Cambrian Ventures Recalls Solo GP, Rex Selisbury, Hobbies, when he fell in love with Finch.
It was 2015, he recently quit his job as an investment banker to try his hand on engineering at the beginning of mortgage. He told the Tech Crunch, “Only when you had companies like Strip, Played, Credit Karma, Wealth Front.” “The lender club had just done its IPO, and was really doing well.”
In the coming years, investors’ enthusiasm for Fintick increased sharply, which reached the pitch of fever in 2021. After a year, matters became significant, however, interest rates increased.
Today, many people think that Finch has lost its glow, but for this category, Salisbury’s enthusiasm is as strong as it did in 2015. They realize this popular opinion that most of the opportunities in Fintac are gone, they cannot move beyond the reality. “If you are an expert and you know where to see, you will realize that only 1 % of the global financial services has earned revenue by Finch,” he said.
In fact, the opening of the Celibri Cambrian with a $ 20 million fund is investing in pre -seed and seed stage startups. Of the 33 companies they have provided financial support, Ss Silisbury claims that almost HALF half have received series A funds, which is much higher than the graduation rate from the 15.4 % seed -series. Tracked through a carta.
These companies include simple restrictions, which help Startups close Canada’s credit card and payment platform Startups.
Salisbury has first introduced the fund’s performance with the ability to find strong founders “who are very good in implementing their vision.”
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This initial success has now helped Silasbury save the second fund, which, like the first fund, is launching a million in capital with 20 million.
This is a remarkable achievement for a small venture fund like Cambrin: a Report by pitch book The raising funds through emerging venture managers (which are still running their first three funds) came to the lowest level in the first half of 2025.
However, Salisbury is not just another fantasy investor. Before launching Cambrian Ventures, he was the founding member of Anderson Horwiots (A16Z) Fantake Practice. And during his many years in a prominent firm, he invested in a startup called Dell, which would become a giant in place of payroll and human resources tools.
Before joining the A16z, Selisbury founded a fantasy community that hosted monthly meetings for founders, builders and sector enthusiasts. It also launched a newsletter that increases approximately 20,000 users, and operates a slack group that now contains more than 1,800 founders.
Thanks to his good network, Selisbury attracted the founders of top fantasy companies such as Naerd Walt, Played, Batteent, and Milio as LPS for their first fund. These individuals returned to invest in their second fund, which also saw the increase of several institutional supporters, including a bank and a life insurance firm.
Slasbury says his strategy remains intact for the second Cambrian fund, which states that he is still “looking for the great founders who have new ideas for unique products.”
Of course, what is different now is that Startups can take advantage of all progress in AI. “The biggest thing AI is to make you a multi -product companies for a day,” he said.
“AI makes it easy to write more code that works more,” he explained. “They do banking, accounting, finance, corporation tax, treasury, HR, HSA, FSA, and some other things, they are all in the same.”