Barbod Namini
Partner @ HV Capital
Munich, Germany
Barbod Namini is a Series B investor at HV Capital in Munich focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Barbod Namini joined the Holtzbrinck Ventures team in 2013 and brings a wealth of international investment experience along with a very strong network of entrepreneurs and investors. He has been responsible for the fund’s investments in Spotcap, ZenMate and LoopMe among others.Prior to joining Holtzbrinck Ventures, Barbod was instrumental inexpanding Rocket Internet’s portfolio of companies. In his role as an Investment Manager at Rocket Internet he both took an active role in the asset raising process as well as in the deep dive analysis of the eCommerce portfolio with the goal of optimizing the international asset allocation strategy of the company.Prior to his role at Rocket Internet Barbod worked in London as an investor both in the public and private markets and was involved in the financing and foundation of a number of telecom startups bringing affordable solutions to underdeveloped regions of Africa.Barbod holds a Master Degree in Software Engineering from Imperial College London as well as an MBA from Columbia Business School.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
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Industries Barbod Namini invests in
Stages Barbod Namini invests in
Countries Barbod Namini invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 7 (26%)
- Financial Services 6 (22%)
- Information Technology 4 (15%)
- Banking 3 (11%)
- Software 3 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 7 (26%)
- Series A 6 (22%)
- Seed 4 (15%)
- Series C 2 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (7%)
Country
- Germany 6 (22%)
- United Kingdom 4 (15%)
- United States 2 (7%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
- The Netherlands 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Mondoo identifies, prioritizes, and addresses risks in your entire IT infrastructure from a single interface - covering on-prem, cloud, SaaS, and endpoints. Unlike siloed approaches, Mondoo enables you to quickly understand your most critical risks and initiate fast remediation, optimizing security efforts and boosting security posture. | $17.5M / Series A / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Kennek offers a deep vertical SaaS that solves lenders’ operational challenges, as well as captures, creates, structures and stores data in a single point of truth accessible across the private debt eco-system. The kennek SaaS is unique in that it covers the full value chain of lending including origination, underwriting, servicing, monitoring,investor reporting and funding. | $12.5M / Seed / Oct 10, 2023 | ||
| Kennek provides an advanced vertical SaaS solution designed to address the comprehensive operational challenges faced by lenders. Our platform uniquely integrates the entire lending value chain, encompassing origination, underwriting, servicing, monitoring, investor reporting, and funding. By capturing, creating, structuring, and storing data in asingle, unified point of truth, Kennek enhances data accessibility and consistency across the private debt ecosystem. This holistic approach not only streamlines operations but also fosters improved efficiency and transparency for all stakeholders involved in the lending process. | $13.4M / Seed / Oct 10, 2023 | ||
| Payrails helps businesses transform payments and other connected financial workflows from an operational bottleneck into a competitive edge. From Payment Orchestration to Unified Analytics, Tokenization, Automated Reconciliation, Chargeback Management, and more, Payrails helps category-defining merchants to get more from their financialinfrastructure. With a modular, provider-agnostic approach that allows teams to integrate our products at any scale and combination, our track record has made Payrails a trusted partner for some of the world’s most recognized names including Puma, Vinted, Flix, Careem, InDrive, and many more. | $14.4M / Seed / Jun 07, 2023 | ||
| Payrails helps businesses transform payments and other connected financial workflows from an operational bottleneck into a competitive edge. From Payment Orchestration to Unified Analytics, Tokenization, Automated Reconciliation, Chargeback Management, and more, Payrails helps category-defining merchants to get more from their financialinfrastructure. With a modular, provider-agnostic approach that allows teams to integrate our products at any scale and combination, our track record has made Payrails a trusted partner for some of the world’s most recognized names including Puma, Vinted, Flix, Careem, InDrive, and many more. | $6.4M / Seed / Mar 17, 2022 | ||
| Yapily creates a world without financial friction. To empower everyone to access and move value. | $51M / Series B / Jul 21, 2021 | ||
| BUX specializes in the fields of fintech, mobile apps, investments, stocks, and zero-commission. Its platform makes commission-free investing accessible, intuitive, and affordable for both first time and existing investors. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland. | $80.5M / Series C / Apr 22, 2021 | ||
| Solarisbank is Europe's leading Banking-as-a-Service platform. As a technology company with a full German banking license, Solarisbank enables other companies to offer their own financial services. Via APIs, partners integrate Solarisbank's modular banking services directly into their own product offering. The platform offers digital bankaccounts and payment cards, identification and lending services, digital asset custody as well as services provided by integrated third-party providers.To date, Solarisbank has raised more than EUR 160 million from a bluechip shareholder base, including ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund, BBVA, finleap, Global Brain, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Lakestar, Samsung Catalyst Fund, SBI Group, Storm Ventures, Visa, Vulcan Capital, and yabeo Capital. | $67.4M / Series C / Jun 30, 2020 | ||
| Yapily creates a world without financial friction. To empower everyone to access and move value. | $13M / Series A / Apr 06, 2020 | ||
| Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily.Penta's mission is to disrupt businessbanking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | $20.4M / Series B / Mar 17, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About HV Capital
HV Capital is one of the leading early-stage and growth investors in Europe. With nine fund generations in 23 years and €2.8 bn in managed assets, HV Capital is one of the continent's most active investors. The investment team has many years of experience in identifying European startups with great potential for success. In addition tointernational success stories like Zalando, Delivery Hero, Sumup, and Depop, innovation leaders such as Enpal, Flixbus, Sennder, and Isar Aerospace are also part of the portfolio. HV Capital has invested in around 225 internet and technology companies, supporting startups with ticket sizes ranging from €0.5 to €60m. It is one of Europe's few venture capital firms that can finance startups through all growth phases. HV Capital has a team of more than 40 investment and operations professionals who provide a variety of perspectives and expertise across the venture capital landscape.
HV Capital Contacts
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Barbod Namini
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Mina Ingelgem
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Alexander Joel-Carbonell
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Christian Saller
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Christoph Jung
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What does Barbod Namini invest in?
Barbod Namini invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Barbod Namini closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 27 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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