Fuel Venture Capital
VC Fund
Miami, United States
Fuel Venture Capital is a leading venture capital firm dedicated to backing visionary founders and broadening access to innovation for private investors. Founded in 2017 with offices in Miami and San Francisco, Fuel specializes in seed, early, and growth-stage investments across technology sectors. The firm has backed market leaders such as Replit,CookUnity, RecargaPay, and Betr.As of 2025, Fuel manages approximately $550 million in assets across five funds and has deployed capital into over 40 early-stage companies shaping the future of AI, consumer technologies, enterprise software, and financial markets. Fuel partners with entrepreneurs to build enduring businesses and unlock value for investors and founders alike.To learn more about Fuel VC, visit fuelventurecapital.com. Follow Fuel VC on social media via Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
- Total investments:
- 45
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
- Fund size:
- $500k
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Fuel Venture Capital invests in
Stages Fuel Venture Capital invests in
Countries Fuel Venture Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Round size
- Seed
- $3.5M–$25M
- Series A
- $170k–$30M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $15M–$200M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 11 (24%)
- Financial Services 10 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (16%)
- Software 6 (13%)
- Apps 4 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 15 (33%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (16%)
- Seed 5 (11%)
- Convertible Note 5 (11%)
- Series C 4 (9%)
Country
- United States 24 (53%)
- United Kingdom 5 (11%)
- Brazil 2 (4%)
- Colombia 2 (4%)
- Spain 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jeff Ransdell
Founding Partner & Managing Director
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Founding Partner & Managing Director | Total investments: 23 | Find email | |
Maggie Vo
General Partner and Chief Investment Officer
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General Partner and Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Alex Owen
Senior Associate, Investments
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Senior Associate, Investments | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Emilio Escartin
Partner and European/MiddleEastern Market Executive
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Partner and European/MiddleEastern Market Executive | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Juan Pablo Miro
Partner & Latam Market Executive
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Partner & Latam Market Executive | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Sage Haven
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Sage Haven develops an AI-moderated messaging and calling app designed for children in their early years online. The app issues children a dedicated Sage Haven number and routes messaging and voice calls through its platform while allowing contacts to use services like iMessage or Google Messages. Parents create and verify accounts, approve eachcontact, and supervise conversations from their own phones with alerts, recaps, and safety insights. The service uses automated content moderation to block harmful or inappropriate messages, links, images, and videos before they are sent and to guide children toward safer communication practices. It supports Wi-Fi and cellular use on iOS devices, with tools aimed at reducing exposure to online bullying, spam, and addictive usage patterns. Sage Haven operates as a public benefit corporation balancing commercial activity with a mission to improve children’s mental health and well-being. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Apr 16, 2026 | |
Transak
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Transak is a global web3 payment and onboarding infrastructure provider, facilitating seamless transitions between traditional finance and crypto assets. Its product suite includes robust fiat-to-crypto services (On/Off-Ramps), a fiat-to-smart-contract solution (Transak One), and a fiat-to-NFT checkout solution. As a regulated, non-custodialpayments layer, Transak supports onboarding to 160+ crypto assets across 75+ blockchains. Trusted by over 350+ applications, including MetaMask and Coinbase Wallet, Transak is making web3 applications more accessible. | $16M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 12, 2025 | |
Curve
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Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015. | $47.9M / Series D / Mar 14, 2025 | |
Aracor AI
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Aracor is an AI-powered platform for contract review and due diligence. Analyzes large document volumes, providing insights, summaries, and precise query responses with speed and accuracy. Automates contract review, drafting, and redlining, integrating with existing tools for streamlined workflows. Offers AI-driven document workflows, legaldocument automation, and AI legal assistant tools. | $4.5M / Pre-Seed / Feb 13, 2025 | |
Leap Financial
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Leap Financial offers a cloud-based modular platform covering a biometric wallet for the instant issuing of payments. Leap Financial was founded in 2018 and was headquartered in Florida, United States. | $3.5M / Seed / Dec 17, 2024 | |
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Curve
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Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 24, 2024 | |
Betr
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Betr is a direct-to-consumer micro-betting that introduces instant gratification to sports betting. It provides tools to support responsible play and give control over their gambling. It encourages them to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within their personal limits. Betr was founded in 2022 and is based in Miami, Florida. | $15M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 06, 2024 | |
Tradeshift
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Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network connecting buyers and suppliers. Its platform enables its clients to connect with all their suppliers digitally in order to seize early payment discounts and minimize risks, eliminating paper and manual processes across procure-to-pay, thereby allowing businesses to simplify supply chain payments in asecure manner. | $70M / Jul 31, 2023 | |
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Betr
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Betr is a direct-to-consumer micro-betting that introduces instant gratification to sports betting. It provides tools to support responsible play and give control over their gambling. It encourages them to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within their personal limits. Betr was founded in 2022 and is based in Miami, Florida. | $35M / Series A / Jun 27, 2023 | |
Soundtrack
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Soundtrack Your Brand is a Spotify joint venture and the exclusive provider of Spotify Business and Spotify Enterprise. We connect brands and fans, and our vision is to grow the music market and thereby support artists, so that they can give the world more great music | $15M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 14, 2023 | |
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FAQ
What does Fuel Venture Capital invest in?
Fuel Venture Capital invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Fuel Venture Capital's check size?
Fuel Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$25M at Seed, $170k–$30M at Series A and $15M–$200M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fuel Venture Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Fuel Venture Capital?
The team at Fuel Venture Capital includes Jeff Ransdell (Founding Partner & Managing Director), Maggie Vo (General Partner and Chief Investment Officer) and Alex Owen (Senior Associate, Investments), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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