Tearsheet Podcast: Exploring Financial Services Together · 2025-07-23 · 21 min
The fintech investment landscape is heating up again. After a challenging 2022 and 2023, early-stage funding is recovering, with companies focused on practical problems attracting serious investor interest. The shift is toward infrastructure, embedded finance, and AI applications that solve real workflow problems. Sheel Mohnot has been tracking this evolution from multiple angles. As co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, he's raised $300 million across three funds focused on pre-seed and seed-stage fintech companies. His perspective comes from building and exiting - he founded FeeFighters, which sold to Groupon in 2012, and ran the fintech accelerator at 500 Startups. BTV's thesis centers on what Mohnot calls the "everything is fintech" trend - vertical SaaS companies that increasingly derive revenue from payments and financial services rather than software subscriptions. Toast exemplifies this shift, starting as restaurant point-of-sale software and now getting 83% of revenue from financial services.
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