# SBT Venture Capital

> SBT Venture Capital is a VC fund in London backing FinTech, Software and Finance. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Nov 2014
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sbt-venture-capital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sbtvc

SBT Venture Capital is a VC fund in London focused on FinTech and Software. SBT Venture Capital is investing in high growth early stage fin-tech companies breaking new ground and addressing new markets with new technology.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $5.8M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 50% |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |
| Marketplace | 1 | 25% |
| Social Media | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 50% |
| Series D | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 1 | 25% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| eToro | EToro is a social trading and investment network that allows users to trade currencies, commodities, indices, crypto assets, and stocks. It is a multi-asset investment platform that empowers people to grow their knowledge and wealth as part of a global community. | $27M | Series D | Nov 26, 2014 |  |
| NetGuardians | NetGuardians is a leading software company recognized for its innovative solutions to keep operational risk under control. Using smart behavioral analysis methods, they have designed technology that quickly identifies atypical activity, effectively controls data leaks, and alerts you to potential internal fraud. Bundled for the banking sector,their solution can also be easily configured for any field of activity. | $5.8M | Series B | Sep 01, 2014 |  |
| Walkbase | Walkbase is Europe's leading in-store retail analytics provider. With Walkbase’s solution retailers can measure and improve the impact of marketing on physical stores and personalise the in-store shopping experience. The company’s real-time system combines WiFi and beacon technology. Walkbase was founded in 2009 as a result of a researchproject at Finland’s Åbo Akademi University, which studied scalable cloud-based indoor positioning. Since 2011 the company has had several successful investment rounds and in 2013 it raised 3€ million A-series venture capital funding. The investors included SBT Venture Capital and Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, former CEO of Nokia. Walkbase is headquartered in Finland with offices in Helsinki and Turku. In 2014 the company opened its first offices in UK and US.For more information visit www.walkbase.com or follow on Twitter @walkbase . | $3.3M | Series A | Jan 30, 2014 |  |
| Sequent Software | Sequent Platform brings cards to mobile and makes them useful for consumers. Sequent enables banks, transit agencies and any other issuer to securely digitize their credit, debit, transit, loyalty or ID cards and distribute them to their own application, and to any other application using the Sequent Platform. Sequent’s simple APIs empower theapp developer community to bring cards to all apps on mobile, wearable, and other connected devices enabling consumers to make payments, redeem offers, open doors, and ride transit systems. Sequent Platform includes: Token Service Platform (TSP), Card and Wallet Management Platform, and Trust Authority.Silicon Valley-based Sequent Software, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Sequent is uniquely positioned to bring together the creativity of the app developer community with the requirements of highly secure and regulated companies for the benefit of consumers. | $12M | Series B | Jul 08, 2013 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fort Ross Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fortross-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Opus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/opus-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ping An](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ping-an) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Polytech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polytech-ecosystem-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does SBT Venture Capital invest in?

SBT Venture Capital invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Finance startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

SBT Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $5.8M–$12M 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 SBT Venture Capital participates in.

### When did SBT Venture Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for SBT Venture Capital closed in Nov 2014. Shizune tracks 4 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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