# Nationwide

> Nationwide is a VC fund in Swindon backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Swindon, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last fund: Jun 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nationwide-building-society/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AskNationwide
- Website: https://www.nationwide.co.uk/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NationwideBuildingSociety/

Nationwide is a VC fund in Swindon focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution and the largest building society in the UK. It has its headquarters in Swindon, with an office in Threadneedle Street, London, and with administration centres based in Bournemouth, Northampton and Dunfermline.Nationwide’s origins lie in the Provident Union Building Society(Wiltshire, 1846), the Northampton Town & County Freehold Land Society (Northampton 1848), and within the co-operative movement in London (1884). Following numerous mergers – most importantly the merger with Anglia Building Society in 1987 and the Portman Building Society in 2007, Nationwide is the now the world’s largest mutual financial institution, the UK’s third largest mortgage lender, and one of the UK’s largest savings providers.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$52M |
| Series B | $16M–$20M |
| Corporate Round | $13M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 30% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 30% |
| Software | 4 | 20% |
| Banking | 3 | 15% |
| Payments | 3 | 15% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 30% |
| Corporate Round | 4 | 20% |
| Debt Financing | 3 | 15% |
| Series B | 2 | 10% |
| Series C | 2 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Rhodes | Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-rhodes-2 |
| Geoffrey Howe | Non Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geoffrey-howe |
| Joe Garner | CEO & Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-garner |
| Mitchel Lenson | Non Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitchel-lenson |
| Philippa Green | Head of Third Party Relationship Management | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philippa-green |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| iBC Healthcare | iBC Healthcare helps to support people with disabilities to live meaningful lives by providing support and access to mainstream activities and opportunities throughout their services. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Aveni | Aveni is an award-winning technology company that specializes in Natural Language Processing for Financial Services and other highly regulated industries. Its team of world-leading scientists and engineers has developed a proprietary NLP pipeline that extracts context from customer conversations. This powers a range of transformative productfeatures, including automated compliance monitoring, the identification of vulnerable customers and performance management of call centre agents and advisers. | $16.1M | Series B | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Form3 | Form3 delivers cloud-based connectivity, payment processing, clearing, and settlement services. It is a fully managed payment technology service combining a powerful AWS cloud processing platform, multiple-scheme payment gateways, and a fully managed 24x7 service model. Form3's powerful micro-services architecture and API's provide asingle point of simple access to the full universe of payment schemes.Its clients include a wide range of regulated financial institutions, including leading banks, non-bank financial institutions, and fintech companies (payment institutions, e-money providers, and pre-paid card providers). Form3 was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England. |  | Corporate Round | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Karbon Homes | Karbon Homes is involved in construction, property development and management with an emphasis on quality, service and sustainability. | $267.1M | Debt Financing | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Coadjute | Coadjute is a blockchain property technology business headquartered in London. Their open network is designed to cut the cost and increase the speed of property transactions by connecting the businesses that power property market operations. Over the last 20 months, Coadjute has conducted trials with over 40 leading businesses in the propertyindustry and is due to launch the network in the UK early in 2021. | $12.6M | Corporate Round | Apr 02, 2024 |  |
| Hazy | Data has never been more valuable. But with growing privacy demands and tightening regulations, most of the world’s data is locked away and unusable.For businesses to make better decisions, develop new technologies and deliver more value for customers, they need data they can actually use. They need to set their data free to do more. Hazy ispioneering the new data. We’re the world’s leading synthetic data company, re-engineering enterprise data so that it can be: - Shared without restrictions - data that can move freely, without restriction, to where it’s needed most in businesses and society - Used without limits - data that’s reliable, safe and easy for people and businesses to use to solve problems and create new value. - Trusted without question - data that’s open, transparent and trusted by people, businesses and society. | $9M | Series A | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Plend | Plend is building a better way to borrow where consumers are no longer held back by credit history.Built on the belief that one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to credit, Plend was created to enable wider access to truly affordable loans, underpinned by new and innovative advances in open-banking powered credit scoring in order to create afairer future for borrowers.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in London, England. | $45.5M | Seed | Nov 02, 2022 |  |
| Kettel Homes | Helping first-time buyers achieve their dream of homeownership |  | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Kettel Homes | Helping first-time buyers achieve their dream of homeownership |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Form3 | Form3 delivers cloud-based connectivity, payment processing, clearing, and settlement services. It is a fully managed payment technology service combining a powerful AWS cloud processing platform, multiple-scheme payment gateways, and a fully managed 24x7 service model. Form3's powerful micro-services architecture and API's provide asingle point of simple access to the full universe of payment schemes.Its clients include a wide range of regulated financial institutions, including leading banks, non-bank financial institutions, and fintech companies (payment institutions, e-money providers, and pre-paid card providers). Form3 was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England. | $160.1M | Series C | Sep 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Nationwide invest in?

Nationwide invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Nationwide's check size?

Nationwide typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$52M at Seed, $16M–$20M at Series B and $13M–$33M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nationwide participates in.

### How do I contact Nationwide?

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### Who are the partners at Nationwide?

The team at Nationwide includes Chris Rhodes (Executive Director), Geoffrey Howe (Non Executive Director) and Joe Garner (CEO & Founder), among 11 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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