# Willoughby Capital

> Willoughby Capital is a VC fund backing E-Commerce and Cryptocurrency. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/willoughby-capital-holdings/
- Website: https://www.willcapllc.com

Willoughby Capital is an investment firm that combines institutional scale with a permanent capital base. Willoughby is focused on partnering with best-in-class growth companies across private and public markets. It was founded in 2009 by Daniel Och and is headquartered in New York, United States.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $70M–$1B |
| Series C | $60M–$340M |
| Series D | $163M–$393M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 16% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 16% |
| Payments | 3 | 12% |
| Software | 3 | 12% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 12% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 6 | 24% |
| Series D | 5 | 20% |
| Series B | 4 | 16% |
| Series A | 2 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 52% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| Bahamas | 1 | 4% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Morgan Rutman | President | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgan-rutman |
| Daniel Och | Founder, Chairman | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-och |
| Greg Geremia | Manager of Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-geremia |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kernel / Counter Service | Kernel Foods is a robot-powered fast food startup that aims to operate with as few as three employees. The company intends to revolutionize technology, labor, real estate, and menu, and implement automation with a human touch. | $36M | Series A | Aug 10, 2023 |  |
| Tegus | Tegus is a qualitative research platform for buy-side investors. The company's database is a smart-searchable platform of peer-led expert call transcripts by investors for investors. Its on-demand transcripts enable investors to get up to speed on a name in hours, not days. With Tegus, investors can get into the nuts and bolts of a business,leveraging expert research on demand.For custom calls, Tegus offers white glove service to connect its customers with top experts, all without the usual markup. Its database customers enjoy custom sourced 1:1 expert calls at the adviser's cost. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| Burritowallet | Burritowallet is a financial services company that offers a secure and user-friendly mobile wallet for managing crypto assets. It supports 15 mainnets and over 1,000 cryptocurrencies, providing a comprehensive platform for the exploration of Web3. Users can send NFTs and tokens to their contacts with ease, making it a convenient tool for cryptotransactions. The company also provides support for decentralized finance, positioning itself at the forefront of this emerging financial landscape. In addition, Burritowallet is a subsidiary of Bithumb Korea, further solidifying its presence in the crypto industry. | $3.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 26, 2022 |  |
| Scalapay | Founded in 2019 by Simone Mancini and Johnny Mitrevski, Scalapay is a financial technology company specializing in "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) services, aimed at transforming how consumers shop both online and in-store. While headquartered in Milan, Italy, the company has rapidly expanded across Europe, providing a flexible paymentsolution that allows customers to split their purchases into three interest-free instalments. | $213M | Series B | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Cazoo | Cazoo is pioneering the shift to online car buying and selling in the UK and mainland Europe and has already sold over 35,000 cars since its launch less than two years ago to consumers across the UK who have embraced the selection, transparency and convenience of buying quality used cars entirely online. Cazoo is also Europe’s leading consumer carsubscription player with thousands of subscribers across the UK, France and Germany.Cazoo has developed a market leading brand and fully integrated platform, where it owns and reconditions all its cars before offering them for either delivery or collection in as little as 72 hours. Over the past three years, Cazoo has grown its team to over 2,500 customer-obsessed staff, focussed on delivering the best car buying and selling experience to consumers across the UK & Europe. Already the leading online car retailer in the UK, Cazoo is expanding into mainland Europe as it seeks to disrupt the largely offline $700 billion used car market. | $630M | Post-IPO Debt | Feb 10, 2022 |  |
| TRLab | TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong. | $4.2M | Seed | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| Paradox | Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions. The company is helping HR and talent teams automate administrative tasks and deliver real-time candidate and employee communicationsParadox's flagship product is Olivia, the AI recruiting assistant obsessedwith improving and reinventing the candidate experience. It delivers one-to-one candidate experience at scale and even handles interview scheduling. It also allows talent acquisition and human resources professionals to focus on what they do best, human interaction, while focusing on experience, automation, and intelligence. | $200M | Series C | Dec 27, 2021 |  |
| Figment | Figment offers institutional-grade staking solutions for established and emerging Proof-of-Stake protocols, allowing users to earn rewards and secure digital assets. The company provides resources for staking with protocols like Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot, featuring security and validator performance monitoring. Figment delivers staking APIs,rewards reporting tools, and on-chain data sets for asset managers and exchanges. | $110M | Series C | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| 100 Thieves | 100 Thieves, is an American e-sports, lifestyle, and apparel brand located in Los Angeles in California. It began operation in 2017. | $60M | Series C | Dec 02, 2021 |  |
| Tegus | Tegus is a qualitative research platform for buy-side investors. The company's database is a smart-searchable platform of peer-led expert call transcripts by investors for investors. Its on-demand transcripts enable investors to get up to speed on a name in hours, not days. With Tegus, investors can get into the nuts and bolts of a business,leveraging expert research on demand.For custom calls, Tegus offers white glove service to connect its customers with top experts, all without the usual markup. Its database customers enjoy custom sourced 1:1 expert calls at the adviser's cost. | $90M | Series B | Nov 29, 2021 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sapphire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sapphire-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Viking Global Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/viking-global-investors) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bond](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bond-57ec) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Willoughby Capital invest in?

Willoughby Capital invests primarily in E-Commerce, Cryptocurrency and Payments startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Willoughby Capital's check size?

Willoughby Capital typically joins rounds of $70M–$1B at Series B, $60M–$340M at Series C and $163M–$393M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Willoughby Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Willoughby Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Willoughby Capital?

The team at Willoughby Capital includes Morgan Rutman (President), Daniel Och (Founder, Chairman) and Greg Geremia (Manager of Operations). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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