Oivind Lorentzen

Partner at Oak HC/FT

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Board Member
Jan 2026
For decades companies have relied on archaic tools to inform decisions and make bets on the future. Until now. Fundamental empowers businesses to turn gambles into guarantees and determine their future with far greater accuracy than ever before. Built by DeepMind alumni and trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises, NEXUS is our most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM). By revealing the hidden language of tables, NEXUS unlocks trillions of dollars of value by giving businesses the Power to Predict™.
Investor
Jun 2025
Institutional infrastructure for cross-border settlement. XFX makes global money movement fast, transparent, and capital-efficient—across both fiat and stablecoin rails.
Investor
2025
Catena is a banking and governance platform for AI agents. We give agents programmable financial infrastructure. For the humans and businesses who deploy them, we provide a control plane to ensure that when agents use money, they do it safely.
Board Member
Jan 2024
EasySend helps you evolve forms into easy digital experiences with no code. By going digital, you’ll streamline customer data intake and automate your enterprise workflow.
Investor
Jan 2023
APIs that enable developers to move into, out of, and between any form of a dollar.
Board Member
Dec 2021
IMMO is Europe’s first technology-led residential real estate platform, designed to create quality portfolios of existing single-family rental (SFR) housing at speed and scale. We’ve built a unique end-to-end solution, providing institutional partners with sourcing, acquisition, portfolio management, lettings and property management, enabling them to drive performance and maximise returns. Founded in 2017, we have assembled an experienced team of 130+ which includes successful entrepreneurs and industry leaders with expertise from McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Uber, HSBC, Amazon, Procter & Gamble, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Google and many more. We have an established presence in the UK, Germany, Spain and India and have been awarded “Tech Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum.
Board Observer
Nov 2021
Justt is revolutionizing chargeback management with a cutting-edge AI-powered platform that uses machine learning to tailor and optimize the results. Unlike traditional template-based solutions, Justt utilizes dynamic arguments to generate tailored evidence for each dispute, selecting and leveraging the best data points from 500+ options derived from PSPs, third-party enrichment sources, and merchant data. The platform scales effortlessly, with consistent high-quality responses regardless of dispute volume fluctuations. Then leveraging machine learning with weak spot detection and A/B testing, Justt continuously enhances win rates, and enables its internal domain experts to adapt the solution at scale to meet evolving industry regulations. Justt offers a seamless, efficient, and highly effective chargeback solution with easy integration, allowing merchants to focus on their core business without the burden of chargeback disputes.
Investor
Apr 2021
Paxos is the leading regulated blockchain infrastructure and tokenization platform. Its products are the foundation for a new, open financial system that can operate faster and more efficiently. Today, trillions of dollars are locked in inefficient, outdated financial plumbing that is inaccessible to millions of people. Paxos is replatforming the financial system to enable assets to instantaneously move anywhere in the world, at any time, in a trustworthy way. Paxos partners with leading global enterprises to tokenize, custody and trade assets. Its blockchain solutions are used by leaders like PayPal, Interactive Brokers, Mastercard, Mercado Libre and Nubank. Paxos is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity and is the issuer of numerous digital assets including PayPal USD (PYUSD), Pax Dollar (USDP) and Pax Gold (PAXG). Global Dollar (USDG) is issued by Paxos Digital Singapore, which is a Major Payments Institution supervised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. USDG is also issued by Paxos Issuance Europe under the supervision of FIN-FSA and in compliance with MiCA. USDG is also available on Solana. Prudentially regulated by FIN-FSA in Europe, the OCC in the US, the MAS in Singapore and FSRA in Abu Dhabi Global Market, Paxos is a leading fintech company with more than $500 million raised from leading investors including Oak HC/FT, Declaration Partners, Founders Fund and PayPal Ventures.
Board Observer
Dec 2019
Panorays is a leading provider of innovative third-party security risk management solutions, helping organizations worldwide manage their vendor risk effectively and efficiently. Through its AI-powered platform, Panorays transforms the TPRM process, providing a comprehensive and secure solution for both vendors and evaluators. The company's commitment to innovation and excellence makes it the trusted choice for TPRM needs across various industries.
Board Observer
Oct 2019
Build Bold. Liberate global commerce with all the tools your business needs to create payment, payout and fintech experiences everywhere. Around the world, customers want to pay in a thousand different ways. Businesses and consumers want to get paid faster. And developers want to build new products and possibilities. Rapyd makes it happen, giving you more ways than anyone to make fintech work for your business. With Rapyd, your business can accept and send payments to just about anyone—faster, cheaper and easier. And Rapyd clients see an average of 196% return on investment and spend 70% less time managing payments. Whether you’re building an app, selling a product, sending payments or doing a little of everything, Rapyd has solutions that let you boldly do what you do best. • Send and receive funds • Add hundreds of payment methods worldwide • Issue prepaid virtual and physical cards • Simplify money management and foreign exchange • Integrate fintech with APIs
Investor
Jul 2015
Feedzai powers trust in global finance with our AI-native financial crime prevention platform, protecting the moments where money matters most at massive scale. Our platform works tirelessly to protect every customer interaction, processing 90 billion events and securing $8 trillion in payments every year. Our modern RiskOps approach unifies Data, AI, and Control to secure the entire customer journey, offering protection across fraud prevention, identity, and AML. Top leaders and organizations in banking and payments trust us to help them build institutional confidence, ensure compliance, and modernize their risk infrastructure globally. Beyond the platform, our clients gain expert insights backed by 10 years of AI research and a global team of behavioral experts, practitioners, and data scientists. This collective intelligence turns billions of data points into a powerful, well-rounded defense. Feedzai has recently reached a valuation of $2 billion, marking us as a leader in the industry. Our mission is clear: we are building a world where financial institutions move faster than criminals, a world where fraud and risk leaders can solve problems by the billions. Our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.
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2026
Board Member
Jan 2026
For decades companies have relied on archaic tools to inform decisions and make bets on the future. Until now. Fundamental empowers businesses to turn gambles into guarantees and determine their future with far greater accuracy than ever before. Built by DeepMind alumni and trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises, NEXUS is our most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM). By revealing the hidden language of tables, NEXUS unlocks trillions of dollars of value by giving businesses the Power to Predict™.
2025
Investor
Jun 2025
Institutional infrastructure for cross-border settlement. XFX makes global money movement fast, transparent, and capital-efficient—across both fiat and stablecoin rails.
Investor
2025
Catena is a banking and governance platform for AI agents. We give agents programmable financial infrastructure. For the humans and businesses who deploy them, we provide a control plane to ensure that when agents use money, they do it safely.
2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
EasySend helps you evolve forms into easy digital experiences with no code. By going digital, you’ll streamline customer data intake and automate your enterprise workflow.
2023
Investor
Jan 2023
APIs that enable developers to move into, out of, and between any form of a dollar.
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