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Grasshopper Bank

261 5th Ave, Suite 610, New York, NY, 10016, United States

Overview

Grasshopper is a client-first digital bank built for the business and innovation economy that provides edge technology, solutions-driven products, and superior service through a combination of passionate people and digital resources. .

Total investments
2
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Banking
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
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Investment portfolio

  • GrailPay

    Participated · Equity · Jun 2025

    GrailPay builds payments infrastructure focused on establishing certainty and trust for instant, agentic business payments. Its Account Intelligence product performs risk scoring of bank accounts without requiring open banking, and its Transaction Intelligence product is designed to accelerate payments. The company says it is already processing billions of dollars of business payments volume, growing that volume 20x over the past year. GrailPay plans product releases to enable new forms of commerce that were previously impractical, and is using its recent financing to further develop its offerings and scale operations. Financially, the company has raised over $17M to date, including a $10.5M Series A led by MissionOG.

  • FiVerity

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2023

    FiVerity provides an anti-fraud collaboration platform that enables real-time information sharing through anonymized exchange of fraud intelligence among financial institutions, data providers, and anti-fraud solutions. Led by CEO Greg Woolf, the platform delivers proactive alerts, transparent risk scoring, and automated fraud classification to accelerate detection and prevention of known and unknown fraud. The company has worked closely with financial institutions, regulators and organizations such as the U.S. Federal Reserve and FinCEN during platform development. FiVerity intends to use the new funding to expand its Digital Fraud Network and to introduce advanced machine learning algorithms that identify evolving fraud methods and compare those patterns against clients' applications. The company is based in Boston, MA and is positioning its anonymized intelligence-exchange capabilities for broader industry adoption. FiVerity develops a machine-learning platform, SynthID®, that detects and prevents sophisticated cyber fraud in real time, with initial focus on synthetic identity fraud (SIF). The platform overlays existing systems and data services, learning from human intelligence and sharing actionable threat intelligence across a community of financial institutions, regulators, and law enforcement. FiVerity reports customer results of preventing SIF “upwards of 40%” for its bank and credit union customers. The company plans to use new funding to expand product capabilities, broaden coverage of other types of financial cyber fraud, and ramp up sales and marketing. FiVerity has strengthened its advisory board with industry and government experts and was included by the Federal Reserve in a whitepaper on SIF mitigation and invited to a standards-definition group. The company emphasizes secure identity management and public-private collaboration to scale consumer lending, onboarding, and payments protections.

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