# Ricky Knox

> Ricky Knox is a seed investor at Carbontricity backing FinTech. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Carbontricity
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickyknox/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rickykno
- Website: https://x.com/rickykno

Ricky Knox is a seed investor at Carbontricity in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Ricky Knox is based out of London, England and is the Founder of Tandem and is the Chairman of the Board of otala.markets. Ricky previously worked at Azimo as a Founder. Josh Rhine attended the INSEAD.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$5.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $939k–$3.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 43% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 43% |
| Finance | 2 | 29% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Banking | 1 | 14% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 43% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $938.7K | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2024 |  |
| Belong | Belong, a revolutionary wealth-building platform. Belong strives to make wealth-building opportunities available to a broader market, with a concentration on professionally employed millennials. | $3.7M | Pre-Seed | Mar 25, 2024 |  |
| Caliza | Provides an API that allows fintechs around the world to open digital dollar accounts for their users to save and transact. | $5.3M | Seed | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| Sidekick | Sidekick is a wealth management firm that offers access to alternative investments as well as the ability to borrow against these portfolios. Sidekick provides an innovative suite of products, including stocks and cryptocurrency, as well as a funding line for customers to borrow against their portfolios when necessary. Customers will have access tothe Sidekick investment team, which will provide regular updates on portfolio performance as well as share editorial content to help customers build their investment knowledge as they progress. | $3.9M | Pre-Seed | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Thriva | Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health. All tests are analyzed by their partner laboratory and results are reviewed by their in-house Doctor (a qualified GP of 7 years). Thriva also helps users understand what they need to focus on to make improvements.It wasfounded in 2015. |  | Seed | Jun 19, 2016 |  |
| 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. | $2M | Seed | Dec 10, 2015 |  |
| acasa | acasa is a web, iOS and Android app helping the world’s growing population of young renters renters live better together. acasa allows you to set-up, manage, split and pay your bills.Founded in the Open Data Institute in 2014, acasa (originally Splittable) is backed by some of the leading technology investors Europe. The company is run by youngproperty enthusiasts with a collective passion for improving the lives of householders. Find out more about the company at www.helloacasa.com | $1.2M | Seed | Oct 28, 2015 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [London Co-Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/london-co-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Octopus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octopus-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ada Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ada-vemtires) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Carbontricity

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Carbontricity incentivises the adoption of green energy by enabling generators of green energy to monetise this energy.

1 contacts available at Carbontricity.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ricky Knox | Founder and Exec Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ricky-knox |

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## FAQ

### What does Ricky Knox invest in?

Ricky Knox invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 Ricky Knox's check size?

Ricky Knox typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$5.3M at Seed and $939k–$3.9M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ricky Knox participates in.

### How do I contact Ricky Knox?

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### When did Ricky Knox last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ricky Knox closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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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