Notes from the field.
- NewsletterMay 28, 2026
May 2026 Newsletter
This month Nyca's Duncan King sat down with Dan Dovrat, CEO of Bounce. Bounce uses AI-powered software to help banks, fintechs, and creditors recover unpaid debt more efficiently while improving the customer repayment experience.
- PublicationsMay 6, 2026
Commerce Without Clicks
The dawn of agents in shopping. Atul Ajoy and Jasleen Kaur explore how the entire commerce stack needs to be rearchitected as AI agents become the primary shopper.
- NewsletterApr 30, 2026
April 2026 Newsletter
This month Nyca's Duncan King sat down with Salman Syed, CEO of Astrada. Astrada is a unified API that lets software platforms plug into real-time card transaction data without having to issue their own cards.
- PublicationsApr 28, 2026
Nyca Partners Welcomes Shazeem Kudchiwala to the Team
We are excited to welcome Shazeem Kudchiwala to Nyca Partners, further strengthening our team as we continue to back the next generation of fintech founders.
- NewsletterMar 31, 2026
March 2026 Newsletter
This month, Jiko CEO and Co-Founder Stephane Lintner spoke with Duncan King about how Jiko replaces cash deposits with real-time investment in U.S. Treasury bills-offering institutions a safer, yield-generating alternative with bank-like convenience.
- PublicationsMar 25, 2026
Nyca Partners Promotes Jasleen Kaur and Agastya Gupta
We are delighted to announce the promotion of Jasleen Kaur to Partner and Agastya Gupta to Principal.
- NewsletterFeb 27, 2026
February 2026 Newsletter
This month, Anand Tumuluru, Co-Founder and CEO of Loop AI, spoke with Duncan King about how the company uses AI to help restaurants automate and optimize third-party delivery and back-office operations to improve profitability.
- NewsletterJan 29, 2026
January 2026 Newsletter
In January, Cyrus Karai, Co-Founder and CEO of CoverForce, chatted with Duncan King. CoverForce is an insurance technology company that provides APIs enabling brokers and carriers to quote and bind commercial insurance digitally.
- NewsletterDec 29, 2025
December 2025 Newsletter
In our December newsletter, Jimmy Chen, Founder and CEO of Propel, Inc, chatted with Duncan King to talk about how Propel helps Americans access and use their government benefits. This month marks the ten year anniversary of the Propel app being launched!
- NewsletterNov 25, 2025
November 2025 Newsletter
This month, Duncan King sat down with Ralph Betesh from Coverdash. Coverdash is a company on a mission to make business insurance instant, intuitive, and seamlessly integrated into the platforms growing businesses already use.
- NewsletterOct 30, 2025
October 2025 Newsletter
This month, Duncan King sat down with Bimal Kadikar, Founder & CEO at Transcend. Transcend provides a platform that helps financial institutions manage and optimize their collateral.
- NewsletterSep 30, 2025
September 2025 Newsletter
This month, Duncan King sat down with Michael Sanocki at RQD Clearing. RQD Clearing is a tech-first financial services firm that provides clearing, custody, and execution solutions for brokers.
- NewsletterJul 31, 2025
July 2025 Newsletter
This month, Duncan King sat down with Russell Feldman at IMTC. IMTC is a cloud-native platform that streamlines fixed-income portfolio management for asset and wealth managers.
- NewsletterJun 26, 2025
June 2025 Newsletter
This month, Duncan King sat down with Kirill Klokov, Truv's Co-Founder and CEO. Truv's platform empowers financial organizations with access to consumer-permissioned financial data sources.
- NewsletterMay 30, 2025
May 2025 Newsletter
This month, Duncan King from Nyca interviewed Daniel Demetri, the founder and CEO of Trellis, the leading omnichannel distribution platform for home and auto insurance.
- PublicationsMay 2, 2025
“Experience is what you wish you had when you need it.”
Last week, we shared a memo with Nyca's portfolio company founders and CEOs with advice from our Limited Partner Advisors (LPAs) on how to navigate the current environment of economic uncertainty. Here's what we had to say:
- NewsletterApr 28, 2025
April 2025 Newsletter
This month Duncan King from Nyca spoke with co-founder and CEO Adam Morvitz from Point.me, a real-time search engine that maximizes the value of your points.
- NewsletterMar 29, 2025
March 2025 Newsletter
This month Duncan King from Nyca spoke with founder and CEO Ana Mahony from Addition Wealth, a financial wellness platform that makes personalized financial expertise more inclusive and accessible.
- NewsletterMar 1, 2025
February 2025 Newsletter
This month Duncan King from Nyca spoke with co-founder and CEO Soups Ranjan from Sardine, which enables banks, retailers and fintechs to automate risk decisioning, catch more fraud, detect money laundering, and protect their customers from scams.
- NewsletterJan 30, 2025
January 2025 Newsletter
This month Duncan King from Nyca spoke with co-founder and CEO Ben Borodach from april, which believes that a personalized and embedded tax experience will help Americans take control of their finances.
- NewsletterDec 19, 2024
December 2024 Newsletter
This month Duncan King spoke with co-founder and CEO Lior Tibon from Duetti, which purchases tracks from independent musicians and enhances those tracks' earnings!
