Top 25 FinTech Startup Investors in Cyprus in November 2024
A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fintech startups based in Cyprus. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Cyprus. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 FinTech Startup Investors in Cyprus in November 2024
Emilios Markou isCo-Founder and Executive Directorat Hellas Direct.
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Investment focus
- Insurance, iOS, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Cyprus, Greece, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Baobab — Protect your business against cyber attacks
- ParkAround — ParkAround in an online marketplace that enables drivers to find, book & pay parking spaces online in places like airports, ports & the city center.It's available in Greece (Athens & 4 more cities) and Spain (Barcelona & Malaga).Furthermore, ParkAround recently launched the 1st purely online, SaaS software for car parksnamed ParkAround CRM.
- Hellas Direct — Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence.
Nati Harpaz is the CEO of Catch Group, Australia’s largest pure eCommerce organisation with a retail product business as well as a daily deals business. Nati’s focus is on building cultures in organisations to enable rapid growth which stems from the understanding that management cannot compromise on the quality of its human resource as well as therequirement of a very clear and concise business strategy to allow the entire organisation to focus on achieving it.On top of his position as CEO of Catch Group he is also the chairman of APAC’s largest retail media organisation – Inside Retail as well as an advisory board member of several publicly listed companies.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, FinTech, Internet
- Seed
- Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- BridgerPay — We’re solving the toughest payment challenges to deliver growth-ready payment infrastructure.
Mobile TeleSystems OJSC ("MTS") is the leading telecommunications group in Russia and the CIS, offering mobile and fixed voice, broadband, pay TV as well as content and entertainment services in one of the world's fastest growing regions. Including its subsidiaries, as of June 30, 2014, the Group serviced over 100 million mobilesubscribers in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Turkmenistan and Belarus, a region that boasts a total population of more than 200 million. The Group’s fixed business, as of June 30, 2014, had a total of 12.390 million households passed and 7.294 million residential subscribers.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, Big Data
- Seed, Private Equity
- Cyprus, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Ozon — leading e-commerce platform in Russia, first russian marketplace
- SWiP — SWiP is designed FOR small business owners and small business managers who are working to retain their current customer baseThose who WANT/ NEED to improve product quality, invest in increasing revenue of the point of saleSWiP is an easy-to-use tool for winning back and retaining customers with automatic activity boost, which saves andincreases revenueWe help to retain and win back over 65% of customers for only a 10% discount on the checkUNLIKE most of the industry, SWiP uses artificial intelligence to make decisions on launching campaigns for customer retention and win-back and combines payment and guest loyalty points calculation into a single transaction, creating the ultimate convenience in payment.
APA Venture Partners is a pre-seed venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with the next generation of rule-breakers to build great companies.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- Vend Park — Unlock the true value of your parking asset with a fully digital parking access and revenue control system
- Wolf — Get all the tools and expertise you need to launch your own branded on-demand staffing platform, SpaaS and apps.
- Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality
Jon Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Cyprus, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
- Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
- Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.
- Hellas Direct — Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence.
SIBF is a vast network of executive peers who leverage their collective knowledge, contacts and experiences
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Investment focus
- PaaS, FinTech, Internet
- Seed
- Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- BridgerPay — We’re solving the toughest payment challenges to deliver growth-ready payment infrastructure.
Mark has more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor and corporate advisor in New York, London and Sydney. From 1990 to 2000 Mark was the Australian and Asian representative of Hellman & Friedman following his training on Wall Street with James D. Wolfensohn and in London at Hudson Conway with Lloyd Williams.In 2000 Mark co-founded leading Australian boutique corporate advisory and private equity firm Carnegie, Wylie & Co Pty Limited with John Wylie. Carnegie Wylie was acquired by leading Wall Street bank, Lazard Inc in 2007, and following the sale, Mark was appointed the CEO of Lazard Australia Private Equity. Throughout his career, Mark has been involved in a range of diverse Australian and Asian investments and has participated in groups that have acquired major stakes in the Courage Pub Estate, John Fairfax Holdings, Hoyts Cinemas, Formula One Holdings, SCTV, Macquarie Radio Network, Lonely Planet Publications and London Sumatra Plantations. As a corporate advisor, Mark has advised Qantas and Coles Myer on general strategic matters, Westfield on its $22 billion merger and Qantas on its JetStarAsia start-up in Singapore. Mark holds a BA from Oxford University and a BSc (Hons) from Melbourne University. He is a former Treasurer of the Oxford Union.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
- Series A, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Keabank — Keabank is a bank for the future.
