Caterpillar Management

Thesis

We sat in the front row of fintech. Now we back the people we met there.

Building CRS, a licensed consumer reporting agency, gave us an unusual vantage point: a front-row seat across the industries of financial technology, with a particular depth in the businesses that run on regulated data. From that seat we watched hundreds of companies get built, saw which problems remained stubbornly unsolved, and met the founders working to solve them.

Caterpillar Management exists to back those founders. We provide capital alongside the consultative, operator-grade advisory that regulated fintech actually requires, so the companies we invest in can reach their next stage of growth and, collectively, build a more equitable, sustainable, and ethical financial technology industry across the world.

Vantage

Earned perspective

Years operating inside regulated data infrastructure means we recognize durable businesses, and the traps, before the market does. Pattern recognition here is earned, not researched.

Partnership

Consultative capital

We work the way operators work: on compliance strategy, bureau and data relationships, product, and go-to-market. The check is the beginning of the engagement, not the end of it.

Purpose

A better industry

Financial infrastructure shapes who gets access to what. We invest toward a fintech industry that is more equitable, more sustainable, and more ethical, everywhere it operates.

Team

Two operators, one vantage point.

Ali Jelveh

Partner

Ali is a technologist and repeat founder. He co-founded and led Protonet, the Hamburg-based private server company known for one of the fastest crowdfunding raises in history, and serves as Chief Technology Officer of CRS, where he builds the engineering platform behind licensed tri-bureau credit data infrastructure.

He is also the founder of the Open Intelligence Foundation, which provides rapid, no-strings-attached funding to independent AI builders and researchers worldwide.

Garrett Loh

Partner

Garrett is Chief Product Officer of CRS, where he leads product strategy and commercial partnerships across credit, fraud, and compliance data infrastructure serving fintechs, lenders, and financial platforms.

Operating across product, business development, and executive strategy, he has spent his career at the intersection of regulated data and the companies building on top of it. He is based in New York.