Nyca Partners

Nyca Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2014, headquartered in New York. It specializes in investing in early-stage financial technology companies, focusing on areas such as merchant payments services, alternative credit networks, digital advice, and improving financial services infrastructure.

Agastya Gupta

Associate

Jasleen Kaur

Principal

Stephanie Khoo

Partner

Sol Lee

Principal

Max Liebeskind

Principal

Ravi Mohan

Partner

Hans Morris

Managing Partner

Samriti Pal

Associate

Jeffrey Reitman

Principal

David Sica

Principal

Isabel Steinhaus

Senior Associate

Past deals in Fraud Detection

Sardine

Series C in 2025
Sardine is a financial technology company that specializes in providing a risk and fraud infrastructure tailored for the online economy. It has developed a device intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and advanced risk engine software. This platform enhances fraud detection while minimizing sign-up friction by analyzing multiple real-time data points, including device information, browser details, and behavioral biometrics. By integrating this technology, Sardine enables businesses to establish a robust risk and fraud management framework, ultimately reducing costs within the fintech ecosystem.

Findigs

Series B in 2024
Findigs is a property technology company that provides rent management and tenant screening solutions for property managers and landlords. Its platform supports digital underwriting, tenant identity and income verification, fraud prevention, application processing, and leasing decision support, enabling faster, more secure screening for rental applications. It also offers a digital rental concierge and tools to securely link applicants' bank data to verify income and assets, streamlining the leasing process for both renters and landlords and reducing time and costs.

Sardine

Series B in 2022
Sardine is a financial technology company that specializes in providing a risk and fraud infrastructure tailored for the online economy. It has developed a device intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and advanced risk engine software. This platform enhances fraud detection while minimizing sign-up friction by analyzing multiple real-time data points, including device information, browser details, and behavioral biometrics. By integrating this technology, Sardine enables businesses to establish a robust risk and fraud management framework, ultimately reducing costs within the fintech ecosystem.

Sardine

Series A in 2022
Sardine is a financial technology company that specializes in providing a risk and fraud infrastructure tailored for the online economy. It has developed a device intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and advanced risk engine software. This platform enhances fraud detection while minimizing sign-up friction by analyzing multiple real-time data points, including device information, browser details, and behavioral biometrics. By integrating this technology, Sardine enables businesses to establish a robust risk and fraud management framework, ultimately reducing costs within the fintech ecosystem.

SentiLink

Series B in 2021
SentiLink Corp. is a technology company founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, specializing in fraud visualization solutions. The company focuses on combating synthetic identities, identity theft, and other forms of fraud such as money laundering and contractor fraud. SentiLink employs advanced technology that connects with fraudulent crime networks to identify and block synthetic identities by analyzing statistical anomalies through real-time application programming interfaces and risk analysis tools. This enables its business clients to detect fake individuals and related fraudulent activities, thereby protecting their financial interests and enhancing their ability to mitigate risks associated with identity-related fraud.

Sliderule (formerly Modern Logic)

Seed Round in 2020
Sliderule is the no-code rules engine for fraud, compliance, and customer risk at fintech companies Sliderule helps risk teams build automated decisioning logic from drag-and-drop blocks, including rules, data connectors, and analytics - without calling in the engineers. Sliderule is the modern rules engine fintech companies need to fight financial crime, reduce risk, and make smart decisions about their customers. The company was founded in 2020, and formerly known as Modern Logic.

SentiLink

Series A in 2019
SentiLink Corp. is a technology company founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, specializing in fraud visualization solutions. The company focuses on combating synthetic identities, identity theft, and other forms of fraud such as money laundering and contractor fraud. SentiLink employs advanced technology that connects with fraudulent crime networks to identify and block synthetic identities by analyzing statistical anomalies through real-time application programming interfaces and risk analysis tools. This enables its business clients to detect fake individuals and related fraudulent activities, thereby protecting their financial interests and enhancing their ability to mitigate risks associated with identity-related fraud.

