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This is our story
Our founders didn't stumble into fintech. In fact, they have combined over 100 years of experience in financial services, consulting and fintech firms. Before Vikar, they were already deep in it, building the North American market for a wealth management onboarding startup from scratch. They know what it takes to build a business, not just a product.
And it was during those years that the pattern became impossible to ignore.
Meeting after meeting, institution after institution, they kept seeing the same thing: financial institutions were being underserved, especially community banks and credit unions. Not by accident. Structurally. The major fintech platforms were either built for the largest banks, bloated with complexity most institutions would never use, or too lightweight to scale across the institution. Neither offered a complete end-to-end system from customers through the front office, risk, operations, to core backend systems. This left institutions choosing between overpaying for a bad fit or cobbling together tools that barely kept up
The gap was enormous and obvious. And somehow, nobody was closing it.
The Aha Moment That Led to Vikar
They finally had their “Aha moment”. Glenn Bolstad, Adam Bieser, Amruta Dongre , and Nancy Schneier knew they had the experience, the relationships, and now the clarity.
In 2017, they founded Vikar on a single conviction: every financial institution, from community banks and credit unions to the largest regional and national banks, deserves software built to fit how they actually work.
That conviction hasn't changed.
