Fintech VC Powerhouse Frank Rotman moving Qed investors to found his own startups

Frank Rotman, the co-founder of Prolific Fintech Investor and Qed Investors, said on Friday that he would go to an emeritus partner role by the end of the year to focus on the foundation of his own startups.

But these startups will not necessarily be financial technology companies. In A post on xRotman – who helped start Qed in 2007 – said that “the first company” that he plans to “get out of the ground is in the music industry”.

He wrote: “It is easy to call me crazy for all the obvious reasons, but it is worth reserving a judgment until you learn more about the company that has evolved in my head and you sit on the shelf for years. It will be fun to build and could in fact make a huge difference for an industry that none of us could imagine living without.”

Rotman launched Alexandria, in Virginia, QED, which today has $ 4 billion in assets under management almost two decades with Nigel Morris and Caribou Honig. He led the company’s investment in Credit Karma and played a role in QED’s investments in unicorns such as Greensky, Flywire and Sofi. (In fact, Qed was the first institutional money at Credit Karma). The other companies that the company supported include Creditas, Nubank, Avidxchange and Bitso.

QED invests exclusively in companies that build financial technologies during the pre-series stages at the A series.

Rotman, which goes through the Handle “The Fintech Junkie” on X, said that he would go to his new role on January 1, 2026. He will continue to play a part -time advisory role in Qed in the coming years.

In addition to founding musical startups, Rotman said that he probably planned to write a book centered on his “observations and executives for the startup and the VC worlds”.

He wrote in the X Post: “It should not surprise anyone who knows me – writing is my oxygen. I cannot imagine a life without itself if Chatgpt and Claude are better writers than me.”

In a press release, QED’s general partner, Nigel Morris, noted that Rotman and had worked together for over 30 years – also in Capital One.

“Frank, at the base, is an entrepreneur and I have no doubt that he will excel in his next chapter,” he said.

QED Investors’ partner Amias Gerety will be promoted to lead the American investment team of QED.