Women in FinTech

Neither. Women in FinTech is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional network. It does not manage capital, make investments, or operate any pooled vehicle. Its function is talent development, community-building, and mentorship across the fintech industry, supported by corporate sponsors rather than asset-management income.

Women in FinTech runs on corporate sponsorship from fintech companies. The organization's website lists a sponsorship tier structure targeting companies that want to reach its 6,000-member community. It does not publicly disclose its financials, but its 501(c)(3) filings are accessible via IRS databases.

The 1,900-member private Slack group is the organization's core operating asset. Members use it for job referrals, mentorship matching, and event coordination across the Bay Area, New York, Austin, and Denver chapters. Corporate sponsors gain visibility into the community to meet diversity-focused hiring goals, though the organization does not operate as a recruiting agency.

Funding Circle is the organization's birthplace, not its ongoing sponsor. The founding group met as Funding Circle employees in 2015, and the initial public event was held at Braintree in 2016. The organization has since incorporated independently and draws sponsorship from a wider set of fintech companies; Funding Circle does not control its governance or programming.

The disclosed board directors are Sam Hodges (Co-founder and CEO of Vouch), Vittoria Reimers (VP Investor Services at Juniper Square), Reetika Grewal (Executive Vice President at Wells Fargo), and Letty Merrill. The board provides fiduciary oversight for the 501(c)(3) entity, a structure that separates governance from the event-focused leadership team run by President Komal Long.

The organization runs chapters in San Francisco, New York, Austin, and Denver. The New York chapter launched most recently, in March 2023. Public materials show an ambition to serve as a national network for women in fintech, but no specific timeline for additional chapters has been disclosed.

The organization cites the broader fintech gender gap as its motivating problem — particularly the intersection of male-dominated financial services and technology — but it does not self-publish annual diversity reports or proprietary compensation datasets. Its content strategy emphasizes event programming and online community discussion rather than primary labor-market research.