Sam Das

Managing Director at TruStage Ventures

📍 Madison, Wisconsin, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 12 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
12
Total investments
1
Early stage
7
Mid stage
1
Late stage
9y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Observer
2022
We are the Credit Union’s one-stop-shop for digital deposit account opening, frictionless loan applications (POS), perpetual pre-approval and recapture efforts. The platform successfully drives direct member, loan & deposit growth, boosts profitability, increases share of wallet and reduces the cost to produce loans through efficiency gains. Our founders enjoy nothing more than speaking to and learning from Credit Union leaders. Schedule a time to meet with Chris and Nicky and share your pains, goals and ambitions.
Board Observer
2021
Pulsate is the leading provider of digital consumer engagement solutions for community financial institutions, helping them build lasting, profitable relationships in a mobile-first world. Our intuitive, easy-to-use platform lets FIs create personalized, targeted campaigns to drive product sales and activation, encourage financial wellness and more – delivered through a variety of channels embedded within existing mobile banking apps and online banking environments.
Board Observer
2021
1 mission - make renovations possible. NMLS #1802847 / #2412741 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org) Phone: 855-736-6341 - 1189 Lancaster Avenue, Suite 207, Berwyn, PA 19312
Board Observer
2021
Momnt powers modern lending solutions for businesses to provide low-friction, affordable financing to their customers at the moment of need. Our API-based platforms leverage alternative data sources and ML/AI-informed decision engines to present real-time loan offers fit to each individual borrower, all done within the banking industry’s current regulatory infrastructure. Momnt has reimagined consumer lending so that financial institutions can quickly and easily gain share of the market; by offering downstream credit through existing business customer relationships or the Momnt network, they drive demand for local businesses’ goods and services and meet consumers where they are.
Board Observer
2020
Only 24% of Americans are considered financially literate and an estimated 60% of Americans want a financial plan but cant afford it. Clerkie is an AI Financial Planner for the 123M underserved Americans looking for answers. After spending years helping struggling middle-class families, it became clear that users needed more help with their debt and their finances. They needed answers. Clerkie uses conversational AI to build in-depth financial knowledge graphs that provide personalized answers and actionable plans for everyday Americans trying to achieve their financial goals. Our mission is to democratize financial health and provide all individuals with an actionable path to financial security. Email us at talent@clerkie.io if youd like to be considered for current or future opportunities to join our team.
Board Observer
2019
We’re here to make loan stuff way less complicated. From student loan refinancing to personal loans, we’ll help you get your debt together — entirely online, and way faster than you think. How? Through the power of automated underwriting. It’s a unique hybrid marketplace model that connects you with lenders across the country – including small banks and credit unions you might otherwise miss. We’re putting cutting edge technology in your hands. (Don’t drop it.)
Board Member
2019
We’re here to make loan stuff way less complicated. From student loan refinancing to personal loans, we’ll help you get your debt together — entirely online, and way faster than you think. How? Through the power of automated underwriting. It’s a unique hybrid marketplace model that connects you with lenders across the country – including small banks and credit unions you might otherwise miss. We’re putting cutting edge technology in your hands. (Don’t drop it.)
Board Observer
2019
We make data work for the non-standard workforce (1099, gig, and contingent workers). We partner with governments and financial institutions to help their systems work better for the workers we serve. Our flagship 1099 verification of income solution, Income Passport, is promoting access, equity and program integrity across the US. By extracting insights from data on more than 1.5 billion enriched financial transactions and over 151 billion enriched deposits, we help streamline benefits administration, quantify earnings, expand access to credit, reduce fraud, and improve outcomes. To learn more about our mission, visit www.steadyIQ.com or say hello at partners@steadyIQ.com.
Board Observer
2018
Rippleshot is transforming the way that banks and credit unions detect fraud through a cloud-based technology solution that leverages machine learning and data analytics to distinguish fraudulent activity more quickly and efficiently. Rippleshot’s award-winning technology processes millions of payment card transactions to proactively pinpoint when and where a data breach occurred. Following detection, Rippleshot provides financial institutions with the tools they need to update fraud detection rules in order to lower their fraud losses while avoiding unnecessary card re-issuance.
Board Member
2018
Vault provides employers with enterprise-grade tools to hire better and retain employees longer by paying down employees' student loans, contributing to employee 529 plans, providing tuition reimbursement, and more.
Board Observer
2017
The best small business lending experience starts with Mirador. Our platform powers customer acquisition, digital loan application and digitization, intelligent product routing and pre-screening, data management, and borrower communication. Built exclusively for banks, credit unions and other traditional lenders, Mirador supports all small business loan products including lines of credit, term loans, SBA backed loans, commercial real estate, and collateralized loans for up to $20 million.
Experience · 16 entries
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Investments (12)
Founder (1)
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2022
Board Observer
2022
We are the Credit Union’s one-stop-shop for digital deposit account opening, frictionless loan applications (POS), perpetual pre-approval and recapture efforts. The platform successfully drives direct member, loan & deposit growth, boosts profitability, increases share of wallet and reduces the cost to produce loans through efficiency gains. Our founders enjoy nothing more than speaking to and learning from Credit Union leaders. Schedule a time to meet with Chris and Nicky and share your pains, goals and ambitions.
2021
Board Observer
2021
Pulsate is the leading provider of digital consumer engagement solutions for community financial institutions, helping them build lasting, profitable relationships in a mobile-first world. Our intuitive, easy-to-use platform lets FIs create personalized, targeted campaigns to drive product sales and activation, encourage financial wellness and more – delivered through a variety of channels embedded within existing mobile banking apps and online banking environments.
Board Observer
2021
1 mission - make renovations possible. NMLS #1802847 / #2412741 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org) Phone: 855-736-6341 - 1189 Lancaster Avenue, Suite 207, Berwyn, PA 19312
Board Observer
2021
Momnt powers modern lending solutions for businesses to provide low-friction, affordable financing to their customers at the moment of need. Our API-based platforms leverage alternative data sources and ML/AI-informed decision engines to present real-time loan offers fit to each individual borrower, all done within the banking industry’s current regulatory infrastructure. Momnt has reimagined consumer lending so that financial institutions can quickly and easily gain share of the market; by offering downstream credit through existing business customer relationships or the Momnt network, they drive demand for local businesses’ goods and services and meet consumers where they are.
2020
Board Observer
Jun 2020
Founded by a dynamic group of seasoned credit union professionals, CuneXus is privately held with headquarters in Santa Rosa, CA. The company develops innovative software-based solutions to aid credit unions and banks in maximizing the potential of valuable customer relationships, while remaining on the forefront of the transition to a new era of data-driven, on-demand lending and borrowing.
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