# Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures

> Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures is a VC fund backing FinTech. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Driebergen, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 48%
- Fund size: $123M
- Last fund: Jun 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/velocity-capital-private-equity
- Website: https://www.velocityfintech.com

Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures is a VC fund in Driebergen focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Velocity Capital invests in fintech companies providing early stage (no seed) capital funding to entrepreneurs with vision, determination, and strong business models.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$1.2M |
| Series A | $3M–$16M |
| Series B | $5.5M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 12 | 41% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 31% |
| Payments | 4 | 14% |
| Software | 4 | 14% |
| Finance | 3 | 10% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 21% |
| Series B | 6 | 21% |
| Seed | 3 | 10% |
| Series C | 3 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 6 | 21% |
| United States | 2 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Kenya | 1 | 3% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Allard Luchsinger | Director | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allard-luchsinger |
| Willem Willemstein | CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/willem-willemstein |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yoco | Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa. Yoco helps 100,000 small businesses in South Africa get paid in-store, online, and on the go. Yoco was named one of the top 250 most promising fintech companies by CB Insights for the last 3 years running.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica. | $70M | Series C | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| The Social Handshake | The Social Handshake connects employers, employees and charities through Payroll Giving. | $1.2M | Seed | May 19, 2022 |  |
| Gotrade | Gotrade is a fractional share trading startup that enables 150 countries to invest commission-free in fractions of companies. Users can make a maximum of three-day trades every five trading days for accounts under $25,000. It is currently available on an invite-only basis. | $15.5M | Series A | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| Yoco | Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa. Yoco helps 100,000 small businesses in South Africa get paid in-store, online, and on the go. Yoco was named one of the top 250 most promising fintech companies by CB Insights for the last 3 years running.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica. | $83M | Series C | Jul 27, 2021 |  |
| BUX | BUX specializes in the fields of fintech, mobile apps, investments, stocks, and zero-commission. Its platform makes commission-free investing accessible, intuitive, and affordable for both first time and existing investors. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland. | $80.5M | Series C | Apr 22, 2021 |  |
| Meniga | Meniga is a digital banking platform that helps banks, businesses, and individuals manage their financial data. Its product offering includes data aggregation, personal and business finance management, cashback rewards, and transaction-based carbon insights.They are a team of coders, designers, salespeople, and data scientists who get excitedabout shaping the future of financial technology. They work with complicated solutions that operate across channels, are modular, and customizable for every client. If you love big data, predictive models, analytics, operational benchmarking, and getting the job done they’d like to hear from you. | $11.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 25, 2021 |  |
| Twisto | Twisto is a payment app for the mobile-first era. Connected with a Mastercard and Apple Pay-compatible, the Twisto account enables customers to pay for their online purchases with just one click, deal with bills and invoices by taking a photo of them within the app, and pay just about anywhere else with the card, a special payment bracelet or ApplePay.On top of that, the account comes with the best exchange rate possible for international payments. Twisto aggregates the payments in a neatly designed mobile app, and customers pay them all at once at the end of each month. | $21.8M | Series C | Jan 14, 2021 |  |
| Twisto | Twisto is a payment app for the mobile-first era. Connected with a Mastercard and Apple Pay-compatible, the Twisto account enables customers to pay for their online purchases with just one click, deal with bills and invoices by taking a photo of them within the app, and pay just about anywhere else with the card, a special payment bracelet or ApplePay.On top of that, the account comes with the best exchange rate possible for international payments. Twisto aggregates the payments in a neatly designed mobile app, and customers pay them all at once at the end of each month. | $21.8M | Series C | Jan 14, 2021 |  |
| FiveDegrees | Five Degrees is a financial technology solutions provider that offers next generation banking software to retail and private banks. Its core BPM banking solution, Matrix, provides a fully automated banking services platform that supports any segment, product, or channel via a mid-office environment, connected to legacy back-office, or the availableMatrix back office. The company supports its clients throughout the complete value chain by providing project management to technical and functional knowledge. Its technical staff offers training of users, maintenance staff, and offers support on managing parts of the infrastructure.Five Degrees was founded on 2009 and is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. | $24.1M |  | Dec 17, 2020 |  |
| Meniga | Meniga is a digital banking platform that helps banks, businesses, and individuals manage their financial data. Its product offering includes data aggregation, personal and business finance management, cashback rewards, and transaction-based carbon insights.They are a team of coders, designers, salespeople, and data scientists who get excitedabout shaping the future of financial technology. They work with complicated solutions that operate across channels, are modular, and customizable for every client. If you love big data, predictive models, analytics, operational benchmarking, and getting the job done they’d like to hear from you. | $9.4M | Corporate Round | May 28, 2020 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures invest in?

Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures's check size?

Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$1.2M at Seed, $3M–$16M at Series A and $5.5M–$25M 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 Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures?

Public channels for Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures?

The team at Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures includes Allard Luchsinger (Director) and Willem Willemstein (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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