Phin Upham is the Managing Partner-VC/Fintech at Haymaker Ventures, an early-stage venture firm dedicated to fintech. See contact routes.
Phin Upham is the Managing Partner-VC/Fintech at Haymaker Ventures, an early-stage venture firm dedicated to fintech, where he previously spent nearly a decade as Managing Director of VC/Fintech at Thiel Capital after working as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Rothschild, and Lazard. His investment thesis targets pre-seed and seed-stage companies in fintech, payments, data services, and sales/CRM, primarily within the United States. Upham typically leads or follows with check sizes ranging from $100,000 to $5.0 million, focusing on early rounds like Seed and Series A. Notable portfolio companies include Figure, FLYR Labs (where he serves as a Board Member), Routefusion, FlexPoint, and Brightflow AI. He has articulated a distinctive point of view emphasizing that “fewer is better” and advocating for a “frictionless world” by reframing financial problems, as discussed in his interview on The Full Ratchet podcast. Upham holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an MBA and Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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