# Luno

> Luno is a VC fund in London backing Financial Services and FinTech. 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 2023
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lunomoney/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lunomoney
- Website: https://www.luno.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/luno

Luno is a leading global cryptocurrency company with over 2 million customers in 40 countries and a team of over 250. Headquartered in London, Luno operates across Africa, South East Asia and Europe. Its products and services make it safe and easy to buy, store and learn about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Luno’s vision is toupgrade the world to a better financial system.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Luno. Shizune tracks 35 team members at Luno. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/lunomoney?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 57% |
| FinTech | 3 | 43% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Banking | 1 | 14% |
| Software | 1 | 14% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 2 | 29% |
| Kenya | 1 | 14% |
| South Africa | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Coller | Android | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-coller |
| Chris du Toit | Compliance Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-du-toit |
| Claristy . | Country Analyst - Malaysia | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claristy |
| Danielle Laity | Product Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danielle-laity |
| Dina Halim | Customer Service Specialist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dina-halim |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kotani Pay | Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 04, 2023 |  |
| First City Monument Bank | First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Ltd is a full service banking group, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria with the vision to be the Premier Financial Services Group of African origin. | $500K |  | Jun 11, 2023 |  |
| Anchor | Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 29, 2022 |  |
| Traction Apps | Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses. | $4M | Seed | Feb 28, 2022 |  |
| Kotani Pay | Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| Root | Root enables companies to embed & sell insurance. Root’s proven low-code platform and strong insurance partnerships make it easy to design, build and integrate insurance at scale.Root is an enterprise-grade solution, with digital platforms, retailers, and insurers building, refining and selling insurance products powered by Root.Rootprocesses more than $32m in active Gross-Written-Premium with 1.7m+ in-force policies on the platform, and a team of 50 people. | $3M | Seed | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| Notabene | Notabene was founded to build SWIFT for Crypto. Notabene Transact, their core offering is now processing $5B of transactions a day between thousands of regulated institutions for purposes. They just launched Notabene Flow, the only B2B focused VisaNet like pull payment layer for stablecoins to their network. Notabene Flow allows their networkmembers to offer better high margin B2B high margin services, such as recurring and agentic cross border B2B payments that no one has been able to solve at scale using stablecoins. | $10.2M | Series A | Nov 08, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DCG Expeditions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dcg-expeditions) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [DCG Expeditions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luno-expeditions) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [P1 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/p1-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Flori Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flori-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Agrolay Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agrolay-advisors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Allegory Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allegory-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Luno invest in?

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

### What is Luno's check size?

Luno typically joins rounds of $3M–$4M at Seed and $500k–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Luno participates in.

### How do I contact Luno?

Public channels for Luno include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Luno?

The team at Luno includes Alex Coller (Android), Chris du Toit (Compliance Associate) and Claristy . (Country Analyst - Malaysia), among 35 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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