Basil Darwish

Managing Director, Fintech & Enterprise Tech Lead, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2022
VC🌍 United States
16
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8
Mid stage
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13y
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Portfolio

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Series E Investor
Aug 2022
Brand strategy that drives sustainable growth for ambitious Cayman companies.
late stageDesign Services
Series E Investor
Aug 2022
BigPanda turns IT noise into automated actions. The BigPanda Incident Intelligence and Automation platform, powered by AIOps, empowers some of the worlds largest brands to keep business running, prevent service outages, and improve incident management to deliver extraordinary customer experiences. The BigPanda platform is critical for organizations across industries and all sizes.
Series C Lead Investor
Jul 2021
Vestwell is the modern fintech engine powering savings and investment programs for small businesses and individual savers across the country. We’re helping to close the savings gap by offering a flexible, cost-effective, modern solution to save for the critical aspects of life - retirement, education, and healthcare. Vestwell currently powers nearly 25,000 small businesses, over a million savers, and $27 billion in assets in all 50 states. To learn more visit vestwell.com. Vestwell Advisors LLC is a subsidiary of Vestwell Holdings, Inc. Vestwell Advisors LLC is an investment advisor registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and can provide investment management services for qualified retirement plans using the Vestwell platform. For more information about Vestwell, Vestwell Advisors, and our other services, learn more at www.vestwell.com.
Investor & Board Observer
May 2021
The mission of Arkose Labs is to create an online environment where all consumers are protected from online spam and abuse. Recognized by G2 as the 2023 Leader in Bot Detection and Mitigation, with the highest score in customer satisfaction and largest market presence four quarters running, Arkose Labs offers the worlds first $1M warranties for credential stuffing and SMS toll fraud. With 20% of our customers being Fortune 500 companies, our AI-powered platform combines powerful risk assessments with dynamic threat response to undermine the strategy of attack, all while improving good user throughput. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with offices in London, Costa Rica, and Brisbane, Australia, Arkose Labs protects enterprises from cybercrime and abuse.
Series A Lead & Board Member
Dec 2020
Trovata helps businesses automate the work it takes to gather and normalize all of its financial data. Trovata lets finance and treasury teams access, build, manage, and control their own trove of financial data – from banks, business & accounting systems, and external markets – connecting to these sources in minutes. We help CFOs answer simple questions that are difficult to answer without doing hours or days of work like, “How much cash do we have right now and where is it going?” This lets us intelligently drive efficiencies through transparent visualization, workflow automation, and machine learning that can transform financial operating performance.
Investor & Board Observer
Jul 2020
Socure is the leading platform for digital identity verification, compliance and fraud prevention solutions, trusted by the largest enterprises and government agencies to build trust and mitigate risk. Leveraging AI and machine learning, Socure’s industry-leading platform achieves the highest accuracy, automation, and capture rates in the industry. Serving more than 3,000 customers and 190+ countries across financial services, government, gaming, healthcare, telecom, and e-commerce, Socure’s customer base includes 18 of the top 20 banks, 4 of the Mag 7, the largest HR payroll and workforce providers, the largest sportsbook and prediction market operators, 130 public sector organizations including state and federal agencies across the public sector, and more than 600 fintechs. Leading organizations trust Socure to deliver certainty in identity across onboarding, authentication, payments, account changes, and regulatory compliance. Learn more at www.socure.com.
Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2019
Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning. We have built the most comprehensive platform with unrivalled uptime and scalability for efficiently extracting crypto data and intelligence with the greatest accuracy. The depth and breadth of our data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs.
Series B Investor
Sep 2019
Greenlight is a debit card and money app for families. Our mission is to shine a light on the world of money for families and empower parents to raise financially-smart kids. Millions of parents and kids use Greenlight to earn, save, spend wisely, give, and invest. Parents can set flexible spend controls, manage chores, automate allowances, and invest for their kids’ futures. The Greenlight team calls Atlanta home, but we have team members across the country. We’re pet enthusiasts, PTA presidents, fantasy football champs, kickball-mates, and volunteer dance teachers. We’re backed by Drive Capital, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, TTV Capital, Relay Ventures, NEA, Amazon, Ally Financial, SunTrust Bank, and Synchrony Financial. We were picked for CB Insights’ Fintech 250. Inspired? Apply to join our team: https://greenlight.com/careers/
Series C Lead & Board Member
Mar 2019
The largest global financial institutions use OpenFin’s intelligent workspaces and developer platform to help their teams work smarter, faster, and more effectively. Delight users and accelerate time-to-value with a workspace that does it all. Launch apps, automate tasks, configure complex layouts, search, context share, send and receive notifications and discover new apps. Our Chromium container provides all the tools you need to build Native Web Apps and deploy securely to locked-down desktops. Use our APIs to enable complex layouts, cross-app messaging, desktop notifications, secure OS access, and more. Clients expectations about how work gets done have changed. They don’t want siloed apps: they want a connected experience. Whether it’s more powerful layouts, unified notifications, or data flowing from one app to another - our tools empower you to give customers what they want. Join the OpenFin ecosystem and deliver elevated workspace experiences to your customers today. Move Fast. Break Nothing. OpenFin is the operating system for enterprise productivity, enabling app distribution, workspace management and workflow automation. Used by 90% of global financial institutions, OpenFin deploys more than 3,500 desktop applications to more than 2,400 buy-side and sell-side firms. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, Barclays, CME Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, HSBC, ING Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NYCA Partners, Pivot Investment Partners, Standard Chartered and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital among others. The company is based in New York with offices in London and presence in Hong Kong.
