# Raffael Johnen

> Raffael Johnen is a seed investor at auxmoney (Düsseldorf) backing FinTech and Payments. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [auxmoney](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/auxmoney)
- Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raffael-johnen-97942a
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/raffaelx
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raffael1

Raffael Johnen is a seed investor at auxmoney in Düsseldorf focused on FinTech and Payments. Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$14M |
| Pre-Seed | $3.2M–$3.5M |
| Series A | $15M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 67% |
| Payments | 5 | 56% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 56% |
| Finance | 4 | 44% |
| Software | 4 | 44% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 3 | 33% |
| Germany | 2 | 22% |
| Australia | 2 | 22% |
| France | 1 | 11% |
| Colombia | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Edukoya | Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2021 |  |
| Weel | DiviPay is an all-in-one virtual corporate card and expense management platform that enables finance teams to better manage, control and streamline spending across their organisation. DiviPay solves a common pain point for small and large businesses alike: issuing corporate cards to staff while staying in control of spending and collecting receiptsand accounting data. DiviPay enables businesses to instantly issue virtual corporate Mastercards to employees to make online and in-store purchases via Apple Pay and Google Pay. | $20M | Series A | Dec 12, 2021 |  |
| Weel | Weel is an all-in-one virtual corporate card and expense management platform that enables finance teams to better manage, control and streamline spending across their organisation. Weel solves a common pain point for small and large businesses alike: issuing corporate cards to staff while staying in control of spending and collecting receipts andaccounting data. Weel enables businesses to instantly issue virtual corporate Mastercards to employees to make online and in-store purchases via Apple Pay and Google Pay. | $20M | Series A | Dec 12, 2021 |  |
| Kippa | Kippa is a mobile app for African small company owners and bookkeepers that replaces physical record books. With its financial management and payments platform, it is enhancing the lifecycle of small businesses across the country. Small business owners can keep track of their daily income and expense transactions, generate invoices and receipts,manage inventory, and generally monitor how their businesses fluctuate over time. It allows merchants and typical neighborhood shops that already use its bookkeeping app to become a one-stop shop for their customers' essential financial services. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Treinta | Treinta powers 7 million SMBs across the US and Latin America with simple finance, inventory, and sales tools. | $14.3M | Seed | Jun 29, 2021 |  |
| Upflow | Upflow is a software company building a payment platform for B2B businesses. The platform help companies manage their unpaid invoices and improve their cash collection by using the company's SaaS-based payment platform. In 2018, Alexandre Louisy, Barnaby Malet, and Thibaud Elziere established the company in Paris, Ile-de-France. | $15M | Series A | Jun 15, 2021 |  |
| Kuda | Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London | $10M | Seed | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| Finiata | Finiata provides flexible financing to small companies and freelancers through a line of financing and factoring. They believe strongly in the scientific method, listening to customers, solving real problems, and doing the unscalable to find the scalable. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 17, 2016 |  |
| Cookies App | Cookies wants to become the Venmo of Europe. Forget about complicated bank transfers. Save time and energy—send and receive money from your phone like you chat with your friends. Settling debts with friends can be awkward and unpleasant. Cookies will do it for you, letting you off the hook! | $1.6M | Seed | Nov 01, 2015 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Target Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/target-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hexa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/efounders) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hedosophia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hedosophia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rapyd Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rapyd-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About auxmoney

VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Germany

Auxmoney is an online peer-to-peer loan marketplace created to offer a means of exchange between people. Its lending platform enables private consumers to borrow from private investors for personal loans, thereby providing borrowers a bank free borrowing system and a return on investment for lenders.

5 contacts available at auxmoney.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anne Bohne | Vice President Strategic Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anne-bohne |
| Arie Wilder | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arie-wilder |
| Daniel Drummer | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-drummer |
| Philip Kamp | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philip-kamp |
| Philipp Kriependorf | Co-Founder, Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philipp-kriependorf |

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## FAQ

### What does Raffael Johnen invest in?

Raffael Johnen invests primarily in FinTech, Payments and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Raffael Johnen's check size?

Raffael Johnen typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$14M at Seed, $3.2M–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $15M–$20M 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 Raffael Johnen participates in.

### When did Raffael Johnen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Raffael Johnen closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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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