Paul Pate

Partner at Springcoast

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Investor
Jan 2025
Float is on a mission to simplify business finance in Canada. Trusted by 7,000+ companies, we help finance teams save time, improve compliance, and scale with confidence with corporate cards, bill pay, reimbursements, FX, and more. Float Financial Solutions Inc. is a financial technology company and not a bank. The Float Visa* Prepaid Card is issued by Peoples Trust Company pursuant to a licence from Visa International. Funds associated with the Float Visa Prepaid Card, including funds held in business accounts, are held at one or more Canadian financial institutions that are members of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (“CDIC”) and are eligible for CDIC deposit insurance, subject to applicable coverage limits. For more information, visit cdic.ca. The Float Mastercard® USD Card is issued by Thread Bank, Member FDIC, pursuant to a licence from Mastercard International. Banking services are provided by Thread Bank, Member FDIC. FDIC insurance is available for funds on deposit with Thread Bank, subject to applicable limits and conditions.
Investor
Nov 2023
Candex is a fintech master-vendor for large organizations so that they can make purchases from one-time, irregular and low risk suppliers using existing P2P processes. Candex operates globally managing setup, support, tax and regulatory complexity - making it simple, fast, and compliant to pay suppliers even across borders and cross currencies. Available in multiple deliveries, Candex works directly within existing e-procurement systems, via bulk uploads, or integrated into any workflow via API. In the end - Candex completely takes care of the 70-80% of vendors getting 3-5% of spend; ensures that "No PO, No Pay" becomes achievable; and the efficiency is so remarkable that our clients enter a sort of procurement zen.
Board Member
Mar 2022
As business leaders and individuals must do more with less and navigate uncharted obstacles, Newfront is the modern insurance brokerage with industry-leading expertise, transformative technology and client-centric, scalable solutions, helping our clients mitigate risk, elevate their employee experience and forge their path to profitable growth. We are de-risking human progress while enabling our clients to pursue their world-changing visions with confidence.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
Na Contabilizei, transformamos a contabilidade com tecnologia de ponta, revolucionando a forma como micro e pequenos empreendedores cuidam de seus negócios no Brasil. Criamos soluções digitais exclusivas, escaláveis e integradas que simplificam a gestão contábil e fortalecem quem empreende. Somos líderes na abertura de empresas e gestão de CNPJs, apoiando mais de 100 mil clientes em todo o Brasil. Nosso time, com mais de 1.200 pessoas, é movido pelo mesmo propósito: usar dados, automação e inteligência para reinventar a contabilidade e simplificar a vida de quem empreende. Aqui, cultivamos autonomia, colaboração e protagonismo, para que cada pessoa cresça junto enquanto constrói soluções que transformam um dos maiores desafios do país em oportunidades reais. Desde a nossa fundação em 2013, por Vitor Torres e Fábio Bacarin, no município de Curitiba (PR), atuamos ao lado dos empreendedores brasileiros. Com escritório também em São Paulo (SP), reunimos Guardiões e Guardiãs (como são chamados os nossos colaboradores) nos modelos presencial, híbrido e remoto para mudar o futuro com a gente. Promovemos um ambiente descontraído, colaborativo, acelerado e que desafia, a fim de atingir resultados com excelência e proporcionar a melhor experiência aos nossos clientes. Na Contabilizei queremos que você seja a melhor versão de si, pois acreditamos que a diversidade promove o crescimento sustentável. Todas as pessoas são mais do que bem-vindas: valorizamos as diferenças de identidade de gênero, cor e etnia, orientação sexual, geração, deficiência, entre outras. A nossa busca constante pela inovação atraiu investimentos de fundos internacionais como Banco Mundial (IFC), KaszeK Ventures, Point72 Ventures e SoftBank Latin America Fund. Já a nossa cultura garantiu o reconhecimento em diversos rankings como GPTW, Smart Customer, Linkedin Top Startups, Latam Founders Awards e Fast Company. Conselho Regional de Contabilidade: PR-010346/O-2 Responsável Técnico: PR-045113/O-7
Board Observer
Nov 2021
Peek is the operating system powering the experiences industry—from museums and attractions to tours and activities. With over $7B in bookings, Peek’s AI-powered platform has helped thousands of merchants to increase revenues, save time and deliver seamless guest experiences. Customers include MoMA, Whitney Museum, Seattle Aquarium, Bryant Park, Looping Group & Museum of Ice Cream. The company has raised over $150 million from institutional investors including Springcoast Partners, WestCap and Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Learn more at www.peek.com.
