# Olga Shikhantsova

> Olga Shikhantsova is a seed investor at Speedinvest backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 92%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shikhantsova/

Olga Shikhantsova is a seed investor at Speedinvest in Berlin focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Olga Shikhantsova is the principal at Speedinvest. Olga Shikhantsova attended Higher School of Economics.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 8 | 67% |
| FinTech | 4 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 33% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Payments | 2 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 58% |
| France | 3 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Due | Due is a financial firm with the goal of reshaping international payments using stablecoins and blockchain technology. | $4M | Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Grâce | Grâce offers innovative insurance solutions to enhance customer experience and improve process efficiency. | $6.5M | Seed | Apr 03, 2025 |  |
| Tranched | Tranched specializes in providing innovative financial solutions by introducing real-time on-chain securitization. This platform enables Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors to launch institutional-grade transactions with significantly reduced timeframes, up to 90% faster than traditional methods. By leveraging blockchain technology, Tranchedautomates the entire process of loan representation, making it more efficient and secure. The company's services are designed to cater to the needs of the modern financial services industry, offering a new way to manage and invest in debt instruments by creating tranches that are split by risk or other characteristics to meet investor requirements. | $3.4M | Pre-Seed | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Palm | Palm specializes in AI-powered treasury software designed to optimize financial operations for businesses. The platform offers solutions for generating accurate cash forecasts quickly and managing company funds efficiently. Palm's technology streamlines automated workflows for forecasting and cash movement, ensuring enterprise-grade securityand controls. The company focuses on addressing treasury challenges with innovative solutions, supported by a team with expertise in treasury and fintech. Palm's services are aimed at improving financial decision-making and operational efficiency for its clients. | $6.1M | Seed | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Vitt | Vitt is building a platform that simplifies both fundraising for SaaS founders and creates a new asset class for investors to invest in. A SaaS company that has contracted revenue can apply for financing it upfront — rather than waiting for cash to come in monthly, through Vitt's web application they get the cash upfront.Vitt analyses theirfinancial data and gives them a financing decision in a matter of minutes — not months. No more searching for intros to venture capitalists in your network. It shouldn't be about who you know but what you've built. | $1.1M | Seed | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Fiat Republic | Fiat Republic aggregates multiple banks into a single API integration and unified compliance onboarding process, enabling crypto platforms to easily embed fiat payment flows into their tech stack. Fiat Republic's TradFi-regulated fiat-as-a-service platform makes it simple to integrate IBANs and virtual accounts in local currencies, local banktransfer rails (like SEPA, Faster Payments, Elixir, Pix etc), and real-time FX. | $7M | Seed | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Rho Labs | Rho Protocol is a decentralized trading platform that creates non-chain capital-efficient non-custodial interest rate futures and swaps market. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 16, 2023 |  |
| Rollee | The Platform for Employment Data in Europe | $4.4M | Seed | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| Finary | Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth. The company was started in 2020 and is based in Paris, France. | $9M | Series A | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| Fiat Republic | Fiat Republic aggregates multiple banks into a single API integration and unified compliance onboarding process, enabling crypto platforms to easily embed fiat payment flows into their tech stack. Fiat Republic's TradFi-regulated fiat-as-a-service platform makes it simple to integrate IBANs and virtual accounts in local currencies, local banktransfer rails (like SEPA, Faster Payments, Elixir, Pix etc), and real-time FX. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Credo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fabric Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabric-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20vc-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Speedinvest

VC Fund · Vienna, Austria

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

5 contacts available at Speedinvest.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Florian Obst | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florian-obst |
| Gabriel Tirouflet | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-tirouflet |
| Olga Shikhantsova | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/olga-shikhantsova |
| Stefan Klestil | General Partner, Si F | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stefan-klestil |
| Tom Lesche | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-lesche |

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## FAQ

### What does Olga Shikhantsova invest in?

Olga Shikhantsova invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 Olga Shikhantsova last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Olga Shikhantsova closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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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