Haymaker Ventures

🚀 Exciting News! Utila Secures $18M in Series A Funding! 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that Utila has raised $18 million in Series A funding, led by Nyca Partners, with participation from Wing Venture Capital, NFX, Haymaker Ventures, Gaingels, and Cerca Partners. This brings our total funding to over $30 million, accelerating our mission to provide institutions with the most secure, scalable, and flexible digital asset operations platform. The world of payments and finance is undergoing a seismic shift with the rise of stablecoins. Digital assets are no longer just for trading—they’re powering payments, treasury management, and tokenization at scale. Institutions need robust, enterprise-grade infrastructure to integrate digital assets and stablecoins into their core operations. Utila is delivering exactly that. Our institutional MPC wallet platform and API-first infrastructure enable businesses to seamlessly manage and build on digital assets with the highest levels of security, flexibility, and efficiency. What we’ve achieved in less than 2 years: 🌐 Scaled to hundreds of global institutional clients 🏦 $35B+ secured in digital asset transactions 📊 $8B+ in monthly transaction volume With this funding, we’re doubling down on our mission to build the institutional digital asset operations platform for the new era of digital assets. This funding round empowers us to: 🔥 Enhance our platform – Accelerate R&D efforts to be at the forefront of innovation and further strengthen our product capabilities. 🌎 Expand our global reach – Scale operations to meet the rising demand for stablecoin-powered payments and secure digital asset infrastructure. 🦾 Grow our world-class team – Invest in top talent to drive innovation, advance security, and support our growing global customer base. As stablecoins reshape financial infrastructure, institutions are no longer asking if they should adopt digital assets—but how. Utila is at the forefront of this shift, building the foundation for organizations to move value seamlessly. A huge thank you to our investors, customers, and partners for believing in our vision. We’re just getting started! 💪 📢 Read the official announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eyAPBghH #SeriesA #Stablecoins #DigitalAssets #Payments Bentzi Sam

Exciting news to share!! Sunfish successfully closed our Series A funding a few weeks ago. A big thank you to our dedicated team, the supportive investors backing our mission to revolutionize IVF, and the patients and medical clinics we get to collaborate with daily. 🚀 🎉 Thank you to Axios and Erin B. for breaking the story today: "Why it matters: Sunfish wants to help people pay for and manage the astronomical cost of assisted reproductive technology (ART) by providing more certainty and support" through the IVF Success Program. Our discounted all-inclusive bundle, offered at top-tier clinics, offers a unique partial money-back guarantee for patients who aren't successful, so they can try again. [Article below.] We are so excited to use this investment to help more families achieve their dream of parenthood - every time we get an ultrasound photo from one of our customers, it makes all the late nights worth it. 👶 💙 Thank you Olivia Baribeau and Phin Upham at Haymaker Ventures, among many investors in this round, and our team: Michael Pigott, Dev Sethi, Donny Chin, Lydia Fehrenbacher, Margaret Orenstein, Ego Faylona, Bryan Rubeo, Lindsay Donnelly, Giancarlo Stanton, Andrew Kosari, Andrew Sherman and many more! https://lnkd.in/gUiznwrP #SeriesA #IVF #fertility #fintech #healthtech

We are excited to announce that AltScore has raised $8.5M in our Series A round, led by Haymaker Ventures, with continued support from our existing investors, including Kamay Ventures, BuenTrip Ventures, Far Out Ventures, Techstars, and Caffeinated Capital, among others. Haymaker, with their deep fintech knowledge and expertise, is the ideal partner for the next steps of our journey. A special thank you to Olivia Baribeau and Phin Upham from Haymaker for their trust and belief in AltScore, and to the rest of our investors who continue to support our vision. This financing marks a pivotal moment in our mission to transform SME lending across Latin America. At AltScore, we find it unacceptable that, even in 2024, the economic mobility of millions of small business owners is still hindered by insufficient data and outdated lending technology. On the other hand, B2B enterprises want to offer credit to their customers and suppliers, but creating and launching a new digital credit product from scratch remains highly complex. Our AI-driven ‘Rails of Lending’ empower any company to build and launch their own credit products in just weeks. Some of the region’s largest enterprises, such as Coca-Cola LATAM, use AltScore to offer digital credit solutions to millions of underserved small businesses. If your company is interested in offering new credit products to your customers or suppliers, or improving existing lending experiences, let’s talk. This milestone is also a testament to the incredible dedication of our team. In particular, I want to thank my co-founders, Mateo Semerene, Paulo Renato Castro Da Silva, and Joaquín Dávalos Maldonado, as well as everyone at AltScore—thank you for your relentless hard work and passion. You’re the driving force behind our success, and it’s a privilege to work with such a talented team every day. As we enter this next phase of growth, we’re looking for more talented, driven individuals to join us. If you’re excited about shaping the future of lending infrastructure with AI  as part of a highly talented team, we’d love to hear from you—check out our current open roles, as well as other positions we’ll be posting soon. I also want to thank the other investors and mentors who have been supportive of AltScore. This journey is just starting, and surrounding ourselves with top investors and advisors will be crucial as we navigate the challenges ahead. There are many people to thank, and I apologize if I miss someone! Miguel Fernandez Larrea Sebastian Barriga Antonio Peña Gabriela Ruggeri Jonathan Fentzke Ian Hathaway Andres Medina Mora Peter Livingston  Unpopular Ventures Fernando Moncayo Castillo Fernando Rivera Carmen de la Cerda Lorimer Ventures Stephan Cizmar Nicholas Wijnberg Marcos L. Varun Gupta Raymond Tonsing Ivan Montoya NuMundo Ventures Andres Barreto Uri Tintore Jack Greco Neftaly Ramirez Pallares Lucas Binder Sebastian Brauer Tomas Sevilla Ivan Nieto Rosero https://lnkd.in/eGYzHXDV

Fintech’s rise from the ashes of the 2008 financial crisis has transformed the industry—are you keeping up? In the latest episode of The Full Ratchet, I sit down with Phin Upham, Managing Partner at Haymaker Ventures, to discuss the incredible evolution of fintech over the past decade. Phin shares his unique insights from working with Peter Thiel during a pivotal time for fintech, the strategies that separate successful investments from the rest, and why he believes that now, more than ever, contrarian thinking is essential. If you want to understand how fintech has grown from a post-crisis innovation to a dominant sector, this episode is for you. Tune in to Episode 446 of The Full Ratchet today! Link to the full episode is in the comment section below.