List of the 900 largest Fintech Venture Capital Investors [2023]

List of 5 large Fintech venture capital investors

The financial sector is one of the most influential and important parts of our economy and, with the growth of digitalization, the number of financial technology companies (better known as Fintech) has increased significantly. This article highlights five interesting fintech venture capital investors from our curated Fintech VC funds list.

1. Alven (France)

Alven is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Paris. As of 2020 Alven has over €2 billion in funds under management and backed more than 160 startups over the last 22 years. Alevn’s sector of interests include mainly data management platforms, AI, security solutions, Saas and more. An interesting portfolio company is Qonto, a company aims to become the next generation bank for entrepreneurs, SMEs and startups by providing fast and time saving online services improving financial visibility and save banking fees.

2. Anthemis Group (United Kingdom)

Anthemis Group is a global platform based in London, that aims to solve the financial systems’ most pressing challenges faster and better. The firm invests across all stages of growth from pre-seed to IPO. In 2019 Anthemis launched a Female Innovators Lab Fund, that became the largest early-stage fintech fund dedicated to companies founded by women in 2023. An example portfolio company is Addition Wealth, a financial wellness platform based in New York. The company allows employees to make smart, informed financial decisions, by taking a tech-forward approach.

3. Mendoza Ventures (USA)

Mendoza Ventures is a venture capital fund that is mostly interested in fintech, AI, and cybersecurity. They have an actively managed approach and invest in early and growth stage companies. The company also wants to improve diversity, therefore, 75 % of their portfolio consists of immigrant-, people of colour-, and women-led start-ups. One of these companies is Finch, an application that allows flexible investing.

4. Varanium NexGen (India)

Varanium NexGen is India’s first venture capital fund focused on fintech and was established in 2019. They are interested in start-ups with early revenues and initial ticket sizes range from 250k to 1.5M USD. The company invested in HomeCapital, a technology platform that provides financial solutions regarding down payments and mortgage finances for homebuyers.

5. Embedded Capital (Germany)

Embedded Capital is an early-stage venture capital company that has significant experience in building relevant financial platforms that set a foundation for future fintech companies. Now, they invest in fintech companies that have innovative and revolutionary business ideas. One of these companies is Nelly, a platform that enables digital contract signing and direct payments.

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Included information in our Fintech investor list

Our keyword analysis-based list include the following general columns:

• Name of the VC fund
• Country of origin
• URL
• E-mail (general)
• Investment focus (if data available)
• Corporate VC (yes/no)

The following columns are based on the keyword crawler, which is a Python-based, in-house developed tool that crawls every page for at least 45 seconds to find the respective keywords.

• total_frequency (e.g.: 3420) – total counted occurrences of keywords on the VC website
• average_keyword_rate (e.g. 0.02) – average rate of keyword occurrences per subpage in relation with total number of words
• most_common_keyword (e.g. „fintech“) – keyword that was counted the most often on respective VC website
• most_common_keyword_frequency (e.g. 4832) – number of times the most common keyword was counted
• sub_url_highest_rate (e.g. https://mendoza-ventures.com/) – sub url with the highest number of found keywords
• highest_rate (e.g. 0.066) – highest keyword rate per subpage
• frequency_per_keyword: {‘fintech’: 4832, ‘fintechs’: 0, ‘neobank’: 0} – dictionary of number of keyword occurrences per keyword

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Results of our keyword analysis

In the next paragraph, we are focusing on insights derived from our keyword research, which was based on our list of the 2,500 largest VC investors worldwide.

Percentage of VC funds that invest in Fintech

Our keyword crawler analyzed more than 2,500 venture capital funds regarding fintech investment keywords. We found out that 39.9 % of the global VC funds mention fintech.

Focus on Fintech

This bar chart shows the most important keywords from our keyword search, however most companies use the keyword fintech to describe their vc company.