# Apis Partners

> Apis Partners is a VC fund in London backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 78 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 78
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 68%
- Fund size: $550M
- Last fund: Dec 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/apis-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/apispartners
- Website: http://apis.pe/

Apis Partners is a PE asset manager focused on Financial Institutions and related Business Services (FS) in growth markets. It is managed by a tried-and-tested team, who have worked together for over 20 years with extensive expertise in FS growth markets and garnered in the leading firms in both private equity and investment banking. From theoutset, Apis Partners can count on extensive industry-specialized human capital and resources. In addition to the core team, the operating partner network consists of 20+ financial services professionals, on-the-ground presence in 5 countries and an extended network of 27 partner companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $10M–$110M |
| Private Equity | $10M–$120M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 21 | 27% |
| FinTech | 14 | 18% |
| Payments | 14 | 18% |
| Banking | 6 | 8% |
| Mobile Payments | 6 | 8% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 14 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 10% |
| Series B | 7 | 9% |
| Series C | 7 | 9% |
| Series A | 3 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 9 | 12% |
| Singapore | 5 | 6% |
| South Africa | 4 | 5% |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 4% |
| United States | 3 | 4% |

15 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kaj-Erik Relander | Chairman of the investment committee | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaj-erik-relander |
| Alexia Yannopoulos | Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexia-yannopoulos |
| Asad Naqvi | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asad-naqvi-2 |
| Hossam Abou Moussa | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hossam-abou-moussa |
| Matteo Stefanel | Managing Partner | 28 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matteo-stefanel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Moneybox | Moneybox is a user-friendly app designed to help individuals save, invest, and manage pensions with ease. The app allows users to save specifically for their first home, making it an excellent choice for first-time buyers. The company focuses on helping individuals build wealth over time by offering a variety of financial services, including savingaccounts, investment products, and pensions, all accessible through a mobile app. | $60.1M | Secondary Market | Jul 13, 2026 |  |
| Moneybox | Moneybox is a user-friendly app designed to help individuals save, invest, and manage pensions with ease. The app allows users to save specifically for their first home, making it an excellent choice for first-time buyers. The company focuses on helping individuals build wealth over time by offering a variety of financial services, including savingaccounts, investment products, and pensions, all accessible through a mobile app. | $60.1M | Secondary Market | Jul 13, 2026 |  |
| BIPO | BIPO provides cloud and mobile-based human resource management solutions. | $50M | Private Equity | Jun 18, 2026 |  |
| BIPO | BIPO provides cloud and mobile-based human resource management solutions. | $50M | Private Equity | Jun 18, 2026 |  |
| Paymentology | In 2021, SaltPay acquired both Tutuka and Paymentology, resulting in a ‘payments and card processing powerhouse’ with CEO Rowan Brewer at the helm. The merger combined the ultra-advanced, multi-cloud platform of Paymentology with the global reach and experience of Tutuka to revolutionise cloud-based processing globally. Now, Paymentology is thefirst truly global issuer-processor, giving banks and fintechs the technology, team and experience to issue and process cards anywhere in the world, at scale. They currently have payments experts with deep, local market knowledge on the ground in 50 countries, across 14 time zones, guaranteeing 24/7 support. Their superior multi-cloud Platform, offering both shared and dedicated processing instances, vast global presence, and richer real-time data, set them apart as the leader in payments. | $175M | Private Equity | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Paymentology | In 2021, SaltPay acquired both Tutuka and Paymentology, resulting in a ‘payments and card processing powerhouse’ with CEO Rowan Brewer at the helm. The merger combined the ultra-advanced, multi-cloud platform of Paymentology with the global reach and experience of Tutuka to revolutionise cloud-based processing globally. Now, Paymentology is thefirst truly global issuer-processor, giving banks and fintechs the technology, team and experience to issue and process cards anywhere in the world, at scale. They currently have payments experts with deep, local market knowledge on the ground in 50 countries, across 14 time zones, guaranteeing 24/7 support. Their superior multi-cloud Platform, offering both shared and dedicated processing instances, vast global presence, and richer real-time data, set them apart as the leader in payments. | $175M | Private Equity | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Xoxoday | Xoxoday offers a suite of products that empower organisations to drive growth through meaningful rewards, recognition, loyalty, and engagement programs. Our suite includes five core products: Plum, a rewards and incentives platform with a global