About Us
A partnership between Elizabeth Park Capital Management, Strandview Capital, and community banks. The Btech Consortium invests in emerging technology companies serving the community bank sector.
Our community bank investors are empowered by joining forces through a consortium with market leverage and gain a competitive advantage through insights into emerging bank technology, access to new vendor relationships, and equity participation in emerging bank technology companies.
Select Bank Consortium Members
Our consortium puts communities first. Together we represent over $150 billion of combined assets across the US and are thought leaders in banking, R&D, education, and innovation.
“Customers Bank has been at the forefront of banking technology for nearly a decade. The Btech Consortium helps to solve the buy vs build dilemma faced by mid-sized and community banks giving us access to an array of fresh, cutting-edge solutions that can be adapted to the needs of Consortium members,”
Sam Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank
Community Banks
- Technology Needs Identification
- Market Input
- Sounding Board
- Feedback & HUB Participation
Strandview
- Sourcing Investment Opportunities
- Company Research & Analysis
- Investment Selection & Management
- Industry Experts, Contacts, and Company Interface
Elizabeth Park
- Deep Community Bank Knowledge
- Bank Sector Perspective
- Industry Relationships
- Idea Sourcing
Recent News
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Consortium HUB Information Exchange
The Consortium HUB is a proprietary communication platform among community banks, Elizabeth Park Capital Management and Strandview Capital. The HUB is exclusively for banks invested into the Btech Consortium Fund and serves as the central information exchange platform for its members.
Benefits to community banks
- Support bank IT team through an exchange of insight, research, contacts, and trends to navigate a rapidly changing technology landscape
- Empower community banks to compete with larger banks and be less reliant on core providers by joining a bank consortium
- Participate in bank technology advancements through both tech adoption and equity ownership
- Leverage Elizabeth Park’s deep experience with community banks and Strandview’s history of investing in financial technology
Benefits to portfolio companies
- Bank consortium provides highly strategic capital
- Consortium banks as potential customers
- Deep insights into bank vendor selection
- Collaborative and hands-on involvement
If you are a bank or tech company focused on advancing community bank technology, let's talk.