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Spain’s Banco Santander dived into fintech financing in July 2014 with the launch of Santander InnoVentures, a $100 million fund taking aim at five targets: digital delivery of financial services; e-commerce and payments; online lending; investment product distribution; and big-data analytics. “We envision, three or four years out, having an ecosystem of companies that can create portfolio value by working together and with the bank,” says Mariano Belinky, who has been InnoVentures’ London-based managing partner since last fall. Previously a McKinsey & Co. associate principal in New York and an adviser to Santander, the 40-year-old was recruited by Victor Matarranz, a Banco Santander executive vice president and McKinsey alum, who saw in Belinky an ideal blend of banking, strategic and technological expertise. Belinky urges colleagues to view competition in a new light: “When you look at our app, it’s not really competing with Barclays and Citi. It’s competing with Uber, Google and every single app that I have on my phone.” After working as a junior quant trader at CCC La Capital del Plata in his native Argentina, Belinky in 2001 earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and computer science at New York University. He put in three years as a research technology associate at hedge fund firm Bridgewater Associates and five years of doctoral studies in artificial intelligence at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya before joining McKinsey in 2008. InnoVentures’ investments include participations in an $80 million Series C round for Palo Alto, California–based mobile operating system company Cyanogen and in a $32 million Series A round for distributed-ledger protocol developer Ripple. Belinky anticipates adding to his seven-member team and expanding coverage to Latin America in the coming year.

 
The 2015 Fintech Finance 35

1. James Robinson III & James Robinson IV RRE Ventures 2. Jane Gladstone Evercore Partners 3. Matthew Harris Bain Capital Ventures Finding, Applying for, and Winning Grant Funding: Tips for Nonprofits Sponsored by Fidelity Investments April 29, 2025 4. Steven McLaughlin Financial Technology Partners 5. Jonathan Korngold General Atlantic

6. Richard Garman & Brad Bernstein FTV Capital 7. Amy Nauiokas & Sean Park Anthemis Group 8. Thomas Jessop Goldman Sachs Group 9. Meyer (Micky) Malka Ribbit Capital 10. Hans Morris Nyca Partners

11. Maria Gotsch Partnership Fund for New York City 12. Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz 13. Barry Silbert Digital Currency Group 14. Jay Reinemann Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria 15. Mariano Belinky Santander InnoVentures

16. François Robinet AXA Strategic Ventures 17. Vanessa Colella Citi Ventures 18. Alan Freudenstein & Gregory Grimaldi Credit Suisse NEXT Fund 19. Justin Brownhill & Neil DeSena SenaHill Partners 20. Rodger Voorhies Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

21. Michael Schlein Accion International 22. Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates 23. Rumi Morales CME Ventures 24. Mark Beeston Illuminate Financial Management 25. Vladislav Solodkiy Life.SREDA

26. Fabian Vandenreydt Innotribe SWIFT 27. Derek White Barclays 28. Alex Batlin UBS 29. Jeffrey Greenberg & Vincenzo La Ruffa Aquiline Capital Partners 30. P. Howard Edelstein REDI Holdings

31. Nektarios Liolios Startupbootcamp FinTech 32. Roy Bahat Bloomberg Beta 33. Andrew McCormack Valar Ventures 34. Lawrence Wintermeyer Innovate Finance 35. Janos Barberis FinTech Hong Kong