# Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas

> Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is a Series A investor at Index Ventures backing Software and FinTech. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosgonzalezcadenas/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gonzalezcarlos
- Website: https://x.com/gonzalezcarlos

Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is a Series A investor at Index Ventures in London focused on Software and FinTech. Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is the Partner at Index Ventures. He previously worked as a Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPO/CTO) at GoCardless.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$7.5M |
| Series A | $6M–$54M |
| Series B | $35M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 33% |
| FinTech | 9 | 18% |
| SaaS | 8 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 8 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 14% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 16 | 31% |
| Seed | 14 | 27% |
| Series B | 8 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 19 | 37% |
| Germany | 5 | 10% |
| United States | 4 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 3 | 6% |
| Spain | 2 | 4% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Taktile | Taktile develops an AI-based decision platform for financial institutions to manage risk-related processes across the customer lifecycle. Its platform enables teams to design, test, deploy, and optimize decision strategies for customer onboarding, credit underwriting, fraud detection, anti-money laundering investigations, and transactionmonitoring. Taktile combines automated workflows, configurable business rules, third-party data integrations, and human review capabilities to support decision-making in regulated environments. The platform also provides tools for experimentation, performance monitoring, and case management, allowing organizations to evaluate and refine their decision processes over time. Taktile serves banks, insurers, and financial technology companies seeking to automate and govern operational and risk decisions. | $110M | Series C | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Pomelo | Pomelo provides a cloud-native financial technology platform that enables businesses to issue, process, and manage payment cards and related services through modular APIs and infrastructure. Its technology supports the issuance and processing of credit, debit, and prepaid cards, including options for businesses without their own issuing licensethrough BIN sponsorship and integration with Mastercard and Visa networks. The company’s platform also includes tools for transaction authorization, chargeback handling, fraud monitoring, tokenization for digital wallets, and logistical support for card production and distribution. Pomelo’s offerings aim to streamline card program development by consolidating technical, regulatory, and operational components into a unified system that can be tailored to diverse use cases across fintech, banking, and embedded finance sectors. It supports virtual and physical card workflows and provides dashboards and management interfaces to monitor and control card portfolios and transactions. The company collaborates with clients to integrate its APIs into existing systems and scale card products across multiple markets. Pomelo’s infrastructure emphasizes flexibility, data visibility, and compliance with international payment standards. | $55M | Series C | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| incident.io | incident.io is a slack-integrated incident management tool, designed to create, manage and resolve incidents directly in slack. | $62M | Series B | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| Taktile | Taktile develops an AI-based decision platform for financial institutions to manage risk-related processes across the customer lifecycle. Its platform enables teams to design, test, deploy, and optimize decision strategies for customer onboarding, credit underwriting, fraud detection, anti-money laundering investigations, and transactionmonitoring. Taktile combines automated workflows, configurable business rules, third-party data integrations, and human review capabilities to support decision-making in regulated environments. The platform also provides tools for experimentation, performance monitoring, and case management, allowing organizations to evaluate and refine their decision processes over time. Taktile serves banks, insurers, and financial technology companies seeking to automate and govern operational and risk decisions. | $54M | Series B | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Cradle | Using robust prediction algorithms and AI design recommendations, Cradle assists biologists in rapidly designing better proteins. Cradle gives you complete ownership of the intellectual property while maintaining the privacy and security of your sequences and data. | $73M | Series B | Nov 26, 2024 |  |
| Tessl | Tessl transforms software development for the AI era with its innovative AI-native development approach. Its AI-powered development platform provides secure, high-quality, and self-maintaining code tailored to the user's requirements. | $100M | Series A | Nov 14, 2024 |  |
| EthonAI | EthonAI addresses this problem by developing an AI-powered platform that detects and prevents quality defects in manufacturing. The ETH Zurich spin-off is on a mission to make AI more accessible to factory operators and engineers. | $16.6M | Series A | May 30, 2024 |  |
| Adaptive ML | Adaptive is working on a method to improve the process known as reinforcement learning from human feedback, or RLHF. | $20M | Series A | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| DataSnipper | DataSnipper is a financial audit company that provides an AI-powered intelligent automation platform in Excel. | $100M | Series B | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Pomelo | Pomelo provides a cloud-native financial technology platform that enables businesses to issue, process, and manage payment cards and related services through modular APIs and infrastructure. Its technology supports the issuance and processing of credit, debit, and prepaid cards, including options for businesses without their own issuing licensethrough BIN sponsorship and integration with Mastercard and Visa networks. The company’s platform also includes tools for transaction authorization, chargeback handling, fraud monitoring, tokenization for digital wallets, and logistical support for card production and distribution. Pomelo’s offerings aim to streamline card program development by consolidating technical, regulatory, and operational components into a unified system that can be tailored to diverse use cases across fintech, banking, and embedded finance sectors. It supports virtual and physical card workflows and provides dashboards and management interfaces to monitor and control card portfolios and transactions. The company collaborates with clients to integrate its APIs into existing systems and scale card products across multiple markets. Pomelo’s infrastructure emphasizes flexibility, data visibility, and compliance with international payment standards. | $40M | Series B | Jan 17, 2024 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [LocalGlobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/localglobe) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Visionaries Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/visionaries-club) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Point Nine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/point-nine-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Index Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm which helps entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.

5 contacts available at Index Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Georgia Stevenson | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/georgia-stevenson |
| Gerald Rimer | Team Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerald-rimer |
| Hannah Seal | Principal/Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hannah-seal |
| Jan Hammer | Investor & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-hammer |
| Julia Andre | Principal/Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julia-andre |

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## FAQ

### What does Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas invest in?

Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas invests primarily in Software, FinTech and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 51 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 Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas's check size?

Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$7.5M at Seed, $6M–$54M at Series A and $35M–$100M 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 Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas participates in.

### When did Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 51 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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