# Christie Franchi

> Christie Franchi is a Series A investor at Global Cleantech Capital backing B2B and FinTech. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Global Cleantech Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-cleantech-capital)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christie-franchi-686123b/

Christie Franchi is a Partner of Global Cleantech Capital with over 21 years strategy experience and over 9 years private equity experience. Prior to GCC, Christie was a member of the Entrepreneurs Fund management team and oversaw 20 investee company strategies and assessments and co-developed the solar sector strategy. Christie also built the €120million annual revenue global Strategic Change consultancy practice at Arthur Andersen focused on the Energy, Financial Services and New Media sectors. Christie’s design work on the future of organizations and environments has been cited in The Financial Times, WSJ, The Independent and featured in the Steelcase video ‘Rethink’, Tomorrow’s Office, The New Office and in interviews on the BBC and CNN.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2B | 1 | 50% |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Trading Platform | 1 | 50% |
| Supply Chain Management | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crowdz | Crowdz is the leader in modernizing the traditional Trade Finance industry by auto risk rating assets at the receivable level. Funders can gain valuable insights to make quick decisions that match their investment strategy. Crowdz has auto risk-rated $4.2b of receivables, and funders have financed over $93m utilizing Crowdz technology. Customersand investors include Citibank, Barclays, Meta, EG Funds Management, Techstars Ventures, and Bold Capital Partners, with over $28 million in investment raised to date.Assets sold to private equity. | $14.7M | Series B | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Crowdz | Crowdz is the leader in modernizing the traditional Trade Finance industry by auto risk rating assets at the receivable level. Funders can gain valuable insights to make quick decisions that match their investment strategy. Crowdz has auto risk-rated $4.2b of receivables, and funders have financed over $93m utilizing Crowdz technology. Customersand investors include Citibank, Barclays, Meta, EG Funds Management, Techstars Ventures, and Bold Capital Partners, with over $28 million in investment raised to date.Assets sold to private equity. | $7M | Series A | Jun 30, 2020 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bold Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bold-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Augment Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augment-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kube VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kube-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [EG Funds Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eg-funds-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FD Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-derivatives) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Global Cleantech Capital

VC Fund · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Global Cleantech Capital (GCC) is one of the most experienced private equity teams dedicated to clean energy investment.GCC invests in emerging value chains where inefficiencies can be exploited in pricing, supply, finance or delivery of clean energy products and services.They invest growth capital to enable companies to scale against thestrong demand for products and services in the clean economy: clean energy development and generation, energy storage, smart transport, energy and resource efficiency, community energy and financial solutions.They target high-growth companies across profitable clean energy value chains which deliver a differentiated value to end-users by experienced and entrepreneurial management teams.

5 contacts available at Global Cleantech Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cheryl Perino | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cheryl-perino |
| Christie Franchi | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christie-franchi |
| Emil Mahjoub | Non-Executive Employee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emil-mahjoub |
| Jan van Veldhoven | Partner of Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-van-veldhoven |
| Joris Vos | Partner of Legal and Tax | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joris-vos |

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## FAQ

### What does Christie Franchi invest in?

Christie Franchi invests primarily in B2B, FinTech and Trading Platform startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Christie Franchi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Christie Franchi closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 2 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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