Last deal

$2.5M

Amount

Series B

Stage

21.05.2019

Date

2

all rounds

$4M

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date founded

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About Company
FI Navigator is a financial data analytics platform that delivers institution-specific insights and industry-wide research.

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founded date

01.01.2014

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series B

IPO status

Private

Description

The company's platform offers market research and performance details to industry vendors and advisers, with a focus on the financial institution vertical. FI Navigator's proprietary ability to extract and analyze unstructured website data fuels their innovative data and analytics solution, which provides decision clarity to financial institution executives and FinTech advisers. Their initial solutions are the industry's most comprehensive mobile and online banking data and analytics, covering over 7,200 banks, credit unions, and their 70+ solution vendors, with more data and analytical applications to come.
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Their latest funding was raised on 21.05.2019. Their latest investor Peter Kight. Their latest round Series B

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Peter Kight

Peter Kight

Peter Kight joined the Board of Directors in December 2014. Peter Kight has been a senior advisor at Comvest Partners, a private investment firm providing equity and debt capital to middle market companies across the United States, since January 2010. He served as co-chairman and managing partner of Comvest Advisors, LLC, from January 2010 to April 2013. From December 2007 to May 2012, Peter Kight served as director and vice chairman of Fiserv following Fiserv's acquisition of CheckFree Corporation, a leading provider of electronic commerce services and products. Peter Kight founded CheckFree Corporation in 1981 and served as its chairman and chief executive officer until December 2007. Peter Kight has served on the board of directors of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, a multi-state diversified regional bank holding company, since June 2012. Peter Kight served on the boards of directors of Akamai Technologies, Inc., a publicly traded company that distributes computing solutions and services, from March 2004 to July 2012, and Manhattan Associates, Inc., a publicly traded company that provides supply chain planning and execution solutions, from October 2007 to July 2011. Among other experience, qualifications, attributes and skills, Peter Kight’s substantial experience at various other public companies, including strategic planning and operational experience, as well as valuable insight on public company governance practices, and his knowledge of the payment services industry led to the conclusion of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and of our full Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.

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AppData acquired by FI Navigator

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FI Navigator

date

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type

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Curry Pelot
Curry Pelot

Curry Pelot

Curry Pelot is the CIO and founder of FI Navigator. He is a recognized leader with a passion for using technology to solve problems and improve process. He has facilitated strategic planning sessions for bank executives and worked on merger and acquisition advisory teams. He is focused on building automated models to provide profit analysis, site analysis, controlling interest valuations, marketing plans and risk management. Prior to founding FI Navigator, he served as CIO and founder of Persint, Inc., a startup that developed an online solution to provide consumers with objective analysis of their financial health versus peers of similar life stage including appropriate solutions to improve net worth, maximize cash flow and manage risks. Before that venture he co-founded BancIntelligence.com and led the development of the BancAnalyst platform. BancIntelligence.com was successfully acquired by Fiserv in 2007. He then served as CIO of the Bank Intelligence division of Fiserv. He also served as senior vice president for U.S. Banking Alliance. Pelot holds a bachelor of business administration degree in Banking and Finance from The University of Georgia and a Master’s degree in strategic planning and entrepreneurship from Georgia State University, J. Mack Robinson College of Business. He has frequently spoken for state and national financial institution trade associations, led classes at America’s Community Bankers National School of Banking and the Community Bankers Association of Georgia Community School, and authored several articles published in banking industry magazines.

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Steve Cotton
Steve Cotton

Steve Cotton

Steve Cotton is the CEO and Founder of FI Navigator. Cotton is a proven entrepreneur in the financial services industry. He has extensive experience in strategic data and analytics innovations and extensive experience in leading teams from concept to a successful acquisition. His early career was devoted to the development of advanced analytics to enhance bank management’s allocative efficiency towards their objective of maximizing shareholder value. He then leveraged this foundation in strategy development, performance enhancement and M&A to successfully find and lead an online SaaS bank analytics company, Bank Intelligence, which was bought by Fiserv in 2007. Cotton then served as president of the division at Fiserv.Cotton then served as CEO and Founder for Persint, a web-based consumer analytics engine leveraging exception analysis to pinpoint custom household opportunities and map to appropriate solutions. Prior to founding Bank Intelligence and Persint, Cotton served as managing director, financial strategies division for U.S. Banking Alliance. In this position he started the firm’s Financial Strategies Division developing and delivering new products and services for financial institution executives including solutions for strategic planning, capital planning, profit planning and M&A advisory. In addition to his work at FI Navigator, Cotton is an advisory board member for Preparis, Inc., an organization that delivers business continuity and life safety solutions to various corporate verticals. He earned a bachelor of business administration, Banking and Finance degree and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Georgia, Terry College of Business.

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Matthew Harrell

Director of demand generation

Jon Kuck

Executive vice president, chief revenue officer

Curry Pelot

Curry Pelot

Founder & CIO

Steve Cotton

Steve Cotton

Founder & CEO

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