# Alex Gheorghe

> Alex Gheorghe is a Series A investor at Illuminate Financial (New York) backing SaaS and FinTech. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Illuminate Financial](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/illuminate-financial)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gheorghealexandra

Alex Gheorghe is a Series A investor at Illuminate Financial in New York focused on SaaS and FinTech. Alex Gheorghe

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Turnstile | Turnstile is an all-in-one revenue automation platform that streamlines quoting, subscription management, billing and revenue recognition. | $29M | Series A | Feb 05, 2026 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [OMERS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omers-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Illuminate Financial

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Illuminate Financial is a specialist venture capital firm investing in early-stage Enterprise AI & Fintech companies. With teams across London, New York, and Singapore, we combine capital with unmatched connectivity to global financial institutions, helping visionary founders build and scale. Illuminate operates at the centre of the globalfinancial services ecosystem. We connect founders with investors, financial institutions, and strategic partners, giving our portfolio companies direct access to insight, demand, and decision-makers. From this unique vantage point, we identify critical market needs and back the solutions best placed to solve them, creating a virtuous cycle that drives transformation across the industry.

5 contacts available at Illuminate Financial.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Rodrigues | Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-rodrigues-d633 |
| Alexander Ross | General Partner \| Head of NYC | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-ross |
| Alex Gheorghe | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-gheorghe |
| Katherine Wilson | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katherine-wilson |
| Luca Zorzino | General Partner & Head of Asia | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luca-zorzino |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Gheorghe invest in?

Alex Gheorghe invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alex Gheorghe last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Gheorghe closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 1 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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