# David Nangle

> David Nangle is a Series A investor at VEF (Dublin) backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [VEF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vef)
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidnangle

David Nangle is a Series A investor at VEF in Dublin focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Dave Nangle is Board of Director of Tbc Bank Group.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 7 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 29% |
| Finance | 3 | 14% |
| Lending | 3 | 14% |
| Banking | 2 | 10% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |
| Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series C | 2 | 10% |
| Series E | 2 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 10% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 3 | 14% |
| Pakistan | 2 | 10% |
| Mexico | 1 | 5% |
| Poland | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FinanZero | FinanZero is an online marketplace for consumer loans in Brazil. The business is an independent broker for loans, negotiating the customer’s loan application with several banks and credit institutions, to find the loan with the best interest rate and terms for the consumer. FinanZero handles the lending process from start to finish. FinanZero hasmore than 50 lending partners connected to its platform.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 27, 2022 |  |
| Abhi | Abhi provides employees salary advances based on accrued wages. | $17M | Series A | Apr 19, 2022 |  |
| Solfácil | Solfácil purpose is to allow all people to invest in solar. We are the first solar investment platform in Brazil. We are a fintech with a innovative loan that allows consumers to switch their monthly cost with electricity into a great investment in a solar system. Consumers benefit from zero downpayment, up to 30% immediate savings, 20+ years offree electricity and ability to produce and consume clean energy. | $100.3M | Series C | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Creditas | Creditas is a financial technology company, operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil. | $260M | Series F | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Abhi | Abhi provides employees salary advances based on accrued wages. | $17M | Seed | Dec 31, 2021 |  |
| Abhi | Abhi provides employees salary advances based on accrued wages. |  | Seed | Nov 15, 2021 |  |
| Konfio | Konfio provides digital banking, payments, and software tools designed to boost small and mid-size enterprise's growth and productivity. It offers working capital loans, a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools.The company was founded in 2013 by David Arana and Francisco Padilla and isheadquartered in Mexico City. | $110M | Series E | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| Konfio | Konfio provides digital banking, payments, and software tools designed to boost small and mid-size enterprise's growth and productivity. It offers working capital loans, a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools.The company was founded in 2013 by David Arana and Francisco Padilla and isheadquartered in Mexico City. | $125M | Series E | Jun 22, 2021 |  |
| Abhi | Abhi provides employees salary advances based on accrued wages. | $2M | Seed | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Finja | FINJA, founded by veterans of the tech and banking industry, is a new entity in the payments space of Pakistan. The top management of the company has over 40 man years of deep experience of delivering pioneering digital banking projects in Pakistan and other emerging markets. | $10M | Series A | May 27, 2021 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kaszek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaszek-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [i2i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/i2i-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lightrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lgt-lightstone) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lightrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightrock) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [QED Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qed-investors) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About VEF

VC Fund · Stockholm, Sweden

VEF is an investment company listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market in Sweden under the ticker VEFL. We invest in growth stage private fintech companies across the emerging world. We take minority stakes and are active investors with board representation in each of our portfolio holdings. We respect the macro, but are firm believers that thesecular growth trend of EM fintech outweighs all the macro uncertainty and volatility that we and our portfolio companies will invariably live through. A digital financial world is the end game and the best companies always come out of pockets of macro and market turbulence in a stronger relative position.

4 contacts available at VEF.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexis Koumoudos | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexis-koumoudos |
| David Nangle | Managing Partner, CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-nangle |
| Elisabet Hulten | Deputy CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elisabet-hulten |
| Henrik Stenlund | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henrik-stenlund |

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## FAQ

### What does David Nangle invest in?

David Nangle invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did David Nangle last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Nangle closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 21 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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