Nico Stainfeld

Nico Stainfeld is a Partner at Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm based in New York that specializes in early-stage investments, particularly in the fintech sector. His focus areas include banking, embedded payments, insurtech, and crypto. Stainfeld has an extensive background in fintech investing, having previously led early-stage fintech investments at General Atlantic and worked on Wall Street with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he advised tech companies on mergers and acquisitions and initiated the firm's entry into fintech. He also served as an investor at Citi Ventures, focusing on both financial and strategic investments.12

Stainfeld holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University. He is multilingual, speaking English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Outside of his professional life, he has interests in soccer, flying (he is pursuing a private pilot license), and culinary experiences. Stainfeld is of Uruguayan, German, and American descent.123