Firestartr
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Firestartr is a VC fund in London focused on Software and Financial Services. Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond. Beyond providing capital, they draw on their entrepreneurial successes and senior operational experience with leading technology companies to support sustainable growth in their portfolio. Their deep domain expertise, combinedwith an unrivalled network of advisors, enable us to make meaningful connections at the right time and propel companies with hands-on support.
- Total investments:
- 53
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Firestartr invests in
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechPaymentsFinance
Stages Firestartr invests in
SeedSeries AFunding RoundSeries BSeries C
Countries Firestartr invests in
United KingdomUnited StatesSpainSwitzerlandKenya
Round sizes
Seed $350k–$4.2MSeries A $3.3M–$37M
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $350k–$4.2M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$37M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (32%)
- Financial Services 15 (28%)
- FinTech 13 (25%)
- Payments 10 (19%)
- Finance 7 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 33 (62%)
- Series A 8 (15%)
- Funding Round 5 (9%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
- Series C 1 (2%)
Country
- United Kingdom 20 (38%)
- United States 13 (25%)
- Spain 2 (4%)
- Switzerland 2 (4%)
- Kenya 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Axel Wehr
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Chipper Boulas
Co-Founder, Partner
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Co-Founder, Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Mark Mitchell
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rachel Finegold
Investment Associate
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Investment Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rachel Finegold
Investment Associate
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Investment Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Qori
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No card, No cash, No limits. Qori is a pioneer mobile payment solution allowing brick and mortar merchants to cost-effectively accept bank and crypto payments by simply generating a QR code on their phone, tablet or payment terminal. Qori does not require an app on the client side. Qori offers advanced tools that allow merchants to engage boththeir unregistered and registered clients.With Qori, merchants have a better alternative to card and cash payments and can create unique experiences for their clients. Two fundamental trends are disrupting the payments industry and challenging the central role of cards: open banking and crypto. Qori is seizing this unique opportunity to remove intermediaries and become the preferred multi-channel payment method for in-store, e-commerce and remote transactions - by offering a fully digital, cheaper alternative to card payments, combined with the most effective client engagement features. Features:Qori enables the acceptance of Pay by bank and Pay by crypto payments: • For in-store payment on the merchant’s phone or tablet, • For in-store payment on the merchant’s android payment terminal (e.g Pax), • For remote payments, by sending a QR code to clients, allowing them to pay their bill by scanning the code, with no manual entry of data required, • For online payments by displaying the Pay by bank and Pay by crypto icons on e-commerce websites.Benefits:• It’s the cheapest and most frictionless payment solution on the market, • Clients do not need a card to pay, they simply scan the QR with their phone’s camera and pay, • Pay by bank and Pay by crypto are supported with the the same customer journey, • Merchants have the ability to interact with registered and non-registered clients via Qori. | $1.9M / Seed / Apr 15, 2022 | |
Banked
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Banked provides an account-to-account payment software platform that lets consumers, businesses and banks process payments in real-time, more securely. To leverage the Banked checkout system, businesses need to embed the company’s API and this can be done across mobile apps, customer portals, emailed invoices or even text messages. | $27.1M / Series A / Feb 14, 2022 | |
Clarisights
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Clarisights was founded to empower performance marketing and growth teams by creating a platform that gives them insights and superhero powers they have always wanted. Rather than wrestling with outdated spreadsheets and BI platforms that can't keep pace with their growing volume of marketing channels and data, marketers can use Clarisights toindependently explore and analyze all their data in a single and intuitive interface. Marketing teams around the world use Clarisights for every aspect of their performance marketing workflow - from integrating with data channels, creating and optimizing dashboards, and collaborating with teammates - all in real time.Clarisights is a data ingestion and analytics platform that enables marketers to make sense of and gain unique insights from data coming in from all the sources. Our platform is a seamless in-browser experience - the users just add the sources (analytics, ads data) they want to track, our backend then ingests the data from those sources, performs the necessary transformations and stores it in our own database. All of this, without the user needing to configure any data pipelines. Users can begin answering questions on their marketing data by building interactive visualizations, minutes after signing up. With Clarisights, marketers can build visualizations to answer questions like “What are my largest sources of traffic and what are the major cost sinkholes?” and then also quickly drill down into granular details like “What kind of ad copy has the least customer acquisition cost” or “Which ad creatives are driving the maximum RoI?” | $14M / Series A / Oct 04, 2021 | |
Mamo
