# Avaloq

> Avaloq is a VC fund in Zürich backing Financial Services and Banking. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/22027/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Avaloq
- Website: https://www.avaloq.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Avaloq

Avaloq is a VC fund in Zürich focused on Financial Services and Banking. Avaloq group is an international fintech company that digitizes the automation of financial services industry. With its core and digital banking software, the Avaloq Banking Suite, and its international network of BPO centres, Avaloq brings trustworthy and efficient banking to the world, delivered through great user experience. With itsintegrated BPO services, Avaloq is the only independent provider for the financial industry to both develop and operate its own software.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Avaloq. Shizune tracks 10 team members at Avaloq. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/avaloq-2?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.8M–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 2 | 67% |
| Banking | 1 | 33% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |
| Finance | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Francisco Fernandez | Founder and Board member | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francisco-fernandez-3 |
| Adrian Gostick | Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-gostick |
| Dean Gluyas | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dean-gluyas |
| Gaurav Kohli | Cloud Architecture Consultant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaurav-kohli-2 |
| Gregory Dyke | Software Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gregory-dyke |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kaspar& | Kaspar& want's to create accessible and forward minded financial services, and want to disrupt the financial industry. | $2.8M | Seed | Jun 07, 2024 |  |
| Metaco | METACO is a Swiss company that designs institutional digital asset management solutions. We deliver a complete orchestration platform for digital assets in banking, the most secure and agile digital asset vault for self-custody and a single entry point to the broadest universe of trusted custodians. With our solution you can tokenize and manage thefull lifecycle of asset tokens with a complete smart contract framework supporting equities, bonds, derivatives and other asset classes. Trade without limits as we have connectivity with 50+ exchanges, brokers and market makers. | $17M | Series A | Jul 14, 2020 |  |
| Metaco | METACO is a Swiss company that designs institutional digital asset management solutions. We deliver a complete orchestration platform for digital assets in banking, the most secure and agile digital asset vault for self-custody and a single entry point to the broadest universe of trusted custodians. With our solution you can tokenize and manage thefull lifecycle of asset tokens with a complete smart contract framework supporting equities, bonds, derivatives and other asset classes. Trade without limits as we have connectivity with 50+ exchanges, brokers and market makers. | $3M | Seed | Apr 27, 2018 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SICPA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sicpa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Swisscom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swisscom) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Swiss Post Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swiss-post-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basellandschaftliche-kantonalbank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Groundshift](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fivet-fintech-formerly-avaloq-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Giesecke+Devrient Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/Giesecke-Devrient-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Avaloq invest in?

Avaloq invests primarily in Financial Services, Banking and Bitcoin startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Avaloq's check size?

Avaloq typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Avaloq participates in.

### How do I contact Avaloq?

Public channels for Avaloq include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Avaloq?

The team at Avaloq includes Francisco Fernandez (Founder and Board member), Adrian Gostick (Business Development) and Dean Gluyas (CFO), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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