# Barclays

> Barclays is a VC fund in Wilmington backing Energy and FinTech. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wilmington, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/barclays-bank-delaware
- Website: https://cards.barclaycardus.com/

Barclays is a VC fund in Wilmington focused on Energy and FinTech. Barclays specializes in banking with an array of consumer and small business credit card programs to achieve business and personal goals.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $25M–$44M |
| Debt Financing | $4.1M–$2B |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 4 | 22% |
| FinTech | 3 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 17% |
| Legal | 2 | 11% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 7 | 39% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 22% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 2 | 11% |
| Series E | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 28% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 28% |
| India | 3 | 17% |
| Italy | 1 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Stromberg | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-stromberg-0d87 |
| CS Venkatakrishnan | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cs-venkatakrishnan |
| Jason Whiting | Americas Head of Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-whiting-bf23 |
| Jean-Paul Lugaro | Administrative Assistant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-paul-lugaro |
| Naohiko Baba | Head of Research and Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/naohiko-baba-9eb8 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hilton Grand Vacations | Hilton Grand Vacations is a vacation ownership travel company in select vacation destinations. Hilton Grand Vacations develops, markets and operates a system of brand-name, high-quality vacation ownership resorts. | $1B | Post-IPO Debt | May 21, 2026 |  |
| Databricks | Databricks is a software platform that helps its customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering. It also provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inSan Francisco, California. | $2B | Debt Financing | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| Octaura | Octaura is an electronic trading solution created by the industry – for the industry. Backed by eight major US financial institutions, Octaura has reimagined the way the syndicated loan and the CLO markets trade. Efficiency, transparency and simplicity are at the heart of what we do. | $46.5M |  | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Adani New Industries | Adani New Industries specializes in green hydrogen initiatives and the production of wind turbines and solar modules. ANIL's scope of operations extends to the production of solar modules, batteries, and electrolyzers, along with related upstream manufacturing and supporting industries. The filing further states that the company will engage inall necessary activities related to these ventures. The company is a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises. | $392.2M | Debt Financing | Jul 27, 2023 |  |
| FIA Tech | FIA Tech provides financial, legal agreements, and brokerage services. It has continually worked with the industry to develop and provide key services and technologies which help market participants reduce risk, mitigate operational costs, and meet market and regulatory challenges. | $25.4M |  | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| FIA Tech | FIA Tech provides financial, legal agreements, and brokerage services. It has continually worked with the industry to develop and provide key services and technologies which help market participants reduce risk, mitigate operational costs, and meet market and regulatory challenges. | $25.4M | Series A | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| wefox | wefox is a digital insurance company aiming to make people safe and prevent risk by reinventing insurance at scale through technology. Its focus is selling insurance via intermediaries and not via direct channels. Through analytics, wefox achieves better loss ratios than the market. Technology allows wefox to have >90%straight-through-processing and a central product factory that ships product innovations internationally much quicker and more cost-effective than the competition.Wefox has built up a network of thousands of digitally enabled advisors across Europe which increases customer satisfaction, reduces customer acquisition costs, increases cross-selling, and decreases churn.Wefox was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany. | $55M | Debt Financing | May 17, 2023 |  |
| Smart | Smart develops software designed to provide a range of pension services, including providing its own pension scheme and developing custom enterprise software for international markets. Their goal is to transform retirement, savings, and financial well-being for people of all ages all over the world. | $95M | Series E | May 15, 2023 |  |
| Peninsula Business Services | Since 1983 Peninsula has been providing professional services to small businesses across the UK. They started small theirselves, just a few people in a room. So, although they’ve grown over the years, their values remain the same. They know what small businesses need because they are still a small business at heart.Their first specialism wasemployment law. For a small business to navigate that maze is next to impossible without the right help. But the cost of having an HR professional on staff is too high for most small businesses, and traditional lawyers often don’t understand small business needs. | $217.5M | Debt Financing | Apr 11, 2023 |  |
| Reliance Jio | Reliance Jio Infocomm is a company providing wireless telecom products and services. The company offers voice, data, and messaging services, as well as distributes smartphones and hotspot devices. Its areas of research, development and new service deployment include blockchain, artificial intelligence, open source platforms, IOT, data analytics,and next-gen cloud services. |  | Debt Financing | Mar 13, 2023 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bank of America](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bank-of-america) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [JP Morgan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jp-morgan-chase) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Wells Fargo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wells-fargo-bank) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [BNP Paribas](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bnp-paribas) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Barclays invest in?

Barclays invests primarily in Energy, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Debt Financing and Funding Round stage. Most of the 18 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 Barclays's check size?

Barclays typically joins rounds of $25M–$44M at Series A and $4.1M–$2B at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Barclays participates in.

### How do I contact Barclays?

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### Who are the partners at Barclays?

The team at Barclays includes Alexander Stromberg (Managing Director), CS Venkatakrishnan (Chief Executive Officer) and Jason Whiting (Americas Head of Strategy), among 7 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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