Mines

Series A in 2018
Mines.io, Inc. is a financial analytics company that operates a platform focused on mobile data. Its flagship product, Mteka, is an in-memory analytics solution capable of processing vast amounts of mobile carrier data rapidly, allowing for the creation and deployment of predictive models in real time. The company's services are designed to assist mobile operators in monetizing their data while enabling financial institutions to expand their customer reach. Among its offerings are a credit scoring service that evaluates consumer credit risk based on mobile behavior, a fraud detection system that identifies suspicious activities in real time, and behavior modeling tools that enhance customer identity verification. Additionally, the company employs risk analysis and machine learning techniques to help insurance providers tailor premiums based on consumer risk profiles. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Mines.io aims to leverage mobile data to improve financial services and consumer access to credit.

EverC

Corporate Round in 2018
EverC is a provider of cloud-based cyber risk intelligence and merchant fraud detection solutions for the online seller ecosystem. The company offers MerchantView, a monitoring platform for acquiring banks and payment service providers to manage merchant-based fraud and cyber risk, and MarketView, which tracks illicit marketplace listings. Its services include detection of violating merchants, transaction laundering verification, card compliance consulting, and web analyst verification. Founded in 2015, EverC combines risk intelligence, data science, fintech, and payments expertise to power cross-channel risk management. The platform rapidly detects high-risk merchants, online money laundering, and fake or illegal products, while ongoing monitoring mitigates evolving risk. EverC aims to help marketplaces, global payment providers, and online sellers grow safely by transforming the internet into a transparent, trusted environment.

Merlon Intelligence

Seed Round in 2017
Merlon Intelligence, Inc. is a compliance technology company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2016. It specializes in providing risk management and compliance solutions tailored for the financial industry. The company's offerings include Merlon Intelligent Screening, which automates customer screening by analyzing news and information from various sources; Merlon Intelligent List Management, which assists in managing sanction lists to address financial crimes; Merlon Intelligent Assessment, a platform designed to enhance the customer risk assessment process; and Merlon Intelligent Triage, which aggregates customer-related information for compliance analysts. By servicing banks, Merlon Intelligence aims to reduce risk and combat money laundering effectively.

EverC

Series A in 2016
EverC is a provider of cloud-based cyber risk intelligence and merchant fraud detection solutions for the online seller ecosystem. The company offers MerchantView, a monitoring platform for acquiring banks and payment service providers to manage merchant-based fraud and cyber risk, and MarketView, which tracks illicit marketplace listings. Its services include detection of violating merchants, transaction laundering verification, card compliance consulting, and web analyst verification. Founded in 2015, EverC combines risk intelligence, data science, fintech, and payments expertise to power cross-channel risk management. The platform rapidly detects high-risk merchants, online money laundering, and fake or illegal products, while ongoing monitoring mitigates evolving risk. EverC aims to help marketplaces, global payment providers, and online sellers grow safely by transforming the internet into a transparent, trusted environment.

Mines

Seed Round in 2016
Mines.io, Inc. is a financial analytics company that operates a platform focused on mobile data. Its flagship product, Mteka, is an in-memory analytics solution capable of processing vast amounts of mobile carrier data rapidly, allowing for the creation and deployment of predictive models in real time. The company's services are designed to assist mobile operators in monetizing their data while enabling financial institutions to expand their customer reach. Among its offerings are a credit scoring service that evaluates consumer credit risk based on mobile behavior, a fraud detection system that identifies suspicious activities in real time, and behavior modeling tools that enhance customer identity verification. Additionally, the company employs risk analysis and machine learning techniques to help insurance providers tailor premiums based on consumer risk profiles. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Mines.io aims to leverage mobile data to improve financial services and consumer access to credit.

EverC

Series A in 2015
EverC is a provider of cloud-based cyber risk intelligence and merchant fraud detection solutions for the online seller ecosystem. The company offers MerchantView, a monitoring platform for acquiring banks and payment service providers to manage merchant-based fraud and cyber risk, and MarketView, which tracks illicit marketplace listings. Its services include detection of violating merchants, transaction laundering verification, card compliance consulting, and web analyst verification. Founded in 2015, EverC combines risk intelligence, data science, fintech, and payments expertise to power cross-channel risk management. The platform rapidly detects high-risk merchants, online money laundering, and fake or illegal products, while ongoing monitoring mitigates evolving risk. EverC aims to help marketplaces, global payment providers, and online sellers grow safely by transforming the internet into a transparent, trusted environment.
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