# A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures)

> A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures) is a VC fund backing FinTech. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/idcvc/
- Website: https://idcventures.com/

A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures) is a VC fund in Madrid focused on FinTech and Financial Services. IDC Ventures is the venture capital arm of Grupo IDC, a Latin American investment bank founded in 1995. Grupo IDC’s activities cover Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Corporate Finance, and a Guatemalan Broker-Dealer. For the past decade, IDC has been involved in technology start-ups through co-managed funds, directinvestments, and joint ventures, working with tech companies to accelerate their penetration and expansion across LATAM. The latest fund is created by a select group of corporate leaders, successful entrepreneurs. and venture capitalists from Latin America.This fund will invest in tech start-ups from Series A to growth stages across Europe, the US, and Latin America.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.3M–$21M |
| Series B | $12M–$48M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 13 | 28% |
| Financial Services | 13 | 28% |
| Software | 5 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 11% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 15 | 32% |
| Series B | 10 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 11% |
| Seed | 3 | 6% |
| Series C | 3 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 9% |
| Brazil | 3 | 6% |
| Mexico | 2 | 4% |
| Denmark | 2 | 4% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alejandro Rodriguez | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alejandro-rodriguez-2 |
| Bobby Aitkenhead | Co-Founder/ Managing Director & CEO | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-aitkenhead |
| Alejandra Godoy | Partner, Co-Founder and Chief of Staff | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alejandra-godoy-9787 |
| Antonio Baena | Partner and CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-baena-d046 |
| Jaclyn Baumgarten | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaclyn-baumgarten |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Glacis Labs | Glacis Labs is a middleware protocol. It enables developers to control cross-chain risk. Glacis provides a plug-and-play solution that eliminates the research and decision-making process in cross-chain processes, simplifying interchain execution. | $6.8M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Taiv | Taiv is an advertising technology company that provides AI-driven media solutions to transform how businesses manage and monetize television screens in venues like bars, restaurants, and retail locations. Its platform includes a small hardware device that connects to existing TVs to detect commercial breaks in real time and automatically replace oroverlay content with venue-specific promotions, partner ads, trivia, and branded messaging tailored to on-site audiences. Taiv also offers a web-based management interface that lets venue operators schedule content, control what appears on displays, and access revenue reporting for ads shown in their establishments. The company’s technology integrates AI and computer vision to monitor live feeds and switch inputs without disrupting traditional viewing experiences, enabling targeted advertising and digital signage workflows that align with business goals. Taiv works with media buyers, brands, and venue owners to deliver measurable ad placements and engage patrons with customized content while providing a new revenue stream through shared ad monetization. Its services include installation, content automation, and remote scheduling support that help venues optimize screen usage and audience engagement. | $13M | Series A | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Osigu | Osigu provides an AI-powered healthcare revenue cycle and claims management platform for data processes and data transfers. Its platform also helps in all the transactions and data transfers that happen between insurance providers, insurance partners, and customers, eliminating all the overprocessed and haphazard paperwork found in the back-endsystems. Additionally, it provides clients with reliable and efficient technology that helps them serve their millions of customers easily and without any hassle. | $10M | Series B | Aug 28, 2025 |  |
| Taiv | Taiv is an advertising technology company that provides AI-driven media solutions to transform how businesses manage and monetize television screens in venues like bars, restaurants, and retail locations. Its platform includes a small hardware device that connects to existing TVs to detect commercial breaks in real time and automatically replace oroverlay content with venue-specific promotions, partner ads, trivia, and branded messaging tailored to on-site audiences. Taiv also offers a web-based management interface that lets venue operators schedule content, control what appears on displays, and access revenue reporting for ads shown in their establishments. The company’s technology integrates AI and computer vision to monitor live feeds and switch inputs without disrupting traditional viewing experiences, enabling targeted advertising and digital signage workflows that align with business goals. Taiv works with media buyers, brands, and venue owners to deliver measurable ad placements and engage patrons with customized content while providing a new revenue stream through shared ad monetization. Its services include installation, content automation, and remote scheduling support that help venues optimize screen usage and audience engagement. | $7.8M | Series A | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Curve | Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015. | $47.9M | Series D | Mar 14, 2025 |  |
| Osigu | Osigu provides an AI-powered healthcare revenue cycle and claims management platform for data processes and data transfers. Its platform also helps in all the transactions and data transfers that happen between insurance providers, insurance partners, and customers, eliminating all the overprocessed and haphazard paperwork found in the back-endsystems. Additionally, it provides clients with reliable and efficient technology that helps them serve their millions of customers easily and without any hassle. | $25M | Series B | Oct 25, 2024 |  |
| Marco | Marco is a tech-enabled, trade finance platform that provides reliable access to working capital for Latin American SMEs. It promotes paperless processes and dedicated support from industry experts to create a seamless financing solution.The company was founded in 2019 by Jacob Shoihet and Peter D. Spradling and is headquartered in Miami,Florida. | $12M | Series A | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Curve | Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015. | $71.3M | Series C | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| Tradeshift | Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network connecting buyers and suppliers. Its platform enables its clients to connect with all their suppliers digitally in order to seize early payment discounts and minimize risks, eliminating paper and manual processes across procure-to-pay, thereby allowing businesses to simplify supply chain payments in asecure manner. | $70M |  | Jul 31, 2023 |  |
| Lunar | Lunar is a digital challenger bank that offers a mobile-based banking app that helps consumers control their personal finances.It provides a range of financial services including insurance, savings, budgets, loans, and investments via a mobile application. The company also operates a banking license and launched a challenger bank providing freeaccounts and a subscription-based service called Lunar Premium. Lunar aims to roll out full personal and business banking operations and strive towards profitability in profitable banking markets. Up to date, the company has raised €104 million from investors including Seed Capital, Greyhound Capital, Socii Capital and Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker. It has offices in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Oslo, with a headcount of more than 180 employees.The Copenhagen, Hovedstaden-based company was founded in 2015 by Ken Villum Klausen. | $38M | Series D | Feb 09, 2023 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fuel Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Fuel Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rokk3r-fuel) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [IDB Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idb-invest) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kinnevik](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investment-ab-kinnevik) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LUN Partners Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lun-partners-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures) invest in?

A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures) invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures)'s check size?

A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures) typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$21M at Series A and $12M–$48M 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 A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures) participates in.

### How do I contact A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures)?

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### Who are the partners at A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures)?

The team at A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures) includes Alejandro Rodriguez (Co-Founder & Managing Director), Bobby Aitkenhead (Co-Founder/ Managing Director & CEO) and Alejandra Godoy (Partner, Co-Founder and Chief of Staff), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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