# Hottinger Group

> Hottinger Group is a VC fund in London backing Retail, Payments and Cryptocurrency. See 1 investment, round sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hottinger-private-office
- Website: https://hottinger.co.uk
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hottingergroup/

Hottinger Group is a VC fund in London focused on Retail and Payments. Hottinger Group offers wealth management, business consulting, and investment advice services for versatile clients.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 100% |
| Payments | 1 | 100% |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | 100% |
| Service Industry | 1 | 100% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | http://www.qori.me/ |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Firestartr](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firestartr-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Golden Record Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-record-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Systema](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/systema-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [T0 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/t0-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Hottinger Group invest in?

Hottinger Group invests primarily in Retail, Payments and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Hottinger Group last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hottinger Group closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investment 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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