Vinoth Jayakumar
Partner @ Molten Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Vinoth Jayakumar is a Series A investor at Molten Ventures in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Vinoth joined Draper Esprit on the investment team in 2016. Prior to that he worked at a boutique management consulting firm in London for 6 years. He previously ran a micro-angel fund, investing in crowdfunded start-ups. Vinoth is a Chartered Accountant (ACA, ICAEW) and has a degree in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Vinoth Jayakumar invests in
Stages Vinoth Jayakumar invests in
Countries Vinoth Jayakumar invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 6 (38%)
- Financial Services 6 (38%)
- Payments 5 (31%)
- Banking 3 (19%)
- Finance 3 (19%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (19%)
- Series B 3 (19%)
- Series C 3 (19%)
- Seed 1 (6%)
Country
- United Kingdom 6 (38%)
- Germany 2 (13%)
- Belgium 1 (6%)
- United States 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| FintechOS is driving a paradigm shift in the way financial products and services are created by making banks and insurers truly customer-centric. We consolidate critical data from multiple sources like existing databases and ecosystem APIs and these rich data insights are automatically plugged into every step of the customer journey to create trulypersonalized offerings. Our tech integrates seamlessly with existing IT systems and our low code tools quickly empower organizations to design personalized customer experiences. These capabilities free our customers to tailor products, services, and interactions to a segment of one, increase ROI and decrease time-to-market. | $60M / Series B / May 30, 2024 | ||
| SettleMint's product is an easy to use platform for web2 engineers to build, deploy and integrate on web3 infrastructure. SettleMint's high performance, low code platform covers the complete web3 application development lifecycle and stack: - node hosting as a service: pick your protocol, pick your cloud, pick your region and clickdeploy. 2 minutes to set up your infrastructure. - use case development: choose from the library of fully customizable smart contract templates for more than 50 use cases. - indexing: full Graph QL integration to make querying on chain data super efficient. - storage: full IPFS node deployment for decentralized data storage, Hasura and S3 deployment for centralized storage. - UI builder: fully customizable automated user interface builder.All tools in the platform are fully scalable. With one click, scale up or scale down resources allocated to each deployed service. SOC2 certified and enterprise grade with a world class deployment and orchestration engine to remove risk, complexity and a whole lot of headaches for web3 development. Build fast and don't break things.Active in Europe, MEA, India and APAC with offices in Belgium, Dubai, Delhi, Singapore and Tokyo. | $15.5M / Series A / Oct 11, 2022 | ||
| TILT app allow users to discover small brands, buy through videos, livestreams, and eard rewards. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Sep 22, 2022 | ||
| Airbank is the next-generation financial management platform for startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Airbank transforms B2B finance for SMBs in Europe by building the simplest way for businesses to collect, pay, and finance invoices. Airbank connects with existing bank accounts of its users and provides real-time visibility intotheir cash flow. | $20M / Series A / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| Friday Finance is a next-generation financial management platform for startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Friday Finance transforms B2B finance for SMBs in Europe by building the simplest way for businesses to collect, pay, and finance invoices. Friday Finance connects with existing bank accounts of its users and providesreal-time visibility into their cash flow.The company was established in 2021 and is based in Berlin, Germany. | $20M / Series A / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| PrimaryBid is a technology platform that allows everyday investors fair access to public companies raising capital. PrimaryBid always ensures that retail investors transact at the same time and at the same price as institutional investors.Through PrimaryBid's long-term agreement with the London Stock Exchange, the company has created theinfrastructure to seamlessly connect everyday investors with public companies when it matters most. | $190M / Series C / Feb 20, 2022 | ||
| Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them. | $1.4M / Seed / Feb 02, 2022 | ||
| Form3 delivers cloud-based connectivity, payment processing, clearing, and settlement services. It is a fully managed payment technology service combining a powerful AWS cloud processing platform, multiple-scheme payment gateways, and a fully managed 24x7 service model. Form3's powerful micro-services architecture and API's provide asingle point of simple access to the full universe of payment schemes.Its clients include a wide range of regulated financial institutions, including leading banks, non-bank financial institutions, and fintech companies (payment institutions, e-money providers, and pre-paid card providers). Form3 was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England. | $160.1M / Series C / Sep 16, 2021 | ||
| Maroo is a payment platform tailored for the wedding and events industry, allowing businesses to manage payments with no processing fees. It supports payment acceptance, branded invoice creation, and payments to freelancers and suppliers. A notable feature is its zero fee model, where fees can be passed onto clients. Trusted by over 9,000businesses, Maroo has facilitated more than $180 million in revenue for its community of event professionals | $825K / Pre-Seed / Jun 23, 2021 | ||
| Cervest's AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform and EarthScan(TM) product put the power of a thousand climate scientists into the hands of decision makers across businesses, governments, insurance companies and financial markets to help them quantify, manage and adapt to climate change at an asset-level. We are a Certified B Corporationwith a vision to democratize access to Climate Intelligence through our open access platform, driving a shared responsibility to protect the world’s critical assets. Cervest is backed by mission-aligned investors, including Astanor Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Future Positive Capital, Draper Espirit and UNTITLED.Discover how current and future climate events such as flooding, droughts, and extreme temperatures will impact the assets you own, manage, or depend on. Learn more at cervest.earth. | $22.7M / Series A / May 20, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Molten Ventures
Molten Ventures is a leading British venture capital firm backing Europe’s highest-growth private technology companies. Our expert investment team stay ahead of the curve, identifying transformative trends and next-generation companies before they break through. We combine multiple pools of capital to invest at all stages of the businesslifecycle—from seed and early stage to growth and late stage—focusing on disruptive sectors like Spacetech, Fintech, and AI. Our strategy is simple: back bold ideas, scale them with capital and expertise, and unlock high-value exits—whether through strategic acquisitions, trade buy-outs, or IPOs. Since our 2016 IPO, we’ve delivered strong realised returns, reinvesting into the next wave of innovation—creating a virtuous cycle of growth and value.
Molten Ventures Contacts
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Inga Deakin
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John Marsh
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What does Vinoth Jayakumar invest in?
Vinoth Jayakumar invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Series A and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 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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The most recent investment recorded for Vinoth Jayakumar closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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