Clocktower Technology Ventures
Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
Santa Monica, United States
Countries of investment
- United States
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Chile
- United Kingdom
Investment stages
- Seed
- Series A
- Series B
- Series C
- Growth
Industries
- Fintech
- Financial services
- Payments
- Wealth & asset management
- Insurtech
- Digital assets
About
Clocktower Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital firm focused on financial services technology broadly, with insurtech as one investment theme among several. Their focus spans the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and the United Kingdom. The firm supports founders from seed through growth stages.
Clocktower Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital firm focused on financial services technology broadly, with insurtech as one investment theme among several. Their focus spans the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and the United Kingdom. The firm supports founders from seed through growth stages.
Investment Thesis
Clocktower Ventures is a seed-to-growth venture firm investing broadly across financial services technology — insurtech is a meaningful but non-exclusive vertical within a portfolio that also spans banking, payments, lending, and LatAm fintech infrastructure. The firm differentiates itself through its parent Clocktower Group's global macro and asset-management pedigree, deploying from its third flagship vehicle (~$350M+ committed capital) opportunistically across the US and Latin America, with 250+ portfolio companies including Chime, Melio, and Mercury alongside insurtech names like Openly, Matic, Embroker, and Wagmo.
Manager's Experience
Santa Monica–based and focused exclusively on financial technology, part of Clocktower Group, a multi-strategy firm founded in 2007 by Steve Drobny with offices in London and Shanghai. Partner Ben Savage was previously Director of the Investment Associate Program at Bridgewater Associates and co-founded Artivest. Has partnered with more than 250 portfolio companies including Chime, Melio and Mercury, and is deploying a third flagship vehicle with over $350M of committed capital. Notably a deliberate non-lead investor that avoids board seats.
Team
Steve Drobny-Founder & CEO
Ben Savage-Partner
Tyler Hathaway-Partner
Wei Liu-Partner
Adriana Saman-Director
Benjamin Novak-Principal
Erika Hull-Principal
Natalie Charney-Principal
Brian Ingoldsby-Principal Fund Operations
Chad Nitschke-Venture Partner
Daniel Shi-Venture Partner
David Lofthouse-Venture Partner
Shaneez Mohinani-Venture Partner
Portfolio
Chime
Melio
Mercury
Tala
CircleUp
Kushki
Alloy
Blox
Borrowell
Caplight
Carmoola
Destaxa
dv01
Federato
Global66
GraniteShares
Flink
Insurami
Boom
Fideo
Align17
Altir