Michael Cichowski

FinTech Growth Investor

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Mar 2026
Valitana is dedicated to building intuitive, integrated, and customizable platforms for modern investment professionals. Valitana aims to deliver clear, concise, relevant insights and enable our clients to focus on informed security selection, asset allocation, and risk management. Vantage is our a multi-asset class trade and portfolio management platform. With extensive data warehousing capabilities, custom-built workflows, a powerful compliance engine, and numerous third-party integrations, Vantage is designed to help operations, finance, portfolio managers, traders, compliance, and IR focus on what matters most. Valitana Analytics is our CLO analysis and workflow platform. Deep dive into the analytics and relative value metrics of any deal, create your own custom analytics, run valuations with an unlimited set of your own custom cashflow projection scenarios, and quickly run price / yield tables and liquidation NAVs.
Board Member
Jul 2025
Easy to use, integrated AI pre-trade thru post-trade platform creating data integrity between asset managers, brokers, custodians, 3rd party administrators, and clients. We are an experienced financial team who created a streamlined FinTech/RegTech communication platform to speed processes in order to help our clients achieve revenue faster.
Board Member
May 2022
Grounded in Wall Street and enabled by technology, Mirador combines powerful data science with deep financial expertise to provide best-of-breed services to those who serve significant wealth; Single Family Offices, Wealth Managers and RIAs, Endowments and Foundations. Our services include: Consolidated Financial Reporting – We operate industry-leading 3rd party systems to aggregate and report on family assets, no matter where they are custodied. Award-winning reporting service that identifies opportunities and exposes risks across all asset classes – liquid securities, alternative investments, hard assets and collectibles. Expert Services - We counsel wealth advisors on their specific technology needs before designing, sourcing and implementing a custom solution. Unlike many providers who leave, we will stay and act as oCTO if desired (operating and maintaining your system) allowing advisors to focus on value creation. Middle Office Services - We support existing client teams in the important but often time-consuming middle office tasks vital to a smooth Adviser operation. Whether direct client advocate support or in combination with our technology stack, clients select and pay for only what they need. Advisor-Client Portal - Our award-winning Gateway portal allows advisors and clients to connect securely to share timely information and build lasting relationships. With a personalized dashboard and standard-setting features, Gateway extends the digital environment to create a seamless and secure client experience. www.miradorgateway.com With offices in Stamford, CT (HQ), Chicago, IL, Jacksonville, FL, Salt Lake City, UT, Dublin, Ireland and Edinburgh, Scotland, we serve clients throughout the world. We encourage you to visit our website: www.mirador.com; follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/miradorinc; follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/miradorinc; and like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/MiradorInc/
Board Member
Mar 2021
FinDox is a next-generation workflow management and data solution for financial professionals. FinDox is a streamlined, smarter way to aggregate confidential documents, automate restricted lists, review issuer information and manage regulatory reporting. We provide clean data, reporting and document controls in one central place. FinDox is a privately held, well funded, secure and modern technology provider. Our clients include the majority of the Top-50 CLO managers, the leading alternative asset management firms of the world, emerging credit managers, hedge funds, distressed funds, banks and private credit managers.
Board Member
May 2020
TIS helps CFOs, Treasurers, and Finance teams transform their global cash flow, liquidity, and payment functions. Since 2010, our award-winning cloud platform and best-in-class service model have empowered the entire office of the CFO to collaborate more effectively and attain maximum efficiency, automation, and control. By streamlining connectivity between our customers’ back-office systems and their worldwide banks, vendors, and business partners, TIS enables users to achieve superior performance in key areas surrounding cash forecasting, working capital, outbound payments, financial messaging, fraud prevention, payment compliance, and more. With over 11,000 banking options, $80 billion in daily cash managed, and $2.9 trillion in annual transaction volume, TIS has a proven track record of combining our unparalleled market expertise with tailored client and community feedback to drive digital transformation for companies of all sizes and industries. As a result, hundreds of organizations and thousands of practitioners rely on TIS daily to gain strategic advantage, monetize data, improve operational efficiency, and better manage risk. For more information, visit tispayments.com and begin reimagining your approach to global cash flow, liquidity, and payments.
