Kai Schmitz
Co-Founder, Partner @ Crestone Venture Capital
Washington, United States
Kai Schmitz is a Series B investor at Crestone Venture Capital in Washington focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Kai Schmitz is Investment Lead for the Global FinTech Investment Group of IFC, the largest Fintech investor in emerging markets. He is responsible for equity and debt investments in emerging market Fintech companies, with focus on Payments and Online Lenders. In Latin America, he worked on Fintech investments in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Mexio,and Uruguay. Kai is a Board member or advisor at different FinTech and financial services companies in Latin America, Asia, Europe and the US, including companies in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Before joining IFC, Kai worked at the Payment Systems Development Group of the World Bank, advising central banks, other government agencies and multilateral organizations such as the G20 DWG on payment market regulation. Previously he was co-founder and Executive Vice President/COO of MFIC, a financial services platform in the US targeted at immigrants from Latin America, and co-founded a remittance company in London called Money Systems. Originally a lawyer, he worked at law firms in London and Hamburg.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Kai Schmitz invests in
Stages Kai Schmitz invests in
Countries Kai Schmitz invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Series A
- $2.6M–$4.9M
- Series B
- $3.2M–$20M
- Series C
- $15M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 12 (60%)
- FinTech 9 (45%)
- Finance 6 (30%)
- Payments 5 (25%)
- Banking 4 (20%)
Stage
- Series B 5 (25%)
- Series C 5 (25%)
- Series A 3 (15%)
- Seed 2 (10%)
- Funding Round 2 (10%)
Country
- Brazil 3 (15%)
- United States 3 (15%)
- Mexico 2 (10%)
- Colombia 2 (10%)
- Turkey 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Neivor
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Neivor is changing the way property owners, renters and HOAs make and accept payments in residential and multifamily buildings in Latin America. Neivor eliminates the friction and inefficiencies currently generated from disparate payment flows and cash-based transactions. With our mobile-centric engagement platform, building managers manage theirresident-facing tasks via a single app and residents make payments and keep up with everything happening in their residential communities. | $600K / Seed / Mar 27, 2024 | |
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Neivor
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Neivor is changing the way property owners, renters and HOAs make and accept payments in residential and multifamily buildings in Latin America. Neivor eliminates the friction and inefficiencies currently generated from disparate payment flows and cash-based transactions. With our mobile-centric engagement platform, building managers manage theirresident-facing tasks via a single app and residents make payments and keep up with everything happening in their residential communities. | $600K / Seed / Feb 18, 2021 | |
Contabilizei
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Contabilizei offers an online accounting service for small and micro enterprises. The company positively impacted the lives of thousands of micro and small businesses by implementing cost-effective, intelligent online accounting. Fábio Bacarin and Vitor Torres founded it in January 2014, with its headquarters in Curitiba in Brazil. | $20M / Series B / Jan 15, 2019 | |
Konfio
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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. | $25M / Series C / Jun 18, 2018 | |
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Konfio
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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. | $10.3M / Debt Financing / Jun 18, 2018 | |
Creditas
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Creditas is a financial technology company, operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil. | $50M / Series C / Feb 06, 2018 | |
Koin
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We exist to expand access to financial solutions for both merchants and end-customers, in an easy, simple and democratic way. We believe in products and services that, through technology, generate results and improve our lives, anywhere, anytime. We are a team focused on the enhancement of our solutions. We value, recognize and drive thedevelopment and growth of our makers. In 2020, Koin was acquired by Decolar, the largest online travel agency in Latin America. With thousands of approved transactions, you will find here the security and a unique expertise for your professional growth. We are sure of one thing: our journey is long, strong and our people are willing to build even higher flights. | $4.9M / Series A / Jan 20, 2018 | |
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Konfio
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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. | $10M / Series B / Oct 11, 2017 | |
WeLab
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WeLab is reinventing traditional financial services by creating seamless digital experiences. With the company's proprietary risk management technology, WeLab effectively analyzes unstructured mobile big data within seconds to provide innovative financial services and offer consumer financing solutions for individual customers. WeLab alsooffers B2B enterprise solutions by partnering with traditional financial institutions, which utilize WeLab’s technology to offer fintech-enabled services to their customers. | Oct 05, 2017 | |
Moviired
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Moviired is an agent network that provides commercial network offering the broadest portfolio of transactional services. Users both in Physical Points and with Allied MOViiRED App can find solutions like recharges to cell phone, payment of bills for public and private services or purchase of digital content such as Spotify, Xbox, Play Station, andmore. The company's business models accompany allies to increase the income and make life much easier for Colombians.Moviired wa founded on 2002 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia. | Series A / Aug 17, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Crestone Venture Capital
Crestone Venture Capital is a US-based Fintech specialist Venture Capital Fund founded in 2019 by Kai Schmitz and Inanc Balci. Crestone invests in early-stage Fintech companies in Emerging Markets covering Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. The Fund specializes in embedded Fintech, financial infrastructure,business enablers, consumer finance, Fintech-aaS and lending. Current portfolio includes Neivor in Mexico, Chico in Brazil, Minka in Colombia and Peddlr in the Philippines. Crestone values highly driven entrepreneurs with excellent execution skills and provides hands-on financial and operational support from A to Z. For more information, please visit http://www.crestone.vc
Crestone Venture Capital Contacts
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Kai Schmitz
Co-Founder, Partner
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Inanc Balci
Co-Founder, Partner
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FAQ
What does Kai Schmitz invest in?
Kai Schmitz invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Kai Schmitz's check size?
Kai Schmitz typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$4.9M at Series A, $3.2M–$20M at Series B and $15M–$50M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kai Schmitz participates in.
When did Kai Schmitz last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kai Schmitz closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 20 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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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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