Restive Ventures

Investment decisions are led by Co-Founders and Managing Partners Ryan Falvey and Tyler Griffin. Cameron Peake serves as a Partner on the investment team. The group operates as a partnership of former fintech founders and senior operators, meaning deal evaluation draws directly on the team's own company-building experience.

Restive sources through a combination of operator networks and an institutionalized founder community. The firm positions its team's operating experience and its curated network of fintech entrepreneurs as a sourcing advantage, giving it access to founders who are building in regulatory-heavy, relationship-driven corners of financial services that are difficult for generalist VCs to penetrate.

Restive invests from the earliest stages, explicitly stating that no company is too early for its capital. Its strategy spans pre-seed, seed, and startup phases, and can extend into expansion and late-stage growth. The firm's public materials emphasize a readiness to write first checks into fintech companies.

Restive is a fintech specialist. The firm invests exclusively in technology companies that are transforming financial services. This singular focus is reinforced by the backgrounds of its managing partners, who were fintech operators before becoming investors, and by its portfolio support model, which is built around an operator-heavy founder network rather than a traditional platform team.