Excited to introduce Marstone as a new Castle Creek Launchpad Fund portfolio company! Margaret J. Hartigan, Christopher LaVine, CFA, and the Marstone team are making it easy for community banks to offer digital investment and wealth planning. https://lnkd.in/eSCBbaJV
Launchpad Capital
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Oakland, California 1,683 followers
It's never too early to invest in the future of finance.
About us
The world of financial services is transforming and more ready than ever for thoughtful disruption. The combination of permanent structural changes to the global financial services industry and readily accessible infrastructure will unlock empowering financial and technology innovation at across the FIRE sector - from finance, to insurance and real estate - through products and services that are fair, transparent and give consumers and businesses full control of their hard earned money and the data tied to it. LaunchPad Capital builds and invests in pre-seed and seed stage Fintech companies.
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http://www.launchpad.vc
External link for Launchpad Capital
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Oakland, California
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2020
- Specialties
- venture capital, Fintech, early stage, and seed stage
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2201 Broadway
Oakland, California 94612, US
Employees at Launchpad Capital
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Proud to see Extend featured in a Forbes story on its partnership with mattress company Casper https://lnkd.in/gmDhH9ed
Why Casper Changed Extended Warranties And The Impact On Other Brands
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happy #fintech Friday! Monzo Bank, a U.K. digital bank, denied Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremey Hunt’s account application. He explained to the Financial Times his status as a public official flagged him as a “politically exposed person” (PEP). His point: Over-rigous #AML rules meant to catch corrupt bribe-takers could instead deter good candidates from public service. Our point: #Regtech should deliver more accurate results—not just throw more bales on the haystack when we’re looking for the needle. Drawing a connection: The SEC just fined Merrill Lynch (and its Bank of America holding company) for failing to file about 1,500 SARs. Yes, a major financial institution’s #compliance function should be using the correct transaction threshold ($5,000 not $25,000). But tell us: What percentage of those would-have-been SARs would have stopped financial crime or led to arrests? Our best guess is zero to none. And where was #FinCEN in all of this? Buried in SARs. They didn’t need a larger pile. In our very complex regulatory structure the SEC and FINRA made the charges and will receive the fines. That $12 million penalty should instead go toward tech to help FinCEN make better use of the effort banks put into #BSA/AML compliance. Related: Treasury appointed Andrea Gacki as the new FinCEN director (replacing an acting director). Yellen says Gacki “expertly deploys Treasury’s financial tools.” #neobanks https://lnkd.in/e432PP6X
Jeremy Hunt says online bank Monzo rejected his account application
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