# Alan Howard

> Alan Howard is a Series A investor at Brevan Howard Asset Management backing Financial Services. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Brevan Howard Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brevan-howard-asset-management)
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$15M |
| Series A | $5.1M–$183M |
| Series B | $20M–$1B |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 16 | 37% |
| FinTech | 12 | 28% |
| Blockchain | 12 | 28% |
| Cryptocurrency | 12 | 28% |
| Software | 8 | 19% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 21% |
| Seed | 8 | 19% |
| Series B | 5 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 12% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 4 | 9% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 14% |
| Singapore | 3 | 7% |
| Argentina | 2 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 5% |

17 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ualá | Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS. | $300M | Series E | Nov 11, 2024 |  |
| ScienceMagic.Studios | ScienceMagic.Studios is a digital asset venture studio provider. | $10.3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 14, 2022 |  |
| Atmos Labs | Atmos Labs is an expansive, play-and-earn ecosystem with deep economics, rich history, and heart-pounding gameplay. | $11M | Seed | Jun 13, 2022 |  |
| Navigate | Navigate is a data ecosystem where people around the world contribute data that is used to build new applications like Navigate Maps. | $7.6M | Seed | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| 17Sigma | At 17Sigma we support disruptive and innovative Latin American entrepreneurs in their early stages to push forward the next generation of regional leaders and companies. Founded to collaborate with teams, backing ideas that have the potential to disrupt the status-quo and build a stronger, better, and fairer future.17Sigma will primarily focus onembryonic startups looking to raise Pre-seed and Seed rounds.We are firm believers in the potential of Latin America to achieve 17Sigma results, understood as extremely rare and statistically unlikely events. We are here to bet on that magic! | $30M |  | Apr 18, 2022 |  |
| Mina | Mina is building a privacy-preserving gateway between the real world and crypto — and the infrastructure for the secure, democratic future we all deserve. | $92M | Initial Coin Offering | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Derby Stars | Derby Stars offers NFT horse games, and breeding them results in a variety of offspring. They also store their history and race records constantly on-chain. They own a range of horses and race them on their platform. | $6M | Seed | Mar 04, 2022 |  |
| Nested | Nested is a social trading platform that enables users to create and invest in “financial NFTs". | $7.5M | Series A | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| Salad Ventures | Salad Ventures builds plug-and-play apps, games using blockchain. | $13.5M | Initial Coin Offering | Feb 11, 2022 |  |
| Polygon | Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development and web3. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more.Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 7,000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~130M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured. | $450M | Initial Coin Offering | Feb 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Jump Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jump-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Galaxy Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galaxy-digital-lp) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [The Spartan Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-spartan-group-4202) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Brevan Howard Asset Management

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP is an investment manager authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom.

4 contacts available at Brevan Howard Asset Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Klaus Oestergaard | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/klaus-oestergaard |
| Adam Purzitsky | Portfolio Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-purzitsky |
| Alan Howard | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-howard-2 |
| Aron Landy | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aron-landy |

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## FAQ

### What does Alan Howard invest in?

Alan Howard invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Blockchain startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alan Howard's check size?

Alan Howard typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$15M at Seed, $5.1M–$183M at Series A and $20M–$1B at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alan Howard participates in.

### When did Alan Howard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alan Howard closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 43 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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