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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Europe (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Europe Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Europe Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Speedinvest
VC Fund
30 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $549k–$38M
Seedcamp
VC Fund
24 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, SaaS
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
21 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $549k–$16M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
20 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.3M–$100M
Anthemis
VC Fund
17 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.3M–$60M
Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, FinTech $350k–$18M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
14 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $637k–$33M
Chris Adelsbach
Angel
14 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $120k–$20M
Headline
VC Fund
13 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.2M–$88M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $338k–$20M
Wintermute Ventures
VC Fund
12 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2.7M–$55M
BREEGA
VC Fund
12 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$25M
Atlantic
VC Fund
12 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Financial Services $850k–$32M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
12 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $650k–$48M
Ascension
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Internet $229k–$4.1M
Point Nine
VC Fund
12 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $900k–$53M
Valar Ventures
VC Fund
11 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Banking $1.2M–$75M
Magnus Capital
VC Fund
11 United States, India, Estonia Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.2M–$9.5M
Bpifrance
VC Fund
11 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $713k–$35M
GSR
VC Fund
11 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$50M
Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $650k–$30M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $4.5M–$150M
Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
10 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $525k–$43M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$33M
Wintermute
VC Fund
10 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $3M–$50M
Fabric Ventures
VC Fund
10 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $2M–$30M
AA Sons
VC Fund
10 France, United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $1.1M–$33M
13books Capital
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, Germany, France Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $3.8M–$34M
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
9 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $994k–$40M
Par Equity
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, United States, Brazil Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $380k–$14M
Passion Capital
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $573k–$85M
Paul Forster
Angel
9 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$15M
Fulgur Ventures
VC Fund
9 United States, Switzerland, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $50k–$40M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
9 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.4M–$75M
White Star Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1M–$60M
Shima Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.2M–$11M
Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
9 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $1M–$52M
Connect Ventures
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, FinTech $669k–$55M
SGH CAPITAL
VC Fund
9 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $120k–$29M
Accel
VC Fund
9 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.5M–$74M
Practica Capital
VC Fund
9 Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A B2B, Software, Information Technology $219k–$25M
United Ventures
VC Fund
9 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $274k–$18M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.9M–$48M
ConsenSys
VC Fund
9 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $200k–$30M
Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $750k–$170M
DN Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $300k–$60M
Creandum
VC Fund
9 Sweden, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$80M
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
9 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $200k–$6M
Charles Delingpole
Angel
9 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $382k–$20M
Wayra
VC Fund
8 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 30 investments in Europe Payments startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 528
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
  • Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
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Seedcamp
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 24 investments in Europe Payments startups, 32 in the past 12 months

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 308
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 21 investments in Europe Payments startups

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 544
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $584k–$4.4M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hoora
  • Avocode — Centralize design collaboration, developer hand-off, version control, screen flows, & feedback in one tool. Sign up free today. Work with Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma designs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
  • Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 20 investments in Europe Payments startups

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1091
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $10M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
  • Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
  • Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.
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Anthemis
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 17 investments in Europe Payments startups

digitally native finance

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 253
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $10M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Tremor — Tremor designs, builds & manages SmartMarkets utilize state-of-art auction technologies & optimization techniques.
  • TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
  • Maxwell Financial Labs — Hi, we're Maxwell. We’re on a mission to revolutionize the $8.5T residential mortgage market by reimagining how mortgage lenders collaborate with homebuyers and real estate agents to buy a home. We connect our hundreds of lenders onto one seamless, intuitively-designed platform, so the focus isn’t the paperwork, it’s the place to call home.Today, hundreds of lenders across the United States use Maxwell’s digital mortgage platform to originate billions in mortgage loans each month at a cycle time 45 percent faster than the national average.
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in Europe Payments startups

Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$4.2M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Aibuild — Ai Build is a London based company developing Artificial Intelligence and Robotic technologies for large scale additive manufacturing. We believe additive manufacturing is the core technology for achieving a sustainable environment and a highly efficient on-demand economy.We are a team of creative and enthusiastic people with strong background inthe areas of 3D printing, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, computational design and physics. We are partnering with some of the world’s most innovative companies and investors to bring our disruptive Autonomous Large Scale 3D Printing technology into a wide range of industrial applications. Our purpose is to empower factories of the future to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
  • MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
  • Adclear — Instant approvals for financial promotions. Real-time marketing. Zero bottlenecks. Transform manual compliance into automated confidence. Scale your marketing operations while reducing risk. Adclear empowers your team to move fast and stay compliant.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 14 investments in Europe Payments startups

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 824
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
  • Clever Care Health Plan Inc. — Clever Care delivers culturally sensitive Medicare options in Southern California that honor and represent the cultural values of the communities we serve. Health and wellness, centered around you.
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 14 investments in Europe Payments startups

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 226
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $4.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
  • FinCrime Dynamics — Our mission is to help make the world’s financial system safer through rapid deployment of effective AI for financial crime analytics, enabled by enriched synthetic data that captures the dynamics of fraud and money laundering and loads them into tailor-made scenarios that explore diverse threats that financial organisations are exposed to.Thisgoal has taken us to the forefront of Synthetic Data and Fincrime Analytics, and we are proud to have in our team people that have helped shape the state-of-the-art of these fields.Keywords: Finacial services, AML, Synthetic Data, Fintech, Machine learning, Big data, Simulation, Fraud Analytics, Compliance
  • Applied Computing — Applied Computing delivers industrial AI to the energy industry including oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemical plants, helping critical operations harness 100% of their data and optimise in real time for safer, faster, higher-performing decisions
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Europe Payments startups

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 455
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $7.7M–$88M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Homa Games — Leave your mark in the gaming industry. We are building a team of extraordinary individuals working together to build apps that entertain the world. We are experts in every step of the publishing process.
  • Acorns — Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps individuals and families save, invest, and grow money automatically through simple, everyday habits.
  • Honeycomb — Honeycomb is a software debugging tool that can help you solve problems faster within your distributed services. Try Honeycomb for free today!
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 224
  • Round size: Seed $670k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $338k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HiiKER — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
  • Research Grid (R.grid) — Research Grid (R.grid) automates the entire clinical trial back-office by accelerating timelines and cutting admin delays. Get faster and more successful trials today.
  • Spendkey — Spendkey's intelligent spend analytics solution helps businesses transform raw spend data into actionable insights to enable better business decisions, optimise costs and maximise savings
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Wintermute Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of Wintermute, a global algorithmic trading firm, liquidity provider, and leading OTC desk in digital assets. Drawing from Wintermute's expertise in pioneering DeFi trading and powering liquidity across the entire ecosystem, Wintermute Ventures is uniquely positioned to back early-stage Web3 projectswith hands-on support. Focused on long-term growth, the company takes a flexible approach, investing from early ideation to later-stage expansion. Committed to developing strategic relationships and driving positive outcomes, Wintermute Ventures prioritizes decentralized ownership, ensuring its investments align with the company’s broader vision of a decentralized future. Since 2020, it has invested in over 100 projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$20M; Series A $5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UnblockPay
  • Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
  • Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.
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BREEGA
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $4.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
  • Carbon Maps — Calculate and monitor your environmental impact at product-level. Rapid, high-precision assessments of food products and agricultural raw materials.
  • YMO Guinée — YMO Guinée is an app to send and receive money in Guinea, at the best rate. Available for free on iOS and Android.
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Atlantic
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.8M; Series A $5.3M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with the Clue app, a women-led period and cycle tracker. Get science-based insights, predictions, and personalized tracking.
  • bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
  • tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 294
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
  • Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
  • Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
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Ascension
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $229k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $445k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Vidsy — Vidsy is the creative technology platform that helps global brands and agencies create high-performing video ads. Connect with our global network of creators and streamline your content creation process.
  • Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
  • ComplyStream — ComplyStream enables faster and smarter FinCrime alert resolution by unifying your fragmented data, communication and workflows in a single AI-native platform.
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 255
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $9M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Athenian — Introducing the world to software engineering metrics that help teams, and improve processes. Athenian is built for GitHub and Jira users.
  • Lottielab — Easiest animation editor for design and tech teams.
  • Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
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Valar Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 11 investments in Europe Payments startups

