# Stefan Tirtey

> Stefan Tirtey is a Series A investor at CommerzVentures backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CommerzVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerzventures-gmbh)
- Location: Frankfurt, Germany
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 83%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stirtey
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/toetoe
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Stefan Tirtey is a Series A investor at CommerzVentures in Frankfurt focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Stefan Tirtey is based out of München, Bayern, and is the Managing Partner of CommerzVentures. Stefan previously worked at Marqeta, Inc. as a Investor and Board Member. Stefan attended INSEAD. Stefan Tirtey has recognized Fintech 40.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 42% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 33% |
| Payments | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Social Media | 2 | 17% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 42% |
| Series B | 4 | 33% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 4 | 33% |
| United States | 3 | 25% |
| Israel | 1 | 8% |
| Austria | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Volt.io | Volt is building the global infrastructure for real-time payments everywhere. We’re accelerating a global real-time revolution by creating a single gateway to a world of account-to-account payments. This network of networks, powered by open banking, is transforming how money moves on a global scale. By uniting real-time open payments systems toone harmonised standard, we give businesses the power to offer customers everywhere the same frictionless payments experience. | $60M | Series B | Jun 21, 2023 |  |
| Helu.io | Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data. | $10M | Series A | Jul 19, 2022 |  |
| Curv | Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure helping crypto-native and financial institutions to create digital wallets.The company's security technology is enabling users to build crypto finance products that safely transfer, store, and manage any digital asset on any blockchain or digital system for recording transactions.Its research and development office is located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Curv's decentralized security model utilizes multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, enabling transactions to be securely signed in a mathematically-proven, distributed way. Its enterprise-grade policy engine allows clients to define risk profiles and enforce granular policies to ensure only authorized transactions are allowed.Dan Yadlin and Itay Malinger established the company in New York, New York in 2018. | $23M | Series A | Jul 01, 2020 |  |
| Mambu | Mambu is a software-as-a-service banking engine provider that powers lending and deposit services. The company provides financial institutions of all sizes to design, launch, service, and scale their banking and lending portfolio. It empowers over 7,000 loan and deposit products which serve over eight million end customers. With more than threemillion active accounts in over 46 countries, ranging from fintech to traditional banks. | $31.8M | Series C | Feb 18, 2019 |  |
| Payworks | Payworks is the provider of a next generation Point of Sale payment gateway technology. With Payworks technology, developers of Point of Sale solutions for merchants can quickly and cost-efficiently integrate card payment functionality into their applications, and securely process EMV, contactless and mobile wallet transactions at the Point ofSale. With headquarters in Germany and offices in the UK, the US and Poland, Payworks provides its technology to leading acquirers and payment providers globally. Payworks was acquired by Visa in July 2019. | $14.5M | Series B | Feb 14, 2018 |  |
| Omnyway | Omnyway abstracts the complexities of disparate retail digital systems to enable elegant, flexible and scalable implementations in physical stores and online, within minutes. Omnyway's VISX livestream commerce solution democratizes access to video based shopping by providing the capability to any retail employee. The unique solution allowsviewers to buy items while viewing an event, and have the sale attributed to the store employee and their respective store. Omnyway HaiWai allows for the acceptance of Popular Global Digital Wallets at an existing POS without any change to hardware, software or processing and zero integration time. Omnyway Zapbuy enables 1-click purchase from digital ads. | $12.8M | Series A | Oct 12, 2017 |  |
| Mambu | Mambu is a software-as-a-service banking engine provider that powers lending and deposit services. The company provides financial institutions of all sizes to design, launch, service, and scale their banking and lending portfolio. It empowers over 7,000 loan and deposit products which serve over eight million end customers. With more than threemillion active accounts in over 46 countries, ranging from fintech to traditional banks. | $8.5M | Series B | Jan 11, 2016 |  |
| 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. | $12M | Series D | Apr 21, 2015 |  |
| Ubidyne | Ubidyne was formed in 2005 to bring its groundbreaking digital Antenna Embedded Radioâ„¢ technology to market. Ubidyne's products will be available from Nokia Siemens Networks as part of their Flexistation product family. The Ubidyne integrated active antenna systems are compatible with CPRI and OBSAI optical interfaces and support current andnext-generation standards including GSM, UMTS, HSPA+, and LTE. Ubidyne's micro-radio technology is integrated within wireless antennas and revolutionizes the economics of mobile communications. This eliminates the need for coaxial feeder cables, remote electrical tilt and additional amplifiers on antenna towers and masts. The Ubidyne technology significantly reduces energy consumption while improving radio performance, deployment flexibility, coverage and capacity of mobile communications networks globally. | $43M | Series B | Aug 20, 2009 |  |
| SoundCloud | SoundCloud is a social sound platform where anyone can create and share sounds. It allows people to discover and enjoy the largest selection of music from the world’s most diverse creator community. This is made possible by an open platform that directly connects creators and their fans across the globe. Sound creators can use the platform toinstantly record, upload, and share sounds across the internet, as well as receive detailed stats and feedback from the SoundCloud community.SoundCloud was launched in 2008 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss. | $2.7M | Series A | Apr 14, 2009 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acton-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Runa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/runa-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atlantic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Augmentum Fintech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augmentum-fintech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About CommerzVentures

VC Fund · Frankfurt, Germany

CommerzVentures specializes in early- and growth-stage companies in the financial services and insurance sectors. Established in 2014 as the venture capital fund of Commerzbank. Independent investment management company since 2019.CommerzVentures is a return-driven, non-strategic venture capital investor. We back early- and growth-stage companiesin the financial services and insurance sectors, starting at Series A.We aspire to invest in the very best startups in a given sector. For their portfolio companies, we offer access to key decision makers across the banking and insurance industry.Our initial investment size ranges from €2 million to €10 million. We invest mostly in Europe, Israel, and the USA, and are always looking to work with entrepreneurs who have vision and enthusiasm!

5 contacts available at CommerzVentures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexandre Moreillon | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-moreillon |
| Jonas Wenke | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonas-wenke |
| Paul Morgenthaler | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-morgenthaler |
| Stefan Tirtey | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stefan-tirtey |
| Jenny Langer | EA & Office Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jenny-langer |

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## FAQ

### What does Stefan Tirtey invest in?

Stefan Tirtey invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Stefan Tirtey last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stefan Tirtey closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 12 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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