redemption marketplace; Empuls, an employee engagement and recognition tool; Loyalife, a platform forrunning customer loyalty programs; Compass, a sales commission and incentive automation system; and Loopr, a solution for managing and distributing merchant offers.We work with over 5,000 businesses worldwide ranging from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 companies like Freshworks, Grammarly, and H&M. Our products are used by teams in HR, sales, marketing, product, customer experience, and partnerships to drive measurable outcomes: improving engagement, increasing conversion rates, reducing customer acquisition costs, and lowering employee attrition.The platform supports 10 million+ reward options across 175 countries and 30+ categories. We support 50+ languages, 55+ currencies, and integrate with over 100 popular business tools such as Slack, Teams, HubSpot, Workday, and SAP. Rewards include digital gift cards, merchandise, travel, experiences, and charitable donations. We offer global support, enterprise-grade security, and a flexible pricing structure to fit different needs. Headquartered across 12 global offices, including the US, Xoxoday is committed to helping companies create lasting emotional connections with their employees, customers, partners, and merchants. |  | Series C | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| Xoxoday | Xoxoday offers a suite of products that empower organisations to drive growth through meaningful rewards, recognition, loyalty, and engagement programs. Our suite includes five core products: Plum, a rewards and incentives platform with a global redemption marketplace; Empuls, an employee engagement and recognition tool; Loyalife, a platform forrunning customer loyalty programs; Compass, a sales commission and incentive automation system; and Loopr, a solution for managing and distributing merchant offers.We work with over 5,000 businesses worldwide ranging from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 companies like Freshworks, Grammarly, and H&M. Our products are used by teams in HR, sales, marketing, product, customer experience, and partnerships to drive measurable outcomes: improving engagement, increasing conversion rates, reducing customer acquisition costs, and lowering employee attrition.The platform supports 10 million+ reward options across 175 countries and 30+ categories. We support 50+ languages, 55+ currencies, and integrate with over 100 popular business tools such as Slack, Teams, HubSpot, Workday, and SAP. Rewards include digital gift cards, merchandise, travel, experiences, and charitable donations. We offer global support, enterprise-grade security, and a flexible pricing structure to fit different needs. Headquartered across 12 global offices, including the US, Xoxoday is committed to helping companies create lasting emotional connections with their employees, customers, partners, and merchants. |  | Series C | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| Xoxoday | Xoxoday offers a suite of products that empower organisations to drive growth through meaningful rewards, recognition, loyalty, and engagement programs. Our suite includes five core products: Plum, a rewards and incentives platform with a global redemption marketplace; Empuls, an employee engagement and recognition tool; Loyalife, a platform forrunning customer loyalty programs; Compass, a sales commission and incentive automation system; and Loopr, a solution for managing and distributing merchant offers.We work with over 5,000 businesses worldwide ranging from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 companies like Freshworks, Grammarly, and H&M. Our products are used by teams in HR, sales, marketing, product, customer experience, and partnerships to drive measurable outcomes: improving engagement, increasing conversion rates, reducing customer acquisition costs, and lowering employee attrition.The platform supports 10 million+ reward options across 175 countries and 30+ categories. We support 50+ languages, 55+ currencies, and integrate with over 100 popular business tools such as Slack, Teams, HubSpot, Workday, and SAP. Rewards include digital gift cards, merchandise, travel, experiences, and charitable donations. We offer global support, enterprise-grade security, and a flexible pricing structure to fit different needs. Headquartered across 12 global offices, including the US, Xoxoday is committed to helping companies create lasting emotional connections with their employees, customers, partners, and merchants. |  | Series C | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| Roojai | Roojai is a MGA, developping, pricing and managing its own suite of retail insurance products, mainly on the Motor and Health insurance vertical. Roojai operates in Thailand since 2016 and Indonesia since 2022. | $60M | Series C | Nov 26, 2025 |  |

10 of 78 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Apis Partners invest in?

Apis Partners invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 78 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Apis Partners's check size?

Apis Partners typically joins rounds of $10M–$110M at Series B and $10M–$120M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Apis Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Apis Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Apis Partners?

The team at Apis Partners includes Kaj-Erik Relander (Chairman of the investment committee), Alexia Yannopoulos (Director) and Asad Naqvi (Managing Director), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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