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Pete Casella

Founder of STACK

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Pete Casella is a highly accomplished Founder with a strong background in venture capital and investments, particularly in financial technology and asset management sectors. He has successfully founded STACK and served as a Founding Partner at Point72 Ventures, making strategic investments in companies like GenTwo and 24 Exchange. Casella's career highlights include founding successful companies like STACK and Bacchus Capital, as well as making impactful investments in companies such as Syncfy and Extend. His current role involves leading investment initiatives in Series A and Seed stages, primarily focusing on Data Services and FinTech sectors in New York City.

Work Experience 

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STACK

  • Founder

    2023 - Current

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Point72 Ventures

  • Founding Partner

    2016 - 2023

Point72 Ventures is an every-stage global VC fund that focuses on fintech, deep tech, and enterprise investments.

p72.vc
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  • Executive Director

    2014 - 2016

    Strategic Investments - Focused on sourcing and executing venture and growth stage private investments in businesses that are strategic to the JPMorgan franchise. Coverage sectors include financial technology, market structure, enterprise software and infrastructure technologies, and asset management.

Morgan Health is the healthcare investment arm of JPMorgan Chase.

jpmorganchase.com
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Credit Suisse

  • Director

    2012 - 2014

    Principal Investments Group - One of three investment professionals managing the firm’s direct venture capital portfolio. Focused on sourcing and executing early and growth stage venture investments that leverage Credit Suisse’s industry-leading capital markets franchise and the strength of our global IT organization for sourcing and due diligence, as a client, and as a channel partner to our customers. Sector coverage: Market structure (trading technologies, exchanges, financial services), big data / analytics, enterprise software

  • Vice President

    2010 - 2012

    Principal Investments Group

Credit Suisse Group is a financial services company that advises clients in all aspects of finance.

credit-suisse.com
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FTV Capital

  • Vice President

    2004 - 2010

    Investment professional with responsibilities for sourcing, executing and managing growth equity investments. Sector coverage: Business Services, Software, Financial Services and Asset Management. Subsectors included business process outsourcing, knowledge outsourcing, legal outsourcing, IT services, alternative asset managers, fund services and compliance

FTV Capital is a growth equity firm focused on enterprise solutions, financial services, and payments and transaction processing.

ftvcapital.com

JPMorgan Strategy & Development

  • Associate

    2003 - 2004

    Strategy & Development for JPMorgan's Asset & Wealth Management Platform

Bacchus Capital

  • Founder

    2002 - 2003

    Concert finance and production

JPMorgan Investment Banking

  • Analyst

    2000 - 2002

    Investment Banking Analyst in the Financial Institutions Group

Education 

Investments 

GenTwo

Series A

Total funding: $15M

Syncfy

Seed

Total funding: $10M

Monite

Seed

Total funding: $17M

SupplyHound

Seed

Total funding: $3M

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