James Hayward
Managing Director @ Goldman Sachs
London, United Kingdom
James Hayward is a Series C investor at Goldman Sachs in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. James Hayward is the Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. He attended University of Bristol.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 75%
Last updated:
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Industries James Hayward invests in
Stages James Hayward invests in
Countries James Hayward invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (50%)
- Financial Services 3 (38%)
- Banking 2 (25%)
- Developer Tools 2 (25%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series C 3 (38%)
- Series D 1 (13%)
- Series E 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- United Kingdom 4 (50%)
- Germany 1 (13%)
- United States 1 (13%)
Investments
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Immersive
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Immersive Labs develops a platform that measures and improves cybersecurity skills across businesses.It builds cyber skills content that rewards critical thinking, problem-solving, and curiosity. Immersing teams in challenges covering everything from spelling the word cyber to using technical tools, threat hunting, and reverse-engineeringmalware. All seamlessly accessed from the browser with no installation needed. Allowing users to complete objectives from anywhere and on any device. Immersive Labs empowers businesses to continuously develop skills, including ethical web hacking; ethical infrastructure hacking; reverse engineering; IoT/firmware security; and advanced cyber warrior CTF Challenges for enterprises, government, defense, and law enforcement agencies.The company was headquartered in Bristol, England in 2017 by James Hadley. | $66M / Series C / Oct 12, 2022 | |
Starling Bank
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Starling Bank is an award-winning and fully licensed bank built to give people a fairer, smarter, and more human alternative to the banks of the past. Starling Bank offers four different account types – personal, business, joint, and euro, plus a child card. Pairing this with a pioneering payment services proposition for businesses, Starling’sworld-class tech reimagines banking for life today, putting the tools people need to feel good about money in the palm of their hand.All of Starling’s accounts are protected up to £85,000 by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. | $164.2M / Series D / Apr 26, 2022 | |
Form3
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Form3 delivers cloud-based connectivity, payment processing, clearing, and settlement services. It is a fully managed payment technology service combining a powerful AWS cloud processing platform, multiple-scheme payment gateways, and a fully managed 24x7 service model. Form3's powerful micro-services architecture and API's provide asingle point of simple access to the full universe of payment schemes.Its clients include a wide range of regulated financial institutions, including leading banks, non-bank financial institutions, and fintech companies (payment institutions, e-money providers, and pre-paid card providers). Form3 was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England. | $160.1M / Series C / Sep 16, 2021 | |
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Immersive
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Immersive Labs develops a platform that measures and improves cybersecurity skills across businesses.It builds cyber skills content that rewards critical thinking, problem-solving, and curiosity. Immersing teams in challenges covering everything from spelling the word cyber to using technical tools, threat hunting, and reverse-engineeringmalware. All seamlessly accessed from the browser with no installation needed. Allowing users to complete objectives from anywhere and on any device. Immersive Labs empowers businesses to continuously develop skills, including ethical web hacking; ethical infrastructure hacking; reverse engineering; IoT/firmware security; and advanced cyber warrior CTF Challenges for enterprises, government, defense, and law enforcement agencies.The company was headquartered in Bristol, England in 2017 by James Hadley. | $75M / Series C / Jun 14, 2021 | |
ComplyAdvantage
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ComplyAdvantage offers AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. ComplyAdvantage’s aim is to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. More than 500 enterprises in 75 countries rely on ComplyAdvantage to understand the risk of who they’re doing business with through theworld's only global, real-time database of people and companies. The company actively identifies tens of thousands of risk events from millions of structured and unstructured data points every single day. | $20M / Series C / May 20, 2021 | |
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Starling Bank
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Starling Bank is an award-winning and fully licensed bank built to give people a fairer, smarter, and more human alternative to the banks of the past. Starling Bank offers four different account types – personal, business, joint, and euro, plus a child card. Pairing this with a pioneering payment services proposition for businesses, Starling’sworld-class tech reimagines banking for life today, putting the tools people need to feel good about money in the palm of their hand.All of Starling’s accounts are protected up to £85,000 by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. | $70M / Series D / Apr 19, 2021 | |
GitLab
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GitLab Inc. is the open core company that provides GitLab, The DevOps Platform, that empowers organizations to maximize the overall return on software development by delivering software faster and efficiently while strengthening security and compliance. GitLab’s single application is easier to use, leads to faster cycle time and allows visibilitythroughout and control over all stages of the DevOps lifecycle. With GitLab, every team in your organization can collaboratively plan, build, secure, and deploy software to drive business outcomes faster with complete transparency, consistency and traceability.Built on Open Source, GitLab works alongside its growing community, which is composed of thousands of developers and millions of users, to continuously deliver new DevOps innovations. GitLab has an estimated 30 million+ registered users (both Paid and Free) from startups to global enterprises, including Ticketmaster, Jaguar Land Rover, Nasdaq, Dish Network, and Comcast trust GitLab to deliver great software faster. All-remote since 2015, GitLab has more than 1,350 team members in over 65 countries. | $268M / Series E / Sep 17, 2019 | |
Elinvar
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Elinvar enables asset and wealth managers to digitalize their business models by providing the required Platform as a Service. This includes applications for core processes like client relationship management, online onboarding, onsite advisory support, portfolio management, reporting, invoicing, online client access and communication as well asthird party connections, e.g. to custodian banks, market data or KYC providers. Elinvar’s partners profit from the combination of leading technology and the optimal regulatory setup as Elinvar holds all necessary BaFin licenses. With this comprehensive approach, Elinvar creates the unique opportunity for its partners to go digital in one step and to utilize state of the art analytics to create individualized solutions to the benefit of their clients. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 16, 2019 |
Co-Investors
About Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide.Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergersand acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions.The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges.This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities.The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.
Goldman Sachs Contacts
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Christopher Dawe
Co-Head Private Investments
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Colin Walsh
Managing Director of Life Sciences Investing
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David Solomon
Chief Executive Officer
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Hillel Moerman
Co-Head Private Capital Group
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James Hayward
Managing Director
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FAQ
What does James Hayward invest in?
James Hayward invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Banking startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did James Hayward last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for James Hayward closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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