Stronghold is a leading financial infrastructure company that provides fast, secure, and accessible financial services through a simple API.
“Identifying and investing in emerging talent-especially underrepresented and undervalued founders- stands to benefit the developer community, the fintech industry, and even society as a whole.” “Stronghold Capital will create opportunities to develop new products and business models that improve financial infrastructure for everyone,” said Camp. Investors who have supported Stronghold’s rapid growth include: Ron Suber, The Bancorp co-founders Frank Mastrangelo and former CEO Betsy Cohen, Randy Reddig from the founding team of Square, Rob Stavis of Bessemer Venture Partners, Marqeta founder & CEO Jason Gardener, former Oppenheimer CEO, president & chairman Arthur Steinmetz, NerdWallet founder Jake Gibson, SoFi co-founder Dan Macklin, and Xpring now known as RippleX. Stronghold, as part of its own growth journey, raised capital from accomplished fintech founders, leading companies, and prominent industry advisors. Leading up to the KuCoin listing, three other top global digital currency exchanges-ranking 20, 15, and 10-listed SHx over the course of just two months. Stronghold’s merchant reward program drew attention in crypto communities last fall for its real-world application of the Stellar-based SHx token toward payment processing fees. We’re excited to have her among this first pool of decentralized finance investors,” said Sidney Powell, CEO and Co-Founder of Maple Finance. “Tammy understands the potential of technology, identifies rising talent, cares about societal reach, and can turn great ideas into realities. She advanced growth in fintech and blockchain throughout her earlier roles as partner at 500 Startups, head of growth at Stellar Development Foundation, and adviser to NFX Capital. Stronghold CEO and co-founder Tammy Camp will serve as fund manager for Stronghold Capital. Stronghold Capital will drive meaningful change through investments in companies with business models that will generate attractive returns while expanding access from Stronghold’s payments ecosystem to the overall financial ecosystem. The challenges in payments and financial services will take many innovative companies to solve. But these industries are multi-layered and complex. Stronghold’s business grew five-fold across most measures last year while fulfilling the company’s mission to provide fast, secure, and accessible financial services for all.
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