# Barclays Corporate Banking

> Barclays Corporate Banking is a VC fund backing FinTech. See 146 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 146
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 39%
- Fund size: $248M
- Last fund: Nov 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/barclays-bank
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Barclays
- Website: https://www.barclays.co.uk/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BarclaysUK

Barclays Corporate Banking is a VC fund in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Barclays PLC is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide. It is engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia.The company offers current accounts, savingsproducts, Woolwich-branded mortgages, unsecured loans, general insurance, and banking and money transmission services to small- and medium-sized businesses; investment and insurance products; business lending services; bank assurance solutions; and retail, credit and debit card, and corporate services. It also offers international payments services for consumer and business customers, including credit cards and consumer lending services; investment banking services comprising strategic advisory, financing, and risk management services to large corporate, government, and institutional clients; integrated corporate banking solutions, including cash management, lending, and trade financing services to corporate and financial institutions as well as multinationals; and a range of wealth and investment management services such as international and private banking, investment management, fiduciary, and brokerage services.With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 147,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests, and protects money of more than 48 million customers and clients worldwide.The company was formerly known as Barclays Bank Limited and changed its name to Barclays PLC in January 1985. It was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $962k–$7M |
| Series A | $5M–$65M |
| Debt Financing | $1.3M–$1.2B |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 36 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 36 | 25% |
| Software | 28 | 19% |
| Finance | 17 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 16 | 11% |

180 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 38 | 26% |
| Seed | 23 | 16% |
| Series A | 16 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 8% |
| Series C | 8 | 5% |

16 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 64 | 44% |
| United States | 38 | 26% |
| Israel | 3 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |

15 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| James Binns | Managing Director, Global Head of Trade and Working Capital | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-binns-fb77 |
| Keith Ross | Head of Mid Corporate, Midlands Region | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keith-ross |
| Steven Poulter | Head of Principal Structuring & Investments | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-poulter |
| Alistair Currie | Head of Corporate Banking | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alistair-currie-5aeb |
| Eric Bommensath | Co-Chief Executive, Corporate and Investment Banking | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-bommensath |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AMS Global Group | AMS Global Group provides marine consulting, marine assurance and technical services, and bulk and cargo surveying for shipping and energy clients. The company operates divisions covering AMS Bulk, AMS Cargo, AMS Marine Technical, AMS Safety and AMS Disinfection. AMS Safety supplies and rents breathing apparatus, gas detection, radiationmonitoring, fall arrest systems, lighting, ventilation, communications equipment and marine life-saving products. The group also offers disinfection and decontamination services and supports hazardous operations through tailored rental packages and consultancy. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Mulberry Care Homes | Mulberry Care Homes is a specialized healthcare operator providing residential, nursing, and medical support services. The core business model centers on the management of dedicated facilities that deliver tailored personal care, dementia support, and palliative services. The value proposition relies on offering individualized care plans, freshnutrition, and daily programming within a localized community environment. This structural framework ensures that elderly individuals and those with complex cognitive conditions receive dignified healthcare and professional attention. | $2.7M | Debt Financing | Jul 03, 2026 |  |
| Llechwen Hall Hotel | Llechwen Hall Hotel is a resort that offers venues for weddings and events. | $3.1M | Debt Financing | Apr 22, 2026 |  |
| The Entertainer | The Entertainer is a privately held company that operates retail toy stores. |  | Debt Financing | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| GB Group | We are GBG, global specialists in identity data intelligence.We offer a series of solutions that help organisations quickly validate and verify the identity and location of their customers.Our products are built on an unparalleled breadth of data obtained from over 200 global partners. Our innovative technology leads the world in locationintelligence, detects fraud and enables us to verify the identity of 4.4 billion people globally.Find out more about how we use identity intelligently by visiting www.gbgplc.com and following us on Twitter: @gbgplc | $233M | Post-IPO Debt | Mar 27, 2026 |  |
| Waterstones | Waterstones is a bookseller on the High Street and online providing customers with a wide range of choice and expert advice from a team passionate about bookselling. Its ‘Books of the Month’ and ‘Waterstones Book Club’, as well as things like the ‘Waterstones Children’s Book Prize’ are used to champion the best new books across a range of genresand subjects with notable recent successes, including ‘The Miniaturist’, a successful debut novel of recent years, the phenomenal nature memoir ‘H is For Hawk’ by Helen Macdonald, and John Williams’ ‘Stoner’ that it turned into a bestseller forty years after the original publication.Waterstones has also improved its online availability, and currently, it has around 250,000 titles available within 24 hours, which greatly increases its users’ chances of getting the books that they want, when they want it.Waterstones was founded in 1982 and is based in London. | $168.8M | Debt Financing | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Sunswap | Sunswap is pioneering the future of zero-emission cold chain transportation. Their proprietary, patent-pending technology integrates solar, batteries, and electric refrigeration into a single high-performance unit. This is helping bluechip customers like DFDS and Samworth Brothers, and trial partners such as FMCG giant Muller, eliminate dieselpollution and costs. Sunswap is on a mission to decarbonise cold transportation. | $22.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| WealthOS | Enterprise, cloud-native core wealth management SaaS | $2.9M | Seed | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Offr | Offr is an open offer solution for buying and selling property, quickly, and transparently. It is an offer processing technology that sits on an agents branding to give their clients quality experience in the market. Through the small button on the agents site, they can manage custom offer sessions, schedule viewing, upload legal documents, andhold several transaction types, like binding sales to conditional sales, off-market sales, open offers, sealed bids, and auctions.All buyers are pre-qualified with a proof fund and identification. Preset conditions can be set by the agent per property which the buyer must complete before making an offer, completing these conditions shows the buyer has a higher intent to purchase.Offr was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. | $2.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 27, 2023 |  |
| WealthOS | Enterprise, cloud-native core wealth management SaaS | $2.5M | Seed | Nov 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 146 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Barclays Corporate Banking invest in?

Barclays Corporate Banking invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Debt Financing and Seed stage. Most of the 146 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Barclays Corporate Banking's check size?

Barclays Corporate Banking typically joins rounds of $962k–$7M at Seed, $5M–$65M at Series A and $1.3M–$1.2B 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 Corporate Banking participates in.

### How do I contact Barclays Corporate Banking?

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### Who are the partners at Barclays Corporate Banking?

The team at Barclays Corporate Banking includes James Binns (Managing Director, Global Head of Trade and Working Capital), Keith Ross (Head of Mid Corporate, Midlands Region) and Steven Poulter (Head of Principal Structuring & Investments), among 21 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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