# Martin Bartlam

> Martin Bartlam is a seed investor at DLA Piper backing Bitcoin and FinTech. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [DLA Piper](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dla-piper)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinbartlam/

Martin Bartlam is a seed investor at DLA Piper in London focused on Bitcoin and FinTech. Martin Bartlam is the International Group Head of Finance and Projects at DLA Piper. He advises on international structured deals and in particular the application of FinTech and new financing techniques to businesses, including, ICO’s, securitisation, capital markets products and derivatives.Martin Bartlam is recognised as one of the world’sleading FinTech lawyers applying technology solutions to traditional funding structures. Martin is at the forefront of alternative investment strategies and products including applying new financing techniques to suit the development of smart infrastructure and real estate development.Martin has helped clients to build and fund many new platforms involving digital solutions for real estate infrastructure, in the UK and cross-border. Martin is advising a number of businesses on Initial Coin Offerings and related financial structures including addressing regulatory and practical issues in raising funding and issuing tokens and presents a masterclass on blockchain and ICO issues and has presented to industry bodies such as the LMA, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, Insurance industry groups, the Global ABS conference and at various other finance industry events.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 100% |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 100% |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Luther Systems | Luther Systems provides a blockchain technology that specializes in offering systems for financial institutions' transaction management and also offers advisory services to financial and technology start-ups on technical and strategic issues, enabling to transact with digital ledgers. Luther Systems works with multiple corporations tostreamline and improve the efficiency, reliability, and integrity of enterprise processes. The products deliver superior performance while reducing costs to clients.The company was established in 2016 and is based in London. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 08, 2018 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Firstminute Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstminute-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-factory) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About DLA Piper

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, positioning them to help companies with their legal needs around the world. DLA Piper strives to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to their clients. DLA Piper achieves this through practical and innovativelegal solutions that help their clients succeed. DLA Piper delivers consistent services across their platform of practices and sectors in all matters they undertake. DLA Piper's clients range from multinational, Global 1000 and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies. They include more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 or their subsidiaries. They also advise governments and public sector bodies. In 2005 DLA Piper became one of the largest business law firms in the world through a merger of unprecedented scope. The strategy was simple – to create a truly global firm capable of handling the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business. Building strong client relationships is the compass for their business strategy and future development.

5 contacts available at DLA Piper.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Craig Lang | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-lang |
| James Halpert | Partner & Co-Chair, Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Partner, IP & Technology Practice | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-halpert |
| Lael Bellamy | Of Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lael-bellamy |
| Mark Radcliffe | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-radcliffe |
| Martin Bartlam | Partner, specialising in Structured Finance and Securities and Global Co-chair Fintech | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-bartlam-1de5 |

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## FAQ

### What does Martin Bartlam invest in?

Martin Bartlam invests primarily in Bitcoin, FinTech and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Martin Bartlam last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Martin Bartlam closed in Mar 2018. Shizune tracks 1 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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