ResilienceVC

Co-founders Vikas Raj and Tahira Dosani are the investment decision-makers. Both were Managing Directors at Accion Venture Lab before founding ResilienceVC, where together they invested in over 70 inclusive-fintech startups. The firm lists Bryson Hearne and Maayan Teper as additional team members, but public materials indicate Raj and Dosani lead the investment process. Three external advisors—Tom Blaisdell, Jacob Haar, and Paul Tregidgo—are named on the firm's website, suggesting input but not decision authority.

The co-founders draw on a network built across a decade of seed-stage fintech investing, university adjunct roles, and advisory positions to organizations like Village Capital and TechStars. ResilienceVC targets embedded-fintech founders where the financial product is integrated into a core non-financial service, a framing that attracts a specific subset of mission-driven entrepreneurs. The firm's academic affiliations with Columbia, Georgetown, and Johns Hopkins provide an additional sourcing pipeline into graduate-level fintech and impact-investing talent.

RecilienceVC's public materials describe only direct seed-stage investments. There is no mention of fund-of-fund commitments, LP positions in other venture funds, or secondary transactions. The firm positions itself as the first institutional partner for its portfolio companies, indicating a direct, concentrated deployment model.

The firm targets seed-stage embedded-fintech startups, explicitly describing itself as 'among the first institutional partners for these companies.' Its support model extends through the Seed-to-A transition, with operational guidance on capital raising and product launches. No public evidence suggests ResilienceVC participates in later-stage rounds or pre-seed instruments outside a seed-led approach.

ResilienceVC's public portfolio focuses exclusively on embedded-fintech models inside consumer services. There are no listed investments in pure software-as-a-service, enterprise infrastructure, biotech, climate hardware, or deep tech. The firm does not announce exclusion screens, but the concentration on financial resilience—access to insurance, home equity, benefits, and savings—implies a negative on sectors that do not include a consumer-facing financial product.

The firm does not disclose its limited partner base publicly. Raj and Dosani's track record at Accion Venture Lab implies relationships with development-finance institutions and impact-family offices, but no specific LP names appear in ResilienceVC's own materials.

ResilienceVC publishes an Annual Impact Report and the co-founders are adjunct professors, but the firm does not list a separate philanthropic foundation. The impact-measurement framework appears integrated into the investment process rather than siloed in a non-profit vehicle. Tahira Dosani's advisory role at Village Capital and Vikas Raj's chairmanship of The Catalyst Fund's Investment Committee represent external engagements, not additional firm structures.