# Henrik Wetter Sanchez

> Henrik Wetter Sanchez is a seed investor at Playfair Capital backing FinTech and Software. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Playfair Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/playfair-capital)
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrik-wetter-sanchez-12421633/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/henrikwsanchez
- Website: https://x.com/henrikwsanchez

Henrik Wetter Sanchez is a seed investor at Playfair Capital focused on FinTech and Software. Henrik is a General Partner at Playfair. He sits on the boards of Passionfruit, Protex AI, Recycleye, Sourcerie, Those Beyond, Worldr and Trezy.​Henrik’s professional career technically began during his degree, when he founded a tech startup, a social enterprise and began angel investing through crowdfunding platforms. His social navigation anddiscovery startup RendezVu grew to over a thousand global users and access-led tutoring marketplace The Oxbridge Initiative was live in six countries. Henrik started angel investing in 2015 and has built a portfolio of >40 investments, including Monzo (2016), GoHenry (2016, acq. 2023), Revolut (2017), Freetrade (2017) and Pod Point (IPO 2021). ​Henrik’s professional career formally started in private equity at Ardian while living in Paris on his year abroad. After graduation, he joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the investment banking division where he worked on UK M&A and IPO deals for two years. Henrik joined Playfair for the launch of Fund II in 2019 and has since led seven investments in new companies and enjoys actively supporting their founders on and off their boards. He also helped found Playfair’s D&I initiative: Female Founder Office Hours and now runs it with the team. He was recently named one of Sifted’s Top 30 Young Venture Capitalists.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 21% |
| Software | 3 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 16% |
| Banking | 2 | 11% |
| Education | 2 | 11% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 37% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 26% |
| Series A | 3 | 16% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 3 | 16% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 42% |
| United States | 3 | 16% |
| France | 2 | 11% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eccasion | Eccasion operates as an online marketplace that specializes in ex‑lease electric vehicles, sourcing them from closed trade auctions on behalf of customers. | $3.7M | Seed | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Warden AI | Warden is the tech-led AI auditor that helps platforms demonstrate AI fairness and compliance. Our platform continuously audits AI systems and provides transparency to customers with real-time dashboards and reports. We work with leading AI-powered platforms to build trust, drive adoption, and deploy AI with confidence. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Passionfruit | Passionfruit is bringing together the next generation of leading independent marketing talent and providing a digital home where they can work, learn and earn, so startups and enterprises can work with them on-demand. | $9M | Series A | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Trezy | Trezy is a cash management tool that assesses business performance and identifies improvement opportunities | $3.3M | Seed | Jun 15, 2023 |  |
| Recycleye | Recycleye is a developer of digital tools designed to detect and provide analytics on waste management. The company's tools specialize in machine learning tools to enable smarter characterization, ubiquitous tracking, and automated sorting of waste, enabling users to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy. | $17M | Series A | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| Protex AI | Proactive Safety Powered by AI. 24/7 unsafe event capture, revolutionising how enterprise EHS teams make proactive safety decisions | $18M | Series A | Aug 28, 2022 |  |
| Passionfruit | Passionfruit is bringing together the next generation of leading independent marketing talent and providing a digital home where they can work, learn and earn, so startups and enterprises can work with them on-demand. | $4.3M | Seed | Jul 20, 2022 |  |
| Cauldron | Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them. | $6.6M | Seed | Jul 06, 2022 |  |
| Cauldron | Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Passionfruit | Passionfruit is bringing together the next generation of leading independent marketing talent and providing a digital home where they can work, learn and earn, so startups and enterprises can work with them on-demand. | $700K | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atypical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atypical-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Avonmore Developments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avonmore-developments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Creator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creator-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Firstminute Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstminute-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Playfair Capital

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Playfair is a sector agnostic fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making six investments a year out of its third $70m fund and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Our 78% Series Agraduation rate is ~3x industry average. Playfair has backed 100+ companies since 2013, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne and Nory.

5 contacts available at Playfair Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Sheffield | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-sheffield-1cd5 |
| Chris Smith | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-smith-d074 |
| Clare Zhang | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clare-zhang-e18c |
| Federico Pirzio-Biroli | Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/federico-pirzio-biroli |
| Henrik Wetter Sanchez | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henrik-wetter-sanchez |

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## FAQ

### What does Henrik Wetter Sanchez invest in?

Henrik Wetter Sanchez invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Henrik Wetter Sanchez last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Henrik Wetter Sanchez closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 19 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?

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