Board Member
Sep 2017
Kryon®, now part of Nintex, the global standard for process intelligence and automation, is a leading innovator in enterprise automation, offering the only unified platform on the market which encompasses Process Discovery and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The Kryon Full-Cycle Automation™ solution maximizes ROI by 352% according to Forrester Research and cuts RPA implementation time by up to 80%. Powered by proprietary AI technology, first-to-market Kryon Process Discovery™ automatically generates a comprehensive picture of business processes, evaluates them, and recommends which ones to automate. Kryon was the first to offer Full-Cycle Automation as a Service (FCAaaS), an agile cloud-based suite offering rapid deployment, flexibility and scalability. Kryon offers desktop-based attended RPA and guide learning, virtual-machine-based unattended RPA, or a hybrid combination of both. The company's award-winning suite is used by enterprises worldwide, including AIG, Allianz, Deutsche Telekom, EY, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, HP, Long Term Care Group, Microsoft, Singtel, Verizon, and Wyndham Hotel Group.
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2026
Board Member
Mar 2026
Valitana is dedicated to building intuitive, integrated, and customizable platforms for modern investment professionals. Valitana aims to deliver clear, concise, relevant insights and enable our clients to focus on informed security selection, asset allocation, and risk management. Vantage is our a multi-asset class trade and portfolio management platform. With extensive data warehousing capabilities, custom-built workflows, a powerful compliance engine, and numerous third-party integrations, Vantage is designed to help operations, finance, portfolio managers, traders, compliance, and IR focus on what matters most. Valitana Analytics is our CLO analysis and workflow platform. Deep dive into the analytics and relative value metrics of any deal, create your own custom analytics, run valuations with an unlimited set of your own custom cashflow projection scenarios, and quickly run price / yield tables and liquidation NAVs.
2025
Board Member
Jul 2025
Easy to use, integrated AI pre-trade thru post-trade platform creating data integrity between asset managers, brokers, custodians, 3rd party administrators, and clients. We are an experienced financial team who created a streamlined FinTech/RegTech communication platform to speed processes in order to help our clients achieve revenue faster.
Board Member
May 2025
Validus Risk Management is an independent market risk advisory firm specialising in the management of currency, interest rate and commodity price risk. We help our clients navigate and manage financial risk with a hands-on advisory approach and award-winning technology solutions. Our systematic financial risk management methodology has been designed to increase risk transparency, create customised risk management solutions, and facilitate the efficient execution of hedging transactions by minimising information asymmetry between clients and banking counterparties. The Validus Risk Management advisory service gives our clients access to the latest risk management technology and independent expertise at a fraction of the cost of an in-house financial risk management function. Validus works with a range of companies across the globe, from SMEs to multinational corporations, as well as pension funds and leading alternative investments funds (Private Equity, Secondaries, Private Debt, Real Estate). We act as an extension to more than 150 clients globally and execute more than 12,000 trades every month (>$600bn in hedging volume annually).
2023
Partner
Sep 2023
FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $10.2 billion to invest in high-growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in financial technology and services, vertical software, enterprise technology and services, and healthcare technology and services. FTV’s experienced team leverages its domain expertise and proven track record in these sectors to help motivated management teams accelerate growth. FTV also provides companies with access to FTV Propel®, experienced executives dedicated to driving value for our portfolio companies across a range of business functions, and FTVs Global Partner Network®, a group of the world’s leading enterprises and executives who have helped our portfolio companies for over 28 years. Founded in 1998, FTV Capital has invested in over 150 portfolio companies. FTV has offices in New York, San Francisco, London and Connecticut.
2022
Board Member
May 2022
Grounded in Wall Street and enabled by technology, Mirador combines powerful data science with deep financial expertise to provide best-of-breed services to those who serve significant wealth; Single Family Offices, Wealth Managers and RIAs, Endowments and Foundations. Our services include: Consolidated Financial Reporting – We operate industry-leading 3rd party systems to aggregate and report on family assets, no matter where they are custodied. Award-winning reporting service that identifies opportunities and exposes risks across all asset classes – liquid securities, alternative investments, hard assets and collectibles. Expert Services - We counsel wealth advisors on their specific technology needs before designing, sourcing and implementing a custom solution. Unlike many providers who leave, we will stay and act as oCTO if desired (operating and maintaining your system) allowing advisors to focus on value creation. Middle Office Services - We support existing client teams in the important but often time-consuming middle office tasks vital to a smooth Adviser operation. Whether direct client advocate support or in combination with our technology stack, clients select and pay for only what they need. Advisor-Client Portal - Our award-winning Gateway portal allows advisors and clients to connect securely to share timely information and build lasting relationships. With a personalized dashboard and standard-setting features, Gateway extends the digital environment to create a seamless and secure client experience. www.miradorgateway.com With offices in Stamford, CT (HQ), Chicago, IL, Jacksonville, FL, Salt Lake City, UT, Dublin, Ireland and Edinburgh, Scotland, we serve clients throughout the world. We encourage you to visit our website: www.mirador.com; follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/miradorinc; follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/miradorinc; and like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/MiradorInc/
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