Commerce Ventures

Commerce Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on fintech and commerce technology companies, investing at seed through Series B stages in companies building the infrastructure, software, and data tools that are transforming how money moves and how commerce is conducted across retail, payments, and financial services. The firm was founded by Dan Rosen, who brings experience from both operating and investing in retail technology and financial services companies, and takes a thesis-driven approach to identifying structural shifts in how consumers shop and how businesses process payments, manage data, and interact with financial services infrastructure. Commerce Ventures invests with initial checks from $1 million to $5 million and focuses on companies in payments infrastructure, embedded finance, data and analytics for retail, and tools for merchant commerce operations. Portfolio companies include Skipify, the one-click checkout and payments platform; Alia; Rain, the earned wage access and financial wellness platform for hourly workers; and Blaze. Commerce Ventures focuses on the structural layer between consumers, merchants, and financial institutions, backing companies that improve the efficiency and user experience of commerce and payments at scale.