Chris Dean

Chris Dean is the co-founder and CEO of Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Under his leadership, the Banking-as-a-Service platform has raised more than $70 million in total venture funding, including a $40 million Series C round in February 2023. Before establishing Treasury Prime, Dean served as the co-founder and CTO of the Y Combinator-backed startup Standard Treasury, which was subsequently acquired by Silicon Valley Bank. Following the acquisition, he worked as the CTO of API banking for Silicon Valley Bank, building on an early career that included technical roles at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and enterprise software firm Merced Systems. Holding a physics degree from the California Institute of Technology, Dean currently focuses on developing API-first financial infrastructure to facilitate direct partnerships between traditional banks and enterprise technology platforms.