Spencer Singer
Managing Partner at Finistere Ventures
Columbus, Ohio
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Associate
2024 - Current
Heartland Ventures is a venture capital firm that connects high-growth startups with our Midwestern corporate LPs and customer base. We invest in startups bringing innovative technology to traditional Midwestern industries, including manufacturing, construction, logistics, and real estate. Our deep network of executives at industry-leading corporations helps validate technologies by serving as pilot customers, often before we invest in the startup. Heartland Ventures plays an integral role in bridging the gap between traditional technology hubs and the Midwest.
Heartland Ventures is a value add venture investor that connects high-growth startups with new customers in the Midwest.
Board Observer
2023 - 2024
RapidWorks (formerly Rapid Applications Group) is the leader in software solutions for the heavy construction equipment services industry with hundreds of customers across North America, Europe, and Australia. Rapid ERP, Telematics GPS, and the Rapid On-the-Go mobile apps are the most widely used and trusted software products in the industry, enabling companies to dispatch and manage the complex requirements for construction work involving concrete pumping, hydrovac excavation, crane services dispatch, and other types of heavy construction jobs.
RapidWorks provides an ERP software solution for heavy equipment construction subcontractors.
Investor
2022 - 2024
Farther is the leading technology-centric wealth management firm – combining expert advisors with cutting-edge technology to deliver an efficient, comprehensive, and elite client experience. Founded in 2019 and backed by top-tier venture capital firms, Farther caters to high-net-worth professionals who need a more holistic approach to managing their money.
Farther is a wealth management firm that combines expert financial advisors with technology to enhance financial planning services.
Raised $118,000,000.00 from Viewpoint Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and CapitalG.
Board Observer
2021 - 2024
Knowify was founded on the premise that it was time for the business management technology revolution to reach small businesses. Knowify aims to streamline and simplify many of the frustrating aspects of running a contracting business. Knowify can help your contracting business manage service tickets, work orders, and contract jobs all on one platform. Knowify encompasses estimation, job costing, contract and change order management, project tracking, time tracking, invoicing, purchasing, billing, and scheduling.
Knowify is a platform for construction contractors providing productivity tools and real-time data to grow their businesses.
Raised $12,075,000.00 from CEAS Investments, Sidecar Angels, Companyon Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and Dreamit Ventures.
Board Observer
2021 - 2024
Checkbook, has built a way to send and receive Digital Payments instead of dealing with paper and postage, or expensive online transactions. Digital Payments offer a clear financial and operational advantage for businesses with instant delivery, and online deposit, at a fraction of the cost of paper checks. Less than $1 per transaction. Checkbook’s Digital Payment technology is an end-to-end, simplified payments solution that combines both cost-savings and convenience.
Checkbook provides a single API to enables business to send payments at scale. Payments can go over any rail. No payee enrollment required
Raised $11,800,000.00 from MassMutual Ventures, Cross River Digital Ventures, JP Morgan Chase and IA Capital Group.
Board Observer
2020 - 2024
The Privacy, Governance & Compliance Operating System from Mine! As the #1 rated data privacy platform on G2, businesses prefer MineOS over the competition for its simplicity, unique automation, and ML-assisted features, which make quick work of compliance. Discover data quickly and thoroughly, highlight and act on relevant risks, manage data requests and customer consent beautifully, prevent breaches and ensure compliance stays effortless - with MineOS.
Investor
2020 - 2024
Investor
2021 - 2023
SecZetta was acquired by SailPoint in 2023.
Investment Analyst, Co-op
2019 - 2020
Venture Director
2019 - 2019
Origin is the deep tech innovation hub at Northeastern University focused on providing resources to help students in the STEM field learn the skills they need to build successful technical ventures.