Fiat Growth

In the fast-paced world of startups, managing finances can be a daunting task for founders focused on building their products and services. Enter Fiat Finance, an innovative accounting firm that's simplifying financial management for early-stage companies based on their learnings working with founders everyday across the?Fiat Growth?ecosystem. We sit down with?Kaley Nivens Pate, the General Manager of?Fiat Finance, about their unique approach to serving startups and their partnership with Rollfi to offer payroll + benefits. This one is special.?Fiat Ventures?was an early investor in Rollfi and Kaley worked around the clock to help get our books ready for our?acquisition by Priority. If you are building in Fintech, figure out a way to get them in your corner.

We’re excited to welcome Andre Lowery to the Fiat Finance and Fiat Growth team as our new Accounting Manager! Andre brings a deep background in finance, with expertise in leveraging technology and AI to optimize operations and build human-first, AI-driven financial infrastructures. We’re thrilled to have him join the Fiat family. Please join us in giving Andre a warm welcome!

AI is the partner who makes you realize all your past relationships were toxic. It’s moving so fast, it’s impossible to ignore—and in 2025, AI will fundamentally reshape growth, creativity, and finance. At Fiat Growth and Fiat Finance, we’re leaning into this transformation with a human-first, AI-optimized approach to scale meaningful, personalized results. ?? Fiat Growth Newsletter #9 is live, and here’s what’s inside: 1?? Fiat’s 2025 AI Commitments How we’re using AI to transform growth marketing, creative strategies, and fractional finance—balancing the precision of AI with human connection. 2?? Bench’s Shutdown and Employer.com’s Acquisition What happened, how it impacts small businesses, and how Fiat Finance is stepping up to help Bench customers during this critical time. 3?? Human-First, AI-Optimized Philosophy Why trust and connection will always win, even in a world driven by AI. We share exactly how AI is powering our growth while keeping humans at the center. From leveraging real-time personalization in campaigns to enhancing financial strategy for founders, 2025 will be about balancing speed and scale with authentic relationships. See newsletter link below ??

There's nothing quite like meeting in person ?? ?? There’s something irreplaceable about face-to-face meetings that foster trust, spark ideas, and build lasting connections. Money20/20 was the perfect reminder of this. Highlights of this year's event include: ?? Quality time spent with the Fiat Growth team alongside 150+ ecosystem partners like Experian, Fluent, Inc, Copper, Intuit, Samsung, Progressive Insurance, and many others. ?? An intimate dinner co-hosted with our friends at Mastercard hosting several of our closest friends, partners and founders. ?? A lively happy hour event, bringing together friends, partners, and new connections from across the industry. Thanks to Tassat, Stifel Bank and Dream Ventures for co-hosting! What were the key insights? ?? Fintech is on a collision course with every industry around us. ?? Innovation is both horizontal and vertical within specific use cases. ?? Founders and investors are finding novel solutions breaking into larger TAMs. ?? Fintech is alive and well... and just getting started! A BIG thank you to everyone who made the events and meetings so impactful. There's too many to count, but want to thank our teams who showed up including Alex Harris, Drew Glover, Adrian Hunter, Victor Colombo, Ayesha Dillon, and Samantha Donohue. Also to all of our co-sponsors and founders who showed up and showed out! Eddie Behringer, Lamine Zarrad, David Galvan, Richard Blankenship, Matthew Conlin, Dan Korpman, Angela Rastegar, Kirubha Perumalsamy, Gbenro Dara, Guy Ziv, Laura Bock, Matt Hofherr, Sean Graham, Adam Harris, Tanvi Lal, Carol Hartman JP Grant, Peter Garea and everyone who made this week memorable! #Money2020 #FiatGrowth #FiatVentures #Networking #InPersonConnections #Fintech

?? Fiat Growth Newsletter #2 is live! Here’s what you’ll get in under 7 minutes: ?? Growth Teams Need to Break Rules Why playing it safe leads to mediocrity—and how “builder mode” unlocks growth potential. ?? The Endless Seed Round Bennie CEO Matt Straz reveals how he raised $50M while keeping board control. ?? Fintech Meets NBA Samir Desai breaks down how National Basketball Association (NBA) jersey patches can drive customer acquisition, not just brand awareness. ?? Growth Product of the Week: Boardy.ai Attending Money20/20? Boardy is the AI-powered tool for connecting fintech leaders with valuable contacts. Their exclusive Money20/20 community is incredible. cc: Andrew D'Souza Proudly brought to you by Fiat Finance. We're currently offering your first mont free through the 12/31/2024 See the newsletter issue in the comments #FiatGrowth #FiatFinance #GrowthStrategy #Money2020 #Fintech

?? Exciting news! We’re launching the first episode of #GrowthCaviar -- a Fiat Growth podcast ?? Our first episode is with Cody Barbo CEO/founder of Trust & Will who is leading the way in transforming estate planning for the next generation. Today we’re diving into a massive Fiat Growth and Fiat Ventures trend that we've been focusing on for the past year: #Agetech America is currently in the middle of largest wealth transfer in history (that’s $78 trillion) and Fiat is working hard to learn as much as possible about how it's reshaping the fintech space. Huge thanks to Cody Barbo for an incredibly open and transparent interview on how Trust & Will is leading the charge in managing and protecting generational wealth for future generations. ?? Listen to Growth Caviar here: https://lnkd.in/guKRfWkn Big shoutout to Josh Dorsey and Stifel Bank for being our anchor sponsor and to Fiat Growth and Fiat Ventures for helping bring the #GrowthCaviar podcast to life. Let’s explore what’s next! #WealthTransfer #Fintech #AgeTech

?? Meet Santiago Saenz Rozas, the affiliate rockstar who’s helping brands climb the charts in his role as Director of Affiliate Partnerships at Fiat Growth? ????? Check out our latest post to learn his secrets to smashing records in affiliate marketing! #AffiliateRockstars #affiliatemarketing #partnerships #growth #agency