# Sebastian Blum

> Sebastian Blum is a funding round investor at Greenfield (Berlin) backing FinTech and Finance. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Greenfield](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenfield-one)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Feb 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seblum/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/LeBastif
- Website: http://www.greenfield.one

Sebastian Blum is a funding round investor at Greenfield in Berlin focused on FinTech and Finance. Sebastian Blum is the Co-Founder & Partner at Greenfield One. He attended NIMBAS, Bradford - Graduate School of Management.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Finance | 1 | 50% |
| Payments | 1 | 50% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 1 | 50% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Celo | Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Its mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.The Celo ecosystem includes a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (Celo Platform), a native asset (CELO), a stablecoin (cUSD) and the CeloAlliance for Prosperity, with over 100 organizations around the world, including Andreesen Horowitz, Anchorage, Coinbase, GSMA, Mercy Corps, Grameen Foundation, Prosegur, Abra, and cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| Celo | Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Its mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.The Celo ecosystem includes a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (Celo Platform), a native asset (CELO), a stablecoin (cUSD) and the CeloAlliance for Prosperity, with over 100 organizations around the world, including Andreesen Horowitz, Anchorage, Coinbase, GSMA, Mercy Corps, Grameen Foundation, Prosegur, Abra, and cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem. | $30M |  | Apr 02, 2019 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [9Yards Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9yards-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Electric Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electric-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Greenfield

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

We are long-term backers of early developer teams building toward an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web.

5 contacts available at Greenfield.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Claude Donzé | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claude-donz%C3%A9 |
| Felix Machart | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felix-machart |
| Jascha Samadi | Co-Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jascha-samadi |
| Jendrik Poloczek | Principal Research Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jendrik-poloczek |
| Sebastian Blum | Co-Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastian-blum |

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## FAQ

### What does Sebastian Blum invest in?

Sebastian Blum invests primarily in FinTech, Finance and Payments startups, most often at Funding Round and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sebastian Blum last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sebastian Blum closed in Feb 2021. Shizune tracks 2 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?

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