# Laidlaw Scholars Ventures

> Laidlaw Scholars Ventures is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 71%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/laidlaw-scholars-ventures/
- Website: https://www.laidlawscholarsventures.com/

Laidlaw Scholars Ventures (LSV) is a for-profit initiative investing in start-ups founded and run by Laidlaw Scholars.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Laidlaw Scholars Ventures. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Laidlaw Scholars Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/laidlaw-scholars-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 29% |
| Internet | 1 | 14% |
| Software | 1 | 14% |
| Life Science | 1 | 14% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 57% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Matt Waugh | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-waugh-f9aa |
| Susanna Kempe | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susanna-kempe |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CardiaTec Biosciences | CardiaTec is a TechBio business that uses computational tools to unravel the biology underlying cardiovascular illness. CardiaTec uses massive and high-dimensional human omics data to better understand complicated disease biology and identify novel and differentiated therapies. | $6.5M | Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Kodifly | Kodifly specializes in processing 3D point clouds.It offers reliable infrastructure monitoring and analytical data that helps companies to make wise decisions. | $750K | Seed | Jul 01, 2024 |  |
| Guava | Guava is a digital bank designed for and by black small business owners. It is to help close the racial wealth gap by providing equitable financial products to black entrepreneurs. | $650K | Seed | Feb 09, 2023 |  |
| Promotion Rewards | Promotion Rewards is a consumer rewards app. | $716.6K | Pre-Seed | Oct 24, 2022 |  |
| Sable | Thin file U.S. residents suffer from an uncertain, fragmented, and inefficient path to quality credit and banking options Sable provides -Access to credit building cards, a no fee bank account, and debit card within 5 minutes with no credit history, SSN, or U.S address required -Premium card and brand -Quickest way to build credit with enhancedmulti-point reporting on more data points than any other card -Faster path to unsecured credit by addressing the full path end to end, with gamified graduation to our own Sable unsecured credit credit card -Transparent formula via tangible Sable milestones, guiding our customers along a path to credit building and graduation to unsecured credit | $3M | Seed | Jul 14, 2022 |  |
| Sool | KBrews is an alcoholic beverage manufacturing company. Their products include unfiltered rice beer, makku coffee packs, makku mango packs, makku passion fruit packs, makku blueberry packs, soku variety packs, soku strawberry packs, soku pineapple packs, soku tangerine packs, and makku variety packs. | $1.2M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| CardiaTec Biosciences | CardiaTec is a TechBio business that uses computational tools to unravel the biology underlying cardiovascular illness. CardiaTec uses massive and high-dimensional human omics data to better understand complicated disease biology and identify novel and differentiated therapies. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jul 06, 2022 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [APEX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apex-ventures-12df) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [APEX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apex-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [O2h Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2h-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Continuum Health Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/continuum-health-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Crista Galli Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crista-galli-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Delta Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delta-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Laidlaw Scholars Ventures invest in?

Laidlaw Scholars Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Laidlaw Scholars Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Laidlaw Scholars Ventures?

The team at Laidlaw Scholars Ventures includes Matt Waugh (CFO) and Susanna Kempe (Chief Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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