# Keith Grose

> Keith Grose is a seed investor at zerohash (London) backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [zerohash](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zero-hash)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithgrose
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kmgrose
- Website: https://www.keithgrose.com

Keith Grose is a seed investor at zerohash in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Keith Grose is currently non-executive director for Zero Hash and an active angel/advisor for early stage startups. He previously led Europe and international expansion for Plaid, and served as COO at SequenceHQ (backed by a16z). He is currently based in London and spent a decade in the SF Bay Area at Google and Bain. Keith Grose attended theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$16M |
| Pre-Seed | $650k–$6M |
| Series A | $14M–$53M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 13 | 41% |
| Financial Services | 13 | 41% |
| Software | 10 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 16% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 53% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 25% |
| Series A | 6 | 19% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 34% |
| United States | 8 | 25% |
| Germany | 3 | 9% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 6% |
| India | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Steward | Steward.ai is a VC-backed fintech startup specializing in AI-powered compliance for investor onboarding, AML, and KYC processes. | $5M | Seed | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Adclear | Financial promotion compliance, in seconds. Scale your marketing operations while reducing risk.Marketing teams need instant approvals while compliance teams drown in manual reviews. The result? Missed opportunities, increased risk, and frustrated teams on both sides. There's a better way to manage financial promotions.Adclear ensurescreative marketing is compliant with FCA regulations, whilst providing an in-depth audit trail for compliance teams. Our AI-powered platform turns days of work into seconds.Instant approvals. Real-time marketing. Zero bottlenecks. Adclear empowers your team to move fast and stay compliant. | $2.8M | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| MarvelX | MarvelX builds the agentic AI platform for regulated industries sush as insurance. | $6M | Seed | May 13, 2025 |  |
| MarvelX | MarvelX builds the agentic AI platform for regulated industries sush as insurance. | $6M | Pre-Seed | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Firenze | Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients. | $3.2M | Seed | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| Firenze | Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients. | $938.7K | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2024 |  |
| GlassFlow | GlassFlow is a next-gen data streaming infrastructure company on a mission to democratize data streaming. | $4.7M | Seed | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Incredible | Incredible is repayments platform that leverages artificial intelligence & open finance to track, pay and reduce the cost of borrowing. | $1M | Pre-Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Embed | Embed is a Payments Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider built for software platforms. We enable companies to integrate embedded payments and complex money flows directly into their products—without needing a financial license.As embedded finance becomes the norm, platforms can unlock new revenue and better user experiences by owning the fullpayment lifecycle. Embed makes this possible with a fully licensed, developer-first platform that unifies merchant onboarding, payment orchestration, compliance, and reconciliation.Unlike legacy processors, Embed gives platforms full control over user experience, data, and economics. With low-code APIs, flexible architecture, and a white-label solution, platforms can launch fast—often in under 24 hours—and scale confidently across Europe and soon the UK.Licensed by the Dutch Central Bank and passported across the EEA, Embed is building the payment infrastructure we always wished existed—for the platforms shaping the future. | $5.4M | Seed | Mar 15, 2024 |  |
| Finster AI | Finster AI offers AI agents that can read, analyse and integrate disparate sources of financial and market data. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2023 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Outward VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outward-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Fintech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-fintech-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About zerohash

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

Zero Hash offers a post-trade settlement utility to bridge a fragmented market of diverse execution platforms. It supports a wide range of fiat and digital assets that can be combined into any product pair. Zero Hash combines this with an on-chain settlement for digital assets, which provides an independent ability to verify ownership via theblockchain.Zero Hash was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

5 contacts available at zerohash.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Keith Grose | Non Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keith-grose |
| Adam Leaman | Chief Client Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-leaman |
| Edward Woodford | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-woodford |
| Erik Schluter | Director of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-schluter-6912 |
| Matthew Weis | Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-weis |

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## FAQ

### What does Keith Grose invest in?

Keith Grose invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 32 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 Keith Grose's check size?

Keith Grose typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$16M at Seed, $650k–$6M at Pre-Seed and $14M–$53M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Keith Grose participates in.

### When did Keith Grose last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Keith Grose closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 32 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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