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Mamo is a Fintech startup headquartered in Dubai, UAE. We build payment and financial solutions for SMEs. Mamo is proud to own and operate all of its core and financial IP. Mamo is the first and only Fintech startup licensed by the DFSA with a Cat 3C Providing Money Services licence; allowing it to accelerate growth by offering a diverse suite offinancial services.Who uses Mamo products? Mamo’s flagship product is Mamo Business and is used by hundreds of SMEs across the UAE. Our customers vary from large organizations, to professional services and health care and fitness operators. Our largest segments include B2B service providers, tourism and travel arrangements, events services, wellness and fitness services, retail office supplies and gifts and entertainment providers.What is Mamo Business? Mamo is a FinTech startup headquartered in Dubai, UAE. Mamo Business provides SMEs with an alternative to business banking: A platform designed like a consumer product that acts as a financial O.S. and a lifeline for SMEs. The platform includes three critical components to starting and growing a business: payments, spend management and analytics. | Seed / Jun 17, 2021 | |
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Mamo
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Mamo is a Fintech startup headquartered in Dubai, UAE. We build payment and financial solutions for SMEs. Mamo is proud to own and operate all of its core and financial IP. Mamo is the first and only Fintech startup licensed by the DFSA with a Cat 3C Providing Money Services licence; allowing it to accelerate growth by offering a diverse suite offinancial services.Who uses Mamo products? Mamo’s flagship product is Mamo Business and is used by hundreds of SMEs across the UAE. Our customers vary from large organizations, to professional services and health care and fitness operators. Our largest segments include B2B service providers, tourism and travel arrangements, events services, wellness and fitness services, retail office supplies and gifts and entertainment providers.What is Mamo Business? Mamo is a FinTech startup headquartered in Dubai, UAE. Mamo Business provides SMEs with an alternative to business banking: A platform designed like a consumer product that acts as a financial O.S. and a lifeline for SMEs. The platform includes three critical components to starting and growing a business: payments, spend management and analytics. | $8M / Jun 17, 2021 | |
StudentFinance
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StudentFinance is a provider of educational financial services that aims to provide students with success-based financing. The company's services select students through a selection process based on data forecasting using artificial intelligence technology and invest in students who primarily have technical skills and can become softwareengineers, data analysts, or cybersecurity experts, allowing students to advance in their career path and get the right job while also repaying the money.StudentFinance was established in March, 2019 in Madrid, Spain by Mariano Kostelec. | $5.5M / Seed / May 18, 2021 | |
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Mamo
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Mamo is a Fintech startup headquartered in Dubai, UAE. We build payment and financial solutions for SMEs. Mamo is proud to own and operate all of its core and financial IP. Mamo is the first and only Fintech startup licensed by the DFSA with a Cat 3C Providing Money Services licence; allowing it to accelerate growth by offering a diverse suite offinancial services.Who uses Mamo products? Mamo’s flagship product is Mamo Business and is used by hundreds of SMEs across the UAE. Our customers vary from large organizations, to professional services and health care and fitness operators. Our largest segments include B2B service providers, tourism and travel arrangements, events services, wellness and fitness services, retail office supplies and gifts and entertainment providers.What is Mamo Business? Mamo is a FinTech startup headquartered in Dubai, UAE. Mamo Business provides SMEs with an alternative to business banking: A platform designed like a consumer product that acts as a financial O.S. and a lifeline for SMEs. The platform includes three critical components to starting and growing a business: payments, spend management and analytics. | $8M / Series A / May 17, 2021 | |
Gr4vy
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Gr4vy is a payment orchestration platform that offers payment solutions for businesses. Gr4vy is a "no-code"payments orchestration platform that enables mid-sized businesses the ability to add the full spectrum of payments infrastructure from the beginning, as well as host and expand it as needed without taking on technical debt. It alsocharges customers per service rather than a transaction. In addition, the platform provides a hub for reporting, monitoring, and managing a payments infrastructure.It was founded in 2020 and is based in San Mateo, California, USA. | $11.1M / Series A / Apr 29, 2021 | |
Railsr
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Railsr is a financial services company. They provide the creation of digital ledgers, connecting digital ledgers to bank accounts, receiving money, sending money, converting money, issuing cards, and managing credit through the API that enables banks and corporate customers to transact digitally. | $37M / Nov 12, 2020 | |
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Railsr
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Railsr is a financial services company. They provide the creation of digital ledgers, connecting digital ledgers to bank accounts, receiving money, sending money, converting money, issuing cards, and managing credit through the API that enables banks and corporate customers to transact digitally. | $37M / Series A / Nov 12, 2020 | |
| See all 53 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
London Co-Investment Fund
7 deals together
Digital Currency Group
4 deals together
Global Founders Capital
4 deals together
Global Ventures
4 deals together
Seedcamp
4 deals together
4DX Ventures
3 deals together
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FAQ
What does Firestartr invest in?
Firestartr invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 53 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 Firestartr's check size?
Firestartr typically joins rounds of $350k–$4.2M at Seed and $3.3M–$37M 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 Firestartr participates in.
How do I contact Firestartr?
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Who are the partners at Firestartr?
The team at Firestartr includes Axel Wehr (Partner), Chipper Boulas (Co-Founder, Partner) and Mark Mitchell (CFO), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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