- ChronoBank — Chrono.tech is the fastest-growing Australian blockchain company. We believe that blockchain technology is the key to revolutionising global recruitment and payment processes.
- Chrono.tech — Chrono.tech is the fastest-growing Australian blockchain company. We believe that blockchain technology is the key to revolutionising global recruitment and payment processes.
Facilitating seamless access to crypto markets since 2016.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- GigaStar — GigaStar brings YouTube Creators & Fans together as partners. Fans invest in YouTube Creators and Creators get funding while building an army of promoters.
- EDX Markets — Edx description website
- Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality
Private Private
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Investment focus
- Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- FCUK Ecosystem — A startup aimed at building an ecosystem based on Bitcoin and the Ordinals protocol and creating infrastructure for BRC20 / BRC21 / DRC20 / LTC20 tokens.
How do you navigate your eCommerce global payment processing? Unlimint has over 500 payment options and leading-edge banking services waiting for your digital company to run with. Be ready for tomorrow.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Blockchain, Marketplace
- Seed
- Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality
Daedalus Angel Syndicate is a blockchain-focused angel collective.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SkyX — SkyX is a blockchain-powered weather network that uses an incentive system and web3 protocol.
- NEBRA Labs — NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company.
- Lagrange Labs — Seamlessly interact between chains with cryptographically secured state proofs, not opaque intermediaries.
Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kama — Kama offers sexual wellness practices that improve how you experience love, sex, and intimacy. Available on the iOS App Store.
- BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
- Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Communitas Capital is a new venture capital firm founded by financial industry veterans Doug Atkin.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Analytics
- Seed, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, Cyprus, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Vortexa — State of the art energy analytics that paints a global picture of cargo flows. Identify energy market opportunities before the competition with Vortexa.
- Necto — Accelerating global treasury - With our secure API aggregator, you gain a single endpoint for real-time connectivity to ALL your banks, regardless of data formats.
- Articul8 — Articul8 operates as a Generative AI enterprise software company focused on helping organizations.
Kenes (Kenges) Rakishev - a prominent entrepreneur and investor, and one of the most influential businessmen in Kazakhstan, according to Forbes magazine, Kenes has served in several top positions in both the private and public sector throughout his career and worked as an advisor for the Kazakhstan Interior Ministry and Department of Education.Kenes is a co-founder of the global venture fund Singulariteam. It was his vision to make advancing mobile technology more widely available after he noted a very real desire for currently unobtainable functionality.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Internet, Video
- Series B, Funding Round, Seed
- Cyprus, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- mobli — Mobli is going to be a new social media application coming fall 2024 - tips from fans
- TriPlay — TriPlay is the next generation personal cloud company, enabling users worldwide to easily access, manage, share and enjoy their music, photos and videos across any computer, mobile phone, tablet or web-enabled television. TriPlay is a privately held company with offices in New York and Israel.
- Fastlane Ventures — Fastlane Ventures is a Russian company focused on the development, launch and promotion of innovative internet businesses.Founded in 2010 by a team of experienced entrepreneurs with a track record of successful investments, the company has launched 20 internet start-ups to capitalize on the increasing demand for online services and growingappetite for investment in the Russian internet market by Western and Russian investors.The company has attracted more than $85 million from international investment funds. Key strategic investment partners of Fastlane Ventures are Direct Group, e.ventures and VTB Capital. Among the investors of the company also Intel Capital, Kinnevik, Mangrove Capital, ru-Net, UMJ Russia, and some others to launch companies across the online retail, travel, relationship, health and recruitment areas. The strategic focus of Fastlane Ventures is to target business-to-consumer niche markets with low levels of competition. The Company's aim is to anticipate the not yet satisfied needs of Russian customers.Fastlane Ventures acts as both an operational and investment partner at the same time. It is the sole Russian company that provides an initial seed investment in addition to having a hands-on operational role with its businesses through its team of high calibre professionals. To launch its business quickly and effectively, Fastlane Ventures has adopted proprietary solution called Fast 50, which enables a new venture to launch in just 50 days and ensures an efficient path between launch and exit. Fastlane Ventures has established a team of highly regarded professionals, who possess unique knowledge and expertise in management, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, business development, marketing and PR, investment generation, HR management, web design and much more. Once the new business venture is operating effectively, Fastlane Ventures helps its investment partners realize their investment return through the sale of the business to other strategic investors. This usually takes place approximately 2-3 years after the initial business launch. For more information about Fastlane Ventures and its portfolio companies, please visit http://fastlaneventures.ru/en/
Investing in a decentralized world
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
- Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans
- Arkis - DeFi Prime Broker — Arkis facilitates the provision of the most capital-efficient undercollateralized leverage for DeFi financial institutions and traders. Accelerating the maturity of DeFi.
