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.

Restive operates as a traditional venture capital firm, structured around discrete fund vehicles. It was deploying its third fund as of 2026, a structure that clearly separates it from a single-family office or permanent capital vehicle. There is no public indication of wealth origination from a single family or individual.

Restive's announcement of Fund III in 2026 is a signal of institutional maturity in a market where many emerging managers fail to raise follow-on funds. Returning to market for a third vehicle suggests that the firm's operator-led fintech strategy has delivered sufficient returns to retain and expand its LP base, although specific fund sizes and performance numbers are not publicly disclosed.

Restive does not publish a formal exclusions list. Its concentration on fintech implies that it does not invest in sectors outside financial services technology, such as pure life sciences, hard industrial tech, or consumer packaged goods. However, no explicit negative sector commitments are stated on its website.