Travis Skelly, Pruven Capital Partner on Fintech Scale & Exits

Travis Skelly is a Partner at Pruven Capital, where he invests across fintech, proptech, ecommerce, and enterprise software at multi-stage scale. Prior to Pruven, he was a Director at Citi Ventures, leading more than 15 investments including Socure, Betterment, SmartAsset, HighRadius, and Clarity Money. Earlier, Travis was a founding team member at FinTech Collective, backing category-defining companies like Plaid/Quovo, MoneyLion, Octane Lending, and NextCapital. Before venture, he worked in banking at Nomura and HSBC and as a strategy consultant at Accenture, giving him a rare operator-investor lens across financial services innovation.Topics:

• How to engineer MoneyLion, Clarity, Boom & Bucket acquisitions from seed to payout—full timelines and triggers
• How enterprise fintech complements banks with data and compliance at scale
• Underwriting AI in fintech: data moats, model decay, and regulatory failure modes

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