# Frederic Hofmann

> Frederic Hofmann is a venture - series unknown investor at ING Ventures backing FinTech. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ING Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ing-ventures-7502)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredhofmann

Frederic Hofmann is a venture - series unknown investor at ING Ventures in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Frederic Hofmann is the Co-Head at ING. He attended SDA Bocconi.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 50% |
| iOS | 1 | 25% |
| Credit | 1 | 25% |
| Android | 1 | 25% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series D | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HERE | OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.OpenFin offers a desktop application to run outside the browser, generate real-time applications, desktop notifications, tear-outs, docking support, create custom title bars and frames, animation effects, maintainwindow size and position, and secure communications. The world’s largest banks and trading platforms use OpenFin to deploy desktop applications both in-house and to their buy-side and sell-side customers. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, DRW Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NEX Group’s fintech investment business Euclid Opportunities, Nyca Partners and Pivot Investment Partners, and an elite group of financial industry executives. The company is based in New York with offices in London. | $35M | Series D | May 23, 2023 |  |
| HERE | OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.OpenFin offers a desktop application to run outside the browser, generate real-time applications, desktop notifications, tear-outs, docking support, create custom title bars and frames, animation effects, maintainwindow size and position, and secure communications. The world’s largest banks and trading platforms use OpenFin to deploy desktop applications both in-house and to their buy-side and sell-side customers. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, DRW Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NEX Group’s fintech investment business Euclid Opportunities, Nyca Partners and Pivot Investment Partners, and an elite group of financial industry executives. The company is based in New York with offices in London. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 06, 2022 |  |
| Flowcast | Flowcast leverages its patented machine learning methodologies to create high-performing predictive models that assess risk and enable lenders to unlock credit to all size businesses at scale. Flowcast’s models offer unparalleled explainability in understanding the root cause of a business’ creditworthiness, the risk of delinquency, the timelinessof repayment, and the likelihood of dilution of their transactions. Unlike traditional risk assessments, the API-based solution updates and monitors the risk assessment of the borrower in real-time based on alternative data and Flowcast’s proprietary data. | $3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 08, 2021 |  |
| eXate | eXate is a startup on a mission to simplify the way that data is safely and securely accessed, shared and governed through DataSecOps. DataSecOps enables a simple, collaborative environment for data, operations and cyber teams to work together in a single application for faster, safer, more cost-efficient data sharing. The company providesDataSecOps solutions to leading Global 500 corporations, financial institutions, and insurance providers around the world. eXate is headquartered in London, UK. | $3M | Seed | Dec 15, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Barclays Investment Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CME Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cme-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CTC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ctc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DRW Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drw-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Experian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/experian-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ING Ventures

VC Fund · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ING Ventures is the venture capital arm of ING making minority investments in early stage companies that have a strategic relevance to ING. It targets disruptive technologies that have the potential to impact ING’s business and ensure customers and clients get access to best-in-class services. Based in Amsterdam but shadowing ING’s geographicfootprint of 41 countries, ING Ventures is a €300 million fund that not only drives innovation within ING, but also helps entrepreneurs with hands-on support, know-how, scaling expertise and access to our distribution network.

5 contacts available at ING Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Frederic Hofmann | Co-Head | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frederic-hofmann |
| Aditya Jadhav | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditya-jadhav-066c |
| Jan Willem Nieuwenhuize | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-willem-nieuwenhuize |
| Laura Schmidt | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-schmidt |
| Vincent Buitelaar | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vincent-buitelaar |

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## FAQ

### What does Frederic Hofmann invest in?

Frederic Hofmann invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and iOS startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Frederic Hofmann last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Frederic Hofmann closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 4 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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