Episode 95

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17th Feb 2023

Ep. 95 Russ D'Argento, Founder & CEO of FINTRX

On this episode of Investors & Operators, Jordan sits down with Russ D'Argento, Founder & CEO of FINTRX. Together, they discuss:

  • How he bootstrapped FINTRX and his journey of raising $9M Series A
  • His advice to tech founders 
  • Finding vision, mission & value in the finance industry 
  • How his previous experience of a baseball player & a poker player has led to where he is today

...and so much more.

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Russ D’Argento founded FINTRX in 2014 as a bootstrapped solo founder. He now oversees a team of more than 100 individuals. 

Russ has recently been recognized as one of the top 100 CEOs to work for in Boston. This prestigious list, compiled by Comparably, a leading workplace culture and compensation monitoring site, highlights exceptional CEOs who are recognized by their employees for their outstanding leadership, vision, and work culture.

FINTRX is the preeminent resource for private wealth data and research. Its platform features millions of data points on the global Family Office and Registered Investment Advisor ecosystem. Today, FINTRX serves hundreds of customers globally, which include top tier hedge funds, private equity and venture capital firms, real estate firms, institutional investors, investment banks, consultants and service providers.

In November of 2021, FINTRX closed its Series A round of funding, raising $9M.

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Founder. Recovering Investment Banker. 3x Entrepreneur. Philz Coffee Enthusiast.

Jordan Selleck is a recovering investment banker turned 3x entrepreneur. While teaching English in China, Jordan met an investment banker in a bar and before he knew it he’d spent six years in cross-border investment banking advising global corporates and private equity firms on M&A deals up to $250 million.

As much as Jordan loved investment banking, he always knew he was meant to do something more. In 2016, Jordan founded Debtmaven, a deal management platform for debt financing in the lower middle market. It was while he was marketing Debtmaven on LinkedIn that Jordan found his true passion: building meaningful relationships in the lower middle market.

Seeing over 50% of Debtmaven’s $450million+ in deals come from LinkedIn, he realized he’d found an untapped market and began his journey with LinkedIn consulting. Dozens of clients and a handful of extraordinarily talented employees later, 51 Labs is a thriving marketing agency for the lower middle market that produces captivating content and generates organic traffic across LinkedIn.

Jordan was born in San Diego, grew up in North Carolina and attended UNC-Chapel Hill. He has traveled to 32 countries, lived in China for 18 months, trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, is a fourth-generation private pilot, SCUBA dives, speaks Mandarin Chinese, and is a husband and father of 2.