

Plaid

Plaid is a data network that powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. Plaid works with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers more than 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey.
Founding Year
2013
Headquarters
San Francisco
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United States
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Total Funding Amount
$739.00M
Funds that Investested
Index Ventures
Fund based in London, San Francisco and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into transformative international businesses. Index covers every investment stage, from earliest seed through to explosive growth.
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Ribbit Capital
Global investment organization with one single, relentless mission: to change the world of finance.
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FinTech Collective
New York-based venture capital fund founded in 2012 to back creators with a hunger to reimagine the way money flows through the world.
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Thrive Capital
Focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.
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Altimeter
Altimeter is a leading technology-focused investment firm built by founders for founders. Their mission is to help visionary entrepreneurs build iconic companies, disrupt markets and improve lives through all stages of growth. Altimeter manages a variety of venture and public funds and serves as an expert long-term partner to companies as they enter the public markets.
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Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.
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Spark Capital
Invests in products we love, people, crazy, dreams, design, details, brains, reality, unreality, reinvention, new markets, weird stuff, guts, independence, hustle, distinction, art, humanness, idealists, oddities, optimism, communities, creation, surprises, technologists with the heart of an artist, each other.
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Norwest Venture Partners
Offers entrepreneurs a broad range of services to help them build their businesses at every stage of growth. They realize that one size does not fit all when it comes to today’s operational challenges. Norwest's mantra is "All of what you need and none of what you don’t".
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New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare
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Homebrew
Homebrew is a seed-stage fund that provides operational expertise for entrepreneurs building the bottom-up economy. They invest in mission-driven founders who embrace big – big ideas, big impact, big risk.
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BoxGroup
BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.
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Investors that Investested
Alex Rampell
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Alex focuses on investing in financial services. Prior to joining the firm, Alex co-founded multiple companies including Affirm ($AFRM), which he co-founded with Max Levchin, FraudEliminator (acquired by McAfee in 2006), Point, TrialPay (acquired by Visa in 2015), TXN (acquired by Envestnest in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013). Holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard University.
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Wesley Chan
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, FPV Ventures
Wesley Chan is an early investor in five $10B+ Decacorns and 20+ $1B+ Unicorns, including Canva, Guild, Dialpad, & AngelList. He was first check into Flexport, Robinhood, Plaid, & Gusto. Founded Google Analytics and Google Voice during his 14 year career at Google. He also holds 17 patents for his work on building Google’s early Ads system.
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Lauren Kolodny
Founding Partner, Acrew Capital
Focuses on investments in what Acrew has coined “financial services rebuilt” and “work reimagined" Prior to Acrew she was a partner at Aspect Ventures, which she joined at its founding and where she helped to build out the team. Before becoming an investor, she worked in product marketing at Google, where she led a number of launches for GSuite, including Google Drive Began career building tech and finance partnerships for the Clinton Foundation in India Lauren received a BA in international relations from Brown University, an MSc from Stanford University, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Mark Goldberg
Partner, Index Ventures
Mark joined Index in 2015. He leads investments in financial services and software businesses, from seed to pre-IPO stages.
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Rick Yang
General Partner and Head of Consumer, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Rick Yang joined NEA in 2007 and is focused on information technology and energy investments. He is currently on the board of Compass Labs, and was previously a director and is still active with One Block Off the Grid (acquired by Pure Energies Group). Prior to joining NEA, Rick advised on and executed a number of strategic financing initiatives for leading public and private tech companies in the Credit Suisse Technology Group. Rick earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was also a varsity swimmer.
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Santo Politi
Founder and General Partner, Spark Capital
Santo started Spark in 2005 with Todd Dagres and Bijan Sabet. Prior to Spark, Santo joined Bankers Trust, to help launch the bank’s first early stage venture arm, became the President of Blockbuster, and became a general partner at Charles River Ventures.
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Mary Meeker
General Partner, Bond
Mary serves on the boards of Genies, Nextdoor, Plaid and Square. She has supported BOND’s investments in Material Bank, Hipcamp, Ironclad, BYJU'S, On Running, CLEAR, Checkr, Nextdoor and Canva. She co-led Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund, which became BOND in 2019. At Kleiner Perkins, she invested in industry-defining companies such as Peloton, Ring, Pinterest, Airbnb, Instacart, DocuSign, Waze, JD.com, Trendyol, Spotify, LegalZoom and Facebook. Mary continues to co-lead the three Digital Growth Funds totaling $2.8 billion of committed capital. Before joining Kleiner Perkins in 2010, she served as managing director at Morgan Stanley, led the firm’s global technology research practice and covered then-emerging public technology companies. Meeker co-authored ‘USA Inc.: A Basic Summary of America’s Financial Statements,’ as well as her widely distributed Internet Trends Reports, which were first published in 1995.
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Adam Rothenburg
Partner, BoxGroup
Experienced VC. Prior to BoxGroup, adam served as the NYC Director for TechStars.
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David Tisch
Managing Partner, BoxGroup
David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shopdirectly within the app from a curated community of brands.
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Mo Koyfman
Founder and General Partner, Shine Capital
ex-Managing member of MOKO BRANDS. Advisor to multiple startups. ex-General Partner at Spark Capital ex-COO at Connected Ventures Started his career as an analyst and investment banker at Bear Stearns.
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Sundeep Peechu
General Partner,
Sundeep Peechu is a General Partner and founding member at Felicis. He led Felicis’ investments in Cedar, Coalition, Earnin, HealthIQ, Juniper Square, Komodo Health, Plaid, Pindrop, Picnic Health and a few others. He also led Felicis’ investments in Ginkgo Bioworks (IPO: $DNA), Matterport (IPO: $MTTR), Recursion Pharma (IPO: $RXRX), Wish (IPO: $WISH). Prior to joining Felicis in 2010, he held various product roles at Intel within the software division. Sundeep joined Intel through the acquisition of Sarvega, where he was an early employee responsible for the design of the security infrastructure. Sundeep has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a M.S in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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