# IFC

> IFC is a VC fund in New York backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ifctv/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ifc
- Website: http://www.ifc.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IFC

IFC is a VC fund in New York focused on FinTech and Financial Services. IFC Films operates as a theatrical film distribution company that is home to independent films, comedies, and documentaries. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in New York, New York. IFC Films LLC operates as a subsidiary of IFC Entertainment Holdings LLC.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $70M–$90M |
| Series C | $22M–$100M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $9.8M–$38M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 29% |
| Travel | 2 | 14% |
| Internet | 2 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 21% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 21% |
| Series B | 2 | 14% |
| Series D | 2 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 14% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mexico | 3 | 21% |
| India | 2 | 14% |
| United States | 2 | 14% |
| Peru | 1 | 7% |
| Kenya | 1 | 7% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jonathan Sehring | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-sehring |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BlaBlaCar | BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling community, connecting people looking to travel long distances with drivers going the same way. They travel together and share the costs of the journey. The platform is engineered to create a secure, trust-based community with declared identities and full member profiles. Members can evenspecify how chatty they are from “Bla” to “BlaBlaBla”, hence the name BlaBlaCar. BlaBlaCar is creating a global people-powered network with a trusted community of drivers and passengers.Backed by Accel Partners, Insight Ventures, Index Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Baring Vostok and ISAI, it operates in 22 countries across Europe, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and India. The site and free mobile apps provide a range of features to create a secure, trust-based community and easy connections between drivers and passengers.BlaBlaCar is based in Paris with offices across a dozen of countries. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 16, 2022 |  |
| Klar | Klar is a digital and free technological platform that offers deposit and credit services for customers. The company provides instant credit and no commission cashback and withdrawal services via a card and mobile application, enabling customers to avail themselves of secure, low-cost alternatives to traditional credit and debt services. | $90M | Series C | Jun 09, 2022 |  |
| Builder.ai | Builder.ai is an AI-powered software designed to help build and operate software projects. Its platform and human-assisted AI helps enterprises, small businesses, and entrepreneurs to build, run, and scale their software without requiring technical expertise and any lines of code. | $100M | Series C | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Klar | Klar is a digital and free technological platform that offers deposit and credit services for customers. The company provides instant credit and no commission cashback and withdrawal services via a card and mobile application, enabling customers to avail themselves of secure, low-cost alternatives to traditional credit and debt services. | $90M | Series B | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Open Co (Brazil) | Alternative Online Lending, FinTech, online credit, Personal financial management | $115M | Series D | Dec 15, 2021 |  |
| Crehana | Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to makeeveryone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru. | $70M | Series B | Aug 05, 2021 |  |
| Lottus Education | Lottus Education is a higher education provider in mexico. | $9.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 05, 2021 |  |
| Konfio | Konfio provides digital banking, payments, and software tools designed to boost small and mid-size enterprise's growth and productivity. It offers working capital loans, a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools.The company was founded in 2013 by David Arana and Francisco Padilla and isheadquartered in Mexico City. | $125M | Series E | Jun 22, 2021 |  |
| Hellas Direct | Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence. | $38M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 18, 2021 |  |
| Organica Water | Organica Water is a global provider of innovative solutions for the treatment and recycling of wastewater. Over the past two decades Organica has developed a truly unique approach, enabling customers all over the world to build and operate space and energy efficient biological wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) that blend harmoniously into urbanand residential population centers, ultimately lowering infrastructure costs and facilitating reuse and recycling of treated wastewater. Established in 1998, Organica began as a traditional wastewater design-build company focused exclusively on the Hungarian market. During the first nine years of its life the company built over 75 municipal, commercial, and industrial WWTPs using a variety of different technologies, while continually investing into R&D to futher develop its own IFAS-type solution for biological wastewater treatment. In 2007 Organica sold it's design-build business to focus exclusively on the commercialization of its own biological wastewater treatment solution on a global basis. Today, Organica is an international company operating on three different continents, and the world leader in Fixed-Bed Biofilm Activated Sludge (FBAS) technology,with more than 25 operating references all over the world, and nearly a dozen additional Organica-powered WWTPs currently under construction. | $21M | Series D | Feb 01, 2018 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Atlantic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-atlantic) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mouro Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mouro-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Portage Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portag3-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Prosus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prosus-naspers) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Quona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quona-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does IFC invest in?

IFC invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Travel startups, most often at Series C and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is IFC's check size?

IFC typically joins rounds of $70M–$90M at Series B, $22M–$100M at Series C and $9.8M–$38M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds IFC participates in.

### How do I contact IFC?

Public channels for IFC include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at IFC?

The team at IFC includes Jonathan Sehring (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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