# Charles Delingpole

> Charles Delingpole is a seed investor at ComplyAdvantage backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ComplyAdvantage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comply-advantage)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/delingpole
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/delingpole
- Website: https://delingpole.com/

Charles Delingpole is a seed investor at ComplyAdvantage in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $382k–$2.3M |
| Series A | $6.3M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 21 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 21 | 50% |
| Payments | 10 | 24% |
| Software | 9 | 21% |
| Banking | 7 | 17% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 31% |
| Series A | 4 | 10% |
| Angel | 2 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 28 | 67% |
| United States | 5 | 12% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Hungary | 1 | 2% |
| Cameroon | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ascendx Cloud | Ascendx acquires and supports Salesforce-native software companies that address enterprise challenges through scalable solutions. The company provides assistance in product development, go-to-market strategies, security, compliance, data architecture, and operational scaling. Ascendx allows founders to lead while offering resources withoutoverriding their decisions, focusing on aligning products with industry needs and user outcomes. Its offerings include sales enablement, service automation, workflow management, secure data handling, and data integration within the Salesforce ecosystem. | $59.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 12, 2025 |  |
| Isembard | Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business. | $9M | Seed | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| Firenze | Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients. | $938.7K | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2024 |  |
| Stackfix | Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform. | $3M | Seed | Dec 03, 2024 |  |
| Juniper | Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Feb 20, 2024 |  |
| Prosper | Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers. | $4M | Angel | Nov 06, 2023 |  |
| Morphoses | Morphoses is an edtech company that is changing the way kids learn and develop their employability skills. Our innovative end-to-end solution engages and educates learners aged 6-17 in a fun and efficient manner through weekly 1hr live sessions in collaborative groups led by top-notch tutors specialized in soft skills.The offering is currentlyavailable to medium-large companies as a way to provide a valuable benefit to parent employees, as well as through educational institutions to expand their range of tutoring and offerings. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Kestrix | Kestrix develops SaaS-based building automation software that uses interactive 3D models to identify building energy performance. | $619.3K | Pre-Seed | Sep 15, 2023 |  |
| Caliza | Provides an API that allows fintechs around the world to open digital dollar accounts for their users to save and transact. | $5.3M | Seed | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| Sync Savings | Sync Savings manage savings deposits & withdrawals for banks and building societies through a fully white-labeled app and banking system, including customer engagements and best-in-class support.​ |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 23, 2023 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Discovery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/discovery-ventures-7af5) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Notion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notion-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Triple Point Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/triple-point) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Future Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-africa) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Reciprocal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reciprocal-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About ComplyAdvantage

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

ComplyAdvantage offers AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. ComplyAdvantage’s aim is to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. More than 500 enterprises in 75 countries rely on ComplyAdvantage to understand the risk of who they’re doing business with through theworld's only global, real-time database of people and companies. The company actively identifies tens of thousands of risk events from millions of structured and unstructured data points every single day.

5 contacts available at ComplyAdvantage.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Caroline Worboys | Investor/Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-worboys |
| Amanda Ward | VP of People | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amanda-ward |
| Anna Keren | VP of Technology | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-keren |
| Charles Delingpole | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-delingpole |
| Elizabeth Bramlage | Chief Marketing Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-bramlage |

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## FAQ

### What does Charles Delingpole invest in?

Charles Delingpole invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 42 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 Charles Delingpole's check size?

Charles Delingpole typically joins rounds of $2M–$10M at Seed, $382k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $6.3M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Charles Delingpole participates in.

### When did Charles Delingpole last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Charles Delingpole closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 42 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?

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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