Sean Lippel is a General Partner and Head of Digital Assets at FinTech Collective. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
Sean Lippel is a General Partner and Head of Digital Assets at FinTech Collective, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on financial services technology in New York. Before joining the firm in 2015, he spent five years as an investment banker at Credit Suisse covering financial services and technology companies. His investment thesis targets early-stage fintech and digital assets, specifically leading the firm’s decentralized finance (DeFi) work across blockchain and Web3 infrastructure. Lippel typically invests in check sizes ranging from $250,000 to $3 million and often leads deals in the DeFi sector. Notable portfolio companies include the 52 firms in FinTech Collective’s portfolio, though specific named companies under his direct leadership are not explicitly detailed in available sources. A distinctive point of view in his career is his background as a world-ranked professional poker player who innovated online “poker staking” using data analytics to assess risk. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and frequently discusses the future of DeFi in public interviews.
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