Why We Invested · Notion Capital
Why the firm invested
Notion Capital invested due to the strength of Griffin's team, values-driven culture, and the massive market opportunity in full-stack BaaS.
We were impressed by the team David and Allen have assembled to go after this opportunity and the strong, values-driven culture that they have nurtured and sustained in their nascent years during the pandemic.
Product
Griffin is built on Clojure, an event-driven, immutable architecture allowing fast integration, flexibility, auditability, and error recovery.
Allen quite literally wrote the book on Clojure – the event-driven, immutable architecture Griffin is built on, which allows for fast integration, flexibility, auditability and error recovery.
Traction
Griffin has built its core-bank infrastructure and submitted its banking regulatory license application.
Since launching, Griffin has built the core-bank infrastructure and submitted its regulatory application.
Team
Co-founders David Jarvis and Allen Rohner demonstrate exceptional founder-market fit with extensive experience in agile development and fintech.
The founder / market fit at Griffin is exceptional: it was founded by David Jarvis and Allen Rohner, who are both highly experienced in agile tech development and FinTech.
What founders can learn
- What actually moved the decision: Notion Capital wrote that Notion Capital invested due to the strength of Griffin's team, values-driven culture, and the massive market opportunity in full-stack BaaS.
- The traction evidence that carried weight: Notion Capital wrote that Griffin has built its core-bank infrastructure and submitted its banking regulatory license application.
- How the team was judged: Notion Capital wrote that Co-founders David Jarvis and Allen Rohner demonstrate exceptional founder-market fit with extensive experience in agile development and fintech.
Source and provenance
Why We Invested published by Notion Capital on notioncapital.com (first-party source). Read the original
