Amex Ventures

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Building tech-enabled offerings that can enrich the lives of Amex’s consumer Card Members?     On June 18th, Amex Ventures and Andrew Yeung are selecting 20 innovative founders to join senior leaders across American Express’s Consumer Card, Travel, Dining, and Innovation teams for a private, curated dinner in NYC to discuss technology powering the next gen consumer.     🍽️ We're looking for Seed through Series B founders innovating across Dining, Travel, Offers, Entertainment, Lounges, and/or emerging lifestyle categories such as virtual assistants, consumer privacy and consumer personalization.      If this is you, a friend, or a portco, please request to join us for an evening in the West Village full of Italian cuisine, cocktails, and conversation. Spaces are extremely limited, so apply below or comment if there are founders in your network who should be considered to attend 👇

NYC continues to be a great home after 5+ years but London will always be my hometown 😊 I’ll be back in London with the Amex Ventures Team (Matt, Margaret, Kevin & Kevin) as part of London Tech Week (June 10th – 14th) as we look to build new ecosystem relationships, uncover start ups across our areas of focus and of course, catch up with old friends A couple of things to put on your radar 🏦 Investors (principals, directors, partners) – in partnership with London Tech Drinks, we would love to host you for an evening event on Thursday June 13th where you can meet our team, learn how Amex Ventures operates globally and discuss ways we can collaborate in future with your funds.... Sign up link is in the comments 👍 Founders – if you are a founder or you know founders across Seed to Series B building across Fintech, Consumer enabled tech and Enterprise Software get in touch – we will have a number of Amex investors in town who can connect IRL during Tech Week. 🎉 Operators & Ecosystem partners – we’re interested in attending events and building partnerships to support our efforts in the UK post Tech Week - leave suggestions in the comments See you in June! 

We are excited to invite you to join us for a chat in NYC with Margaret Lim, Managing Director at Amex Ventures, and Caroline Hyde from Bloomberg. They will discuss how Amex Ventures invests in early-stage startups that are strategically relevant to American Express, how we support our portfolio companies with partnerships and resources, and what trends we are watching in the fintech, commerce, and frontier tech spaces. If you're interested in learning more about corporate venture capital and trends in the startup space, please join us at Bloomberg’s HQ for this conversation. You can RSVP below.    Space is limited, so please register soon if you'd like to attend. We hope to see you there! 

Fintech startups, operators, and investors in NYC during #TechWeek... Start your day with Amex and This Week in Fintech on Wednesday, June 5th! Join investors from Amex Ventures, leaders from American Express’s Network Partnerships team, and the team at This Week in Fintech, for an exclusive breakfast and panel discussion. You will get insight on Amex’s fintech partnership program, while connecting with the fintech ecosystem over great food and drink at a private location. 📆 Wednesday, June 5th 9:30 – 11:30am EST 📍 Tribeca, NYC This event is for innovative fintechs and brands interested in launching co-branded cards on the Amex network, operators across sponsor banks, issuer-processors, and program managers, and fintech investors looking to make new connections. Apply at the link or comment below to tag founders & investors in your network who should attend! https://lu.ma/ny65

Earlier this month, Amex Ventures hosted an exclusive dinner focused on “GenAI and The Enterprise.” We brought together innovative early-stage founders building across the infrastructure and application layers of GenAI and executives from American Express’s technology, data science, servicing, strategy, and innovation teams.   Thank you to American Express CTO Hilary P. and Amex Ventures’ Managing Director Kevin Weber who shared insight into Amex's GenAI strategy, such as: 1) We think about three broad areas where GenAI can drive transformational change across Amex: Productivity, Protection, and Growth. 2) On the partnership front, we will explore a mix of open and closed source software and are excited to build and collaborate together. 3) Additionally, participants agreed that across all companies, data will play a key role in building differentiated GenAI-powered outcomes and experiences.   Big thanks to all the founders and Amex colleagues who joined for dinner, drinks, and conversation. We’re excited to continue to help build a thriving GenAI ecosystem in NYC. (And thanks to our partner, Resident Hospitality, for providing a truly memorable and delicious evening!)   This was the first installment of our exclusive themed dinner series – comment below if you are building in GenAI and want to get in touch, or if you’d like to be involved in future Amex Ventures dinners!  

🔥🔥 Hiring! 🔥🔥 I'm excited to announce that I am hiring a new Portfolio Analyst to join Amex Ventures! If you're ready to find your place at #TeamAmex and are interested in this exciting opportunity, check out the details and apply at the link below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Check out this article from Fortune on how Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) funds are performing in today's market. The piece features insights from our Global Head Matt Sueoka on why he remains optimistic about the future of CVC. We're thrilled to be featured to reinforce that we aren't slowing down and are actively investing!  See more below: https://lnkd.in/ekQCmyCc

We’re excited to share our follow-on investment in Superlogic, an Amex Ventures portfolio company that provides next-gen enterprise-grade technology to power brands' loyalty systems. Superlogic will use the funding to scale its tech and deploy a new loyalty product. See below for more details:

Thank you to all the incredible founders and investors who joined our "American Express and Innovation-Led Disruption" event in San Francisco last week. The evening was full of vibrant energy, insightful conversation, and the opportunity to build and deepen connections.    A special thanks to our speakers Doug Buckminster, Matt Sueoka, and Lisa Yokoyama, who shared insights on:   1) Amex’s top-down focus on innovation — and how partnerships with startups are an important piece of that puzzle.  2) Teams like Amex Digital Labs who develop pilots and are set up to be a launchpad for a startups' engagement with Amex. 3) The impact Amex’s global customer base and trusted brand can have on a growing business.    We will be hosting a series of exclusive themed dinners over the next few months, starting with Enterprise & AI and Consumer tech across dining and travel. Comment below if you want to attend or get involved!