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Arjan Schütte
Arjan Schütte is the Managing Partner of Core Innovation Capital, the leading venture capital fund targeting financial technology companies that serve US underbanked consumers. He is a Senior Advisor to the Center for Financial Services Innovation, the nation’s leading expert on the underbanked. He was a senior manager at CFSI since its inception until 2010, when Core was launched.
Arjan is a passionate industry expert. He is cited broadly, including in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and BusinessWeek, and is regularly speaks at conferences and industry events. Through CFSI and Core, he has invested in some of the most innovative companies serving the underbanked, including AccountNow, iSend, L2C, and Plastyc.
Additionally, Arjan serves on the board (as observer) of portfolio company SavvyMoney, and is an advisory board member for Tio Networks and Progress Financial. Arjan served as a director for RentBureau, which was acquired by Experian.
Prior, Arjan spent 12 years as an entrepreneur in several venture backed companies in technology leadership, consulting and general management roles at Pierian Spring Software, Cognitive Concepts (was sold to Houghton Mifflin), Capella Learning (now NASDAQ traded, CPLA), and DoTheGood, among others.
Arjan earned an MS from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as an Interval Research Fellow and a BA in Philosophy and Communication at Lewis & Clark College.
He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
Contact: arjan@corevc.com
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