Brandon Spierto
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- Full Name
- Brandon Spierto
- Title
- Vice President (Financial Technology & Services team)
- Firm
- FTV Capital (FTV Management Company, L.P.)
- Firm Type
- Sector-focused growth equity firm (not an angel investor)
- Investment Stage
- Growth equity — generally Series B and later / late-stage growth and recapitalizations
- Check Size
- Firm-level: ~$10M to $100M+ per deal; FTV's growth fund (FTV VIII) targets ~$60M–$300M, and its Ascend fund targets ~$20M–$60M checks
- Target Company Profile
- Profitable or scaling, high-growth software, business services, and financial services companies
- Sector Focus
- Financial technology and services (FTV invests across two verticals: financial technology & services and enterprise technology & services)
- Geographic Focus
- Primarily North America, with select international deals (e.g., UK)
- Location
- New York, NY (per FTV team page; some directories list Miami, FL)
Background
Brandon Spierto is a Vice President at FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity firm founded in 1998 that has raised more than $10.2 billion and invested over $6.7 billion across roughly 149 portfolio companies. He sits on FTV's financial technology and services investment team, where he focuses on software, business services, and financial services businesses. He joined FTV in 2019 and was promoted to Vice President on February 13, 2024 — one of eight team members elevated in that round — after progressing through associate and senior associate roles.
Before FTV, Brandon worked in the financial services investment banking group at Raymond James, where he advised clients on a range of equity, debt, and M&A transactions. That sell-side advisory background in financial services maps directly onto FTV's fintech investing focus.
He earned a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in finance from the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business. Since joining FTV he has been involved in a number of the firm's financial-services investments, including Patra, Embroker, Liberis, Neptune, Edgewater Markets, JustPark, and the realized Tango Card investment.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests as part of FTV's financial technology & services practice — software, business services, and financial services companies that help institutions grow and operate more efficiently.
- Growth-stage, not early-stage: FTV leads rounds and writes large checks (~$10M to $100M+), typically into companies with proven traction (Series B and later, growth recaps, and minority/control growth equity) — distinct from a seed/angel model.
- Looks for scaled, high-growth businesses in fintech and insurtech where FTV's operating resources and Global Partner Network can accelerate expansion (Patra's deal was explicitly framed around accelerating automation and digitization).
- Comfortable with insurance technology / services specifically — Patra (insurance BPO/automation), Embroker (digital insurance brokerage), and Neptune (flood insurance) cluster around the insurtech theme.
Notable Investments
- Patra — Insurance outsourcing and technology firm; secured a $146M growth equity investment / recapitalization from FTV (September 2022).
- Embroker — Digital insurance brokerage platform for businesses; FTV portfolio company.
- Tango Card — B2B digital rewards and incentives platform; FTV invested in 2018, grew the business ~800%, and exited via Blackhawk Network's acquisition (announced January 2024).
- Liberis — UK-based embedded finance / small-business funding platform.
- Neptune — Private flood insurance technology company.
- Edgewater Markets — FX trading technology and liquidity infrastructure provider.
- JustPark — UK parking and EV-charging marketplace.
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