# Golden Record Ventures

> Golden Record Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grvuk
- Website: http://gr.ventures

Golden Record Ventures is a VC fund in London focused on Financial Services and FinTech. GRV is a VC firm that invests in early-stage blockchain applications within the fintech vertical.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 3 | 60% |
| FinTech | 2 | 40% |
| Payments | 2 | 40% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 40% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 40% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 40% |
| France | 1 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jad Benabdelkhalek | General Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jad-benabdelkhalek |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Freename | Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains | $6.5M | Series A | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Freename | Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Orbital | Orbital a London headquartered fintech on a mission to bridge the gap between traditional financial services and the world of digital assets, centred around a payments & treasury platform aimed at large multinational corporates and enterprise. With an offering made up of multi-currency IBAN accounts, international payments and FX, digital assetvaults, trading and liquidity and crypto-commerce C2B payments. All through one interface - the Orbital platform. | $6.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Parfin | Parfin is a financial technology company building enterprise-grade software products to allow financial institutions to adopt blockchain rails. Founded in 2019 by seasoned veterans of investment banking and blockchain technology, Parfin is the core developer of Rayls, taking a unified finance (UniFi) approach that enables traditional finance to usethe latest blockchain technology with the required level of compliance, security and privacy. Building blockchain technology products for the world’s leading financial institutions, digital assets traders, and developers, Parfin is paving the way for a world with more efficient, transparent and inclusive markets. Learn more at https://www.parfin.io. | $15M | Seed | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Qori | No card, No cash, No limits. Qori is a pioneer mobile payment solution allowing brick and mortar merchants to cost-effectively accept bank and crypto payments by simply generating a QR code on their phone, tablet or payment terminal. Qori does not require an app on the client side. Qori offers advanced tools that allow merchants to engage boththeir unregistered and registered clients.With Qori, merchants have a better alternative to card and cash payments and can create unique experiences for their clients. Two fundamental trends are disrupting the payments industry and challenging the central role of cards: open banking and crypto. Qori is seizing this unique opportunity to remove intermediaries and become the preferred multi-channel payment method for in-store, e-commerce and remote transactions - by offering a fully digital, cheaper alternative to card payments, combined with the most effective client engagement features. Features:Qori enables the acceptance of Pay by bank and Pay by crypto payments: • For in-store payment on the merchant’s phone or tablet, • For in-store payment on the merchant’s android payment terminal (e.g Pax), • For remote payments, by sending a QR code to clients, allowing them to pay their bill by scanning the code, with no manual entry of data required, • For online payments by displaying the Pay by bank and Pay by crypto icons on e-commerce websites.Benefits:• It’s the cheapest and most frictionless payment solution on the market, • Clients do not need a card to pay, they simply scan the QR with their phone’s camera and pay, • Pay by bank and Pay by crypto are supported with the the same customer journey, • Merchants have the ability to interact with registered and non-registered clients via Qori. | $1.9M | Seed | Apr 15, 2022 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blockchain Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchain-founders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sparkle Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sparkle-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Abalone Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abalone-asset-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alexia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexia-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Firestartr](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firestartr-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Golden Record Ventures invest in?

Golden Record Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Golden Record Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Golden Record Ventures?

The team at Golden Record Ventures includes Jad Benabdelkhalek (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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