- NewsletterNov 28, 2024
November 2024 Newsletter
This month Duncan King from Nyca spoke with co-founder and CEO Ofek Lavian from Forage, which enables companies to accept SNAP payments (fka food stamps) online.
- PublicationsOct 20, 2024
Electronic Money Tokens, Stablecoins, and the Future of Payments
The days of speculation and money laundering are coming to an end, and stablecoin use cases are rapidly taking over.
- NewsletterSep 26, 2024
September 2024 Newsletter
Findigs' founder, Steve Carroll chatted with Duncan King about why he started Findigs, what it does, and what is the craziest rental story he has ever heard.
- PublicationsAug 16, 2024
The Future of Finance: How technology is transforming the office of the CFO
At Nyca, we get excited about the explosive growth in the Office of the CFO space. As former CFOs, members of our investment team have experienced finance teams' challenges firsthand and understand how innovative solutions can drive sustained growth.
- NewsletterJul 26, 2024
July 2024 Newsletter
Savi's two co-founders, Aaron Smith and Tobin Van Ostern chatted with Duncan King about what Savi does, why they founded it and what they tell visitors to see while in DC.
- NewsletterJun 25, 2024
June 2024 Newsletter
Duncan King sits down with Elad Fouks, co-founder and CEO of Alterya to discuss Alterya's pivot to TradeFi, how the war has affected this Tel Aviv-based startup and much more!
- NewsletterMay 31, 2024
May 2024 Newsletter
May's newsletter highlights Bequest Finance. Bequest offers a non-custodial digital asset management solution, intended to allow the trusts and estates industry to accommodate all types of digital assets!
- PublicationsMar 13, 2024
The Past Decade Transformed Payments, But Wait for the Next 10 Years
By Hans Morris, Managing Partner of Nyca Partners. Reflecting on a decade of payments innovation and the bigger transformation still ahead.
- Recent InvestmentsFeb 28, 2024
Investing in Coverdash
Authors: Stephanie Khoo, Tom Brown, Max Liebeskind. Nyca led the Series A funding round for Coverdash, the leading embedded commercial insurance agency for startups and SMBs.
- PublicationsDec 25, 2023
BankThink: It's time to deliver on the promise of the CFPB's open banking rule
By Tom Brown. Thirteen years is a long time to wait for rules implementing the consumer's right to access their financial data-now it's time to deliver.
- PublicationsNov 21, 2023
Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code: Implications for Real-Time Payments
Izzi Steinhaus and Tom Brown explore how changes to the UCC create an opportunity for a new digital, real-time payment instrument in the United States.
- Recent InvestmentsOct 30, 2023
Investing in Certificial
By: Stephanie Khoo, Tom Brown, and Max Liebeskind. Nyca led the Series B financing in Certificial, which is modernizing the legacy process of issuing and managing certificates of insurance.
- Recent InvestmentsOct 4, 2023
Bequest Finance: Pioneering the Legacy of Digital Asset Management
By: Tom Brown, Jasleen Kaur, Izzi Steinhaus. Bequest is reshaping how digital assets are passed on, bringing trusts and estates infrastructure into the crypto era.
- Recent InvestmentsAug 21, 2023
Investing in Arkifi
By: Hans Morris and Max Liebeskind. Nyca co-led Arkifi's Seed round alongside Khosla Ventures as the company emerged from stealth to bring AI-driven efficiencies to financial services.
- PublicationsAug 8, 2023
Know Your Business (KYB): The next frontier of knowing everything about your customers
Nyca has been focused on digital identity since our inception in 2014. KYB is the next frontier as B2B financial services scale and fraud and compliance evolve.
- PublicationsFeb 2, 2023
A Call for a Better Bureau
By Jeremy Solomon. Fooling FICO, contextual credit, and a call for a better bureau-why the U.S. credit reporting system needs a rethink.
- PublicationsDec 19, 2022
Leading with Context: Credit in the Digital Age
By Jeremy Solomon. Fooling FICO, contextual credit, and a call for a better bureau-exploring how richer context can transform credit decisioning.
- PublicationsNov 22, 2022
FICO's Ubiquity and Lender Complacency
Max Liebeskind and Jeremy Solomon on how FICO's dominance has bred complacency among lenders-and what a more dynamic credit landscape could look like.
- Recent InvestmentsAug 8, 2022
Investing in Forage
By: Tom Brown. Nyca led Forage's Series A. Forage builds the payments infrastructure that enables companies to accept SNAP (food stamp) benefits online.
- PublicationsAug 4, 2022
How BNPL Really Works
By Jeremy Solomon. Part payment method, part credit product, Buy Now Pay Later offers a window into the next generation of innovation in consumer lending.
- Recent InvestmentsJul 18, 2022
Investing in FairPlay
By Tom Brown. Nyca led FairPlay.ai's latest fundraise. FairPlay is the world's first Fairness-as-a-Service company, helping lenders build more equitable underwriting models.
- PublicationsJul 14, 2022
Nowhere-near-instant ACH payments
By Max Liebeskind. A look at why ACH payments still aren't truly instant-and what that means for the future of U.S. payment rails.
- Recent InvestmentsFeb 10, 2022
Investing in Sardine
By Tom Brown. Nyca invested in Sardine, founded by Soups Ranjan and team, which enables banks, retailers and fintechs to automate risk decisioning, fight fraud, and detect money laundering.