About Us
NextLevel Venture Partners - (www.nextlevelvp.com) NextLevel specializes in identifying early stage companies with breakthrough technologies and/or services. NextLevel invests up to $1 million in companies that have completed their seed rounds of investments, but are not yet ready to approach the large, later stage funds.
Village Ventures – (www.villageventures.com) Village Ventures is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focusing on three primary sectors: consumer media and retail, health care and financial services. Our strategy is to partner with leading entrepreneurs creating innovative products and solving complicated problems in those industries.
Warbros Venture Partners – (www.warbros.com) Formed in 1996, Warbros is a private investment firm, owned and managed by John Warburg and Michael Warburg. The firm's objective is to achieve long-term capital appreciation through investments in private equity and equity-related securities. Warbros takes minority positions in both early-stage and mature companies that are typically looking to raise between $250,000 and $2 M.
Center for Financial Services Innovation – (www.cfsinnovation.com) The Center for Financial Services Innovation develops and distributes real-world tested research and strategy, provides funding to promising companies, and facilitates cross-sector business collaboration. We work with banks, credit unions, technology vendors, alternative service providers, consumer advocates and policy makers to forge the pioneering relationships, products and strategies that will transform industry practice and the lives of underbanked consumers across the economic, geographic and cultural spectrum.
Mark Johnson – Mark is the former Vice Chairman of CheckFree with more than 25 years of experience in the payments space. CheckFree is the largest bill payment processor in the United States, processing more than 100 million payments per month. Mark worked at CheckFree for over 20 years and was chiefly responsible for CheckFree's strategic M&A activities.
Sean Feeney – Sean is the CEO of Inovis, a $500 Million Atlanta-based company that is a leading provider of on-demand Business Community Management solutions that empower companies to transact, collaborate and optimize communications with their entire trading community. Sean also held senior management roles within CheckFree Corporation including Executive Vice President and President of CheckFree Software.