# Markus Rinderer

> Markus Rinderer is a seed investor at Hawk backing FinTech. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Hawk
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rinderer/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rindererpayon
- Website: http://www.barikuta.com

Markus Rinderer is a seed investor at Hawk in Munich focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Markus Rinderer is running its family office Barikuta Partners. He is a serial entrepreneur and experienced executive manager with an outstanding track record. He has significant experience in the building of and working in software products companies within the financial services, mobile, banking, and payments sectors.His most successfulventure has been PAY.ON, the global market-leading multi-channel payment enabler for PSPs, ISOs, Acquirers, and Merchants. He has co-founded PAY.ON and led the company as the CEO to a successful trade sale to ACI Worldwide at an enterprise value of USD200m in 2015.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$7.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 100% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Finance | 1 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 1 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Quantumrock | Quantumrock is an asset management and financial technology company that develops investment solutions for investors. The firm specializes in uncovering unique alpha sources and expanding access to alternative asset classes, including colored gemstones, through structured, regulated, and technology-driven investment products. | $9.8M | Series B | Jul 01, 2023 |  |
| AngeLink | AngeLink is the world’s first crowdfunding platform powered by women. Built for all. We drive social impact through life-changing technology with a safer, more trusted crowdfunding community. We're on a mission to close the gap on gender-based economic disparity. And, it's about time. | $7.3M | Seed | Jun 30, 2022 |  |
| SMART VALOR | - The only full-service digital asset provider in Europe operating retail exchange, asset management and SaaS business - Highly scalable tech platform offered to banks and fintechs as regulated white-label SaaS - The first and still the only full-service digital asset exchange and asset manager in Switzerland & Liechtenstein - Founded in 2017in Switzerland out of Thomson Reuters Incubator - Awarded Innovation Grand by Swiss governmental innovation agency Innosuise | $1.7M | Seed | Nov 20, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [affinity ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/affinity-ventures-ag) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Phillip Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phillip-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [True Global Ventures (TGV)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hawk

VC Fund · Munich, Germany

Money-laundering detection & investigation platform. SaaS, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning.

4 contacts available at Hawk.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Markus Rinderer | Founding Investor and Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/markus-rinderer |
| Michael Doron | Managing Director | — |
| Tobias Schweiger | CEO | — |
| Wolfgang Berner | CTO/CPO | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Markus Rinderer invest in?

Markus Rinderer invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Markus Rinderer's check size?

Markus Rinderer typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$7.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Markus Rinderer participates in.

### How do I contact Markus Rinderer?

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### When did Markus Rinderer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Markus Rinderer closed in Jun 2022. 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?

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