Francisco (Paco) Rivera

Strategic Finance & Corporate Development Executive | Board Member | Portfolio Management & Change Management | Business Case Development | Strategic Advisory | Innovative Deal Structuring | CVC and M&A | Valuations

📍 San Antonio, Texas, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2023
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Board Member
Mar 2023
Grow Credit is a first-of-its-kind financial product that allows the estimated 100M consumers with no credit or thin credit files to establish or build credit for free using their existing subscription accounts such as Disney Plus, Netflix, Spotify, and more. Grow delivers credit score improvements thanks to a virtual Mastercard backed by a small-dollar loan accessible via the Grow Credit mobile application.
Board Member
Nov 2022
Gridspace turns streaming conversational speech audio into useful data and service metrics.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Enveil is a pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use. Enveil’s business-enabling and privacy-preserving capabilities change the paradigm of how and where organizations can leverage data to unlock value. Defining the transformative category of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), Enveil’s award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions for secure data usage, collaboration, and monetization protect data while its being used or processed. Customers can extract insights, cross-match, search, and analyze data assets at scale without ever revealing the content of the search itself, compromising the security or ownership of the underlying data, or exposing their interests and intent. A World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer founded by U.S. Intelligence Community alumni, Enveil is deployed and operational today, revolutionizing data usage in the global marketplace.
Board Observer
Oct 2020
ClickSWITCH is a digital account switching solution for financial institutions and challenger banks that simplifies the process of bringing new account holders onboard by quickly, safely and efficiently switching direct deposits and automatic payments to new accounts. The company enables financial institutions to make switching easy, capture more deposits, rapidly and consistently gain primary financial institution (PFI) status, and increase profitability. For more information, visit www.clickswitch.com.
Board Member
Mar 2020
Robin.io's hyperconverged Kubernetes for Stateful Edge automates deployment of complex 5G, edge and enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost.
Board Observer
Apr 2019
BillGO’s award-winning bill management & payments platform enables everyone to fully manage their day-to-day bills and subscriptions all in one place while offering a more efficient way to send and receive payments. By combining the power of speed, choice and intelligence, BillGO empowers consumers and the financial institutions, fintechs and billers that serve them.
Board Observer
May 2018
McKinsey estimates that more than 50% of all data breaches involve action of an insider. Proofpoint | ObserveIT is the leading Insider Threat Management solution with more than 1200 customers globally. ObserveIT helps organizations protect against data loss, malicious acts, and brand damage involving insiders acting maliciously, negligently, or unknowingly. The ObserveIT platform correlates activity and data movement, empowering security teams to identify user risk, detect to insider-led data breaches, and accelerate security incident response. Leveraging a powerful contextual intelligence engine and a library of over 400 threat templates drawn from customers and leading cybersecurity frameworks, ObserveIT delivers rapid time to value and proven capability to streamline insider threat programs. ObserveIT is now a business unit of Proofpoint.
Board Observer
Jul 2017
ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly sign in across websites without having to create a new sign-in and verify their identity again. Over 144 million users experience streamlined sign-in and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 44 state government agencies, and 66 healthcare organizations. More than 600 consumer brands use ID.me to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. ID.me’s technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is committed to “No Identity Left Behind” to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. To learn more, visit https://network.id.me/
Board Observer
Nov 2016
MindMeld is a technology company based in San Francisco, California. Our Deep-Domain Conversational AI platform is the first technology platform that enables companies to build intelligent conversational interfaces for any application or device. The world’s most innovative companies use our platform to power next-generation voice and chat assistants that enable users to quickly find and navigate information in a range of applications. MindMeld has been widely recognized as a leader in the field of natural language computing and was named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the "100 Brilliant Companies"​ of 2015 and by MIT Technology Review as one of the world's "50 Smartest Companies"​ of 2014. Since 2011, MindMeld has pioneered the development of technology to power a new generation of natural language applications. MindMeld’s customers and investors include some of largest technology companies in the industry, such as Google, Samsung, Intel, Uniqlo, Spotify, Telefonica, Liberty Global, and IDG, as well as some of the largest automobile manufacturers and government agencies. MindMeld is dedicated to providing the highest level of support to ensure that every project is successful. Our engagement model includes a dedicated team of experts who provide guidance and planning to ensure that your application is properly scoped. In addition, our team will work with your organization to ensure that implementation proceeds efficiently and that the final result meets the desired expectations. Our product license also includes a full support team who will ensure that your implementation will continue to operate reliably to meet the needs of your business.
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2023
Board Member
Mar 2023
Grow Credit is a first-of-its-kind financial product that allows the estimated 100M consumers with no credit or thin credit files to establish or build credit for free using their existing subscription accounts such as Disney Plus, Netflix, Spotify, and more. Grow delivers credit score improvements thanks to a virtual Mastercard backed by a small-dollar loan accessible via the Grow Credit mobile application.
2022
Board Member
Nov 2022
Gridspace turns streaming conversational speech audio into useful data and service metrics.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Enveil is a pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use. Enveil’s business-enabling and privacy-preserving capabilities change the paradigm of how and where organizations can leverage data to unlock value. Defining the transformative category of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), Enveil’s award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions for secure data usage, collaboration, and monetization protect data while its being used or processed. Customers can extract insights, cross-match, search, and analyze data assets at scale without ever revealing the content of the search itself, compromising the security or ownership of the underlying data, or exposing their interests and intent. A World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer founded by U.S. Intelligence Community alumni, Enveil is deployed and operational today, revolutionizing data usage in the global marketplace.
2020
Board Observer
Oct 2020
ClickSWITCH is a digital account switching solution for financial institutions and challenger banks that simplifies the process of bringing new account holders onboard by quickly, safely and efficiently switching direct deposits and automatic payments to new accounts. The company enables financial institutions to make switching easy, capture more deposits, rapidly and consistently gain primary financial institution (PFI) status, and increase profitability. For more information, visit www.clickswitch.com.
Board Member
Mar 2020
Robin.io's hyperconverged Kubernetes for Stateful Edge automates deployment of complex 5G, edge and enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost.
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