Fintech's enthusiastic investor and QED co-founder Frank Rotman said Friday that he had moved to a partner emeritus paper by the end of the year to focus on establishing his own startups.
But those startups do not have to be financial technology companies. In A post on xRotman – who helped start QED in 2007 – declared “the first business” he plans to “out of the ground is in the music industry.”
He wrote: “It's easy to call me mad at all the obvious reasons, but it is worth reserving the judgment until you learned more about the business that sprang up my head and sat on the shelf for years. It was fun to build and could make a big difference in an industry that none of us could think of living without.”
Rotman started Alexandria, Virginia-based QED, which now has $ 4 billion in property under management, nearly two decades ago with Nigel Morris and Caribbeso Honig. He led the company's investment in credit karma and played a role in Qed's investment in Unicorns such as Greensky, Flywire, and Sofi. (In fact, QED is the first institutional currency in credit karma.) Other firm -back companies include Credasas, Nubank, Avidxchange, and Bass.
QED is exclusively investing in companies that build pre-seeding financial technology in the stages of the series.
Rotman, who passed the handle “The Fintech Junkie” in X, said he had moved to his new paper on January 1, 2026. He continued to serve a part-time paper that advised QED in the coming years.
In addition to establishing music startups, Rotman said he is likely to plan to write a book centered around his “observations and frameworks for starting and VC worlds.”
He wrote to X Post: “It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who knows me – writing is my oxygen. I can't imagine a life without it even when Chatgpt and Claude are better writers than I am.”
In a statement, Qed Managing Partner Nigel Morris mentioned that he and Rotman had worked together for more than 30 years – also in the capital one.
“Frank, in his main, is a businessman and I have no doubt that he will dominate his next chapter,” he said.
QED investors partner Amias Gerety will advance to lead the US investment team.