# Hippolyte Genet

> Hippolyte Genet is a seed investor in London backing FinTech, Banking and Software. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jun 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Hippolyte Genet is a seed investor in London focused on FinTech and Banking. Hippolyte Genet

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $6.8M–$226M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 33% |
| Banking | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Logistics | 2 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 22% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Motif | Motif makes ingredients for the next generation of plant-based and healthy foods. They use fermentation to brew vital proteins and nutrients that power the body and pleases the palate. They collaborate with chefs, health experts, and food visionaries to create new building blocks for tomorrow’s food revolution. Motif combines tradition, innovation,and biotechnology to help build a more sustainable future, for everyone. | $226M | Series B | Jun 11, 2021 |  |
| Hitmarker | Hitmarker is a gaming jobs platform helping gaming companies hire high-quality talents. Hitmarker enables businesses to reach thousands of industry professionals and hire alongside the most well-known gaming and esports brands. |  | Seed | Dec 08, 2020 |  |
| what3words | what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot or a drone landing point – using three simple words. what3words is helping improve businesses around theworld, and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. what3words can also be built into any other app, platform or website, with just a few lines of code. | $7.2M | Series C | Sep 04, 2020 |  |
| Chip | Chip is the savings account of the future, enabling customers to seamlessly earn the best returns on their savings. The application utilizes open banking technology to enable customers to deposit to investment funds, cash deposits, ETF's and alternative passive investments all seamlessly from inside the bank. | $10.7M | Seed | Sep 04, 2020 |  |
| Moneybox | Moneybox is a user-friendly app designed to help individuals save, invest, and manage pensions with ease. The app allows users to save specifically for their first home, making it an excellent choice for first-time buyers. The company focuses on helping individuals build wealth over time by offering a variety of financial services, including savingaccounts, investment products, and pensions, all accessible through a mobile app. | $6.8M | Series B | Jul 29, 2020 |  |
| Coconut | Coconut is simple tax and accounting software for sole traders, landlords & their accountants. 'Making Tax Digital for Income Tax' will mean that, from 2024, over four million UK taxpayers will have to do five tax returns a year instead of one; Coconut makes it easy for you to organise your finances, and helps accountants get theirclients ready for the change. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 06, 2020 |  |
| Coconut | Coconut is simple tax and accounting software for sole traders, landlords & their accountants. 'Making Tax Digital for Income Tax' will mean that, from 2024, over four million UK taxpayers will have to do five tax returns a year instead of one; Coconut makes it easy for you to organise your finances, and helps accountants get theirclients ready for the change. | $2.5M | Angel | Jun 06, 2020 |  |
| Magway | Magway is an all-electric, zero-emissions, low-footprint, high-capacity delivery system. Faster, smarter, safer, cheaper and cleaner than existing solutions, it has the capacity to take up to 90% of online delivery vehicles off our roads, drastically reducing congestion, pollution and the carbon footprint of shopping online. Magway candeliver the equivalent of 20,000 40ft container loads through each 1m diameter pipe, per week. Giving people what they want, when they want it. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 05, 2020 |  |
| Moneybox | Moneybox is a user-friendly app designed to help individuals save, invest, and manage pensions with ease. The app allows users to save specifically for their first home, making it an excellent choice for first-time buyers. The company focuses on helping individuals build wealth over time by offering a variety of financial services, including savingaccounts, investment products, and pensions, all accessible through a mobile app. | $18.3M | Series B | Jul 09, 2018 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Hippolyte Genet invest in?

Hippolyte Genet invests primarily in FinTech, Banking and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 Hippolyte Genet's check size?

Hippolyte Genet typically joins rounds of $6.8M–$226M 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 Hippolyte Genet participates in.

### When did Hippolyte Genet last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hippolyte Genet closed in Jun 2021. 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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