# ING Ventures

> ING Ventures is a VC fund in Amsterdam backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 56 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 56
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last fund: Oct 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.ing.com/About-us/ING-Ventures.htm

ING Ventures is a VC fund in Amsterdam focused on FinTech and Financial Services. ING Ventures is the venture capital arm of ING making minority investments in early stage companies that have a strategic relevance to ING. It targets disruptive technologies that have the potential to impact ING’s business and ensure customers and clients get access to best-in-class services. Based in Amsterdam but shadowing ING’s geographicfootprint of 41 countries, ING Ventures is a €300 million fund that not only drives innovation within ING, but also helps entrepreneurs with hands-on support, know-how, scaling expertise and access to our distribution network.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5M–$17M |
| Series B | $5M–$160M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 22 | 39% |
| Financial Services | 20 | 36% |
| Finance | 10 | 18% |
| Banking | 9 | 16% |
| Software | 7 | 13% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 12 | 21% |
| Series A | 11 | 20% |
| Series B | 11 | 20% |
| Seed | 6 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 16% |
| United States | 7 | 13% |
| The Netherlands | 6 | 11% |
| Germany | 3 | 5% |
| Spain | 2 | 4% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frederic Hofmann | Co-Head | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frederic-hofmann |
| Aditya Jadhav | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditya-jadhav-066c |
| Jan Willem Nieuwenhuize | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-willem-nieuwenhuize |
| Laura Schmidt | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-schmidt |
| Vincent Buitelaar | Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vincent-buitelaar |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thought Machine | Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.Its mission is to cure one of the banking industry's primary problems: its reliance on outdated IT infrastructure. Nearly every bank is stuck on a legacy IT platform, which cripples their ability to innovate and give their customers thetype of service they deserve.The company provides a solution to this is Vault: a complete retail banking platform that is capable of being configured easily to suit the needs of any bank. They have built Vault from the ground up as a cloud-native, microservice API architecture platform. Thought Machine has a deep culture of engineering excellence, and they believe it is this which delivers a solution compelling enough to engender a seismic shift in the banking industry. | $61.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Stegra | H2 Green Steel helps to build a large-scale steel factory based on a fossil-free manufacturing process targeting large European OEMs.The plant will be built in northern Sweden, in Boden, offering unique conditions for cost-competitive fossil-free steel production. The project includes a giga-scale green hydrogen plant as an integrated part of thesteel production facility. Production will begin in 2024 and by 2030, H2GS will have an annual production capacity of five million tons of high-quality steel. | $4.6B | Debt Financing | Jan 22, 2024 |  |
| qodek | Automate All Your Sales & Marketing Tasks with Us! Led by our expert engineers, qodek is committed to simplifying your marketing processes, offering services ranging from web scraping to CRM enhancement and account mapping, and more. | $5M | Series A | Jan 03, 2024 |  |
| EIT InnoEnergy | Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is the leading innovation engine in Sustainable Energy. With offices in Europe and US, the firm seeks to make equity minority investments in early-stage companies and through added value services make the business case bigger, sooner and safer (de-risking). Investment scope: climate tech and energy sectors. | $153.6M |  | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| fintonic | Fintonic is a mobile-centric consumer banking platform that provides its users with insurance and investment products, and targeted loans. It offers an advanced access point for its users to enter all of their accounts as well as financial information to guide them through the analysis of millions of financial data points with relevant financialproducts.Fintonic´s algorithm analyses the suitability of a user for a loan and presents the user with pre-approved loans that can be contracted with a click of a button. The application is currently available in Spain and Chile with over 250,000 users. It was launched in 2012 and is based in Madrid, Spain. | $5.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 14, 2023 |  |
| HERE | OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.OpenFin offers a desktop application to run outside the browser, generate real-time applications, desktop notifications, tear-outs, docking support, create custom title bars and frames, animation effects, maintainwindow size and position, and secure communications. The world’s largest banks and trading platforms use OpenFin to deploy desktop applications both in-house and to their buy-side and sell-side customers. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, DRW Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NEX Group’s fintech investment business Euclid Opportunities, Nyca Partners and Pivot Investment Partners, and an elite group of financial industry executives. The company is based in New York with offices in London. | $35M | Series D | May 23, 2023 |  |
| Weaviate | Weaviate offers products in the form of the Weaviate Cloud Service to a wide variety of industries. Previously known as SeMI technologies. | $50M | Series B | Apr 20, 2023 |  |
| HERE | OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.OpenFin offers a desktop application to run outside the browser, generate real-time applications, desktop notifications, tear-outs, docking support, create custom title bars and frames, animation effects, maintainwindow size and position, and secure communications. The world’s largest banks and trading platforms use OpenFin to deploy desktop applications both in-house and to their buy-side and sell-side customers. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, DRW Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NEX Group’s fintech investment business Euclid Opportunities, Nyca Partners and Pivot Investment Partners, and an elite group of financial industry executives. The company is based in New York with offices in London. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Sardine | Sardine specializes in providing risk management solutions primarily for the financial services sector. They focus on using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help enterprises manage risks associated with fraud, credit, and compliance. The company aims to serve businesses in the digital economy by offering tools and services thatenhance operational efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance. | $51.5M | Series B | Sep 20, 2022 |  |
| HERE | OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.OpenFin offers a desktop application to run outside the browser, generate real-time applications, desktop notifications, tear-outs, docking support, create custom title bars and frames, animation effects, maintainwindow size and position, and secure communications. The world’s largest banks and trading platforms use OpenFin to deploy desktop applications both in-house and to their buy-side and sell-side customers. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, DRW Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NEX Group’s fintech investment business Euclid Opportunities, Nyca Partners and Pivot Investment Partners, and an elite group of financial industry executives. The company is based in New York with offices in London. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 06, 2022 |  |

10 of 56 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [HSBC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hsbc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [ING Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ing-group) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Zetta Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zetta-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Cortical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cortical-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lloyds Banking Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lloyds-bank) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does ING Ventures invest in?

ING Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 56 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 ING Ventures's check size?

ING Ventures typically joins rounds of $5M–$17M at Series A and $5M–$160M 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 ING Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact ING Ventures?

Public channels for ING Ventures include 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 ING Ventures?

The team at ING Ventures includes Frederic Hofmann (Co-Head), Aditya Jadhav (Analyst) and Jan Willem Nieuwenhuize (Managing Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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