Investment Memorandum · 2026

A defensible position in a
$10.2B SAM
no one has claimed.

40% of bank–FinTech partnerships fail after nine months of due diligence. Our wedge is to convert that 40% into 5% — through verified members, AI-powered fit scoring, continuous trust monitoring, and early-warning intelligence. We are raising a $1–1.5M seed round to capture this market before incumbents notice it exists.

The market is rebuilding
under regulatory pressure.

The Synapse collapse froze $265M in customer funds. The OCC has averaged 36+ enforcement actions per year against bank–FinTech partnerships since 2024. Every regulator in the United States is rewriting the playbook — and there is no platform purpose-built for the new rules. The window to define it is open today.

AI in FinTech
$268.5B
Projected market size by 2035, growing at 28.6% CAGR from $27.9B in 2026.
Global FinTech
$556B
Total addressable market by 2030, expanding at 16.5% CAGR with 30,000+ active FinTechs worldwide.
United States — Year One Focus
14,500+
Active FinTechs (10,000+) and FDIC-insured institutions (4,500+) — the entire universe of TECH's launch customer base.

Three engines.
One continuous learning loop.

TECH is not a directory. It is three proprietary engines that compound on each other — each one creates data that makes the next one smarter. Together they form a moat that thickens every quarter.

SHIELD™ — verifies who is on the other side

KYB, dynamic Trust Score, continuous compliance automation. By the time SHIELD clears a member, regulators, banks, and fintechs all see the same audit trail. Persona-backed institutional verification is the moat at the front door.

PRISM Engine™ — finds the right partnership

Voyage AI semantic embeddings filter the universe in milliseconds. Claude Sonnet 4.5 then scores the top 50 candidates across 12 institutional dimensions — fit, synergies, risks, regulatory considerations, deal structure. Reproducible. Auditable. Reinforcement-learning per member.

CORTEX™ — keeps the partnership alive

Pulse dashboards, market signals, partnership health scoring, predictive alerts. Converts TECH from a one-time match into the operational OS that customers can't run their partnerships without. Network effects: more data, sharper intelligence.

From 500 members to
$18M ARR in 36 months.

Three-year base case modeled on 0.5% Year-1 penetration of the US-only universe (14,500 institutions). Pricing tiers and unit economics are detailed in the data room, including downside, base, and bull scenarios.

Year Members ARR Gross Margin Penetration of US universe
Year 1 — 2026 500 $850K 72% ~3%
Year 2 — 2027 2,500 $5.2M 76% ~17%
Year 3 — 2028 10,000 $18M 80% ~69%
27×
Year 3
LTV / CAC ratio
$1,000
Professional tier
monthly recurring
14-day
Free trial
+ 20% annual prepay discount
3 tiers
Starter / Professional /
Enterprise — $200 → $5K+ MRR

Capital deployed
through the next 18 months.

A focused round to ship the production platform, complete SOC 2 Type I, sign the first 50 paying institutional members, and reach the metrics required for Series A.

  • Engineering & Product (4 senior hires + CTO) 42%
  • Compliance, Legal & SOC 2 Type I 18%
  • Sales, GTM & Walker Group co-marketing 22%
  • Cloud & infrastructure (AWS, Anthropic, Voyage) 10%
  • Operating reserve (12-month runway) 8%
18 mo
Path to Series A readiness
Targets at month 18: 250+ paying institutional members, $2M+ ARR, SOC 2 Type I cleared, three signed bank pilots in the United States, EU expansion plan validated under DORA.

Founders who have shipped.
Advisors with the relationships.

A founding team that has built and operated AI products in production, partnered with The Walker Group of New York for direct access to the US institutional banking market.

Jonathan Pina
CPO & Co-Founder · Miami
Product strategy and institutional GTM. Designs the workflows banks and fintechs actually adopt.
Luis A. Velasquez
CTO & Co-Founder · Berlin
Built the entire platform. AI architecture, compliance stack, infrastructure. Holder of the GSEP IP at Velatix AI.
Dionnel Martinez
QA Director & Co-Founder · NC
Quality, regulatory testing, and audit readiness for FINRA, SEC, GLBA, and BSA/AML alignment.
Wayne Brown
Senior Industry Advisor · NYC
The Walker Group NYC. Three decades inside the US banking ecosystem. Sourcing and validating the first institutional accounts.

The full data room is available
to qualified investors under NDA.

Fourteen sections. Three financial scenarios with full unit economics. Regulatory analysis (FINRA, SEC, GLBA, BSA/AML, CCPA, DORA). Technical architecture. 12-week roadmap. Customer letters of intent. Available to qualified investors under NDA.