# Gauss Ventures

> Gauss Ventures is a VC fund in London backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gauss_vc/
- Website: http://www.gauss.vc

Gauss Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $390k–$4M |
| Series A | $3M–$34M |
| Series B | $14M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 10 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 10 | 50% |
| Banking | 5 | 25% |
| Payments | 4 | 20% |
| Finance | 3 | 15% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 25% |
| Series A | 4 | 20% |
| Series B | 3 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 15% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 30% |
| United States | 2 | 10% |
| Malta | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| South Africa | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Gusev | Managing Partner & Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-gusev |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bettr | Bettr was founded by a collective of creative entrepreneurs and fintech veterans. A team determined to rewrite the financial fate of the South African youth, no matter what. Young people aren’t being given the access they need to the financial products they deserve, and it’s time that someone stepped in and changed that.We’re rethinking money,and we’ve called it Bettr. Through technology, creativity and community; we’re equipping young people with the confidence and currency to achieve their dreams.Around our core team is a growing community of striving and thriving creators. Together we’re co-creating a new culture of money in Africa. Our platform doesn’t just bank wealth, it nurtures worth. Because more than anything, we believe in the exponential potential of humans, and their ability to move the world forward.We’re founder-funded, angel-backed and here to build the future we want to live in. | $1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Anvizent | Anvizent is the next-generation technology that helps you to ‘accelerates decision making in an organization’ by automating building and deploying end-to-end Data/AI products at 100x speed. This product is the result of two decades of delivering complex AI and Data solutions with Data Warehousing as a backend around the world. NOCODING/ NO DRAG and DROP, easy-to-use guided interface impacting the speed of your customer deployments and maintenance. Key Benefits• Drastically reduced time for ‘Integrated Data Build’ • A user-friendly, guided interface for data/business analysts enforces best practices without knowledge of Data Engineering. • Highest level of automation gets accurate data output. • Lower implementation cost, complexity, and time. Take action today! Embed Anvizent into your data product to build a competitive advantage and turbocharge customer acquisition. Elevate your data game now! info@anvizent.com | $2.4M | Seed | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Zilch | Zilch is a direct-to-consumer ad-subsidised payments network. Zilch is a payment service that allows users to buy now and pay over 6 weeks with 0% APR and no fees. Users can also earn rewards for paying in full. Zilch distinguishes itself from the established fintech industry by generating profitable global revenue, delivering unparalleled value toboth customers and marketers. | $109.1M | Series C | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Capitalise.com | At Capitalise.com, our vision is to unlock UK businesses’ full potential today by matching the right business to the right lender. With 360 plus lenders and growing this funding journey has become increasingly complex and hard to navigate. Capitalise.com uses in-house technology and data analytics to identify the best financing options availablefor UK businesses. We've partnered with over 80 institutional and fintech lenders throughout the UK to offer business loans to UK SMEs. | $13.8M | Series B | Aug 31, 2021 |  |
| Zilch | Zilch is a direct-to-consumer ad-subsidised payments network. Zilch is a payment service that allows users to buy now and pay over 6 weeks with 0% APR and no fees. Users can also earn rewards for paying in full. Zilch distinguishes itself from the established fintech industry by generating profitable global revenue, delivering unparalleled value toboth customers and marketers. | $80.3M | Series B | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| Briskly | Briskly is a technological platform for unmanned trading. The company produces smart refrigerators in its own Briskly factory, develops B-Pay app for scanning and paying for goods and provides technology for autonomous trading.As of June 2021 Briskly sold more than 1000 autonomous micromarkets and entered Kazakh, Belarusian, Ukranian and Germanmarkets. B-Pay app users made more than 1 million purchases using the app. | $3M | Series A | Apr 12, 2021 |  |
| Black Label | Jasper, formerly CreditStacks, is a financial service company that offers a credit card designed for professionals. Jasper uses technology to assess applicants holistically, so applicants may qualify for a premium Jasper Mastercard, issued by WebBank, even if they are just starting their credit journey.The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in New York City, New York. | $34M | Series A | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Estating | Estating democratizes real estate investments and opens the door to picking premium properties for everybody. It connects international supply with untapped global demand. It does so with a bankable and fractionalised product, protected inside the regulated financial system enabling a frictionless and enjoyable user-experience. |  | Seed | Dec 30, 2020 |  |
| Estating | Estating democratizes real estate investments and opens the door to picking premium properties for everybody. It connects international supply with untapped global demand. It does so with a bankable and fractionalised product, protected inside the regulated financial system enabling a frictionless and enjoyable user-experience. |  |  | Dec 30, 2020 |  |
| Zilch | Zilch is a direct-to-consumer ad-subsidised payments network. Zilch is a payment service that allows users to buy now and pay over 6 weeks with 0% APR and no fees. Users can also earn rewards for paying in full. Zilch distinguishes itself from the established fintech industry by generating profitable global revenue, delivering unparalleled value toboth customers and marketers. | $30M | Series B | Dec 16, 2020 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Gauss Ventures invest in?

Gauss Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Banking startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 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 Gauss Ventures's check size?

Gauss Ventures typically joins rounds of $390k–$4M at Seed, $3M–$34M at Series A and $14M–$80M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gauss Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Gauss Ventures?

Public channels for Gauss Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Gauss Ventures?

The team at Gauss Ventures includes Daniel Gusev (Managing Partner & Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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