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Nine People, Eight Million Dollars, and a Bet on Small Business
Two bankers with 38 years between them walked out of a big bank in 2001, opened Venture Bank in a Bloomington office park, and spent the next 17 years signing up more than 5,000 Twin Cities companies - until Choice Financial bought the whole thing.
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Transforming the Way Businesses Pay and Get Paid
TreasurySpring
TreasurySpring is a London-based financial technology company that gives institutions a single digital gateway to secure, diversified short-term cash investments. Through standardised Fixed-Term Funds (FTFs), clients gain access to government, bank and corporate credit exposures across dozens of jurisdictions and multiple currencies, with one onboarding process replacing the fragmented, paperwork-heavy setup that historically limited institutional cash investing. Founded in 2016, it has processed more than $350 billion in flows for 800+ clients.
Everett Cook
Everett Cook is the co-founder and CEO of Rho, a New York-based financial operations platform that combines business banking, corporate cards, payments, and expense management for growing companies. Before founding Rho in 2018 with Alex Wheldon, Cook spent roughly a decade in global macro investing, leading research at multi-billion-dollar funds and working in the orbit of figures like Steve Cohen and Michael Bloomberg. Raised in a New York finance family, he blends the discipline of a trader with an entrepreneurial streak that started at age 14, and has raised more than $200 million to build banking software for real, operating businesses rather than consumers.
Henry Adams
Henry Adams is US CEO and Global Head of Capital Markets at TreasurySpring, a London-founded fintech that opens up the multi-trillion dollar wholesale money markets to corporates and institutions. He joined the founding team at the start of 2018 after roughly a decade running secured financing portfolios at RBC and earlier work at BlackRock, and now leads the company's push into the United States from New York. His background sits at the intersection of repo trading, fixed income and product, which he channels into building the market plumbing behind TreasurySpring's Fixed-Term Funds.
Numeric
Numeric is a San Francisco-based, AI-native accounting platform that automates the month-end close for controllers, CFOs and senior accountants. Founded in 2020 by Parker Gilbert, Anthony Alvernaz and Andrew Bihl, it unifies close management, analytics and cash reconciliation into one system, using AI to draft flux (variance) explanations, reconcile accounts and flag anomalies in transaction data. Companies including Brex, Plaid, Wealthfront, OpenAI and Betterment use Numeric to close their books faster and with fewer manual steps. The company has raised roughly $89 million to date, capped by a $51 million Series B in November 2025.
Fispoke
Fispoke is a Florida-based fintech that gives independent financial advisors the private-banking toolkit normally reserved for the biggest institutions - without the advisor having to become a bank. Its platform embeds high-yield cash accounts, securities-backed loans, mortgages, advisor-branded credit cards, and business financing into the software advisors already use, handling the infrastructure, compliance, and execution behind the scenes. Founded in 2023 by Robert Clare and led by a bench of former wealth and banking executives, Fispoke raised over $2 million in seed capital and has partnered with First Rate and Wealthbox to bridge the long-standing gap between wealth management and banking.
Panax
Panax is an AI-native cash management platform that unifies bank and ERP data into a single live financial picture for lean finance and treasury teams. Built by finance professionals, it automates the manual grind of cash categorization, forecasting, reconciliation and reporting while keeping the finance team as the final decision maker. Panax targets mid-market and large companies in traditional industries - manufacturing, logistics, real estate - that have complex treasury needs but no army of treasury analysts.
Rho
Rho is a New York-based financial technology company that bundles business banking, corporate cards, treasury, accounts payable automation, and expense management into a single fee-free platform. Built for startups, mid-market companies, and accounting firms, Rho positions itself as a 'financial operating system' that replaces the patchwork of legacy banks and disconnected finance tools that growing companies usually stitch together.