Board Member
Nov 2021
PLACE is an end-to-end technology and business services platform designed to simplify the real estate lifecycle for both consumers and their real estate agents. We partner exclusively with leading real estate teams, regardless of brokerage, in 100+ locations across the United States and Canada. Some of the nation’s top producing real estate teams choose to partner with PLACE because, unlike many of the other tech companies in our industry, we feel cutting-edge proptech should support the hardest working agents instead of eliminating them. At the forefront of our business is a consumer services model that takes the guesswork out of real estate. Clients of PLACE-powered agents will have access to a one-stop shop that streamlines the traditionally complicated process of buying, selling, maintaining, and investing in properties. Our upcoming products include in-house mortgage brokers, title and escrow services, an insurance portal, and a home improvement network referral system, among other exciting initiatives. In addition, PLACE’s proprietary technology and business services platform helps agents offload up to 75% of their operations tasks so they can focus on being a key advisor to their clients. PLACE partners value relationships over transactions because we take care of team accounting, bookkeeping, human resources, in-house legal, design and marketing, talent acquisition, business training and coaching. Agents within PLACE-powered teams have access to employee-like benefits that are notoriously unavailable to Realtors, even at the highest production levels. Our industry is changing and we want to bring the best candidates along for the ride. We are actively recruiting for new PLACE partners, open positions within our headquarters team, and on behalf of existing PLACE partners across the US. If you want to contribute to changing the real estate transaction and homeownership process for the better, join us today.
early stageReal Estate
Board Member
Jun 2021
Entera is the leading 3-sided marketplace focused on connecting Enterprise and Mid-Market investors, sellers and services providers in the single-family residential market. Powered by modern data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Entera’s marketplace offers the most seamless solution for investors to access, evaluate, transact and operate their single-family real estate investments. Backed by leading venture capital investors Goldman Sachs Growth, Bullpen Capital, and Craft Ventures, Entera is focused on delivering software innovation and offline service solutions that enable its’ investor clients to scale their operations quickly, make more market data-driven decisions confidently, and maximize financial returns. Since its inception in 2018, Entera has transacted on more than 15,000 single family homes valued at $5 Billion across 29 US markets. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and Houston, Texas. Learn more at www.entera.ai.
mid stageReal Estate
Board Member
Jun 2021
Polly is on a mission to offer people a better way to buy insurance, by embedding it into life’s biggest, most important purchases, like a car or a home. Instead of having to buy a car in one place and insurance in another, Polly embeds 30+ top insurance choices into the car-buying process. Get insurance options from a Polly Licensed Agent, or quickly buy your choice on your phone. Buyers who shop and save with Polly at the dealership can use their savings to get a better car package or lower their overall monthly payments before driving off in their new car, fully insured. Go to Polly.co to learn more.
late stageInsurance
Board Observer
Mar 2021
Hopper is a global travel platform that powers Hopper’s mobile app, as well as partners direct channels via HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). Hopper combines a best-in-class travel agency, industry-leading e-commerce, and proprietary financial services to help users travel better — and partners earn more. To do this, the company developed several unique fintech ancillaries that address everything from pricing volatility to avoiding trip disruptions. Through HTS, Hopper’s B2B business, the company supercharges its partners’ direct channels with its full suite of offerings. Hopper sells billions worth of travel and travel fintech every year. The Hopper app has over 120 million downloads, and 70% of users are Gen-Z and Millennials travelers. HTS powers many of the world’s leading brands with travel fintech ancillaries, partner-branded travel portals, and industry-leading e-commerce. Hopper’s proprietary fintech ancillaries include Price Freeze, Cancel for Any Reason, and Premium Disruption Assistance. To find out more about the Hopper app, visit Hopper.com; for more on HTS, visit hts.hopper.com.
