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Our Investment in Pylon
The mortgage industry is entering a new era of restructuring, following one of the greatest housing booms we have seen in a generation. During this time, we will witness a consolidation of industry players, wide-scale adoption of new technologies and processes, and an increase in efficiency which will largely benefit the borrower. There will...
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Announcing Fund III
Since Conversions inception, our ambitions have always been long term. Long term thinking, long term relationships, and long term investments. To that end, we are humbled to announce the closing of Conversion Capital Fund III, an oversubscribed early stage fund totaling $122m. Fund III will focus entirely on seeding the next generation of breakthrough fintech...
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Join our Investment Team
Conversion Capital is a fast growing early stage venture capital firm with over $250m in assets investing in the transformation of financial services. We have made over 60+ investments to date including well-known companies Ramp, Blend, Qualia, Figure, Provenance, Dataminr, Vesta, Improbable, Wisetack, and Boost. We are a tightly knit group of former operators, entrepreneurs,...
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The Republic of Big Tech Pt. 2
Conversion Insights In our last installment, we addressed the monumental rise of the new economy, Big Technology firms that are gradually swallowing the cities they inhabit and now, the nation-states they occupy – Amazon to Amazonia. But what is left unclear is how regulators will address this change. After all, the US government et al....
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The Republic of Big Tech
Conversion Insights In the last 500 years, there are few choices for the most important legal treatise beyond the Declaration of Independence – the only arguable contender might be the Peace of Westphalia born in 1648, which created the foundation of the modern nation-state. After a period of significant political volatility, the eighty years war,...
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Jobs at Conversion Labs
As a member of the product development team at Conversion Labs, you will work with a small, high-quality team to design and build multiple new software products from scratch, making key early decisions without any politics or bureaucracy. You will have the opportunity to join promising spin-offs in a founding or advisory role. We believe...
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Building the Next Generation of Breakthrough Technology Post COVID-19
In 1786, Thomas Reid gave us Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man and penned the proverb,“ A chain is as strong as the weakest link.” Over the last few decades, we have become more connected by technology, yet isolated in our efficiency. More than three-quarters of Americans live in or near cities and rely...