Neil Underwood

General Partner, Canapi Ventures

Neil Underwood currently serves as General Partner of Canapi Ventures, a strategic fintech venture fund, and as President of Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), the holding company of Live Oak Bank. While at the bank, he co-founded nCino (NCNO), a cloud-based bank operating system now serving over 1000 financial institutions globally.

Through the venture arm of Live Oak, Underwood helped incubate companies focused on digital bank transformation, including Finxact, Payrailz, DefenseStorm and Greenlight. In 2017, he co-founded Apiture, a joint venture between Live Oak and First Data, serving as a cloud-native omni-channel onboarding and servicing platform.

Underwood currently serves on the board of Live Oak Bank, Greenlight, Notarize, Defense Storm, Apiture, Payrailz, Posh and Able. Previous board or board observer seats include: Blend and Finxact. A native of Miami, FL, he holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.