Series C Lead & Board Member
Nov 2017
H2O.ai is the leading open source Generative AI and Machine Learning platform provider on a mission to democratize AI. It distills the technical prowess of 30 Kaggle Masters into straightforward AI cloud products for Generative AI and machine learning that solve powerful problems. Customers, community, and partners are strategic investors in H2O.ai building a long term vision for using AI for Good. H2O.ai’s AI Engines of distributed ML H2O-3, autoML Driverless AI, Hydrogen Torch and Document AI have transformed over 20,000 global organizations and over half of the Fortune 500 and household brands, including AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, PayPal, Chipotle, ADP, WorkDay, IFFCO-Tokio and AES. H2O.ai’s AI for Good program regularly supports nonprofit groups, foundations and communities in their efforts to advance education, healthcare, and environmental conservation, including identifying areas vulnerable to natural disasters and protecting endangered species. Join us on the movement at www.h2o.ai.
Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2017
AtScale enables smarter decision-making by accelerating the flow of data-driven insights. The company’s semantic layer platform simplifies, accelerates, and extends business intelligence and data science capabilities for enterprise customers across all industries. With AtScale, customers are empowered to democratize data, implement self-service BI and build a more agile analytics infrastructure for better, more impactful decision making. For additional information, visit www.atscale.com.
Series A Lead Investor
Dec 2016
Axoni is a real-time data replication company serving the world’s largest financial institutions. Axoni’s platform enables rapid deployment of critical financial networks and automated, real-time data replication across market participants.
Series A Co-Lead & Board Member
Nov 2016
Droit builds mission-critical, breakthrough products to advance global regulatory compliance and real-time controls. Droit partners with leading global financial institutions to create forward-looking operational and regulatory solutions within the ever-changing financial landscape. Droit Adept is the innovative, patented platform that drives intelligent decision-making in a complex rule-driven landscape. The Adept platform provides an implementation of regulatory rules reflecting industry consensus. Institutions rely on Adept to provide solutions for pre-trade and post-trade controls, evaluating the permissibility of transactions, compliant regulatory reporting, and more. Adept generates decisions directly from digitized rules, regulations, and internal policies, visually represented in intuitive logic diagrams and linked back to the original sourced text. This complete traceability empowers users to act right with confidence. With locations in New York, London, Sydney, and Singapore, Droit continues to broaden its industry reach and offer clients breakthrough products enabling them to take the next right action. Learn more at droit.tech.
Board Observer
Oct 2013
M-DAQ is a Singapore-headquartered financial technology company that empowers businesses and individuals in cross-border transactions by harnessing data to provide foreign exchange clarity and certainty. Our innovation of tomorrow further leverages data to provide embedded finance solutions to offer corporates and their employees more convenience and control. Founded in 2010 with the belief that resources may be limited but aspirations are not, M-DAQs vision is to create a World without Currency Borders® for all to participate and thrive in the global economy. For more information, please visit: www.m-daq.com.
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2022
Series E Investor
Aug 2022
Brand strategy that drives sustainable growth for ambitious Cayman companies.
late stageDesign Services
Series E Investor
Aug 2022
BigPanda turns IT noise into automated actions. The BigPanda Incident Intelligence and Automation platform, powered by AIOps, empowers some of the worlds largest brands to keep business running, prevent service outages, and improve incident management to deliver extraordinary customer experiences. The BigPanda platform is critical for organizations across industries and all sizes.
2021
Series C Lead Investor
Jul 2021
Vestwell is the modern fintech engine powering savings and investment programs for small businesses and individual savers across the country. We’re helping to close the savings gap by offering a flexible, cost-effective, modern solution to save for the critical aspects of life - retirement, education, and healthcare. Vestwell currently powers nearly 25,000 small businesses, over a million savers, and $27 billion in assets in all 50 states. To learn more visit vestwell.com. Vestwell Advisors LLC is a subsidiary of Vestwell Holdings, Inc. Vestwell Advisors LLC is an investment advisor registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and can provide investment management services for qualified retirement plans using the Vestwell platform. For more information about Vestwell, Vestwell Advisors, and our other services, learn more at www.vestwell.com.
Investor & Board Member
Jul 2021
Volante Technologies is the trusted cloud payments modernization partner to financial businesses worldwide, giving them the freedom to evolve and innovate at record speed. Our Payments as a Service (PaaS) and underlying low-code platform process millions of mission-critical transactions and trillions in value daily, so customers can focus on growing their business, not managing their technology. Real-time ready, API enabled, and ISO 20022 fluent, our solutions power four of the top five global corporate banks, two of the world’s largest card networks, and 66% of U.S. commercial deposits.
Investor & Board Observer
May 2021
The mission of Arkose Labs is to create an online environment where all consumers are protected from online spam and abuse. Recognized by G2 as the 2023 Leader in Bot Detection and Mitigation, with the highest score in customer satisfaction and largest market presence four quarters running, Arkose Labs offers the worlds first $1M warranties for credential stuffing and SMS toll fraud. With 20% of our customers being Fortune 500 companies, our AI-powered platform combines powerful risk assessments with dynamic threat response to undermine the strategy of attack, all while improving good user throughput. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with offices in London, Costa Rica, and Brisbane, Australia, Arkose Labs protects enterprises from cybercrime and abuse.
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