
Small, technical, concentrated.
A deliberately small team of investors and operators. We underwrite few companies and take responsibility for them directly.

Bob van Winden
Managing Partner
Bob van Winden is Managing Partner of CINCO³. He spent nine years at Stripe, including seven as Head of Operations, where he built and led the global operations organisation — product support and technical account management, risk, partner compliance and financial crime, product and core operations, incident response, and the vendor and delivery network — across San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Mexico City, Dublin, Bangalore, Singapore and Tokyo. Before Stripe he spent five years at Google, most recently leading vendor operations for Google Cloud.
He is currently part of the team building Bridge, the stablecoin payments platform, and serves as an Executive Advisor to Vela Partners, a San Francisco-based, AI-native venture firm. He holds a Master in International Business with distinction from Grenoble Ecole de Management and a BSc in International Business from Maastricht University.
Focus · Financial infrastructure & applied AI
Marbella, Spain
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