More About Seema
Seema Amble is a partner focused on early stage SaaS and B2B fintech investments globally. She serves on the boards of Mvmnt and Stoik and is a board observer at Inventa and Yuno. She joined the firm in 2019.
Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, Seema had been investing in software for over a decade. She was a vice president at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, a venture growth fund, where she focused on leading investments in software and fintech. Previously, she worked at LeapFrog Investments and Altamont Capital Partners. She began her career at Blackstone. Seema also worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while in law school.
Seema has a BA in Economics, magna cum laude, and a JD/MBA from Harvard University, where she was a Baker Scholar.
Latest Content
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Generative AI is working its way into everything, and firms want to show they are implementing this new tech — especially those that serve the accounting market.
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We see three phases in the evolution of adopting GenAI in marketing: the development of marketing copilots, the introduction of marketing agents & the rise of an autonomous marketing team.
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a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category.
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a16z partner Seema Amble talks with the founder and current executive chairman of Marqeta Jason Gardner about how to expand in multiple verticals.
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a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Pilot Waseem Daher on pricing and never stepping away from doing founder-led sales.
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a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about how to compete in a category already filled with incumbents.
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If you’re looking for something fun, or a bit more business-minded, to read, watch, or listen to, a16z’s Fintech partners have you covered.
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When pricing a new B2B fintech product or service, simplicity is the key, especially at the earliest stages.
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How large language models could help gather relevant data for with more complex underwriting processes, like commercial and life insurance.
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We believe there is a significant opportunity for startups to serve companies building in high-risk industries like games, sports betting, and cannabis.
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The emergence of generative AI could yield the largest transformation the financial services market has seen in decades.
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Today’s startups are harder-pressed to manufacture explosive growth in short periods of time. Yet that's what they need to do to compete with big firms.
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What counts as "cash," developing a plan for that cash, building an adaptable operating model, and dealing with a liquidity crisis.
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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Freight is quite literally one of the backbones of the U.S. economy. Every year, shippers spend $800 billion dollars moving goods across the country, and as everyone learned firsthand over the past two years, one small h...
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Now that the launch of the highly anticipated real-time payments network FedNow is finally happening, what will it mean for real-time payments in the U.S.?
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As we write in our piece It’s All About The Money (Movement), moving money internationally is an opaque, fee-intensive process that requires two things: actually “moving” the money and leveraging onboarding and complianc...
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Design partners, or the first few users of a company's software, are often a key part of the early software development process.
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When the U.S. government pursued its huge Covid stimulus package in 2020, they likely had little idea their actions would have such an impact on consumer fintech.
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Com empresas do futuro bem-sucedidas iniciando suas atividades em diversos países ao mesmo tempo, inúmeras oportunidades se abrem para startups ambiciosas que querem desenvolver os sistemas internos de software de que essas organizações precisarão para crescer.
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Much opportunity exists to build a modern software stack that supports the next generation of default global companies, from local employment law and talent sourcing to multi-country incorporation and expense management.
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A medida que los exitosos negocios del mañana se lanzan en varios países a la vez, abundan las oportunidades para las empresas emergentes ambiciosas que buscan construir los sistemas de software internos que estas empresas necesitarán para crecer.
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Buying traditional insurance is a no-brainer if you want to protect assets of value—be it your life, your home, or your business. If you own, say, a building, chances are you’ll want to minimize your risk against fires,...
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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Do SaaS para sistemas operacionais freemium: um novo diferencial para serviços financeiros.
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Plus, envisioning a new consumer banking stack, Apple & contactless payments, and building to reduce medical debt.
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Plus, credit reporting for BNPL, new regulations for payment apps, and is now a bad time to raise?
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We all know how transformative B2C marketplaces have been in bringing markets online and creating new ones -- Instacart, Airbnb, Rover, and GOAT just to name some of the largest. What's talked about less -- but equally p...
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In 2021, financial services continued to have its moment, with fintech fundraising surpassing all years prior. What's in store for 2022?
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As businesses become more global, payment complexity increases. Financial operations is an emerging software category that presents a massive opportunity.
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a16z September Fintech Newsletter - financial tools for solopreneurs; plus, fintech as crypto goes mainstream, independent insurance agents on the rise, and fintech influencers in LatAm.
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Creator economy is a buzzy, often catchall term used to describe independent contractors. But in reality, most of the innovation has revolved around passion-project content (Substack for writing, Teachable for courses, e...
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In the August fintech newsletter from a16z: Why every company may spin out a fintech company, what goes into an index, and the case for credit unions
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In the last 10 years, as neobanks emerged and consumer financial services came online, the prevailing assumption was that credit unions and community banks would slowly die off. How would a locally-focused, relationship-...
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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Plus, will neobanks be winner take many? How to choose the right partner bank? News and analysis from the a16z fintech team in our monthly newsletter.
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Fiat Meets Crypto; Bigger, Bolder Acquisitions; David Swensen’s Legacy (May 2021 fintech newsletter)
The digital and fiat ecosystems have long been separate universes. Not anymore.
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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Imagine you never had to think about buying insurance—that it was automatically attached to everything you own. Your apartment is broken into? Renters insurance came with your lease. Your dog breaks his leg? Your vet bil...
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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This year, as “every company becomes a fintech company,” fintech surged into mainstream consciousness. The fallout from COVID-19 crippled the economy, depressed small businesses, and scrambled many people’s financial out...
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Democratizing investing, embracing social+, embedding insurance, revamping distribution, empowering community, and disintermediating the banking system.
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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Recent news, commentary, and analysis from the a16z fintech team. Subscribe to get this newsletter in your inbox.
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One of the most important catalysts for the recent growth in financial services has been fintech enablers and infrastructure. Companies like Plaid wrap otherwise byanztine legacy infrastructure in modern APIs, allowing e...
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Millennials and Gen Z have been hard-hit by the one-two punch of the 2008 and 2020 financial crises. That experience has radically shaped their approach to finances and their mindset around credit and debt. This episode explores how fintech founders are now designing products tailored to the financial challenges of younger consumers, from managing and avoiding student loans to building credit to saving and budgeting apps.
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Recent news, commentary, and analysis from the a16z fintech team.
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Hemingway famously wrote that there are two ways to go bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. In many ways, the impact of technology on our day-to-day financial choices has followed a similar trajectory. Fintech has been a...
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Recent news, commentary, and analysis from the a16z fintech team.
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Neste post, veremos por que a tecnologia financeira está impulsionando a próxima evolução das verticais de SaaS, por que ela abre novos mercados verticais e onde e como diferentes modelos de negócios de tecnologia financeira podem ser aplicados.
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Al agregar tecnología financiera, las empresas SaaS pueden aumentar los ingresos por cliente entre 2 y 5 veces* y abrir nuevos mercados SaaS que antes no eran accesibles debido a un mercado de software más pequeño o a una adquisición ineficiente de clientes.
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By adding fintech, vertical SaaS businesses can increase revenue and open up new, previously inaccessible SaaS markets.
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Banking for kids and teens, why the Rocket Mortgage IPO matters, and how the big banks are guarding against an extended recession.