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 186
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$41M; Series B $16M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday
  • Parker — Parker is a developer of a digital financial platform designed to help users to pay expenses and manage their e-commerce finances.
  • Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
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Magnus Capital
VC Fund · 11 investments in Europe Payments startups

Magnus Capital is a crypto investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, India, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.7M; Initial Coin Offering $2.2M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spicenet — Spicenet enables universal access to the top DeFi venues across all networks, creating better financial outcomes for all.
  • Real Finance — Real Finance is driven by the mission to revolutionize the financial landscape by integrating real-world assets with blockchain technology, creating a more transparent, secure, and efficient ecosystem that bridges traditional finance with decentralized innovation, enhances asset liquidity, and unlocks new opportunities for global investors.
  • WorkQuest — About WorkQuest WorkQuest is a decentralized employment and workforce automation protocol enabling employers and workers to collaborate through smart contracts, stablecoin payments, AI matching engines, and on-chain reputation scoring. The platform transforms global employment into a transparent, verifiable, and borderless digital labor economy.
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 11 investments in Europe Payments startups

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1073
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$6.9M; Series A $2.6M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Bioptimus — Our mission is to build the first universal AI foundation model for biology to fuel breakthrough discoveries and accelerate innovations in biomedicine and beyond.
  • Pitchy — Create professional videos without technical expertise. Our online video editor helps you easily make business videos.
  • Latitude — Venture Orbital Systems provides a tailor-made service for NanoSat & CubeSat operators.
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GSR
VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 11 investments in Europe Payments startups

GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR employs over 300 people around the globe, and its tradingtechnology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs. We have a culture of approaching complex problems with tenacity and imagination. We build long-term relationships by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $4M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lillius — LILLIUS_Making sports and home training easy and fun just like playing a game! LILLUS is a Blockchain based WEB3 Sports Experience Platform that rewards users for healthy activities!
  • Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
  • TrueNorth — Crypto's first AI discovery engine
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in Europe Payments startups

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 188
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5.5M; Series A $6.8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Klu.ai — Klu.ai is a generative AI platform that simplifies the process of designing, deploying, and optimizing AI applications.The company integrates major large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, GPT-4, and over 15 other models, enabling rapid prompt/model experimentation, data gathering, and user feedback. The platformoffers features like Klu Actions for content generation, business operations workflows, content analysis, and summarization, as well as optimization techniques for A/B testing and fine-tuning support for models like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4. Klu.ai is committed to data privacy and security, providing data obfuscation and redaction features to protect sensitive information.Klu.ai is founded by Stephen M. Walker II in 2022 and is located in San Francisco, California.
  • Layla AI — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in Europe Payments startups

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 381
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$85M; Series C $15M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $615M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with the Clue app, a women-led period and cycle tracker. Get science-based insights, predictions, and personalized tracking.
  • Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
  • Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 10 investments in Europe Payments startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $525k–$4M; Series A $5M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Utexo — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
  • Oh — Oh is the decentralized and uncensored AI products can offer a range of benefits, such as enhancing privacy, encouraging innovation, and promoting freedom of information.
  • Bleap — Connect your wallet. Buy crypto easily. Send it to your friends. Pay for dinner. Split bills.
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in Europe Payments startups

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 333
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
  • Circular — Developers-focused job platform for Software Developers, DevOps, Data Science & more. Sign up now and get access to successful hiring processes in Spain, Remote.
  • Victory League — Victory League is a profit-driven sports entertainment organization that uses mass-market events and media manipulation to benefit athletes financially.
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Wintermute
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in Europe Payments startups

A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$18M; Series A $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BULK Trade — One Exchange Infinite Markets
  • Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
  • Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.
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Fabric Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in Europe Payments startups

Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.2M; Series A $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Earn Alliance — Discover the magic of play and high-quality games with Playfull. As your ultimate gaming hub, we showcase the best games across all platforms. Engage with the most exciting, rewarding, and innovative titles in the gaming space here.
  • Addressable — Target the best users across blockchains and social media to boost growth.
  • Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.
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AA Sons
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in Europe Payments startups

