# François Derbaix

> François Derbaix is a seed investor at Ayuda Efectiva backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ayuda Efectiva](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ayuda-efectiva)
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fderbaix
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/fderbaix
- Website: http://francoisderbaix.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fderbaix

François Derbaix is a seed investor at Ayuda Efectiva in Madrid focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Francois Derbaix is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Indexa Capital. He previously worked at Toprural as a Founder and CEO. Francois Derbaix attended the Catholic University of Louvain.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$1.1M |
| Angel | $106k–$424k |
| Pre-Seed | $149k–$574k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 11 | 27% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 22% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 17% |
| Internet | 5 | 12% |
| Software | 5 | 12% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 46% |
| Angel | 8 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 7% |
| Series A | 2 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 26 | 63% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rauda AI | Take a leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve your customer experience with the power of generative artificial intelligence. | $573.9K | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Rauda AI | Take a leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve your customer experience with the power of generative artificial intelligence. | $326.2K | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Solfy | Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy. | $455K | Seed | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Solfy | Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy. | $408.3K | Convertible Note | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Sheetgo | Sheetgo is on a mission to bring no-code automation to anyone who can use a spreadsheet. From inventory management and financial forecasting to sales tracking and student attendance monitoring, Sheetgo users can create custom, automated workflows to manage, transform and share data in any business process. | $2M | Seed | May 05, 2022 |  |
| Balio | Personal Finance Manager and Investing | $334.5K | Seed | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| Tu Lecho al Techo | Tu Lecho al Techo aiming to build a business by distributing ceiling bed. | $121.7K | Angel | Jan 21, 2021 |  |
| Pibisi | Automatised KYC for regulated companies | $149K | Pre-Seed | Aug 06, 2020 |  |
| Pibisi | Automatised KYC for regulated companies | $157.5K | Angel | Jul 01, 2020 |  |
| Afterbanks Arcopay | About Afterbanks LTD. Afterbanks (www.afterbanks.com) subsidiary of Minsait, an Indra company, has a technology that allows retrieving and aggregating bank data rapidly and initiating payments. Afterbanks is authorized by the FCA in the UK to operate as PISP (Payment Initiation Service Provider) and as AISP (Account Information ServicesProvider). Likewise, it has won several prizes like the Adventure for HIPIIES in the BBVA Innovation Center and best Fintech and Insurtech in the VLC Awards. The Afterbanks products complete the advanced offer of Minsait Payments, the payments subsidiary of Minsait in Europe and Latin America. | $382K | Seed | Dec 10, 2018 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cabiedes & Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cabiedes-partners) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [SeedRocket](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedrocket) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Viriditas Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/viriditas-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AIAIAI VENTURES SL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aiaiai-ventures-sl) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angels Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bankinter](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bankinter) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Ayuda Efectiva

VC Fund · Majadahonda, Spain

Ayuda Efectiva is a non-profit entity that aspires to help its donors to have the maximum positive impact in the world. The intellectual origin of the foundation is in the international movement of effective altruism, which promotes the use of the best available evidence and rational analysis to identify and develop initiatives that maximize ourpositive impact on the world.

2 contacts available at Ayuda Efectiva.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| François Derbaix | Co-founder and Trustee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francois-derbaix |
| Jose Luis Vallejo | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jose-luis-vallejo |

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## FAQ

### What does François Derbaix invest in?

François Derbaix invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is François Derbaix's check size?

François Derbaix typically joins rounds of $150k–$1.1M at Seed, $106k–$424k at Angel and $149k–$574k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds François Derbaix participates in.

### When did François Derbaix last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for François Derbaix closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 41 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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