Kester Keating
Head of US Principal Investments @ Barclays Corporate Banking
Kester Keating is a seed investor at Barclays Corporate Banking focused on Financial Services and Software. Kester Keating - Head of US Principal Investments @ Barclays Corporate Banking
- Total investments:
- 39
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 51%
Last updated:
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Industries Kester Keating invests in
Stages Kester Keating invests in
Countries Kester Keating invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$5M
- Pre-Seed
- $20k–$810k
- Series A
- $6.5M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 12 (31%)
- Software 11 (28%)
- FinTech 10 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (23%)
- Machine Learning 7 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (28%)
- Series A 6 (15%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (10%)
- Series C 3 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (8%)
Country
- United States 19 (49%)
- United Kingdom 4 (10%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Israel 1 (3%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Heka is the trusted external customer intelligence engine for financial services.Heka enables banks, insurers, pension providers, and other financial institutions to make faster, audit-ready decisions about individual consumers. The engine builds real-time digital identities by extracting and structuring every verifiable data point from thepublic web — including behavioral signals, online activity, and risk indicators. Powered by explainable AI, Heka transforms unstructured external data into actionable insights for fraud detection, credit and insurance underwriting, and consumer tracing.Delivered via a single API or batch, Heka integrates seamlessly into existing workflows and supports full auditability and regulatory compliance. By replacing outdated databases, fragmented tools, and limited internal data, Heka becomes essential infrastructure — a trust layer that supports critical decisions across the customer lifecycle, without sacrificing speed, transparency, or compliance. | $14M / Series A / Jul 15, 2025 | ||
| Claira’s document intelligence turns documents into data – automating business processes, enabling deep business insights, & empowering business leaders to make more informed decisions.Whether you're working on behalf of your firm or providing advisory, consulting or legal services across multiple firms, Claira will assist you inachieving efficiency, control, compliance and risk management across a variety of finance & insurance business areas: * Asset Management; * Capital Markets; * Commercial Real Estate; * Corporate Banking; * Credit and Lending; * Digital Assets; * Fund Administration; * Hedge Funds; * Insurance; * Investment Banking, M&A; * Investment Management; * Legal, Reg, & Compliance; * Prime Brokerage; * Private Equity, Private Placement, VC; * Real Estate; * Retail Banking; * Wealth Management; etc.Claira is pre-trained and pre-configured with insight modules that don't require your time and effort to train our models on your documents. Claira's unique approach using computational linguistics and sentence-level, deep-semantic parsing provides greater understanding and higher accuracy. Claira's answers are fully traceable and transparent because Claira understands language, just like you. For each document, Claira shows you how we concluded for you to understand and be fully confident in your actions. Claira was created by top data scientists and engineers experienced in solving complex non-finance problems alongside financial service experts on a mission to digitize traditional finance.Claira was founded in 2019 and is based in New York, USA. | $7M / Seed / Jun 24, 2025 | ||
| Velotix is empowering a streamlined data journey for intelligent insights. | Seed / May 21, 2024 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Revelio Labs provides an in-depth view of the workforces of companies around the world. The company leverages advancements in AI technologies to turn hundreds of millions of online profiles, resumes, and job postings into clear insights. Its clients include: corporate strategists, HR, VCs, and investors. | $15M / Series A / Oct 06, 2022 | ||
| DoubleLine is a major provider of ETF platforms and solutions | Corporate Round / Apr 12, 2022 | ||
| Applica provides an AI-based solution to translate all business documents into computer-readable and actionable data. Their AI technology solves the problems of document variability, semantics, context, complex tables, and graphical elements, enabling clients to reduce the human workforce. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 20, 2022 | ||
| FreshBooks is changing the way business owners manage their books. Its owner-first accounting platform, loved by businesses in over 160 countries, takes an easy-to-use approach to manage finances, billing, payments, and client engagement. FreshBooks, known for its 10x Stevie award-winning customer support, serves customers of all sizes fromoffices in Canada, Croatia, Mexico, Netherlands, and the US. | $80.8M / Series E / Aug 10, 2021 | ||
| Revelio Labs provides an in-depth view of the workforces of companies around the world. The company leverages advancements in AI technologies to turn hundreds of millions of online profiles, resumes, and job postings into clear insights. Its clients include: corporate strategists, HR, VCs, and investors. | $4M / Seed / Jul 29, 2021 | ||
| Lance is a smart business banking account for the self-employed built by and for freelancers to proactively manage their backend finances. It understands the world of freelancers has become a juggling act across client management platforms and financial services - with backend tools still built for SMB needs. Freelancers deserve a mobile-first,intuitive delivery of the finances they care about the most today and the community guidance to help them grow into the future. | $2.8M / Seed / May 18, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
Barclays PLC is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide. It is engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia.The company offers current accounts, savingsproducts, Woolwich-branded mortgages, unsecured loans, general insurance, and banking and money transmission services to small- and medium-sized businesses; investment and insurance products; business lending services; bank assurance solutions; and retail, credit and debit card, and corporate services. It also offers international payments services for consumer and business customers, including credit cards and consumer lending services; investment banking services comprising strategic advisory, financing, and risk management services to large corporate, government, and institutional clients; integrated corporate banking solutions, including cash management, lending, and trade financing services to corporate and financial institutions as well as multinationals; and a range of wealth and investment management services such as international and private banking, investment management, fiduciary, and brokerage services.With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 147,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests, and protects money of more than 48 million customers and clients worldwide.The company was formerly known as Barclays Bank Limited and changed its name to Barclays PLC in January 1985. It was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Barclays Corporate Banking Contacts
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James Binns
Managing Director, Global Head of Trade and Working Capital
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Keith Ross
Head of Mid Corporate, Midlands Region
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Steven Poulter
Head of Principal Structuring & Investments
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Alistair Currie
Head of Corporate Banking
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Eric Bommensath
Co-Chief Executive, Corporate and Investment Banking
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FAQ
What does Kester Keating invest in?
Kester Keating invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Kester Keating invest in?
Kester Keating typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$5M at Seed, $20k–$810k at Pre-Seed and $6.5M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Kester Keating's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Kester Keating took part in.
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When did Kester Keating last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kester Keating closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 39 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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