# Outward VC

> Outward VC is a VC fund in London backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 41%
- Fund size: $67M
- Last fund: Jul 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/outward-vc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/outwardvc?lang=en
- Website: https://www.outwardvc.com/

Outward VC is a VC fund in London focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Outward VC empower start-ups seeking to be the most important fintech companies in the world

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$5.7M |
| Series A | $6.2M–$18M |
| Series B | $45M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 17 | 33% |
| FinTech | 13 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 14% |
| Finance | 5 | 10% |
| Real Estate | 5 | 10% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 47% |
| Series A | 10 | 20% |
| Series B | 6 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 6% |
| Series C | 2 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 27 | 53% |
| Denmark | 2 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andi Kazeroonian | Principal | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andi-kazeroonian |
| Devin Kohli | Co-Founder & General Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/devin-kohli |
| Sanchit Dhote | Principal | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanchit-dhote |
| D'Arcy Whelan | Head of Platform | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d-arcy-whelan |
| Kevin Chong | Co-Founder & General Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-chong-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capsa AI | Capsa AI helps private equity firms to take data-driven investment decisions using AI to transform due diligence process. | $18M | Series A | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Infrawatch | Infrawatch is a London-based cybersecurity startup that helps track and analyze internet infrastructure to uncover phishing, fraud, and other cyber threats. | $3M | Pre-Seed | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Firenze | Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients. | $8.1M | Series A | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| Steward | Steward.ai is a VC-backed fintech startup specializing in AI-powered compliance for investor onboarding, AML, and KYC processes. | $5M | Seed | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Orbital Witness | Orbital Witness is a LegalTech-meets-PropTech company developing a legal risk rating for real estate - a cheaper, faster and reliable alternative to the legacy, costly and time consuming legal due diligence process in property transactions. | $60M | Series B | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Monq | Monq is an AI-powered procurement negotiation platform for enterprises. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Adclear | Financial promotion compliance, in seconds. Scale your marketing operations while reducing risk.Marketing teams need instant approvals while compliance teams drown in manual reviews. The result? Missed opportunities, increased risk, and frustrated teams on both sides. There's a better way to manage financial promotions.Adclear ensurescreative marketing is compliant with FCA regulations, whilst providing an in-depth audit trail for compliance teams. Our AI-powered platform turns days of work into seconds.Instant approvals. Real-time marketing. Zero bottlenecks. Adclear empowers your team to move fast and stay compliant. | $2.8M | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Veridox | Developer of an AI-powered document intelligence platform designed to extract deep forensic insights and detect sophisticated fraud. The company’s software leverages advanced machine learning to scrutinise images and PDFs, uncovering hidden anomalies, metadata mismatches, and structural discrepancies that escape traditional verification methods. Bytransforming complex document forensics into actionable risk intelligence, the platform enables global enterprises to automate compliance and protect operational integrity in seconds. | $1.4M | Seed | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Firenze | Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients. | $3.2M | Seed | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| Curve | Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015. | $47.9M | Series D | Mar 14, 2025 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Salica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hambroperksltd) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Outward VC invest in?

Outward VC invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 51 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 Outward VC's check size?

Outward VC typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$5.7M at Seed, $6.2M–$18M at Series A and $45M–$80M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Outward VC participates in.

### How do I contact Outward VC?

Public channels for Outward VC include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Outward VC?

The team at Outward VC includes Andi Kazeroonian (Principal), Devin Kohli (Co-Founder & General Partner) and Sanchit Dhote (Principal), among 7 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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