# Hermes GPE

> Hermes GPE is a VC fund in London backing Software and FinTech. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last fund: Dec 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hermes-gpe/
- Website: http://www.hermesgpe.com/

Hermes GPE is a VC fund in London focused on Software and FinTech. Hermes GPE is one of the leading independent investors in global private markets. Their team's 20 year track record makes them one of the most experienced investors and portfolio advisors in international private equity and infrastructure. This extensive experience and proven investment judgement has helped them deliver returns that beatindustry benchmarks.They are currently invested in approximately 300 funds and around 250 co-investments across the globe as well as a portfolio of infrastructure assets, and manage £6.0 billion* for major institutional investors and pension funds worldwide. Their team also manages one of the longest running co-investment programmes of any private equity and infrastructure investor.Hermes GPE is committed to responsible investment, aiming to deliver exceptional returns for their clients; but not at any cost.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 23% |
| FinTech | 4 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 15% |
| SaaS | 3 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 12% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 23% |
| Series B | 5 | 19% |
| Series D | 5 | 19% |
| Private Equity | 4 | 15% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 42% |
| United States | 4 | 15% |
| Sweden | 2 | 8% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 4% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elias Korosis | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elias-korosis |
| Emily Beckelhymer | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-beckelhymer |
| Emma Lewis | Infrastructure Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emma-lewis |
| Fidel Manolopoulos | Principal | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fidel-manolopoulos |
| Helen Walsh | Head of marketing and communications | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helen-walsh |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Paysend | PaySend is a financial technology platform that solves the universal problem to securely enable any bank card (Visa or MasterCard) to send and receive money worldwide. It is a next-generation money transfer platform allowing its users to send funds from card to card from 40 to over 60 countries. | $63.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 19, 2023 |  |
| Gen Phoenix | E-Leather is a revolutionary product that is designed and manufactured to provide an advanced upholstery and cladding material, superior to any other alternative.Using a patented, eco-friendly process, we combine leather fibre and a high performance core to produce a composition leather that is reliable, consistent and can be customised to yourrequirements.E-Leather is engineered to provide unique materials that can meet specific performance criteria, suitable for a range of industries including aviation, bus, coach, rail, marine, domestic upholstery and contract upholstery. | $18M | Series B | Mar 29, 2023 |  |
| EDITED | EDITED is the world’s leading AI-powered retail intelligence platform that empowers brands and retailers with real-time insights and actionable recommendations around assortment, pricing, and site merchandising. We help retailers drive better business outcomes by providing a holistic view that is market-informed, profit-aware, and customer-centric.The world’s most successful brands and retailers use EDITED’s platform to get closer to their best customers and future-proof their business. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Refurbed | Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. | $54M | Series B | Aug 05, 2021 |  |
| Paysend | PaySend is a financial technology platform that solves the universal problem to securely enable any bank card (Visa or MasterCard) to send and receive money worldwide. It is a next-generation money transfer platform allowing its users to send funds from card to card from 40 to over 60 countries. | $125M | Series B | May 26, 2021 |  |
| FundApps | FundApps provides automated compliance monitoring services to financial institutions, including some of the world’s largest asset managers, hedge funds and investment banks. FundApps is used to monitor over $29 trillion in client assets every day.FundApps tackles the three biggest issues many compliance teams face when determining theirresponsibility to disclose: keeping track of international regulation, interpreting it correctly and accurately aggregating exposure across portfolios.Their services: Shareholding Disclosure (major shareholding / beneficial ownership, short selling, takeover panels), Sensitive Industries (industries with special significance) and Position Limits (exchange-based limits, with data sourcing and netting & aggregation).They deliver a managed service to their clients, pairing innovative technology with legal knowledge from their dedicated team of compliance experts. Their compliance experts stay up-to-date with over 400 rules in 100+ jurisdictions, providing rules and legal content that let their clients make disclosures faster and more accurately than ever before.Yearly upgrades, server costs and maintenance fees for traditional software are all made redundant with their single yearly subscription fee and seamless, daily updates mean clients are always using the latest and greatest version of their service.They've received multiple awards for their innovation, including being listed in the FinTech50 (50 most ground-breaking FinTech start-ups in Europe) two years in a row. They’re also a member of TechCity UK’s FutureFifty, an industry group containing 50 of the UK’s most disruptive and promising technology startups. |  | Private Equity | May 11, 2021 |  |
| FundApps | FundApps provides automated compliance monitoring services to financial institutions, including some of the world’s largest asset managers, hedge funds and investment banks. FundApps is used to monitor over $29 trillion in client assets every day.FundApps tackles the three biggest issues many compliance teams face when determining theirresponsibility to disclose: keeping track of international regulation, interpreting it correctly and accurately aggregating exposure across portfolios.Their services: Shareholding Disclosure (major shareholding / beneficial ownership, short selling, takeover panels), Sensitive Industries (industries with special significance) and Position Limits (exchange-based limits, with data sourcing and netting & aggregation).They deliver a managed service to their clients, pairing innovative technology with legal knowledge from their dedicated team of compliance experts. Their compliance experts stay up-to-date with over 400 rules in 100+ jurisdictions, providing rules and legal content that let their clients make disclosures faster and more accurately than ever before.Yearly upgrades, server costs and maintenance fees for traditional software are all made redundant with their single yearly subscription fee and seamless, daily updates mean clients are always using the latest and greatest version of their service.They've received multiple awards for their innovation, including being listed in the FinTech50 (50 most ground-breaking FinTech start-ups in Europe) two years in a row. They’re also a member of TechCity UK’s FutureFifty, an industry group containing 50 of the UK’s most disruptive and promising technology startups. |  |  | May 10, 2021 |  |
| Job&Talent | Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labor market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of unemployment in the world. The labor market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companiesare demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labor market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. Jobandtalent has created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labor flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.The company has offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and has plans for further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year. | $107.5M | Series C | Jan 08, 2021 |  |
| GoCardless | GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn ofpayments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany. | $95M | Series F | Dec 17, 2020 |  |
| Defined.ai | Defined.ai is enabling AI creators of the future, from those building their first boot-strapped models, to those fine-tuning complex AI projects. Defined.ai hosts the leading online marketplace where it's possible to buy, sell or commission off-the-shelf or custom-ordered AI data, tools and models, and offers professional services to helpdeliver success in complex machine learning projects. Defined.ai is a community of AI professionals working together to build fair, accessible, inclusive and ethical AI of the future. | $50.5M | Series B | May 26, 2020 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [InfraVia Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infravia-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Scottish Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scottish-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Zouk Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zouk-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acurio-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-iron-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hermes GPE invest in?

Hermes GPE invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Hermes GPE?

The team at Hermes GPE includes Elias Korosis (Partner), Emily Beckelhymer (Investment Manager) and Emma Lewis (Infrastructure Investment Manager), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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