# Silicon Valley Bank UK

> Silicon Valley Bank UK is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 86%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/svb-financial-group
- Website: https://www.svb.com/uk

Silicon Valley Bank UK is a VC fund in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Silicon Valley Bank UK works with technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses. SVB UK makes cross-border transaction or expands operations to or from the UK and helped meet the clients' strategic needs. The UK branch was founded in 2010 and is located in London, United Kingdom.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | $2.1M–$227M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 21% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |
| Finance | 2 | 14% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 8 | 57% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 57% |
| Sweden | 1 | 7% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex McCracken | Managing Director and Corporate Relationships | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-mccracken |
| Brandon Sturtevant | Vice President Corporate Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-sturtevant |
| Christie Ma | Associate General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christie-ma |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Humanising Autonomy | Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human-machine interactions. They are a predictive AI company creating a global standard that improves the way vehicles and systems interact with people in any environment. |  | Debt Financing | Feb 28, 2023 |  |
| Liberis | Liberis is a business financial services provider that aims to improve small businesses' access to finance. It delivers finance solutions directly to small businesses and provides a scalable, finance platform for partners to help them build more valuable relationships with their small business customers. Since its founding, Liberis has helpedover 10,000 small businesses worldwide, providing them with over £300m in funding and supporting 82,000 jobs.It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in London, England. | $32.1M | Debt Financing | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| Founders Forum Group | Founders Forum is a community for entrepreneurs, corporate CEOs, senior investors, and thought-leaders. It power entrepreneurs, forging connections at its events and beyond to accelerate the positive impact of technology on the world. |  |  | Nov 10, 2022 |  |
| Founders Forum Group | Founders Forum is a community for entrepreneurs, corporate CEOs, senior investors, and thought-leaders. It power entrepreneurs, forging connections at its events and beyond to accelerate the positive impact of technology on the world. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 10, 2022 |  |
| Decentriq | Decentriq, the “Switzerland of data”, is a confidential data collaboration platform. By enforcing compliance and control with advanced privacy technologies, it helps enterprises scale data collaborations across organizational boundaries and unlock value from data that would otherwise be too sensitive to use.Designed for both data scientists andbusiness users, collaborators use Decentriq’s data clean rooms to analyze sensitive data without sharing it. Powered by confidential computing, data remains encrypted throughout its lifecycle and is verifiably never accessible to another party — not to us, and not even to the cloud provider. Combined with smooth collaboration workflows, fully flexible analysis and maximum interoperability with other technologies, Decentriq makes “sharing without sharing” a scalable strategy.Decentriq powers data collaboration in the world’s most privacy- and compliance-conscious industries, including media, healthcare, banking, and the public sector. | $5M | Debt Financing | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Wise | Wise provides a core money transfer product, along with a borderless account for its audience of ex-pats, freelancers, and travelers, which holds over £2 billion in current deposits. The company features like automated identification verification, online and in-app technical assistance, and estimations of when money transfers will arrive,products and services that meet the needs of clients.Wise was established in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus in London, England. | $346.9M | Post-IPO Debt | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Wise | Wise provides a core money transfer product, along with a borderless account for its audience of ex-pats, freelancers, and travelers, which holds over £2 billion in current deposits. The company features like automated identification verification, online and in-app technical assistance, and estimations of when money transfers will arrive,products and services that meet the needs of clients.Wise was established in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus in London, England. | $346.9M | Post-IPO Debt | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Plum Fintech | Plum Fintech is the developer of Plum, a smart money app. Founded by Victor Trokoudes and Alex Michael in 2016, Plum automates the parts of personal finance that people find difficult or don’t have time for, with effortless saving, empowered spending and accessible investing. It offers the best financial products to help customers grow their moneyfor life, from pensions to tax-wrappers. Today, Plum has helped 2m people across Europe and has expanded to 10 countries. The team of 200+ are based in the company's London HQ as well as offices in Athens, Greece and Nicosia, Cyprus. | $5.7M | Debt Financing | Oct 05, 2022 |  |
| Mavenoid | Mavenoid develops AI-driven support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies. It works with hardware and consumer electronics companies to automate technical support and onboarding for customers spanning everything from printers and ovens to electric scooters and industrial equipment. | $30M | Series B | Aug 30, 2022 |  |
| Divido | Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers. Rapidly build new revenue streams, improve the customer experience and increase conversion by offering finance at the point-of-purchase with Divido. The platform is omnichannel, available online, in-store and via mobile, and works acrossmultiple countries through one integration. Over 1000 partners work with Divido including Nordea Finance, BNP Paribas, BMW, Lenovo and last minute.Divido offers financial services for merchants, lenders, and intermediaries that want to offer instant new credit as a payment option to their end-consumers and corporate clients. Backed by the investors behind Skype, WorldPay, and TransferWise the company launched late 2015 and currently has 300+ partners using its platform including some of the world's well-known brands. By the end of 2017. Divido will operate in 9 countries.Divido was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom | $5.9M | Debt Financing | Apr 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sapphire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sapphire-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ABB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abb-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mosaic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mosaic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Silicon Valley Bank UK invest in?

Silicon Valley Bank UK invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Debt Financing and Series B stage. Most of the 14 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 Silicon Valley Bank UK's check size?

Silicon Valley Bank UK typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$227M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Silicon Valley Bank UK participates in.

### How do I contact Silicon Valley Bank UK?

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### Who are the partners at Silicon Valley Bank UK?

The team at Silicon Valley Bank UK includes Alex McCracken (Managing Director and Corporate Relationships), Brandon Sturtevant (Vice President Corporate Finance) and Christie Ma (Associate General Counsel). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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