# Chris Adelsbach

> Chris Adelsbach is a seed investor at Outrun Ventures backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 271 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Outrun Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outrun-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 271
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrisadelsbach
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ChrisAdelsbach
- Website: https://www.outrunventures.com/

Chris Adelsbach is a seed investor at Outrun Ventures in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$6.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $120k–$2.3M |
| Series A | $4.4M–$19M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 87 | 32% |
| Financial Services | 72 | 27% |
| Software | 51 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 36 | 13% |
| Finance | 30 | 11% |

186 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 115 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 71 | 26% |
| Series A | 19 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 2% |
| Angel | 5 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 115 | 42% |
| United States | 25 | 9% |
| Germany | 7 | 3% |
| Ireland | 6 | 2% |
| France | 5 | 2% |

24 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Emblematic | Emblematic is a Financial services firm offering an AI integrated platform for efficient workflow for bookkeeping and accounts. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Yaspa | Yaspa is an award-winning fintech that delivers personal intelligence through instant payments. Founded in 2017 by a former Worldpay CTO, Yaspa blends open banking and AI to provide Intelligent Payments: real-time bank and stablecoin payments combined with verified customer insights, as well as a full suite of payment and account verificationservices. With offices in London, Leeds, Athens and Atlanta, Yaspa operates across the UK, Europe and US, is regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, and is backed by leading investors including Discerning Capital, Fin Capital, SGH Capital & Metavallon VC. | $12M | Series A | Jul 02, 2025 |  |
| Yaspa | Yaspa is an award-winning fintech that delivers personal intelligence through instant payments. Founded in 2017 by a former Worldpay CTO, Yaspa blends open banking and AI to provide Intelligent Payments: real-time bank and stablecoin payments combined with verified customer insights, as well as a full suite of payment and account verificationservices. With offices in London, Leeds, Athens and Atlanta, Yaspa operates across the UK, Europe and US, is regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, and is backed by leading investors including Discerning Capital, Fin Capital, SGH Capital & Metavallon VC. | $12M | Series A | Jul 02, 2025 |  |
| Bourn | Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital. | $1.9M | Seed | Feb 26, 2025 |  |
| Alfa AI | Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions. | $625K | Pre-Seed | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Cloud Capital | CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 17, 2025 |  |
| FinCrime Dynamics | Our mission is to help make the world’s financial system safer through rapid deployment of effective AI for financial crime analytics, enabled by enriched synthetic data that captures the dynamics of fraud and money laundering and loads them into tailor-made scenarios that explore diverse threats that financial organisations are exposed to.Thisgoal has taken us to the forefront of Synthetic Data and Fincrime Analytics, and we are proud to have in our team people that have helped shape the state-of-the-art of these fields.Keywords: Finacial services, AML, Synthetic Data, Fintech, Machine learning, Big data, Simulation, Fraud Analytics, Compliance |  | Seed | Dec 16, 2024 |  |
| Low Observable Technology | Low Observable Technology delivers solutions in digital asset trading infrastructure, specializing in market making and liquidity provision. The firm also develops stealth technologies for defense applications, focusing on electronic countermeasures and low observability systems critical to undetectable aircraft missions. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Capsa AI | Capsa AI helps private equity firms to take data-driven investment decisions using AI to transform due diligence process. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 05, 2024 |  |
| Arondite | Arondite is a defence technology company building the foundational software and AI to power the autonomous age. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 22, 2024 |  |

10 of 271 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 59 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-accelerator) — VC Fund, 29 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Barclays Corporate Banking](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-plc) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Insurtech Gateway](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insurtech-gateway) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

## About Outrun Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Outrun Ventures Invests in early stage fintech, insurtech, regtech, legaltech, and proptech businesses in the UK and Europe. Outrun is the family office of Chris Adelsbach.

1 contacts available at Outrun Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Adelsbach | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-adelsbach |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Adelsbach invest in?

Chris Adelsbach invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 271 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 Chris Adelsbach's check size?

Chris Adelsbach typically joins rounds of $120k–$6.1M at Seed, $120k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $4.4M–$19M 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 Chris Adelsbach participates in.

### When did Chris Adelsbach last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Adelsbach closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 271 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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