# Fuel Venture Capital

> Fuel Venture Capital is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 55 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, United States
- Total investments: 55
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last fund: Oct 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fuelventurecapital/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/FuelVC
- Website: http://www.fuelventurecapital.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FuelVentureCapital/

Fuel Venture Capital is a firm located in the heart of Miami's iconic Coconut Grove where it works to fund the world's most promising startups and integrate lifelong investors into the creative economy. Fuel Venture Capital applies a tested methodology to mitigate the risk of early-stage investing. Founded in 2016, Fuel Venture Capital isindustry agnostic in its venture sourcing, targeting instead exceptional entrepreneurs with experience and vision. The firm’s “founder-focused, investor-driven” approach is led by a core team with decades years of combined experience in investment banking, wealth management, and executive leadership.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$25M |
| Series A | $500k–$30M |
| Convertible Note | $4M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 12 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 11 | 20% |
| Software | 7 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 9% |

112 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 17 | 31% |
| Seed | 8 | 15% |
| Convertible Note | 7 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 9% |
| Series C | 4 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 26 | 47% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 9% |
| Brazil | 2 | 4% |
| Colombia | 2 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jerónimo Peralta | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jer%C3%B3nimo-peralta |
| Alex Owen | Senior Associate, Investments | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-owen-0577 |
| Emilio Escartin | Partner and European/MiddleEastern Market Executive | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emilio-escartin |
| Jeff Ransdell | Founding Partner & Managing Director | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-ransdell |
| Juan Pablo Miro | Partner & Latam Market Executive | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-pablo-miro |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Transak | Transak is a global web3 payment and onboarding infrastructure provider, facilitating seamless transitions between traditional finance and crypto assets. Its product suite includes robust fiat-to-crypto services (On/Off-Ramps), a fiat-to-smart-contract solution (Transak One), and a fiat-to-NFT checkout solution. As a regulated, non-custodialpayments layer, Transak supports onboarding to 160+ crypto assets across 75+ blockchains. Trusted by over 350+ applications, including MetaMask and Coinbase Wallet, Transak is making web3 applications more accessible. | $16M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 12, 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 |  |
| Aracor AI | Aracor is an AI-powered platform for contract review and due diligence. Analyzes large document volumes, providing insights, summaries, and precise query responses with speed and accuracy. Automates contract review, drafting, and redlining, integrating with existing tools for streamlined workflows. Offers AI-driven document workflows, legaldocument automation, and AI legal assistant tools. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2025 |  |
| Leap Financial | Leap Financial offers a cloud-based modular platform covering a biometric wallet for the instant issuing of payments. Leap Financial was founded in 2018 and was headquartered in Florida, United States. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Betr | Betr is a direct-to-consumer micro-betting that introduces instant gratification to sports betting. It provides tools to support responsible play and give control over their gambling. It encourages them to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within their personal limits. Betr was founded in 2022 and is based in Miami, Florida. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 06, 2024 |  |
| Tradeshift | Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network connecting buyers and suppliers. Its platform enables its clients to connect with all their suppliers digitally in order to seize early payment discounts and minimize risks, eliminating paper and manual processes across procure-to-pay, thereby allowing businesses to simplify supply chain payments in asecure manner. | $70M |  | Jul 31, 2023 |  |
| Betr | Betr is a direct-to-consumer micro-betting that introduces instant gratification to sports betting. It provides tools to support responsible play and give control over their gambling. It encourages them to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within their personal limits. Betr was founded in 2022 and is based in Miami, Florida. | $35M | Series A | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Soundtrack | Soundtrack Your Brand is a Spotify joint venture and the exclusive provider of Spotify Business and Spotify Enterprise. We connect brands and fans, and our vision is to grow the music market and thereby support artists, so that they can give the world more great music | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 14, 2023 |  |
| Unitea | We are a community rewarding loyalty to culture fans love. Fans earn Karma, an action-based token, for listening and sharing music with their friends. Karma is exchanged for experiential “real-life” or digital rewards with artists, festivals, brands, and other fans (i.e., Going on a Coca Cola sponsored hot air balloon ride with Claude Vonstroke @Electric Forest). Unitea is the first platform to help artists monetize social data on fans via an experiential ad medium through our proprietary “Data Royalty”. | $7M | Seed | May 16, 2023 |  |
| Betr | Betr is a direct-to-consumer micro-betting that introduces instant gratification to sports betting. It provides tools to support responsible play and give control over their gambling. It encourages them to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within their personal limits. Betr was founded in 2022 and is based in Miami, Florida. | $20M | Series A | Aug 08, 2022 |  |

10 of 55 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fuel Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 30 deals together
- [A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idc-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Aliya Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aliya-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Florida Funders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florida-funders) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LUN Partners Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lun-partners-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [M13](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m13) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Fuel Venture Capital invest in?

Fuel Venture Capital invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 55 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Fuel Venture Capital's check size?

Fuel Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $500k–$25M at Seed, $500k–$30M at Series A and $4M–$10M at Convertible Note. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fuel Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Fuel Venture Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Fuel Venture Capital?

The team at Fuel Venture Capital includes Jerónimo Peralta (CFO), Alex Owen (Senior Associate, Investments) and Emilio Escartin (Partner and European/MiddleEastern Market Executive), among 9 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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