Bengkulutoto hadir sebagai solusi ideal bagi para pencinta angka jitu. Dengan predikat sebagai bandar togel online terlengkap, situs ini menawarkan keunggulan berupa proses deposit super cepat, serta sistem bermain yang adil dan transparan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HUG — Join our global creative community to showcase & sell your art, connect with others, and access creator-friendly grants and education.
  • Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
  • Multiwave Technologies — More than 2/3 of humanity has no access to medical imaging Our mission is to make MRI available globally, through our ultra-low field mobile device.
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13books Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in Europe Payments startups

Investors in tomorrow's financial technology. 13books find, fund and nurture the bold. Supporting the founders transforming tomorrow's financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $3.8M–$11M; Series A $8.8M–$20M; Series B $12M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Reveni — Reveni is an instant refund platform for e-commerce that prevents fraud in returns and delivers instant refunds to customers.
  • Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
  • Model ML — Automate financial grunt work with precision. Model ML helps top finance firms move faster with AI that understands deals, models, and pitch decks.
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 557
  • Round size: Seed $994k–$7.4M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • QphoX — QphoX builds quantum modem device, connecting quantum computers across a quantum network.
  • Zimory — Founded in 2007, Zimory provides carrier-grade cloud infrastructure management software that allows service providers, enterprises and cloud brokers to fully leverage the power and elasticity of cloud computing. Zimory’s intelligent Cloud Suite simplifies, automates and expedites the creation, launch and management of all types of cloudenvironments – whether public, private, virtual private or hybrid. Zimory software is also a key enabler of cloud marketplaces for enterprise services, applications and infrastructure. Headquartered in Berlin, Zimory has development centers in Erfurt, Germany and Minsk, Belarus, a subsidiary office in New York City and is expanding its expertise and presence globally.
  • BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
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Par Equity
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$8M; Series A $1.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Verlume — Subsea energy storage and remote power generation for the energy transition, low carbon offshore operations and zero emission hydrocarbon production.
  • Cyan Forensics — Cyan Forensics builds and sells new technologies to help law enforcement, social media companies, and cloud providers to find and block harmful content from paedophiles and terrorists.
  • Manus Neurodynamica — Manus Neurodynamica is a triage device to support early diagnostics in Parkinson's disease.
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Passion Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the criticaldifferentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Seed $573k–$6.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $6.3M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
  • Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.
  • Opensignal — Opensignal is the leading global provider of independent insights into network experience and market performance.
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.2M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
  • Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
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Fulgur Ventures
VC Fund · Wilmington, Delaware, United States · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $690k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.8M; Series A $2.8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Utexo — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
  • Five Bells — Five Bells is an a blockchain-based settlement and clearing platform for digital assets that provides safe and open transactions.
  • Future — Future is building Switzerland’s premier Bitcoin Treasury Company (BTCTC), dedicated to the strategic holding, management, and systematic growth of Bitcoin assets. By combining financial expertise, institutional-grade security, and a long-term vision, Future aims to establish a trusted and sustainable framework for digital wealth preservation andgrowth within the global Bitcoin ecosystem.
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 328
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$35M; Series B $5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
  • Neuracore — Neuracore is a robot learning platform that helps to train robots and deploy intelligent behaviour.
  • Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.
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White Star Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 197
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series B $15M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • FINN — At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated.
  • Una Brands — Ready to sell your e-commerce business? We'll make the process fair, fast, and fuss-free. Continue to profit as we grow your brand.
  • TransactionLink — Our global KYC/KYB orchestration platform allows you to build and upgrade your digital onboarding journey in just days instead of months.
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Shima Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 242
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 3RM — Verified contact at any decentralized organization. Manage new business, partnerships, and engagement across organizations like never before.
  • BullPerks — BullPerks is a community of like-minded individuals who want to leverage their power and invest together in the best projects on equal terms with VCs.
  • Faith Tribe — Faith Tribe is a open- source fashion design platform that focuses on NFT minting, P2P transactions.
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.9M; Series A $7M–$47M; Series B $23M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Juro — Juro is an all-in-one contract automation platform that helps legal and business users to agree & manage contracts in one unified workspace.
  • Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
  • Skeleton Technologies — Skeleton Technologies is the global leader in ultracapacitor & supercapacitor energy storage and helps companies in automotive, transportation, grid, and industry to save energy.
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Connect Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3.9M; Series A $5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $80M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Settled — A technology platform digitising the residential home purchase and sales process
