# Experian

> Experian is a VC fund in Dublin backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 48%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/experian
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Experian
- Website: http://www.experianplc.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ExperianNews

Experian is a global information services company that provides information, analytical tools, and marketing services to help clients manage their commercial and financial decisions. The company helps organizations manage credit risk, prevent fraud, target marketing offers, and automate decision making. It also enables individuals to check theircredit report and credit score as well as protect against identity theft.The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index.Experian was co-founded by Michael A Barron and Bernie Brenner in January 1980 and has its corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquarters in Nottingham, United Kingdom; California, United States; and São Paulo, Brazil.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Experian. Shizune tracks 19 team members at Experian. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/experian?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$4M |
| Series B | $7.9M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 13 | 48% |
| Financial Services | 12 | 44% |
| Finance | 6 | 22% |
| Big Data | 6 | 22% |
| Mobile | 4 | 15% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 7 | 26% |
| Corporate Round | 7 | 26% |
| Seed | 4 | 15% |
| Series A | 3 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 30% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 22% |
| India | 2 | 7% |
| Chile | 1 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Jebson | Chairman of Experian’s Audit Committee | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-jebson |
| Alex Marquez | Global Managing Director, Experian Ventures | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-marquez |
| Ben Elliott | CEO Asia Pacific | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-elliott-3e28 |
| Damon Anderson | Chief Product Officer \| Verifications | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damon-anderson |
| David Britton | VP of Strategy, Global ID & Fraud | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-britton |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Palenca | Palenca is a Payroll API that makes it easy for consumers to share employment data with financial institutions, as well as offering automated collections directly from a borrower's paycheck. | $4M | Seed | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Resistant AI | Resistant AI is a fraud detection company that specializes in document fraud detection and transaction monitoring. Resistant Documents. Document fraud detection solution checks any document, from anywhere, for fraud and authenticity (in seconds). Resistant Transactions. Transaction monitoring solution upgrades existing rules-based TM systems,targeting advanced fincrime typologies with 80+ AI models. We analyze everything (from submitted documents to ongoing customer behaviors), uncovering and preventing: Document forgery Large-scale serial fraud Synthetic identities Account takeovers Money mules Laundering APP fraudWith adaptive AI reasoning, we can even combat previously unknown financial threats!Customers see a 3x increase in doc fraud prevention, 5x faster review times, 90% cut in manual reviews, and a 5x increase in second line analyst productivity. We’ve worked with some of the world’s leading financial institutions, including: Dun & Bradstreet, Payoneer, Close Brothers, PennyMac, Bank of Valetta and Finom. Investors include GV (formerly Google Ventures), Index Ventures, Notion Capital, and more. Visit Resistant.ai or connect on LinkedIn to learn more. | $25M | Series B | Oct 13, 2025 |  |
| Resistant AI | Resistant AI is a fraud detection company that specializes in document fraud detection and transaction monitoring. Resistant Documents. Document fraud detection solution checks any document, from anywhere, for fraud and authenticity (in seconds). Resistant Transactions. Transaction monitoring solution upgrades existing rules-based TM systems,targeting advanced fincrime typologies with 80+ AI models. We analyze everything (from submitted documents to ongoing customer behaviors), uncovering and preventing: Document forgery Large-scale serial fraud Synthetic identities Account takeovers Money mules Laundering APP fraudWith adaptive AI reasoning, we can even combat previously unknown financial threats!Customers see a 3x increase in doc fraud prevention, 5x faster review times, 90% cut in manual reviews, and a 5x increase in second line analyst productivity. We’ve worked with some of the world’s leading financial institutions, including: Dun & Bradstreet, Payoneer, Close Brothers, PennyMac, Bank of Valetta and Finom. Investors include GV (formerly Google Ventures), Index Ventures, Notion Capital, and more. Visit Resistant.ai or connect on LinkedIn to learn more. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Floid | Floid is an open banking platform that facilitates the development of applications, payment solutions, and risk engines.Thousands of people now have access to risk evaluations and payment options on a secure platform, away from situations conducive to fraudulent conduct, because to the company's API, which connects consumers' bankaccounts with organizations in the financial industry.It was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Santiago Metropolitan Region. | $1.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 28, 2024 |  |
| Reward Insight | Reward predicts consumer behaviour then changes it. Working with Visa, Mastercard and American Express around the world, Reward helps drive customer engagement, NPS and cross sell for banks and drives incremental sales for the worlds largest retailers. |  | Corporate Round | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Lucinity | Money laundering is the crime that fuels crime. Lucinity's mission is to Make Money Good® by combining the best of human and artificial intelligence. Lucinity uses Human AI to help banks fight financial crime more efficiently. By designing its AML platform around man and machine, Lucinity allows banks to increase their AML programs'productivity.Lucinity identifies suspicious activity through its proprietary behavior detection system. The approach is entirely risk-based and allows customers to control their risk exposure before efficiently reviewing AML alerts in the Lucinity Case Manager.The company was founded by industry veterans. The core team has experience from Tier-1 banks, international regulators, and leading legacy vendors. Lucinity takes great pride in being the enterprise-ready AML startup that brings the novelty and excitement of a startup and the professionalism and experience of an incumbent. | $17M | Series A | Jul 07, 2022 |  |
| Traive | Traive is an ag-fintech that unlocks credit to farmers by connecting them to lenders and providing ML-based credit risk assessment and monitoring. Traive brings farmers state-of-the-art technology to offer a novel and fair credit risk assessment, opening the door for affordable funding for their businesses. For lenders, Traive provides adifferentiated analysis applied over alternative farming and individual data, while allowing access to a much larger and diversified portfolio of borrowers. | $17M | Series A | Oct 18, 2021 |  |
| Capitalise.com | At Capitalise.com, our vision is to unlock UK businesses’ full potential today by matching the right business to the right lender. With 360 plus lenders and growing this funding journey has become increasingly complex and hard to navigate. Capitalise.com uses in-house technology and data analytics to identify the best financing options availablefor UK businesses. We've partnered with over 80 institutional and fintech lenders throughout the UK to offer business loans to UK SMEs. | $13.8M | Series B | Aug 31, 2021 |  |
| Salary Finance | Salary Finance is on a mission to help millions of people across the globe live happier, healthier financial lives.They partner with employers to offer financial wellbeing benefits that help improve employee retention and productivity. Salary Finance offer simple savings, access to their salary as it is earned, and affordable loans - allunderpinned by accessible, engaging financial education. By helping employees manage debt, build a savings habit and access earned pay, they have created a more accessible alternative to traditional financial services providers. | $26.2M | Series D | Dec 16, 2020 |  |
| InfoSum | InfoSum has developed a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy. Its platform enables advertisers, media owners, data providers, and other advertising technology firms to collaborate across multiple data sources, without requiring the underlying data to be moved or pooled. The company was foundedin 2016 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire. | $15.1M | Series A | Sep 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Experian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/experian-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DEG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deg) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goldman Sachs Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gs-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Salica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hambroperksltd) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kickstart Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kickstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Experian invest in?

Experian invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series B and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Experian's check size?

Experian typically joins rounds of $800k–$4M at Seed and $7.9M–$42M 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 Experian participates in.

### How do I contact Experian?

Public channels for Experian include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Experian?

The team at Experian includes Alan Jebson (Chairman of Experian’s Audit Committee), Alex Marquez (Global Managing Director, Experian Ventures) and Ben Elliott (CEO Asia Pacific), among 19 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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