Building tomorrow'sfinancial infrastructure.

Nyca brings together over a decade of operating and investing experience across financial services and technology, combining deep industry expertise with a collaborative approach that makes the firm a true partner to founders. Beyond capital, Nyca provides hands-on support and access to an extensive network of senior leaders across finance, technology, academia, and government.

Focused primarily on early-stage investing, Nyca takes a disciplined, thematic approach that evolves with technology and market shifts, enabling thoughtful, insight-driven investing.

By the numbers

Where strategy
meets conviction

Early conviction. Enduring partnership. Fintech investing from seed to scale.

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~$975M

Assets under management

Active portfolio companies

Unicorns

100+

Advisor community

Institutional investors

2014

Founded

Where we invest

Four verticals.
One conviction.

Thematic investing across the systems that move money, manage risk, and serve customers.

—Embedded payments in software verticals
—Merchant solutions (multichannel, marketplaces, cross-border, loyalty, e-commerce)
—Specialized payments (e.g., government, insurance, fleet, etc.)
—Digitization of B2B payments and treasury operations
—Fraud and risk tools to enable real-time payments and transactions
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—Credit, Insurance Risk, Capital Markets, Neobanks and Real Estate
—Contextual Credit: data sets and tools to improve credit and risk insight
—Shared risk dials between (re)insurers, brokers/agents, and insureds
—Efficient movement of assets between banks and non-banks
—Capital markets and liquidity venues
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—Efficient frontier of humans and machines in wealth management
—Digital insurance and risk protection
—Financial wellness
—LOLLIPOPS
—Retirement and estate planning
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—Bank modernization (modular cores, APIs, and "wrapped" software)
—Compliant AI for financial services
—Specialty service stacks: insurance, banking and asset management
—Data governance, security and privacy
—Digital identity
—Modern software for CFOs and finance teams
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The Community

An extended network of advisors.

Senior leaders across finance, technology, academia, and government - actively engaged in company building, sourcing, and solving complex challenges alongside our founders.

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Recent investments

New additions to
the portfolio

Founders building the next era of financial services.

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Astra

Developer platform offering APIs to build automated money movement experiences - instant transfers, recurring rules, and routing - inside any consumer or business app.

Asseta

AI workflow platform for institutional investors, automating data collection, diligence, and portfolio monitoring across private market deals.

Cobalt

Post-trade infrastructure for institutional FX and digital assets, providing a shared view of trades to reduce risk, cost, and operational friction between counterparties.

SMStealth mode

Builds the world's fastest equity risk models, letting investment teams create fully custom factor models and thematic factors in seconds, run backtests, and automate factor selection across hundreds of factors without engineering.

The Team

Strategic partners to fintech founders.

Nyca combines decades of investing experience with a collaborative approach that makes them true partners to founders. Operators, investors, and regulators work side by side with the entrepreneurs building the next era of finance.

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