Kai Schmitz
Co-Founder, Partner @ Crestone Venture Capital
Washington, United States
Kai Schmitz is a Series C 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:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Kai Schmitz invests in
Stages Kai Schmitz invests in
Countries Kai Schmitz invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Series A
- $2.6M–$4.9M
- Series B
- $3.2M–$20M
- Series C
- $11M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 12 (52%)
- FinTech 10 (43%)
- Finance 6 (26%)
- Payments 5 (22%)
- Banking 4 (17%)
Stage
- Series C 6 (26%)
- Series B 5 (22%)
- Series A 3 (13%)
- Seed 2 (9%)
- Funding Round 2 (9%)
Country
- Brazil 3 (13%)
- United States 3 (13%)
- Mexico 2 (9%)
- Colombia 2 (9%)
- Turkey 1 (4%)
Investments
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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 | |
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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 C / Jan 15, 2019 | |
Minka
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Minka is the developer of open banking cloud software designed to improve the way people use money. Their platform can carry out quick interbank transactions, provide support for mobile wallets, handle online tax collection, and facilitate digital currency and cryptocurrency transfers, enabling financial institutions to process transactions. | Seed / Nov 01, 2018 | |
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. | $9.7M / Debt Financing / Jun 18, 2018 | |
Koin
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Koin is the Buy Now, Pay Later Pioneer in LatAm, without bureaucracy and 100% secure. The company continues to expand its portfolio with financial solutions for B2B and B2C, as well as expanding its operations to new market in Mexico. Currently, in addition to BNPL, the company offers payment via Pix and a top performance Anti-fraud solution. Withthe purpose of offering value-added services to its corporate customers and improving people's lives, expanding access to consumption, Koin's objective is to democratize the shopping experience in the market. In 2020, Koin was acquired by Despegar, the largest travel company in Latin America. | $4.9M / Series A / Jan 10, 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 / Dec 11, 2017 | |
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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 | |
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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
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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 C and Series B stage. Most of the 23 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 $11M–$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.
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When did Kai Schmitz last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kai Schmitz closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 23 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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