Congratulations to Cardless on being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2026 🎉 Cardless is doing something deceptively hard: replacing the legacy bank as the credit card infrastructure layer for the world's best brands. Household names pulling their card programs off legacy banks and rebuilding natively on Cardless's platform are those like -Coinbase -Bilt -Qatar Airways -Alibaba -Avelo Proud to back Scott Kazmierowicz, Michael Spelfogel, and the whole team as they rewire a $200B+ industry. https://lnkd.in/g4i_ydi7
Commerce Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco, California 8,341 followers
Investing in the entrepreneurs powering the Commerce Continuum
About us
Commerce Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing and empowering the next generation of technology innovators in the retail and financial services industries. Our deeply committed LP base is composed of a strategic blend of established entrepreneurs, corporate executives and market leading corporations, enabling us to meaningfully add value to our portfolio companies via introductions to potential clients, distribution partners, top tier advisers and potential key executive additions. We also pride ourselves on being a thought and strategy partner to our portfolio CEOs when we can be helpful, but not wasting their time otherwise. For more information about Commerce Ventures and our 40+ incredible portfolio companies, please visit commercevc.com.
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https://commerce.vc/
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- 2-10 employees
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- San Francisco, California
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- Privately Held
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- 2013
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- Venture Capital, Strategic Investment, FinTech, InsureTech, Commerce, Retail, and Value Add
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Congrats to Josh Payne and the Coframe team for winning the judges' choice award in the startup competition at Shoptalk. As part of our partnership with Shoptalk, we have awarded Coframe a $100k investment from Commerce Ventures. Excited to have Josh and the team join the Commerce Ventures family! It was great to evaluate so many great companies alongside my co-judges Deborah Weinswig 韋葆蘭, Kamanasish Kundu, and Brent Murri.
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After 3.5 years of building and absolutely RIPPING Celsius… We’re announcing that DOSS has raised a $55M Series B, co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest, with Greyhound Capital, Commerce Ventures, Pathlight Ventures, and Intuit Ventures as new investors, and continued investment from Theory Ventures, General Catalyst, Contrary, and Mintaka VC. Before starting DOSS I worked on numerous hardware products. Honestly my opinion today is pretty much unchanged: it’s a miracle that any get built at all. I saw firsthand how the physical world runs on systems that were designed by people who’d never use them. Teams would adapt their entire business strategy to fit into the shape of off-the-shelf applications and would spend 4-10x more on consulting time than on the software itself. Worst of all - they’d wait YEARS for implementations to complete which ultimately wouldn’t reflect how the business actually functioned by the time it was live. That's the problem we're solving. DOSS is the Operations Cloud built for the Real World. We sit around your general ledger and model how your business actually runs. Procurement, inventory, orders, finance, all connected, all in real time. We're already seeing it work. Teams with individual people saving 20+ hours a week (that’s half of their time!). Companies growing 3x in a year without adding any headcount to operations. With Operations Cloud, teams are putting up Hall of Fame stats and we’re. just. getting. started. HUGE thank you to our customers, our new investors, our long-time advisors, and most of all the DOSS TEAM!!!! We're building something that can stand the test of time (no small feat in enterprise software). Enabling platform shifts like this happen roughly once a generation and as Jeremy Irons says in Margin Call, “Don’t you understand? THIS IS IT!” ONWARD! There’s work to be done.
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Huge congrats to Andres K., Marc Escapa and the entire Fuse team! We at Commerce Ventures have looked far and wide to back a team & product suite capable of truly redefining loan origination in a post- agentic world. We're thrilled to chase that shared vision with the Fuse team, and join along for the journey!
Today, we are making it official. Fuse has raised $25M to build the AI-native loan origination system and account opening platform that credit unions actually deserve. Backed by Footwork, Primary Venture Partners, NextView Ventures, Commerce Ventures, FJ Labs, and Clocktower Ventures. Built by a team that believes credit unions have everything they need to win except the right technology. We are changing that. And we are starting by giving the next 50 qualifying credit unions free access until their current contracts expire. The credit union comeback starts now.
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Couldn't be more proud of Shanthi Shanmugam and Alex McLeod, MBA for being named to Inc. Magazine's Female Founders 500 list! https://lnkd.in/ecNBcCCd
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Congrats to the 12 finalists! Excited to meet you and see your pitches in Vegas at Fintech Meetup.
