# Middlegame Ventures

> Middlegame Ventures is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last fund: Jun 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/middlegame-ventures/
- Website: http://www.middlegamevc.com

Middlegame Ventures is a fintech​ venture capital firm investing in early-stage growth businesses focused on Financial Innovation. The firm is seeking great entrepreneurial teams who are focusing on rearchitecting financial services infrastructure.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$10M |
| Series A | $5.4M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 15 | 34% |
| Financial Services | 13 | 30% |
| Software | 7 | 16% |
| Blockchain | 6 | 14% |
| SaaS | 5 | 11% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 15 | 34% |
| Seed | 13 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ireland | 10 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 20% |
| United States | 4 | 9% |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 5% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kanishk Walia | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kanishk-walia |
| Patrick Pinschmidt | General Partner & Co-Founder | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-pinschmidt |
| Ellen McCance | Venture Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ellen-mccance |
| L Michael Meyer | Managing Partner and Co-Founder | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/l-michael-meyer |
| Mia Lewis | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mia-lewis |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kayna | Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services. | $1.7M | Seed | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Theia Insights | Leveraging AI to transform information into insights | $8M | Series A | Feb 27, 2026 |  |
| Circit | Circit is a financial audit management platform that provides real-time visibility of audit confirmations as well as direct connections to banks, solicitors and fintech services for secure document and data transfer.Circit has created a network of validated professional and financial services firms, all of which benefit from the highly secureand customisable software platform.Circit's founders have over 50 years experience across financial auditing, banking operations and software engineering.The company has been granted status as an Enterprise Ireland High-Potential Startup (HPSU) company and has been awarded government funding along with professional investors. | $22M | Private Equity | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Paygentic | Paygentic is an AI platform that collaborates billing, pricing and payments at one place for companies to monetize anything. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 05, 2025 |  |
| MusicInfra | Helping creators and copyright owners getting paid faster and more accurately than ever | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| VisionR | Glimpse is a fast growing retail technology startup operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.Glimpse has developed a platform that enables offline retailers to analyse shopper behaviour. Glimpse is retrofit to a retail premises and requires no internal IT developments to operate. Each store can be active within 15 minutes. Once onlineGlimpse assesses shopper profile, shopper behaviour, product engagement and transactional information in real-time. This allows retailers to make data driven decisions about their business, from marketing campaigns to product placement to operational visibility across a chain. | $1.7M | Seed | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Cloud Capital | CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML. | $5.4M | Seed | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Fundcraft | The fundcraft team has created a platform that centralizes, coordinates, and gradually automates all fund activities, including transfer agency, accounting, portfolio and risk management, and compliance, among others. | $6.5M | Series A | Nov 04, 2024 |  |
| Fundcraft | The fundcraft team has created a platform that centralizes, coordinates, and gradually automates all fund activities, including transfer agency, accounting, portfolio and risk management, and compliance, among others. | $6.5M | Series A | Nov 04, 2024 |  |
| One Trading | One Trading is to bridge the crypto-traditional asset trading divide by providing a single regulated trading platform for all customer types and all goods. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 17, 2024 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SIX FinTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/six-corporate-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Delta Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delta-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Middlegame Ventures invest in?

Middlegame Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Middlegame Ventures's check size?

Middlegame Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$10M at Seed and $5.4M–$33M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Middlegame Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Middlegame Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Middlegame Ventures?

The team at Middlegame Ventures includes Kanishk Walia (Partner), Patrick Pinschmidt (General Partner & Co-Founder) and Ellen McCance (Venture Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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