# BlackFin Capital Partners

> BlackFin Capital Partners is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 80 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 80
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 53%
- Fund size: $410M
- Last fund: Jul 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blackfin-capital-partners
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Blackfin_tech
- Website: http://www.blackfin.com

BlackFin Capital Partners is a VC fund in Paris focused on Financial Services and FinTech. BlackFin is a sector-focused fund, specializing in Financial Services in Europe.The firm’s strategy focuses on asset-light (as opposed to balance-sheet intensive) businesses in the financial services sector, across continental Europe. BlackFin operates as an active and influential investor, substantially transforming its portfolio companies bygrowing them organically, improving operating margins and also through an active buy and build strategy. The firm supports successful management teams to take their businesses to the next level.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.5M–$19M |
| Series B | $10M–$108M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 30 | 38% |
| FinTech | 20 | 25% |
| Software | 9 | 11% |
| Payments | 8 | 10% |
| SaaS | 7 | 9% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 20 | 25% |
| Private Equity | 16 | 20% |
| Series B | 15 | 19% |
| Seed | 6 | 8% |
| Series C | 5 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 24 | 30% |
| Germany | 6 | 8% |
| Denmark | 4 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 4% |
| Estonia | 2 | 3% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bruno Rostain | Founder and Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruno-rostain |
| Daniel Cohen-Sabban | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-cohen-sabban |
| Eric May | Founder and Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-may-2 |
| Julien Creuze | Partner | 25 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-creuz |
| Maxime Mandin | Managing Director | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maxime-mandin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptio | Cryptio is a financial data analysis tool for cryptocurrencies. It helps crypto CFOs & CPAs easily automate accounting, bookkeeping and tax reporting for their digital assets. The tool consolidates all cryptocurrency transaction data from multiple wallet & exchange sources, and translates it into data usable for accounting and financialanalysis. We take away the headache of regulations, audits, taxes and accounting for crypto firms so that they can focus on what they do best. | $45M | Series B | Mar 04, 2026 |  |
| Embankment | Embankment is a financial services provider that leverages technology and domain expertise to offer innovative solutions. The company operates as a fund service provider, offering fund administration services to managers of alternative investment funds. Embankment is also recognized as a fintech at its core, integrating technology into itsoperations to enhance service delivery and efficiency. The company is registered as an alternative investment fund manager with the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority. | $17.4M | Series A | Jan 19, 2026 |  |
| Sinpex | Sinpex is a software company that offers an AI-driven platform for automating compliance processes related to Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) checks. Its solution extracts and verifies regulatory data from primary sources such as corporate registries and shareholder lists, streamlining customer onboarding and due diligenceworkflows for financial institutions and related enterprises. The platform integrates document processing, risk assessments, screening against sanctions and PEP lists, and audit-ready reporting to support ongoing anti-money-laundering (AML) compliance. Sinpex also supports configurable workflows and continuous monitoring to keep compliance processes aligned with evolving legal requirements. | $11.6M | Series A | Jan 19, 2026 |  |
| Formalize | Formalize delivers a cloud-based compliance operations platform designed for governance, risk, and control workflows, enabling businesses to automate processes around frameworks such as NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, and GDPR. The platform lets users centralize risk and incident tracking, manage third-party audits and controls, and build customizeddashboards and workflows across compliance, supplier management, and governance. | $35M | Series B | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| bezahl.de | bezahl.de automates, digitizes, and streamlines the entire receivables process, from invoicing and dunning to financial accounting booking. Bezahl is a financial technology startup. | $26.1M | Series C | May 21, 2025 |  |
| TransFICC | TransFICC is an e-trading technology company providing low latency connectivity for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. The company resolves the problem of fragmentation in the fixed income and derivatives markets. It does three things such as translates Execution Venue API’s to a single API. Clients connectonce to TransFICC's unified API, and TransFICC manages connectivity with the electronic venues from that point, uses low-latency, scalable and secure technology, essential to keep pace with price updates and not get beaten to trade by high-frequency trading firms, and provides timestamps for price and order messages. Measured in microseconds, timestamps record when data arrives at the bank or asset manager, helping to provide an audit trail, which supports Best Execution.TransFICC makes it easier to upgrade when venues change their application programming interfaces, compared with the enterprise systems of legacy firms, the firm claims. It also focuses solely on the business of providing market access.TransFICC was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom. | $25M | Series B | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Hawk | Money-laundering detection & investigation platform. SaaS, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning. | $56M | Series C | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| WeeFin | WeeFin centralizes ESG data, customizes strategy, and automates reporting processes. The platform reinforces a technological and transparent collaboration among the financial industry, allowing for better engagement in sustainability efforts. WeeFin provides a centralized ESG data management system that enables investors to streamline theirreporting processes and compliance efficiently. | $27M | Series B | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| WeeFin | WeeFin centralizes ESG data, customizes strategy, and automates reporting processes. The platform reinforces a technological and transparent collaboration among the financial industry, allowing for better engagement in sustainability efforts. WeeFin provides a centralized ESG data management system that enables investors to streamline theirreporting processes and compliance efficiently. | $27M | Series B | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Epsor | Epsor designs and distributes employee savings and retirement plans. The company has thus built an easy-to-deploy digital platform with a transparent pricing policy. Compared to other market players, Epsor’s product offering is cheaper and relies on an open architecture, meaning that employees can select funds from various asset managers inaccordance with their goals and risk appetite. Epsor also offers tailor-made advises to employees. | $17.3M | Series C | Mar 27, 2025 |  |

10 of 80 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [MTech Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mtech-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Serena](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/serena-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Karma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karma-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Alven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alven-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does BlackFin Capital Partners invest in?

BlackFin Capital Partners invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series A and Private Equity stage. Most of the 80 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is BlackFin Capital Partners's check size?

BlackFin Capital Partners typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$19M at Series A and $10M–$108M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BlackFin Capital Partners participates in.

### How do I contact BlackFin Capital Partners?

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### Who are the partners at BlackFin Capital Partners?

The team at BlackFin Capital Partners includes Bruno Rostain (Founder and Partner), Daniel Cohen-Sabban (Partner) and Eric May (Founder and Partner), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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