We’re proud to announce the 12 companies selected for this year’s Startup Pitch, a showcase of standout startups building what’s next in fintech! The companies participating in this year's Startup Pitch are: FP Alpha, Warrant, Gemm, AllMind AI, Zyphe, Kato, CoComply AI, 11th.com, 3 Degrees, Klutch, Jupid, Arva AI Each company will present live onsite at Fintech Meetup 2026 and compete for 1 of 2 $50,000 SAFE notes from Commerce Ventures. But the opportunity goes far beyond the stage. Fintech Meetup is where startups meet investors, partners, customers, and decision-makers through a meetings program built to drive real business outcomes. That means attendees get more than a front-row seat to Startup Pitch. They get access to the conversations and connections that move fintech forward. Join us in Las Vegas to watch these startups pitch live and be part of the industry’s most productive event. Remember: there is still time to participate in the Meetings Program! Secure your spot today to lock in your schedule: https://hubs.la/Q046f-gW0 #FintechEvent #FintechMeetup #Startups #FintechStartups
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Congratulations to three of our portfolio companies, Extend, Kin Insurance, and Vestwell for being named to Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers list. 🙌 Building something people want to work on is hard. Building something people want to work on *and* that's changing an industry? That's the whole game. Proud of what these teams are doing, and even prouder of how they're doing it. https://lnkd.in/dGSX3ahr
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Not surprised to see Carefull, Casap, and Moov on this list from Jordan Wright. Building the next generation of financial infrastructure isn't for the faint of heart, but these companies and their founders are working tirelessly to do so.
FinTech 15: The Infrastructure Powering the Next Decade of Finance is here! 🚀 Hot off the heals of some big misses by Forbes Fintech 50 I thought I'd take the opportunity to recognize some of the amazing companies creating improved financial infrastructure all of us benefit from. Main criteria: we need to have heard your name mentioned multiple times by our top customers in the past 12 months. Since we work with so many of the top banks and fintechs we have pretty good insight into the top companies and opportunities being discussed. If you don't consider yourselves financial infrastructure, please forgive my misclassification - just remember, I admire what you're doing. Thank you to the amazing founders that keep building - despite the fact that building is super hard! Wade Arnold Shensi Ding David Dindi Natasha Vernier Misha Esipov Shanthi Shanmugam Matt Pierce Andrea Martone Bam Azizi Ben Borodach Michael Giles Max Goldman Nico Simko Oban MacTavish Cody Barbo To those not included, just shoot me a note next time I invite and I'm happy to evaluate your company for consideration in Jordan’s inestimable "FinTech 15: The Infrastructure Powering the Next Decade of Finance" but speaking candidly, we hear these company names on a regular basis with our top customers and thats a requirement for being on the list! No gifts here. Just hard earned recognition for the best. 🥇
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Proud of our portfolio companies today and every day! Huge congrats to the teams at Cardless, Kin Insurance and Socure for being named to this year's Forbes FinTech 50! https://lnkd.in/g9KqiXwK
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Excited to share that we backed Monark Markets in their $8.1M round led by F-Prime! Most of the conversation around private markets focuses on the assets like SpaceX, OpenAI, Stripe. Monark's bet is on the plumbing. Private markets are becoming a larger part of retail portfolios, but the infrastructure for brokerages to actually offer these assets hasn't kept up. Monark fixes that with a single API integration covering compliance, documentation, and access to assets like pre-IPO SpaceX, OpenAI, and Stripe shares. Congratulations to Ben Haber, Paul Davis, and the whole Monark team! We're excited for what's ahead.
We are proud to announce that Monark has closed an $8.1M Strategic Financing Round led by F-Prime with participation from The Treasury, Commerce Ventures, Grit Capital Partners and BBAE Holdings. We are honored that David Jegen, Managing Partner at F-Prime Capital, will be joining Monark's Board of Directors. Monark is setting the standard for retail investor and advisor access to private markets, building a scaled distribution network through API integrations with the largest retail brokerage and wealth platforms in the world, and enabling access to private markets at the click of a button. With the majority of value creation happening today in private markets, we believe that all investors should be able to participate in the fastest growing areas of the economy, from AI to advanced manufacturing, to data centers in space, and new defense technologies. We’re putting this capital to work immediately to expand Monark’s distribution network and continue bridging the gap between brokerage firms and private markets. Thank you to Alex Konrad for covering the story in Upstarts Media: https://lnkd.in/eiJaPAgF #monark #strategicfinancing #industrystandard
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