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Btech Consortium

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Overview

A three-way partnership between community banks, Elizabeth Park and Strandview. The Fund invests in emerging bank tech that empower banks.

Total investments
4
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
0
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Investment portfolio

  • Twin1

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

    Twin1 develops digital twins tailored for lawyers and has just come out of stealth. The company is led by CEO Lewis Z. Liu, previously CEO of Eigen, and co-founded with former Eigen colleagues Tom Cahn and Huiting Liu. Twin1 announced a $20 million Seed round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners to fund its initial scaling after launch. The articles note the broader context of multiple legal AI companies moving into related areas such as context development, personalization, and knowledge sharing. No operating metrics, valuation, location, or detailed product roadmap were disclosed in the pieces.

  • Saris

    Participated · Series A · May 2026

    Saris builds an agentic workflow platform purpose-built for financial services, training institution-specific AI agents to execute complex tasks under human supervision and integrate with existing banking systems. Its platform automates up to 70% of consumer, mortgage, and commercial lending tasks and claims cost reductions of up to 35%, enabling institutions to more than double output without adding headcount. Saris emphasizes maintaining human oversight while reducing manual, repetitive work in lending, compliance, and operations. The company partners with platforms like Fiserv, Encompass, and MeridianLink and plans to deepen those integrations as it scales. Funding from the recent Series A will support broader deployment and expansion of the team that trains and deploys its agents.

  • Castellum.AI

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2025

    Castellum.AI is a financial-crime compliance platform that combines in-house risk data, AML/KYC screening, and explainable AI agents in a single, audit-ready system. Its platform collects sanctions, PEPs, adverse media and other risk data from original sources and uses machine-learning enrichments and AI summaries to accelerate reviews and monitoring. The company reports reducing AML/KYC false positives by 94% and time spent on compliance reviews by 83% out of the box, and cites client results across sponsor banks, community banks, a Fortune 50 firm and crypto exchanges. Castellum.AI’s AI agents passed a CAMS practice exam on the first try, and the company is seeking an official proctored CAMS certification from ACAMS. It plans to deepen integrations with financial institutions through modular implementations that layer AI agents on top of existing tech stacks to reduce switching costs and speed deployments. Detailed audit trails and explainability are emphasized to align deployments with regulator expectations and provide oversight for front-line financial-crime prevention. Castellum.AI offers a global risk data platform for compliance teams, delivering sanctions, PEPs, adverse media and other financial-crime datasets via an online platform, API, or bulk data subscription. Its patent-pending automated data collection, cleaning, standardization and enrichment process updates lists every five minutes and claims to reduce false positives by 80%. Since launching its beta in March 2022 the company has achieved over 1,250% user growth and signed Fortune 500 customers including major banks and insurers as well as global government clients. Over 100 news organizations and NGOs have also used its data for reporting and analysis. The product supports KYC onboarding and rescreening, transaction screening, crypto sanctions screening, supply chain compliance and related use cases. The company plans to use the recent funding to scale product and engineering resources and expand outreach to enterprise customers.

  • PortX

    Participated · Series B · Sep 2023

    PortX offers a secure, scalable hub that unifies disparate banking systems, allowing financial institutions to modernize their infrastructure and accelerate growth. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to streamline data integration across core systems, fintech partners, applications, and payment rails. Used by banks and credit unions nationwide, PortX helps these institutions improve connectivity and operational efficiency. The company positions its solution as purpose-built for financial institutions, emphasizing rapid deployment and flexibility. By consolidating data and application interfaces, PortX enables faster innovation and expands partner ecosystems for its customers. Although the article does not disclose revenue, user counts, or profitability metrics, it notes continued backing from a roster of industry-focused investors, signaling confidence in the firm's market traction. Future plans were not explicitly stated, but the strategic capital infusion suggests ongoing platform development and customer expansion.

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