  • Swallow — A modern pricing platform that separates pricing from the rest of your code. Swallow increases the speed and confidence of pricing changes for greater growth and profitability.
  • MedAll — MedAll is a training platform for healthcare professionals and students: a 'virtual medical school'. MedAll enables healthcare organisations to deliver and store their training courses, conferences and teaching sessions in one place - and to share that training with the healthcare community internationally.
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SGH CAPITAL
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$27M; Series A $1.7M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Kalshi — Kalshi is a regulated exchange & prediction market where you can trade on the outcome of real-world events. Buy and sell Event Contracts.
  • FINESSE — Welcome to the future of fashion: AI-driven, size inclusive, affordable and sustainable, FINESSE is the first fashion house that produces styles voted on by you & our AI - no overproduction, no waste!
  • Merge Labs — Merge Labs is a brain-computer interface startup that aims to compete with Neuralink and integrate human cognition with AI.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1877
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$40M; Series B $10M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Rally — Invest in collectibles for as little as $50 per share, on Rally
  • XFactor — XFactor.io is a platform with constant sales performance monitoring, real-time recommendations, and live analytics.
  • Shift Technology — Shift Technology delivers AI-native decision automation and optimization solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Addressing several critical processes across the insurance policy lifecycle, Shift helps insurers achieve faster, more accurate claims and policy resolutions. Shift has analyzed billions of insurance transactionsto date and was presented Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award.
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Practica Capital
VC Fund · Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Practica Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $334k–$2.4M; Series A $2.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Creem — Creem provides Indie Hackers, Micro-SaaS and SaaS businesses with instant financial tools and functionality. As a Merchant of Record our pre-integrated embeddable components tap your existing data, boosting revenue effortlessly. No costs—pure growth potential for your business.
  • Handwave — Handwave is the world’s first biometric wallet and identity platform — replacing wallets, phones, and IDs with a single gesture for in-store payments. Designed for retail, meant for people. End users can easily onboard their palms through the Handwave app by scanning their palm with the phone camera, linking payment and loyalty cards, and thenenjoy frictionless checkout at retail by simply scanning their palm at a payment terminal.
  • Outcraft AI — Outcraft AI develops autonomous revenue agents that convert, retain and grow customers across voice, SMS, email and messaging.
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United Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Akamas — Akamas uses advanced application-aware AI to optimize performance, reduce cloud costs, and ensure reliability
  • Wallife — Wallife is an InsurTech company that helps in eliminating improper use of biometric data. The company protects against new risks originating from technological and scientific progress in the areas of genetics, biometrics, and biohacking. Wallife was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Roma, Lazio, Italy.
  • Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 369
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$13M; Series A $3M–$21M; Series B $7.5M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Wazoku — Wazoku - Where Innovation Works Wazoku
  • CertiVox — CertiVox solutions deliver simple, powerful information security to all things Internet (mainframes, too!), protecting business and individual privacy through the cloud and at rest. CertiVox was founded in 2009 to provide technology and services based on a simple belief: that everyone deserves the right to secure their information exchangessimply and easily. CertiVox's leading-edge encryption, key management and identity management solutions are currently in use at hundreds of the world’s leading corporations and used by individuals across the globe to protect their privacy.The companies passion is to create and share unique, cutting-edge cryptographic innovations for enterprise cloud computing and all things Internet. CertiVox are the only company in the global market today that has the technology in place to arm businesses and individuals with easy-to-use certificateless security solutions for any device and platform.Whether you are a business that wants to safeguard your company’s intellectual property, an ISV or SaaS provider that needs to embed cryptography and key management into your application, or an individual who wants to preserve the privacy of your personal data, CertiVox gives you the power to secure your information for all things Internet.CertiVox’s leading-edge solutions – including MIRACL (Multiprecision Integer and Rational Arithmetic C/C++ Library) Cryptographic SDK, on-demand encryption Key Management Service (KMS) and Identity Management Service (IDMS) – enable cloud service providers, independent software vendors (ISVs), communication providers, and smart device and semiconductor manufacturers to secure their voice and data communication solutions with ease.The PrivateSky Secure Information Exchange Service (SIX) gives individuals, businesses and their partners and customers easy-to-use tools to quickly encrypt email, files and documents without complex infrastructure or user burden. Compliance with mandatory encryption and privacy statues has never been easier.The bottom line: CertiVox's revolutionary certificateless cryptography, identity and key management solutions have taken the hassle out of Internet security, making it easy to securely exchange your information in any form, any time.
  • Mojo — Join 600,000+ men worldwide using AI-powered coaches to build a performance mindset and take back control of their love lives.
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ConsenSys
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.7M; Series A $7.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mesh
  • MYX — MYX is a decentralized derivative exchange that "uses intelligent rates and exposure hedging mechanisms to ensure protocol stability and provide sustainable high returns" through a peer-to-pool-to-peer paradigm.
  • Civil — A starter blog demonstrating what Gatsby can do.
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Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Backing great companies when they're tiny

