The fertile fintech investor and co -founder Qed, Frank Rotman, said on Friday that he would go to the role of a retired partner by the end of the yr to focus on putting on his own startups.
But these startups won’t necessarily be technology firms. IN Post on XRotman – who helped to start Qed in 2007 – said that “the first business”, that he was planning to “get out of the ground, is in the music industry.”
He wrote: “It is easy to call me crazy for all obvious reasons, but it is worth replacing judgment until you learn more about business that has evolved in my head and sat on the shelf for years. Construction and can be cool for the industry, without which no one can imagine life.”
Rotman was founded by Alexandria, Qed based in Virginia, which today has $ 4 billion, almost two many years ago with Nigel Morris and Caribou Honig. He conducted the company’s investment in credit food and played a role in QED investments in Unicorn, corresponding to Greensky, Flywire and Sofi. (In fact, Qed was the first institutional money for credit food.) Other firms that the company supported is Creditas, Nubank, AvidxChange and Bitsso.
QD invests only in firms building financial technology in a viser to the A. tents.
Rotman, who passes “The Fintech Junkie” on X, said that he would go to his recent role on January 1, 2026. He would proceed to play part -time advisory for QD in the coming years.
In addition to the founding music startups, Rotman said that he was probably planning to write a book focused around his “observation and framework for startup worlds and VC.”
He wrote in X post: “This should not surprise anyone who knows me – writing is my oxygen. I can’t imagine life without him, even though chatgpt and claude are better writers than I do.”
In a statement, managing partner Qed Nigel Morris noticed that he and Rotman had been working together for over 30 years – earlier also in Capital One.
“Frank is founded at his base and I have no doubt that he will stand out in the next chapter,” he said.
The QED partner of Investors Amias Gereta can be promoted to lead the American investment team QED.