# NBS Ventures

> NBS Ventures is a VC fund in Swindon backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Swindon, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/NBSVentures
- Website: https://www.nbsventures.co.uk

NBS Ventures is a VC fund in Swindon focused on Financial Services and FinTech. At NBS Ventures, we look for inspirational teams who are developing solutions that could benefit Nationwide’s members and society as a whole. We’re based in London and Swindon, and invest globally in companies at Seed and Series A investment stage. Nationwide Building Society is a mutual organisation, which means we’re not owned by shareholders,but by our customers - we call them our members. We don’t just believe in the power of the collective. We embody it. We are a community of 15 million members and it’s why we invest in start-ups. We invest for the long term, supporting great companies to scale, then do things together that neither of us could alone.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 3 | 50% |
| FinTech | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| Mobile | 1 | 17% |
| Retail | 1 | 17% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $14.1M | Series A | Jul 29, 2024 |  |
| Ordo | The Complete Omni - Channel Retail solution, helping independents be better than ever. | $11.2M | Series A | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Kettel Homes | Helping first-time buyers achieve their dream of homeownership |  | Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Kettel Homes | Helping first-time buyers achieve their dream of homeownership |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| 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. | $964.6K | Pre-Seed | Sep 07, 2021 |  |
| Moneyhub | Moneyhub helps companies reinvent how they interact with their customers. It is a data and payments company that develops ISO 27001-certified software for Open Banking, Open Finance, and Open Data applications. Its FCA-regulated Open Data platform enables companies to quickly and easily transform data into personalized digital experiences andinitiate payments. Its APIs and fully customizable platform provide data aggregation, insights, and payment systems. As a result, clients have the consent-driven data and analytics they need to create super-personalized offers, products, and services. Hundreds of organizations, spanning finance to media and retail, rely on Moneyhub’s award-winning technology. | $18M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 06, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Fair By Design Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fair-by-design-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Equinox Systems](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equinox-systems) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Haatch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haatch) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lloyds Banking Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lloyds-bank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nationwide](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nationwide-building-society-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does NBS Ventures invest in?

NBS Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did NBS Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for NBS Ventures closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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?

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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