# BYLD

> BYLD is a VC fund in London backing Financial Services and Payments. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 12%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/byld-ventures?trk=public_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_image-click
- Website: https://www.byldventures.com/

BYLD is a VC fund in London focused on Financial Services and Payments. Byld Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology investments.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$6.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $120k–$2.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 36% |
| Payments | 5 | 20% |
| FinTech | 4 | 16% |
| Finance | 3 | 12% |
| Software | 3 | 12% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 52% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 32% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 16% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 16% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 8% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 8% |
| Ireland | 1 | 4% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Youcef Oudjidane | Co-Founder | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/youcef-oudjidane |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stream | Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable. | $5.2M | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Stream | Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable. | $4M | Seed | Nov 02, 2025 |  |
| Bluerails | Bluerails is a fintech firm that has created an on-chain treasury platform to improve cross-border payments and treasury management for businesses, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Munify | Munify provides stablecoin-powered cross-border payments and AI-driven workflow tools for financial services. | $3M | Seed | Aug 29, 2025 |  |
| ClearGrid | ClearGrid, creating software and AI to streamline recovery and collaborate with the existing vendors. | $6.5M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Waza | Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements. | $3M | Seed | Aug 19, 2024 |  |
| Cleva | Cleva Banking is a banking platform helps in recieving international payments by opening USD accounts. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 08, 2024 |  |
| Anchor | Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 04, 2023 |  |
| Apata | Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers. | $5M | Seed | May 05, 2023 |  |
| ClearGrid | ClearGrid, creating software and AI to streamline recovery and collaborate with the existing vendors. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 30, 2023 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does BYLD invest in?

BYLD invests primarily in Financial Services, Payments and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 25 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 BYLD's check size?

BYLD typically joins rounds of $200k–$6.5M at Seed and $120k–$2.1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BYLD participates in.

### How do I contact BYLD?

Public channels for BYLD include LinkedIn 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 BYLD?

The team at BYLD includes Youcef Oudjidane (Co-Founder). 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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