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Nyca Partners

485 Madison Avenue, Floor 17, New York, NY, 10022, United States

Overview

Nyca Partners is a venture capital and advisory firm that focuses on the fintech sector. The firm connects innovative companies to financial institutions and technology companies as well as expert individuals as investors and advisors. Nyca Partners was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Total investments
131
Lead investments
44
Investments · 12mo
9
Active investors
11

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Forage

    Participated · Series B · Jun 2026

    Forage builds modern payment infrastructure to enable retailers and platforms to accept government benefits such as SNAP, WIC, HSA, and FSA, and operates a consumer app that lets low-income families check EBT balances, discover savings, and earn rewards. Its payments technology is live at over 100,000 stores across all 50 states and is used by national retailers like Dollar General, Gopuff, and Save A Lot, as well as online platforms including DoorDash and Uber Eats. The company says it has facilitated tens of millions of grocery orders for millions of American families and grew payments volume 13x over the last year. Forage launched its consumer app in late 2025, which has been downloaded over 100,000 times, and the company aims to reach one million low-income families via the app by the end of 2026. The firm positions itself as the only USDA-approved third-party payment processor that combines modern software with dedicated service to help retailers through authorization and launch. Forage is based in San Francisco.

  • Findigs

    Participated · Series C · Jun 2026

    Findigs develops automated screening and underwriting software that processes rental applications to deliver instant, data-grounded leasing decisions and contractual fraud guarantees. The company’s platform is AI-native and has scaled to manage over 400,000 residential units. Leadership includes Co-Founder and CEO Steve Carroll, VP of Product Chris Diamond, and board member Hugh R. Frater. Findigs plans to expand capabilities for LIHTC and Section 8 affordable-housing workflows and to launch Rent Guarantee products for operators. Financially, the company has raised a total of $80M following the $32M Series C. The business is headquartered in New York City.

  • Astrada

    Led · Seed · May 2026

    Astrada provides a real-time data layer that delivers access to card and banking data across all three major card networks via a single API. The platform targets finance platforms that need unified, real-time visibility to support both human-driven and agent-driven spending. Since launching in 2024, Astrada has processed more than $750 million in card spend and over three million transactions, and counts early customers such as Workday, Zoho, Payhawk, and Miter. The company is led by founder and CEO Salman Syed, an early Marqeta employee who ran North America through its IPO. Astrada is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York and plans to use its recent seed funding to accelerate product development and expand partnerships across fintech and enterprise finance.

  • LoopAILabs

    Led · Series A · Feb 2026

    LoopAILabs is an emerging technology company focused on developing and expanding its product suite. While specific details of its products were not disclosed, the firm plans to use newly-raised capital to deepen its offerings and accelerate go-to-market execution. Management intends to scale headcount across New York, San Francisco, Tampa, and Bangalore, signaling a distributed hiring strategy aimed at both engineering and commercial talent. The company is led by Anand Tumuluru, who recently outlined these expansion plans in an interview. Financially, LoopAILabs has secured a $14 million Series A round, its first publicly announced institutional financing. No key operating metrics—such as revenue, user count, or profitability—were released. The influx of funds is expected to provide sufficient runway to execute near-term growth initiatives and broaden the product roadmap.

  • Loop AI

    Led · Series A · Feb 2026

    Founded in 2022 by engineers and restaurateurs, Loop AI delivers an agentic AI co-worker that helps restaurant and retail operators drive profitable growth, particularly in the rapidly expanding delivery segment. The platform automates complex back-office workflows across finance, operations, and marketing, allowing brands to maintain in-store margins while scaling off-premise revenue. Trusted by more than 300 public and private brands and used across thousands of U.S. locations, Loop AI has recorded 6× growth since 2024 and now supports thousands of restaurants. Customers such as Lazy Dog and Starbird have leveraged the software to boost delivery revenue and achieve roughly 10% same-store sales growth. The company positions delivery as “the new drive-thru,” forecasting sizable market expansion and aiming to make third-party delivery a profitable growth channel. Proceeds from the latest financing will fund expansion of its product suite and the scaling of headcount across offices in New York, San Francisco, Tampa, and Bangalore. Loop AI’s long-term vision is to remain an indispensable technology layer as restaurants evolve toward consumer-centric, delivery-first operations.

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