# Francesco Simoneschi

> Francesco Simoneschi is a seed investor at TrueLayer (London) backing FinTech and Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [TrueLayer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/truelayer)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/francescosimoneschi
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/fsimoneschi
- Website: https://x.com/fsimoneschi
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/francescosimoneschi

Francesco Simoneschi is a seed investor at TrueLayer in London focused on FinTech and Software. Francesco Simoneschi is the co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TrueLayer. In three short years, Francesco and his co-Founder Luca Martinetti, have built TrueLayer into one of the world's leading providers of financial APIs. Their mission is to grow the Open Banking economy by creating a truly global platform for companies to developnew financial services and products. His leadership has enabled TrueLayer to negotiate integration partnerships with most of Europe’s major banks, winning a host of leading companies as clients, sign a global partnership with Visa, and secure investment from companies including Tencent and Temasek. Over the last decade, Francesco has founded, managed, and grown a number of successful tech companies in the US and Europe. Prior to founding TrueLayer, Francesco launched the angel fund Mission and Market in San Francisco in 2014. Mission and Market provide capital for entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries including healthcare, fintech, biotech, and education. Under Francesco’s guidance, the fund invested in more than 50 startups. Before this, Francesco founded the analytics platform Staq.io in 2012. The startup was later acquired by mobile game developer Playhaven. Following Staq.io’s acquisition, he joined the mobile marketing platform Upsight where he was promoted to Product Owner and Tech Lead. Francesco has also served as VP of Strategy at FOVE, who built the world’s first eye-tracking virtual reality headset.He has a degree in Information Management and Economics from the London School of Economics and a degree in Computer Engineering from La Sapienza University Rome.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5M–$10M |
| Series A | $12M–$53M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 43% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 29% |
| B2B | 1 | 14% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 29% |
| Poland | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cercli | Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). | $12M | Series A | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Payable | Payable is one platform for payment operations - we provide an intuitive API and dashboard that allow your teams to reconcile payments and make bank transfers. We automate payment operations processes and give you the financial infrastructure to scale you business. Reconcile payments with a complete view of your stack. Match transactions betweendifferent payments providers and banks and know your cash position. Make payments through your existing bank accounts and track them to success, without the pain of clunky bank portals and file submissions. Our flexible, scalable ledgers mean you can focus on building out products, rather than worrying about implementing financial infrastructure. Get up and running in minutes, with our no-code dashboard and easy to integrate API. | $6.1M | Seed | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Ramp Network | Ramp connects blockchain with banks using open banking APIs. The company's mission is to create a meshed, easily accessible connection between the open blockchain financial system and the old, closed banking system, with no need for a trusted third party in between.Ramp was founded in 2017 by Przemek Kowalczyk and Szymon Sypniewicz and isheadquartered in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. | $52.7M | Series A | Dec 15, 2021 |  |
| CIRCA5000 | Invest in businesses enriching the planet, its people, and most of all, you. | $5.1M | Equity Crowdfunding | Nov 22, 2021 |  |
| Ramp Network | Ramp connects blockchain with banks using open banking APIs. The company's mission is to create a meshed, easily accessible connection between the open blockchain financial system and the old, closed banking system, with no need for a trusted third party in between.Ramp was founded in 2017 by Przemek Kowalczyk and Szymon Sypniewicz and isheadquartered in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. | $10.1M | Seed | Jun 02, 2021 |  |
| fortú | fortú is the personal finance platform for Latinos and Hispanics | $5M | Seed | May 03, 2021 |  |
| fortú | fortú is the personal finance platform for Latinos and Hispanics | $5M | Seed | May 03, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Firstminute Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstminute-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Galaxy Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galaxy-digital-lp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MPGI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mpgi-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NFX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfxcapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Presight Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/presight-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About TrueLayer

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

TrueLayer is a fintech platform utilized to build financial apps that connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access transactions in real-time.It uses its toolkit to develop consumer and server message block (SMB) applications in the areas of payments, online lending, personal financial management (PFM), robot-advisors, insurance, investmentservices, p2p marketplaces, and cryptocurrencies. It aims to grow the open banking economy by creating a platform for companies to develop new financial services and products.In 2016, Francesco Simoneschi and Luca Martinetti established TrueLayer in London, England.

5 contacts available at TrueLayer.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Francesco Simoneschi | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francesco-simoneschi |
| Luca Martinetti | Co-Founder and CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luca-martinetti |
| Simone D'Amico | Head Of Research And Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simone-damico |
| Vince Mitolo | Head of Growth | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vince-mitolo |
| Ben Foster | VP Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-foster-3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Francesco Simoneschi invest in?

Francesco Simoneschi invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Francesco Simoneschi's check size?

Francesco Simoneschi typically joins rounds of $5M–$10M at Seed and $12M–$53M 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 Francesco Simoneschi participates in.

### When did Francesco Simoneschi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Francesco Simoneschi closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 7 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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