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Sarah Morgenstern

Sarah Morgenstern

Sarah is inspired by purpose-driven entrepreneurs tackling meaningful financial health challenges for US families. She is a Venture Partner on the US investment team at Flourish, where she sources, executes, and manages investments that improve financial health and create economic opportunity for American households. Previously, Sarah was a principal for...

[Business Insider] Meet 26 rising-star fintech VCs excited about what's next in the sector

Sarah Morgenstern, a principal at Flourish Ventures. How did you get into fintech investing? I moved to China for a couple of years and saw that exposure to financial inclusion in that context, seeing the power of financial services and the role and the contribution it can make in both...

[Federal Reserve of New York] Debt: When it Helps, When it Hurts, What it Could Do to Build Household Wealth

On Thursday, June 9, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program hosted a hybrid event on the role of household debt in building wealth. The event featured contributors to the book, “The Future of Building Wealth,”...

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[Forbes] Top Ten 2022 Fintech Predictions

Originally posted on Forbes By Alex Lazarow Image Credit: Getty 2021 was a transformative year for fintech. What felt like a corner of the technology industry a decade ago, is today the largest funded category globally: fintech received over $130b in capital representing 20% of all capital invested in 2021....

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Infrastructure

[EVENT Recap] B2B Fintechs Are the Unsung Heroes of Embedded Finance

When fintech insiders talk about embedded finance, we often focus on companies offering financial products on platforms and or other services. It’s easy to miss just how much work goes on behind the scenes, to make those features possible. And yet, one of the fastest-growing, most innovative sectors in fintech...

September 07, 2021

Why We Invested In Jetty: Introducing a Real Estate Embedded Finance Platform to Our Portfolio

After several months of keeping our excitement under wraps, we can finally share about our investment in Jetty, which was announced this morning in combination…

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Embedded Finance

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[Flourish Conversations] Embedded Finance Plumbing

With the pandemic and economic lockdowns, people around the world adopted new habits - work from home, online shopping and online banking. The trend of introducing traditional financial services—such as online payments and online credit—into apps that consumers use daily took off. We think about this technology trend as “Embedded...

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[Financial Health Network] The Evolving Role of Fintech in FinHealth

Originally posted on Financial Health Network In this discussion, learn and share perspectives with financial health experts to start planning for the future of fintech and finhealth.

Venture Capital Journal

Flourish Ventures Promotes Two to Venture Partner

Originally posted on Ventury Capital Journal Worldwide fintech investor Flourish Ventures promotes Sarah Morgenstern and Ameya Upadhyay each to venture partner. Early-stage fintech investor Flourish Ventures announced it has promoted two members of its investment team to venture partner: Sarah Morgenstern, based in Washington, DC, and Ameya Upadhyay, based in...

February 25, 2021

Strengthening Our Global Team to Address Accelerating Tech Trends and Growing Need for More Financial Health

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are more determined than ever to double down and empower passionate fintech entrepreneurs around the globe. We strive to…