# Guzel Gumerova

> Guzel Gumerova is a seed investor backing FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guzel-gumerova-302618/

Guzel Gumerova is a seed investor focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Her profound experience in investment banking and transactions, CEE background, and competitive spirit make Guzel a versatile FinTech expert. As a Partner at Speedinvest, she brings in important expertise and unleashes the potential of promising tech startups. Back in 1997, she worked as an Assistant Director at CA IB Corporate Finance anddeveloped her knowledge of investment banking. In 2003, she joined Vienna Capital Partners (VCP), a leading independent corporate finance advisor in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$3M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| Mobile | 1 | 11% |
| Banking | 1 | 11% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 2 | 22% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| Hungary | 1 | 11% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deligo Vision Technologies | Deligo is a leader in AI-powered self-checkout solutions for food service and convenience stores. We help our customers to:- Eliminate queues & drive revenue: Say goodbye to queues and hello to happier customers. The kiosks streamline the checkout process & enhance customer loyalty, driving more transactions and profits.​- Reduce costs& improve operations: Battle staffing shortages and cut down on operational expenses by automating routine tasks. Redeploy cashier resources to higher-value interactions for greater efficiency.- Minimise shrinkage: The kiosk sees it all: products placed on the Kiosk are correctly recognised to help avoid intentional or unintentional theft. Status lights help associates track checkout activity. | $3M | Seed | May 06, 2024 |  |
| Delicious Data | Delicious Data offers a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs. | $2.5M | Series A | Sep 05, 2022 |  |
| Deligo Vision Technologies | Deligo is a leader in AI-powered self-checkout solutions for food service and convenience stores. We help our customers to:- Eliminate queues & drive revenue: Say goodbye to queues and hello to happier customers. The kiosks streamline the checkout process & enhance customer loyalty, driving more transactions and profits.​- Reduce costs& improve operations: Battle staffing shortages and cut down on operational expenses by automating routine tasks. Redeploy cashier resources to higher-value interactions for greater efficiency.- Minimise shrinkage: The kiosk sees it all: products placed on the Kiosk are correctly recognised to help avoid intentional or unintentional theft. Status lights help associates track checkout activity. | $1.7M | Seed | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| FairMoney | FairMoney is a credit-led mobile bank for emerging markets. It was launched in 2017 and operates in Nigeria and India. Its goal is to rebuild Africa's money story by offering Tier 1 digital financial services to merchants and consumers alike. It offers a range of digital financial products including, near-instant digital loans, investmentproducts, savings, payments, and cards via mobile app. | $42M | Series B | Jul 02, 2021 |  |
| Factris | Factris is a fintech firm that specializes in the fields of SME financing, factoring, debt management, debtor insurance, and invoice finance. The company specializes in working capital to businesses by buying their unpaid invoices. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland. | $5.5M | Series A | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| FairMoney | FairMoney is a credit-led mobile bank for emerging markets. It was launched in 2017 and operates in Nigeria and India. Its goal is to rebuild Africa's money story by offering Tier 1 digital financial services to merchants and consumers alike. It offers a range of digital financial products including, near-instant digital loans, investmentproducts, savings, payments, and cards via mobile app. | $11.1M | Series A | Sep 16, 2019 |  |
| Lemonway | Lemon Way is a white-label B2B platform that offers payment processing, wallet management and third-party payment solutions for joint gifts, crowdfunding, e-commerce, carsharing, mobiles, and marketplaces. With a range of complementary regulation and management services to its name, the company enables its clients to follow real-time back-officeoperations, carry out documentation, and fight payment fraud. Lemon Way also offers an API that can be integrated into a client’s current payment systems. Lemon Way is a Payment Institution dedicated to E-commerce websites, CrowdFunding platforms, Marketplaces and FinTech companies looking for payment processing, wallet management and third-party payment in a KYC/AML-regulated framework. 1,000 European marketplaces in addition to 11,0000 e-merchants use its service, generating a yearly cash flow of €1.4 Billion in 2017The #1 French FinTech company: since its launch, Lemon Way has enjoyed positive word-of-mouth between start-ups. The result: 4.4 m customer payment accounts opened in four years and a turnover of €11m in 2017.An independent Financial Institution: Lemon Way has been self-financing its growth since it was created in 2007, making it the only independent player in its market. Lemon Way is approved by the French regulator and is licensed to operate in 30 European countries. The company employs 85 people based in Paris (HQ), London, Barcelona, Berlin, Turin and plans to recruit 40 more people this year. | $10.6M |  | Jul 17, 2018 |  |
| FairMoney | FairMoney is a credit-led mobile bank for emerging markets. It was launched in 2017 and operates in Nigeria and India. Its goal is to rebuild Africa's money story by offering Tier 1 digital financial services to merchants and consumers alike. It offers a range of digital financial products including, near-instant digital loans, investmentproducts, savings, payments, and cards via mobile app. | $1.3M | Seed | May 27, 2018 |  |
| Factris | Factris is a fintech firm that specializes in the fields of SME financing, factoring, debt management, debtor insurance, and invoice finance. The company specializes in working capital to businesses by buying their unpaid invoices. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland. | $1.6M | Seed |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Guzel Gumerova invest in?

Guzel Gumerova invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Guzel Gumerova's check size?

Guzel Gumerova typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$3M at Seed and $2.5M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Guzel Gumerova participates in.

### When did Guzel Gumerova last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Guzel Gumerova closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 9 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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