Blake Kennedy

Associate at Saltwater Capital · Fintech

Saltwater Capital

Miami, FL · ET (UTC-5)

5+ years experience

Stanford GSB

English

Investing

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Overview

Associate at Saltwater Capital, backing fintech companies. Sit on 6 boards. Led or co-led 7 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: Okta and Twilio.

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Founders building in fintech regulation
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InvestingLooking to invest

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Writing $25k cheques into pre-seed fintech in the Nordics

Cheque size: $25k
Stages: Seed, Series A
Sectors: Fintech regulation, climate
Geographies: LatAm
Lead or follow: Lead
Decision time: 10 business days
How I help: Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

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Experience

Associate
Feb 2026 - Present
Saltwater Capital · 8 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
- Secured 6 payments licences.
- Built the privacy programme for launches in 12 countries.
Senior Product Manager
Mar 2024 - Feb 2026
Okta · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
- Cut time-to-first-value for new developer customers from 12 days to 3.
- Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
Senior Product Manager
Oct 2021 - Mar 2024
Twilio · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
- Launched the platform product in 8 markets.
- Cut time-to-first-value for new platform customers from 21 days to 3.

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Education

Stanford GSB
MBA, Business Administration
2021 - 2023
Virginia Tech
BS, Finance
2017 - 2021

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