When was Clocktower Ventures founded?

Clocktower Ventures was founded in 2015.

Where is Clocktower Ventures' headquarters located?

Clocktower Ventures' headquarters is located in Santa Monica (United States).

How big is Clocktower Ventures' investment team?

Clocktower Ventures has a team of 18, including 4 partners.

How many companies has Clocktower Ventures invested in?

Clocktower Ventures has invested in 179 companies, including Chime & Moneylion.

Which companies has Clocktower Ventures invested in lately?

MGT Insurance & Yendo are the latest investments by Clocktower Ventures.

What sectors does Clocktower Ventures focus on for investments?

Top sectors in Clocktower Ventures' portfolio are FinTech (138 investments) and Enterprise Applications (84 investments).

What stages of companies does Clocktower Ventures typically invest in?

Clocktower Ventures primarily invests in Seed and Series A stages.

How many exits has Clocktower Ventures been involved in?

Clocktower Ventures' portfolio has seen 2 IPOs and 29 acquisitions.

How many unicorns are there in Clocktower Ventures' portfolio?

There are 4 unicorns in Clocktower Ventures' portfolio.

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Clocktower Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. It is primarily based out of Santa Monica, United States. As of Oct 2025, Clocktower Ventures is an active investor, having invested in 179 companies, with 15 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from FinTech to Enterprise Applications and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series B round of MGT Insurance Overall, Clocktower Ventures portfolio has seen 4 unicorns, 2 IPOs and 29 acquisitions including key companies like Chime, Moneylion and Melio. A lot of funds co-invest with Clocktower Ventures, with names like FJ Labs sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Clocktower Ventures has team of 18 people including 4 partners.

Key Metrics

Team Members

Ben Savage, Steve Drobny & 16 more

Portfolio Count

Chime, Moneylion & 177 more

Portfolio Sectors

FinTech, Enterprise Applications & 22 more

Portfolio Locations

United States, United Kingdom & 11 more

Rounds of Entry

Seed, Series A & 4 more

Portfolio IPOs

Chime & Sage Group

Portfolio Acquisitions

Kateri, Melio & 27 more

Portfolio Unicorns

Habi, Jeeves & 2 more

Portfolio Soonicorns

Borrowell, Cardless & 23 more

Deals in last 12 months

MGT Insurance, Yendo & 18 more

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Clocktower Ventures has a portfolio of 179 companies, including 4 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Caplight and Kamino.Their portfolio spans across United States, United Kingdom, Mexico and 10 more locations. They have invested in FinTech, Enterprise Applications, Consumer and 21 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 4 more. Here is the list of top investments by Clocktower Ventures:

1. Chime

Digital bank for individuals. Its services include debit cards, savings account, money transfers, cash withdrawals, online/offline payments, check deposits, and more. It also offers transaction and balance alerts. The application is available on iOS and Android devices.

Key facts about Chime

Founded Year: 2012
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Annual Revenue: $1.67B as on Dec 31, 2024
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $3.15B
Employee Count: 1,604 as on Dec 31, 2022
Investors: equitywestsecurities.com, Access Industries and 54 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series F, Aug 06, 2021, $*****
Highlight: Public

2. Moneylion

Online platform for instant consumer loans and mobile banking. Its product offerings include installment loans, line of credit, pre-paid debit cards, and point-of-sale financing. It also offers loan comparison, savings, investments, and more.

Key facts about Moneylion

Founded Year: 2013
Location: Sandy (United States)
Annual Revenue: $546M as on Dec 31, 2024
Last Known Valuation: $*****
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $268M
Employee Count: 296 as on Dec 31, 2023
Investors: Uwin, DHVC and 20 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jul 23, 2019, $*****
Highlight: Acquired

3. Melio

Accounts payable solutions for vendor payments. It enables customers to make invoice payments via bank transfers or credit or debit cards. Its features are adding details of vendors manually, linking payment cards or bank accounts, transferring funds, and more. It also enables setting reminders in order to avoid late payments.

Key facts about Melio

Founded Year: 2018
Location: New York City (United States)
Last Known Valuation: $*****
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $654M
Employee Count: 528 as on Jul 01, 2024
Investors: Corner Ventures, American Express Ventures and 24 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series E, Oct 31, 2024, $*****
Highlight: Acquired

4. Borrowell

Provider of a credit monitoring and financial products comparison platform. It provides users with a platform where users have to register on the platform for access to credit reports. It offers personalized product recommendations and credit improvement tips based on the credit report. Allows users to compare credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, bank accounts, home and auto insurance and investment products.

Key facts about Borrowell

Founded Year: 2014
Location: Toronto (Canada)
Stage: Series B
Total Funding till date: $53.6M
Employee Count: 134 as on Dec 31, 2024
Investors: iA Financial Group, Lionfish Capital and 27 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series B, Feb 22, 2021, $*****
Highlight: Editors' Pick

5. Monarch

Online platform for expense management for couples, advisors, and employers. Users can track their expenses on the platform. It tracks the user's bank accounts and assets to provide information about net wealth. Users can also create and track financial goals and budgets on the platform with custom dashboards. Also provides budget, AI-powered personal finance assistant, and financial coaching. It also offers an app-based platform that is available on Android and iOS platforms.