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.2M; Series A $7M–$170M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Along AI — Join our waitlist and try it first!
  • Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
  • YuLife — Meet YuLife - the all-in-one platform for group insurance, employee benefits, wellbeing, engagement, and global rewards your people love and actually use.
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 278
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$9M; Series A $3.1M–$25M; Series B $8.6M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Quandoo — In 8 years, Quandoo has expanded into 11 countries and has seated more than 200 million diners in 18,000+ restaurants. Quandoo’s technology-enabled marketplace equips both restaurants and diners with innovative products to elevate dining out as we know it. Headquartered in Berlin, with international footprints in Austria, Switzerland, Italy,Turkey, the UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands; the founders’ vision is to grow Quandoo into the world’s leading marketplace for dining out experiences. Quandoo is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, and with its sister companies HotPepper and AirRegi, forms the world’s largest restaurant marketing and software company. Quandoo currently employs more than 370 people from 50 countries.
  • unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
  • Happeo — Happeo is the easy-to-launch intranet that helps you keep verified company knowledge centralized, relevant and searchable by connecting to the tools your teams already use.
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Creandum
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Sweden, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 270
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$16M; Series A $5M–$33M; Series B $8M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • unitQ — unitQ's product quality monitoring platform empowers businesses to take a data-driven approach to product quality so they can fix the right quality issues smarter and faster.
  • Payosu — Use Osu to get more bookings, take payments with zero fees, automate the invoicing, and let your business thrive.
  • Cerrion — Cerrion is a visual AI that helps production teams react faster to process deviations, automate root cause analysis, and implement targeted improvement actions. They believe that process transparency enabled by AI and computer vision is key to achieving more autonomy and sustainability in manufacturing. Their software is built and designed withproduction teams from all over the world in the loop.
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
  • Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
  • Virtualtech Frontier — Virtualtech Frontier develops business processes through virtual reality technology. It operates virtual event platforms, metaverse services, and virtual reality solutions. Virtualtech Frontier was founded in 2021 and is based in Selangor, Malaysia.
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Charles Delingpole
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in Europe Payments startups

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $382k–$2.3M; Series A $6.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ascendx Cloud — Supercharge Salesforce with connected apps that streamline sales, automate data, and drive enterprise-scale growth - Salesforce Solutions By Ascendx
  • Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
  • Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.
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Wayra
VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 8 investments in Europe Payments startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kunzapp — Kunzapp, ayuda a las empresas a maximizar su presupuesto, eficiencia y seguridad, eliminando gastos innecesarios, haciendo visibles los “Shadow IT”, y consiguiendo ahorro de miles de dólares al año.
  • Remuner — Say goodbye to spreadsheets. Remuner is the sales compensation software that automate your commissions and drive performance.
  • Openlayer — Test, monitor, and govern AI systems from ML to LLMs. Openlayer's enterprise platform brings unified AI evaluation, observability, and governance to every stage of the AI lifecycle.
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