Board Member
Nov 2020
The BentoBox Marketing and Commerce Platform delivers a seamless guest experience dedicated to accelerating growth and helping restaurants thrive. BentoBox puts the restaurant first and offers tools that drive high-margin revenue directly through the restaurant’s website. BentoBox is trusted and loved by over 14,000 restaurants worldwide including Union Square Hospitality Group, Eleven Madison Park, Artichoke Basilles Pizza, Atelier Crenn and more. BentoBox HQ is in Lower Manhattan, but we are a distributed company with employees across the US. Were growing steadily, hiring often, and have no plans to slow down. Check out all our open roles at https://careers.getbento.com/
Investor
Feb 2020
Flywire Corporation (Nasdaq: FLYW) is a global payments enablement and software company. We combine our proprietary global payments network, next-gen payments platform and vertical-specific software to deliver the most important and complex payments for our clients and their customers. Flywire leverages its vertical-specific software and payments technology to deeply embed within the existing A/R workflows for its clients across the education, healthcare and travel vertical markets, as well as in key B2B industries. Flywire also integrates with leading ERP systems, such as NetSuite, so organizations can optimize the payment experience for their customers while eliminating operational challenges. Flywire supports more than 4,900+ clients with diverse payment methods in more than 140 currencies across 240 countries and territories around the world. Flywire is headquartered in Boston, MA, USA with global offices.
Board Member
Jan 2020
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.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Trusted by more than 1M businesses in over 100 countries, Veem is the market leader in automating accounts payables and receivables for businesses. Started with the intention of making business payments as simple as sending an email, Veem has revolutionized the way businesses pay and get paid around the world by empowering business owners, accountants, and finance professionals to take control of their payment processes. Veem levels the playing field by providing enterprise-level payment tools to small businesses. Designed with data security and privacy in mind, Veem adheres to strict compliance, privacy and data protection practices. Services for senders in the US are delivered by Veem Payments Inc. under state money transmission licenses. Money movement services are brought to you by Veem Payments Inc., licensed as Money Transmitter by the New York State Department of Financial Services. See www.veem.com/licenses
Board Observer
Dec 2019
We are a growth stage company that creates software solutions combining lean principles, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and machine learning to transform hospital and infusion center operations. More than 180 health systems and 1,000 hospitals and centers across 49 states rely on our award-winning products to increase patient access, decrease wait times, and reduce healthcare delivery costs. We have raised more than $300 million from top-tier investors such as Bain Capital, Insight Partners, and Goldman Sachs. We have been named among the top 100 AI companies in the world.
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2026
Partner
Jun 2026
Springcoast Capital Partners is an investment firm focused on partnering with management teams of leading growth-stage companies to help them scale their businesses through flexible capital solutions. For more information, please visit www.springcoast.com.
2025
Investor
Jan 2025
Float is on a mission to simplify business finance in Canada. Trusted by 7,000+ companies, we help finance teams save time, improve compliance, and scale with confidence with corporate cards, bill pay, reimbursements, FX, and more. Float Financial Solutions Inc. is a financial technology company and not a bank. The Float Visa* Prepaid Card is issued by Peoples Trust Company pursuant to a licence from Visa International. Funds associated with the Float Visa Prepaid Card, including funds held in business accounts, are held at one or more Canadian financial institutions that are members of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (“CDIC”) and are eligible for CDIC deposit insurance, subject to applicable coverage limits. For more information, visit cdic.ca. The Float Mastercard® USD Card is issued by Thread Bank, Member FDIC, pursuant to a licence from Mastercard International. Banking services are provided by Thread Bank, Member FDIC. FDIC insurance is available for funds on deposit with Thread Bank, subject to applicable limits and conditions.
2023
Investor
Nov 2023
Candex is a fintech master-vendor for large organizations so that they can make purchases from one-time, irregular and low risk suppliers using existing P2P processes. Candex operates globally managing setup, support, tax and regulatory complexity - making it simple, fast, and compliant to pay suppliers even across borders and cross currencies. Available in multiple deliveries, Candex works directly within existing e-procurement systems, via bulk uploads, or integrated into any workflow via API. In the end - Candex completely takes care of the 70-80% of vendors getting 3-5% of spend; ensures that "No PO, No Pay" becomes achievable; and the efficiency is so remarkable that our clients enter a sort of procurement zen.
Investor
Mar 2023
Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
2022
Board Member
Mar 2022
As business leaders and individuals must do more with less and navigate uncharted obstacles, Newfront is the modern insurance brokerage with industry-leading expertise, transformative technology and client-centric, scalable solutions, helping our clients mitigate risk, elevate their employee experience and forge their path to profitable growth. We are de-risking human progress while enabling our clients to pursue their world-changing visions with confidence.
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