Vela Technologies
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Vela Technologies is a VC fund in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Vela Technologies was established with a view to seeking out a range of investments within the technology field, focusing on companies that have identified areas of business or sectors which could be disrupted by either the development of new or use of existing technologies.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Vela Technologies invests in
Stages Vela Technologies invests in
Countries Vela Technologies invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (25%)
- Financial Services 2 (25%)
- Events 1 (13%)
- Mining 1 (13%)
- Sports 1 (13%)
Stage
- Post-IPO Equity 2 (25%)
- Seed 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
- Post-IPO Debt 1 (13%)
Country
- United Kingdom 4 (50%)
- Canada 1 (13%)
- Liberia 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Antony Laiker
Executive Director
|
Executive Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Nigel Brent Fitzpatrick
Non-Executive Chairman
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Non-Executive Chairman | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| VibePay is an online payment platform that allows users to send and receive money without incurring fees. It provides tools for generating payment links, buttons, and QR codes, enabling quick and easy transactions for businesses and customers. The platform simplifies financial management by consolidating payment requests and streamlining thepayment process. VibePay caters to various business needs, ensuring that sales teams can efficiently handle transactions and improve cash flow. By offering a user-friendly interface, VibePay enhances the overall payment experience for both sellers and buyers. | $6.5M / Nov 01, 2024 | ||
| Hamak Strategy is a mining exploration and development company. | $390.3K / Post-IPO Debt / Jul 17, 2024 | ||
| VibePay is an online payment platform that allows users to send and receive money without incurring fees. It provides tools for generating payment links, buttons, and QR codes, enabling quick and easy transactions for businesses and customers. The platform simplifies financial management by consolidating payment requests and streamlining thepayment process. VibePay caters to various business needs, ensuring that sales teams can efficiently handle transactions and improve cash flow. By offering a user-friendly interface, VibePay enhances the overall payment experience for both sellers and buyers. | $1.6M / Seed / Apr 16, 2020 | ||
| AirPortr is a London-based technology company that works closely with the airline industry to develop and deliver innovative services that help passengers and their luggage travel to and through airports more freely. Our vision is to make global air travel simpler and easier.In late 2016, the company launched a world first airline integrated homebag check-in and delivery service with British Airways. The digital service moved the bag drop desk online and has done away with traditional check-in at the airport. Having booked via a partner airline channel, it allows air passengers to check-in their bags with a vetted delivery driver, powered by AirPortr's technology. Leaving passengers free to travel to, and through, the airport at their leisure – only needing to collect their bags from baggage reclaim when they land. The product delivers operating benefits to airlines and airports, introducing baggage to the system early, reducing queues at peak times, and enabling bags to bypass expensive to operate landside terminal areas. AirPortr is starting to be recognised as a positive disrupter to traditional thinking and design of airports - with the potential to improve capacity at scale with its distributed network of baggage input points. The service has been identified as being totally aligned to IATA and ACI's NEXTT strategy and vision for the future of air travel. AirPortr now works with 7 leading airline brands including Virgin Atlantic and easyJet, across 3 large UK airports - and is growing rapidly, with more airlines and airports in the pipeline for 2019. | $8.6M / Series A / Aug 16, 2019 | ||
| Argo Blockchain is a global data centre management business that provides a low-cost, flexible and user-friendly platform for the mining of leading crypto-currencies. Argo’s cloud-based Mining as a Service (MaaS) platform is available at scale to anyone, anywhere on a monthly subscription. The platform provides consumers without significantcomputing expertise or complex and expensive hardware with the opportunity to mine Bitcoin Gold, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and Zcash. | Post-IPO Equity / Feb 18, 2019 | ||
| BTL offers blockchain solutions to businesses across multiple industries, in particular the finance, energy and gaming sectors. Operating from both Canada and the UK, BTL offers blockchain solutions to businesses across multiple industries, in particular the finance, energy and gaming sectors. BTL has built prototypes that showcase the capabilitiesof its Interbit platform.The Interbit blockchain platform facilitates the rapid development of business applications that will dramatically improve efficiency across several industries. Some of the world’s largest institutions are using Interbit to explore new opportunities on private blockchains.With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, and Canary Wharf in London, BTL is positioning itself as a front-runner in the blockchain ecosystem, providing advice and knowledge to industry leaders. | $12M / Post-IPO Equity / Nov 27, 2017 | ||
| Vibe Tickets believes in real fans exchanging tickets at real prices. Vibe Tickets is an open ticket marketplace where fans can buy and sell tickets transparently at fair value. A finalist in the the Virgin Media Business “VOOM 2016” competition, Vibe Tickets has recently launched an app. Vibe is on a mission to disrupt the multi-billion poundsecondary ticket market. | $807.5K / Equity Crowdfunding / Sep 14, 2016 | ||
| AirPortr is a London-based technology company that works closely with the airline industry to develop and deliver innovative services that help passengers and their luggage travel to and through airports more freely. Our vision is to make global air travel simpler and easier.In late 2016, the company launched a world first airline integrated homebag check-in and delivery service with British Airways. The digital service moved the bag drop desk online and has done away with traditional check-in at the airport. Having booked via a partner airline channel, it allows air passengers to check-in their bags with a vetted delivery driver, powered by AirPortr's technology. Leaving passengers free to travel to, and through, the airport at their leisure – only needing to collect their bags from baggage reclaim when they land. The product delivers operating benefits to airlines and airports, introducing baggage to the system early, reducing queues at peak times, and enabling bags to bypass expensive to operate landside terminal areas. AirPortr is starting to be recognised as a positive disrupter to traditional thinking and design of airports - with the potential to improve capacity at scale with its distributed network of baggage input points. The service has been identified as being totally aligned to IATA and ACI's NEXTT strategy and vision for the future of air travel. AirPortr now works with 7 leading airline brands including Virgin Atlantic and easyJet, across 3 large UK airports - and is growing rapidly, with more airlines and airports in the pipeline for 2019. | $3.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 05, 2016 |
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FAQ
What does Vela Technologies invest in?
Vela Technologies invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Events startups, most often at Post-IPO Equity and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Vela Technologies?
The team at Vela Technologies includes Antony Laiker (Executive Director) and Nigel Brent Fitzpatrick (Non-Executive Chairman). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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