We do more than invest. We guide, coach, and connect companies so they can focus on making a difference.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Financial Services
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Israel, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Trullion — The best AI-powered accounting software for lease accounting & revenue recognition compliance. Accountants trust Trullion for automated financial software.
- Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
- ConsenSys — Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.
gCC (gumi Cryptos Capital) is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
- Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.
- Moonveil Entertainment — Moonveil Entertainment is a web3 game studio that uses cutting-edge technology to create authentic gaming experiences.
Mark Sebba - Chairman @ Flowerbx
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, InsurTech
- Seed, Series A
- Cyprus, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hellas Direct — Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence.
- The Stack World — The Stack World is a news, events and connections company.
Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- United States, Russian Federation, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Uplify — Uplify makes it easy for any streamers to monetize their content as their audience grows and create new authentic content your followers will love.
- OverPRO — Next generation eSports platform for players of any level
- Monetizr — Turn gamers' attention into revenue for your brand through targeted in-game mobile ads. Partner with Monetizr and get access to audiences across the globe.
Floating Point Group is a trading platform provider offering innovative, industry-leading trade execution and settlement
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- Arcana — Arcana enables institutional investors to understand their portfolio risks, decompose single stock & book performance, drill into positioning, and isolate their idiosyncratic differentiation. Built on our proprietary crowding, ownership, factor risk, and performance datasets.
- Wheeler Bio — Wheeler speeds up and simplifies discovery-to-IND with its cutting-edge approach to CDMO services for cell line development, cell banking, process development, characterization and more.
- Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality
Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Russian Federation, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- ASAAS — Asaas helps individuals and companies automate financial processes and improve their relationship with customers. It brings in a single place, sending invoices, automation of communication through different channels, and receivable management. It’s possible to receive payments through bank payment slip, credit, and debit, send transfers, pay bills,anticipate receivables and NFS-e. It’s also connected to a credit card to withdraw from ATMs. Much more than a bank account, it drastically reduces manual work in administrative tasks and reduces the default rate, improving the customer’s cash flow.
- Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
- First Circle — First Circle is an award-winning FinTech company that has been supporting SMEs since 2016. We help businesses increase sales, fund projects, manage payments, and ultimately overcome the biggest barriers to their growth.
Andrey Belozerov (born 17 November 1980) is a Russian manager, entrepreneur and investor with a portfolio including SpaceX, Momentus, Pitchme and others. Expert in the field of digital technologies and digital transformation, co-founder Digital Disrupt investment club, United Nations Development Program expert.
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Investment focus
- Apps, EdTech, FinTech
- Seed
- Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Digital Disrupt — Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.
AMV is the leading early-stage venture capital firm investing in digital health, technology and life sciences. It has assembled the leading early-stage
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Cyprus, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- basys.ai — Basys.ai automates the process of prior authorization and utilization management to improve costs and timeliness for health plans/payers using an AI-based platform. The proprietary platform automates the process of encoding/digitizing the payer policies using machine learning, thus reducing the piloting timeline by up to 9 months.
- SubjectWell — Connecting your trial or treatment to tens of millions of motivated patients with known conditions with global patient recruitment campaigns.
- Autonomize AI — AI Copilots for Healthcare & Life Sciences. Empower knowledge workers, reduce administrative burden and improve health outcomes.
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
- Fortunafi — We deliver all-in-one liquidity solutions for stablecoin issuers, protocol treasuries, and traditional entities. We offer a variety of investment products, such as private and public debt funds with native minting and redemption.
- Smart Transactions — Smart Transactions is a protocol designed to execute transactions.
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