Vine Financial, an Austin, TX-based industrial accelerator for banks and credit score unions, raised an undisclosed quantity in Seed funding.
Buyers included:
- Neeraj Vohra, Managing Associate of the Bankers Serving to Bankers Fund;
- Zahid Afzal, a senior banking govt and investor;
- George Kelley, fintech entrepreneur and co-founder of Xtensifi and Gro Options;
- Blake Paulson, former Chief Nationwide Financial institution Examiner;
- Terry Ammons, fintech investor and former Wipfli Associate;
- Marco Bernasconi, former CEO, core fintech govt and at present Chief Working and Innovation Officer at Massachusetts-based Nation Financial institution;
- Joe Gomez, Normal Supervisor of Digital and Core Options for neighborhood banking at Finastra;
- Jeff Harper, fintech Chief Income Officer;
- Brandon Kunz, fintech entrepreneur and former co-founder and senior govt at Xtensifi and Gro Options;
- Ralph Marcucilli, Founder and Chairman of Allied Funds; and
- Tom Shen, fintech investor and founding father of Software program Dynamics, Inc. (SDI) and Malauzai Software program.
The corporate intends to make use of the funds to speed up progress and broaden its means to supply a substitute for conventional spreadsheets and legacy programs.
Vine Monetary is a industrial lending accelerator for banks and credit score unions. It makes use of superior AI instruments to make industrial lending quicker, extra correct, and auditable. The platform supplies one supply for each software a lender wants, from doc studying to configurable spreading to doc era.
The corporate has additionally finalized its Board of Administrators, which incorporates founders David Eads and John O’Shaughnessy, Charles Potts, Govt Vice President of Innovation for the Unbiased Group Bankers of America® (ICBA) and key Vine traders, Afzal and Vohra. Paulson and Kelley will function board observers.
FinSMEs
12/06/2025
