Top 5 Fintech Investors in New Hampshire in 2026

Five investors based in New Hampshire actively back fintech startups: York IE and Alumni Ventures, both headquartered in Manchester; the Rines Angel Fund at the University of New Hampshire in Durham; angel investor Bruce Fenton; and Seth DeHart, a Portsmouth-based venture partner at seed firm Point Nine. Their checks run from $5,000 student-fund co-investments up to institutional seed and Series A rounds.

You've got a killer product, a sharp team, and maybe even a bit of traction. But without the right capital partner who understands fintech, it's hard to break through.

Even worse? Most investor lists are generic. They don't tell you who actually writes checks for startups building financial products. You end up wasting time pitching to firms with zero interest in your space.

So we fixed that.

We researched and verified every name on this list, and cut the ones that did not hold up. What's left are investors with a New Hampshire base and a documented connection to financial technology. If you want the full picture, AngelMatch tracks 100+ investors in New Hampshire and 35,000+ investors who back fintech worldwide. You can also browse our roundup of angel investors in New Hampshire.

Whether you're building payment tech, neobank tools, lending platforms, or anything in between, this list will help you find the right investor and secure that long-delayed funding check.

Let's start!

Top 5 Startup Investors in New Hampshire Who Invest in Fintech Startups

Here's a quick table to sum up the list on key criteria:

York IE

• Website: york.ie

• Focused Sectors: B2B software, AI, cybersecurity, and vertical SaaS

• Funding Stages: Pre-seed through Series A

• Present In: Manchester, NH

• Notable Investments: Finmark (financial planning software for startups and small businesses, acquired by BILL in November 2022), VETRO, Datanomix

York IE was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Manchester. Co-founder and CEO Kyle York helped scale Manchester-based Dyn before its acquisition by Oracle in 2016, and he built York IE to combine venture investing with a hands-on operating platform for software companies.

The firm's fintech credential is Finmark, a financial planning and forecasting platform for startups and small businesses that BILL acquired in November 2022. That is the profile York IE looks for in the space: software sold to finance teams rather than consumer-facing financial products.

Kyle York told Business NH Magazine that the firm has invested $60 million across 64 businesses in recent years, and that roughly 80% of its investments over the past two years have gone into vertical AI companies. If you are building fintech infrastructure with an AI layer, that is the door to knock on.

Alumni Ventures

• Website: av.vc

• Focused Sectors: Generalist, with financial services among its active categories

• Funding Stages: Seed through growth, almost always as a co-investor alongside a lead VC

• Present In: Manchester, NH, with offices in New York, Boston, Menlo Park, Chicago, London, and Tokyo

• Notable Investments: Digital Asset (financial services infrastructure), among more than 2,500 investments

Alumni Ventures is the largest venture firm headquartered in New Hampshire. Mike Collins founded it in 2014 as a single fund for the Dartmouth community, and it now manages roughly $1.5 billion on behalf of individual accredited investors and institutions.

The model matters for founders. Alumni Ventures rarely leads a round. It co-invests alongside the VC leading the deal and runs its own diligence on top. In practice that means a fintech startup with a committed lead investor has a realistic path to adding Alumni Ventures to the round, while a company still searching for its first term sheet usually does not.

The firm is one of the most active venture investors in the country, with over 2,500 investments and more than 500 exits recorded by PitchBook, spread across software, healthcare, and financial services.

Rines Angel Fund

• Website: rinesangels.com

• Focused Sectors: Industry-agnostic

• Funding Stages: Seed stage ventures

• Present In: Durham, NH

• Notable Investments: Platelet BioGenesis (biotech), Datanomix (manufacturing analytics), Jiminy's

The Rines Angel Fund is one of the only undergraduate-run angel funds in the United States. It was founded in 2015 with a donation from UNH alumnus S. Melvin "Mel" Rines, class of 1947, and it operates out of the University of New Hampshire in Durham under the supervision of the Center for Venture Research, the research center where William Wetzel coined the term "angel investor" in 1978.

The fund offers students hands-on experience in early-stage investing and bridges the gap between academia and the New England venture community.

Rines is explicitly industry-agnostic, which is what makes it worth a fintech founder's time. The fund invites roughly four companies to pitch each academic semester and runs an unusually thorough diligence process, then hands the founder the full diligence report whether or not it invests. PitchBook records nine investments to date.

The Fund's investment committee co-invests $5,000 to $20,000 per deal from an evergreen pool of about $350,000. Treat it as a smart source of diligence and New England introductions rather than a round-filling check.

Bruce Fenton

• Focused Sectors: Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, digital assets, and securities infrastructure

• Present In: New Hampshire Seacoast

• Notable Investments: ShapeShift, SpeechWorks

Bruce Fenton is a financial professional and angel investor with over three decades of experience in the investment industry.

He began his career at Morgan Stanley in 1992, specializing in emerging technologies and markets. In 1994 he founded Atlantic Financial, the first full-service investment firm to operate on the internet.

Fenton is the founder and CEO of Chainstone Labs, an investment and advisory company working at the intersection of securities, Bitcoin, and financial technology. In the fourth quarter of 2024, Chainstone Labs sold its SEC-registered, FINRA member broker-dealer to a large international fintech company. He was an early seed investor in ShapeShift and typically funds startups at their initial stages.

He also founded the Satoshi Roundtable, an annual private retreat for blockchain industry leaders, which gives him unusually deep deal flow in digital assets for someone based well outside the traditional hubs.

Fenton likes to guide founders and help them scale, provided the business rests on a good idea and has real growth potential.

Seth DeHart

• Focused Sectors: Early-stage technology companies, particularly B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) and online marketplaces

• Present In: Portsmouth, NH

• Notable Investments: Through Point Nine, whose portfolio includes fintech companies Revolut, Mambu, and Chainalysis

Seth DeHart is a venture partner and advisor with a background in sales and business development. He is a University of New Hampshire graduate and is based in Portsmouth.

DeHart serves as a Venture Partner at Point Nine, the Berlin-based venture capital firm that specializes in seed investments in B2B SaaS and marketplaces. Point Nine has been among the first seed backers of fintech companies including Revolut, Mambu, and Chainalysis, and it writes initial tickets starting at roughly 500,000 euros. He has also worked with CoFound Partners.

DeHart's own lane is founder-led sales, and that shapes what he responds to. He looks for fintech founders who are not only technically proficient but also adept at sales strategy, capable of communicating their value proposition clearly and driving revenue growth from the earliest stage.

Wrap-Up

New Hampshire is a small state with a compact investor community, and that cuts both ways. There are fewer checkbooks than in Boston, but the people writing the checks are reachable, and several of them have built and sold technology companies themselves.

Opportunity alone isn't enough, though. Founders need to come prepared with market insight, a strong business case, and relentless execution. Investors love to back startups, but as a founder you have to prove your business is worth the check.

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