Per Arne Weiner
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- Full Name
- Per-Arne Weiner (goes by "P.A." Weiner)
- Title
- Managing Director, FinTech & Services Investment Banking
- Firm
- Capstone Partners
- Firm Type
- Investment bank / M&A and capital-raising advisory (middle market). Note: the stub's "Angel Investor" label does not match the verifiable record — Weiner is a career fintech investment banker/advisor, not a fund or angel principal.
- Investment Stage
- Advisory across the company lifecycle (growth-stage through mature); his transactions are M&A, equity, and debt rather than seed-stage checks
- Check Size
- Not applicable / not disclosed (advisor, not a capital allocator)
- Target Company Profile
- Financial technology, financial services, and insurance companies, primarily in the middle market
- Sector Focus
- Fintech, bank technology, capital-markets technology, financial software, insurtech
- Geographic Focus
- United States and Europe
- Location
- Greater New York City area (917 phone; NYC-based fintech IB practice)
Background
Per-Arne Weiner is a Managing Director in the FinTech & Services Investment Banking group at Capstone Partners, which he joined after serving as Co-Head of Financial Technology Investment Banking at Janney Montgomery Scott (from roughly late 2023). He brings more than 30 years of investment banking experience across the U.S. and Europe, advising both public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, equity, and debt transactions. He specializes in bank technology and capital-markets technology within the broader fintech and financial-software sectors.
Weiner began his career at Alex. Brown & Sons and went on to hold a series of senior roles: Head of European Software investment banking at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown (based in London), Founder and Co-Head of Fintech investment banking at Deutsche Bank in New York, and Head of Fintech investment banking at RBC Capital Markets. He was also a Partner at Gleacher Partners leading Technology IB (software, fintech, internet), a Managing Director in Fintech investment banking at Truist Securities, and — relevant to the original stub data — a Managing Director for Financial Technology at Signal Hill Capital Group / Signal Hill LLC from May 2016 to May 2017.
Over his career he has executed more than 40 equity transactions and advised on M&A totaling over $20 billion in value, working with clients including SAP, Certegy, Vista, NCR, FundTech (GTCR), Black Knight, and Sage plc.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he was a Tuck Scholar.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Operates as an M&A and capital-raising advisor, not a check-writing investor — engagements are sell-side/buy-side M&A, institutional financing, and strategic advisory rather than direct equity stakes
- Deep specialization in fintech, bank technology, capital-markets technology, financial software, financial services, and insurance companies
- Focus on the middle market, working with growth companies and both public and private issuers
- Cross-border reach across the U.S. and Europe, reflecting his time leading European software banking in London and fintech franchises in New York
- Track record oriented toward software and payments franchises (his named clients span payments/identity, banking software, and enterprise software)
Notable Investments
- FundTech (GTCR) — payments and transaction-banking software; M&A advisory
- Certegy — check/payment risk and identity verification; M&A advisory
- Black Knight — mortgage and real-estate data/technology; M&A advisory
- SAP — enterprise software; M&A advisory
- NCR — banking and retail transaction technology; M&A advisory
- Sage plc — UK-based business/accounting software; M&A advisory
- Vista — advisory client noted among his fintech/software engagements
- Collectively: 40+ equity transactions and M&A totaling more than $20 billion in value
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