ventures is proud to announce the successful completion of our inaugural Fintech Boot Camp! Topics included fintech evaluation and de-risking strategies, regulatory guidance around vendor due diligence, leveraging LinkedIn for networking and personal branding, and realistic application of AI in banking operations.

ZSuite Tech, a fintech innovator with a focus on commercial banking, is proud to announce a remarkable milestone in its journey towards transforming the corporate financial industry. The company has officially signed its 75th bank, underlining the vital role of ZEscrow in helping banks compete for commercial customers in a highly competitive landscape.

BankTech Ventures continues its commitment to community banks’ more vibrant futures with a total investment of $13.5 million in six fintech companies in the second half of 2023. BankTech has invested over $40 million in companies that have been specifically selected due to their work with community banks. These new investments are focused on helping community banks in areas of revenue, deposit growth, security, compliance, data analysis and customer marketing.

PortX Secures $16.5 Million in Series B Funding With Investors Focused on Community Financial Institutions

Vero offers a robust, end-to-end wholesale financing platform enabling banks to establish floor plan financing programs for dealers of manufactured goods or for banks already operating programs in this space, to streamline their existing processes by leveraging Vero’s technology. Their platform can be used by banks to manage their existing portfolio or through utilizing their outsourced Lending-as-a-Service offering.

Micronotes offers an automated financial messaging platform that leverages big data beyond your bank walls and machine learning technology to generate personalized marketing campaigns and customer touch-points. We sourced Micronotes to be part of our ever-growing ecosystem of top tier bank-ready solutions.

Finosec offers an intuitive, centralized platform where employees can manage the bank’s adherence to cybersecurity governance protocols, as well as report on user access controls for each of the bank's core and ancillary products. We sourced Finosec to be part of our ever-growing ecosystem of top-tier, bank-ready solutions.

Equabli offers banks data-driven lifecycle debt management on an all-in-one platform. We sourced Equabli to be part of our ever-growing ecosystem of top-tier, bank-ready solutions.

Silicon Valley Bank perfected the art of banking with startups. Between rates, account types, client support and culture, they had the game mastered. And having worked with SVB as a customer on & off for the last 20 years, here are a few things they did that probably weren’t so obvious in the broader banking world.

Torpago empowers both companies & financial institutions with simple and easy solutions that grant more extensive control and transparency of company spending. We sourced Torpago to be part of our ever-growing ecosystem of top-tier, bank-ready solutions.

With nearly 100 participating community banks, BTV is the largest collection of bank investors. With six full-time employees and general partners that span innovative community banks, an investment bank, a leading bank technology accelerator, and the industry’s largest advocacy organization, the Fund has unparalleled support and sourcing opportunities, which has in turn created a complementary, relevant and inclusive ecosystem for community banks.