# Key Fund

> Key Fund is a VC fund backing Banking, FinTech and Software. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026

Key Fund is a VC fund focused on Banking and FinTech.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 1 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Analytics | 1 | 33% |
| Cloud Management | 1 | 33% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series C | 1 | 33% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Zambia | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flywheel.io | Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT. | $54M | Series D | Jun 03, 2023 |  |
| Flywheel.io | Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT. | $27M | Series C | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Zazu Africa | A smart digital-money account that helps you do more with your money. | $203.7K | Seed | May 10, 2016 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Beringea](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beringea) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Great North Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-north-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intuitive Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intuitive-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [iSelect Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iselectfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nventures-0731) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Key Fund invest in?

Key Fund invests primarily in Banking, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Zambia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Key Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Key Fund closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 3 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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