Key facts about Monarch

Founded Year: 2018
Location: Covina (United States)
Stage: Series B
Total Funding till date: $94.8M
Employee Count: 18 as on Jul 01, 2024
Investors: Accel, SignalFire and 6 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series B, May 23, 2025, $*****
Highlight: Editors' Pick

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Clocktower Ventures has invested in 179 companies over the last 11 years, with an average of 12 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 20 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in MGT Insurance and most recent follow-on round was in Receive.

Here are Clocktower Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2026 (YTD)	0	0	0
2025	15	5	20
2024	11	3	14
2023	9	4	13
2022	26	9	35
2021	29	11	40
2020	16	4	20
2019	7	1	8
2018	5	0	5
2017	5	0	5

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Clocktower Ventures has made 64 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $5.53M, 39 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $16.6M and 16 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $29.5M.

Here are Clocktower Ventures' investments by stage:

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Seed	64
Series A	39
Series B	16
Series C	4
Conventional Debt	1
Others	1

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Clocktower Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the FinTech, Enterprise Applications, InsurTech, Consumer and Financial Services. Notably, it has invested in 169 Tech companies, 113 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 98 Software companies and at least 79 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).

Here are Clocktower Ventures' investments by sector:

Sector	No. of Investments
FinTech	97
Enterprise Applications	59
InsurTech	19
Consumer	17
Financial Services	17
Others	84

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Clocktower Ventures has made most investments in United States (77), followed by Mexico where it has made 11 investments.

Here are Clocktower Ventures' investments by geography:

Country	No. of Investments
United States	77
Mexico	11
United Kingdom	11
Brazil	9
Colombia	5
Others	12

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Clocktower Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.

Here are the most recent investments by Clocktower Ventures:

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Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Oct 16, 2025	MGT Insurance	United States	Series B	9708	Mubadala Capital [+1]
Oct 09, 2025	Yendo	United States	Series B	8946	Spice [+4]
Oct 08, 2025	QuoteWell	United States	Series A	6912	New Enterprise Associates [+3]
Oct 06, 2025	Vycarb	United States	Seed	1497	Twynam [+4]
Aug 28, 2025	Momento	Mexico	Series A	2753	Hedosophia [+4]

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Clocktower Ventures has 4 unicorns in its portfolio - Habi, Jeeves, M1 and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Habi. It became a unicorn in 2022, 1 years after Clocktower Ventures first invested in it.

Here is a list of unicorns in Clocktower Ventures' portfolio:

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Tracxn Score	Company	Short Description	Founded year	Sector	Location	Company Stage	First Investment/ Acquisition Details
52	Habi	Provider of buying and selling homes for middle-class customers	2019	Real Estate and Construction	Bogota	Series C	rbdqtzv
70	Jeeves	Digital company offering payment and corporate financial cards	2019	Consumer [+3]	New York City	Series C	cfyzdvs
72	M1	Provider of an investment and lending platform for securities	2015	FinTech	Chicago	Series E	usmwfhx
58	Qualia	SaaS-driven title settlement platform for real estate professionals	2015	Real Estate and Construction Tech [+1]	San Francisco	Series D	fqsunca

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2 of Clocktower Ventures' portfolio companies have become public. Chime got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Jun 2025 at marketcap of $8.97B and Sage Group got listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

Here are Clocktower Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:

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Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Chime	Jun 12, 2025	-	-	4124
Sage Group	Jun 10, 2013	-	-	5753

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29 companies from Clocktower Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Kateri in Dec 2025 by Cultivo.

Here are Clocktower Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

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Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Kateri	Dec 08, 2025	Sep 19, 2023	Seed	5061
Melio	Jun 24, 2025	-	-	3957
MANTL	Feb 27, 2025	Jul 24, 2020	Series A	1834
Everlance	Feb 19, 2025	-	-	2755
Moneylion	Dec 10, 2024	Dec 05, 2016	Series A	4984

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Clocktower Ventures has a team of 18 members including 4 Partners, 4 Venture Partners and 4 Principals located in United States and United Kingdom. Clocktower Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.

Here is a list of top team members in Clocktower Ventures:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact details
Ben Savage	Partner	Santa Monica	-	1 Email
Steve Drobny	Partner	Santa Monica	-	1 Email
Ned Daoro	Partner	Los Angeles	-	1 Email
Adriana Saman	Partner	Santa Monica	-	1 Email
Chad Nitschke	Venture Partner	United States	-	1 Email
David Lofthouse	Venture Partner	United Kingdom	-	1 Email
Danielle Zhang	Venture Partner	Santa Monica	-	1 Email
Shaneez Mohinani	Venture Partner	-	-	1 Email
Natalie Charney	Principal	Los Angeles	-	1 Email
Kanishka Narayan	Principal	United Kingdom	-	1 Email
Erika Hull	Principal	-	-	1 Email

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Over the past 11 years, 990 investors have co-invested in Clocktower Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.

Invested before Clocktower Ventures: Y Combinator, FJ Labs and 256 others have invested in rounds before Clocktower Ventures. There are 16 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Clocktower Ventures and 4 companies where FJ Labs has invested before Clocktower Ventures.
Top Co-investors of Clocktower Ventures: 467 investors entered a company along with Clocktower Ventures. These include investors like FJ Labs (9 companies).
Invested after Clocktower Ventures: A total of 265 investors have invested in Clocktower Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Endeavor (6 companies), Gaingels (4 companies) and Kaszek (3 companies).