# FinLab

> FinLab is a VC fund in Frankfurt backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Germany
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Feb 2021
- Lead investor: 68%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Mar 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/finlab-ag
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/FinLab_AG
- Website: https://www.finlab.de
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FinLabAG/

FinLab is a large German company builders and investors in the financial services technology and the cryptocurrency sector. Started in December 2014, the company focuses on incubating German-based fintech start ups and investing globally in venture funding rounds of fintech and cryptocurrency companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 13 | 35% |
| FinTech | 12 | 32% |
| Blockchain | 10 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 22% |
| Banking | 5 | 14% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 38% |
| Series A | 11 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 19 | 51% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 8% |
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sören Ploschke | Senior Finance Manager | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soren-ploschke |
| Theo U. Woik | Senior Investment Manager | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/theo-u-woik |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SparkChange | SparkChange is a data and technology company that helps institutional investors adapt to the climate crisis. Founded in 2018, the company links the financial world to carbon markets, providing specialist carbon data that empowers better ESG investment strategies, risk management and reporting across global financial institutions. For moreinformation, visit: https://sparkchange.io/Spark Change Group Limited (FRN 944451) is an Appointed Representative of Kroll Securities Ltd. (FRN 466588) which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. | $8.8M | Seed | Feb 25, 2021 |  |
| SparkChange | SparkChange is a data and technology company that helps institutional investors adapt to the climate crisis. Founded in 2018, the company links the financial world to carbon markets, providing specialist carbon data that empowers better ESG investment strategies, risk management and reporting across global financial institutions. For moreinformation, visit: https://sparkchange.io/Spark Change Group Limited (FRN 944451) is an Appointed Representative of Kroll Securities Ltd. (FRN 466588) which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. | $12.8M |  | Feb 25, 2021 |  |
| Wyden | AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally. | $1.7M | Series A | Dec 11, 2020 |  |
| CHAINWISE Group | CHAINWISE Group offers a wide range of services within the blockchain ecosystem we are building such as token services, solutions, marketing, and enterprise consulting. Our token services include but are not limited to STOs/Tokenised Assets, ICOs, and Fundraising. We offer proven experience across all fields combined with expert levelconsulting to provide support constantly exceeding expectations. |  | Seed | Nov 24, 2020 |  |
| AUTHADA | AUTHADA revolutionizes existing identification processes using the eID of the identity card and the NFC interface of the smartphone.This allows the transmission of your customers identity within seconds, based on sovereign master data. The users can increase their customer base in a short period of time via the mobile, uncomplicated and fastlegitimization. For the markets banking, insurance, eGovernment, eHealth and eCommerce additional identities are available online in the Know Your Customer (KYC) area, in line with anti money laundry legislation. |  | Corporate Round | Sep 22, 2020 |  |
| ZkSystems | ZkSystems provides software for Industry 4.0 champions. Our software is used by industrial manufacturing leaders like Siemens. We are an official partner of Oracle, Sopra Steria, and SAP.iO. | $3.4M | Seed | Jul 07, 2020 |  |
| Amber Premium Singapore | Sparrow is the leading options trading platform, providing the simplest way to control risk and monetize digital assets. This revolutionary platform empowers institutions and individuals to trade options that are settled by smart contract. Headquartered in Singapore, Sparrow offers fully-customizable options settled by smart contract in anintuitive and easy-to-use trading interface. Professional traders can use Sparrow trading APIs for maximum performance. Sparrow serves the needs of all traders by providing a wide range of industry-leading trading tools.Sparrow is backed by renowned organizations such as: Signum Capital, Hyperchain Capital, Kyber Network, LuneX Ventures, Arrington XRP Capital, Digital Currency Holdings, Du Capital, The Yozma Group, QCP Capital, 256 Ventures and Jubilee Capital who firmly believe in the project and have committed to use Sparrow as their preferred hedging partner. | $3.5M | Series A | Jun 22, 2020 |  |
| Spielworks | Spielworks brings the benefits of blockchain to mass-market gaming: True ownership of digital assets, secure handling of tokens and comfortable interaction with exceptional blockchain games. These benefits allow Spielworks to strive for groundbreaking game-models and true play-to-earn mechanics. |  | Seed | May 12, 2020 |  |
| Captrace | CAPTRACE offers innovative software and services for the management of equities and investors. Its disclosure services provide issuers full transparency over their investor structure and present best-in-class solutions for forthcoming disclosure regulations in Germany and Europe broadly. CAPTRACE's registry service offers a unique custodysolution that secures the safekeeping of securities with distributed ledger technology (DLT) and a central depository. |  | Seed | Jan 21, 2020 |  |
| ARXUM | Blockchain meets industry - It is time for a new approach to manufacturing!Driven by Industry 4.0 ARXUM develops a worldwide production network for the supply chain.Manufacturers connected by ARXUM's protocol benefit from robust and secure connectivity, worldwide accessibility, and standardized production order protocol with rich dataexchange. Based on Blockchain technology, ARXUM's decentralized production network outperforms today's infrastructure by driving down costs, increasing processing speeds and delivering end-to-end visibility into production fees, timing and delivery. |  | Seed | Jul 02, 2019 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [EOS VC Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eos-vc-fund) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Block.one](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/block-one) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [seed + speed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seed-speed-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Axel Springer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axel-springer) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Barclays Corporate Banking](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-plc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does FinLab invest in?

FinLab invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 37 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact FinLab?

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### Who are the partners at FinLab?

The team at FinLab includes Sören Ploschke (Senior Finance Manager) and Theo U. Woik (Senior Investment Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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