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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Financial Services startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cabiedes & Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe | ||
Kibo Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe | ||
Seaya Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe | ||
JME Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe | ||
K Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Seed investors in Madrid. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Financial Services Investors & Funds (Madrid)
Cabiedes & Partners
Cabiedes & Partners is a Spanish venture capital firm that provides seed funding and early-stage and later-stage investment services. Cabiedes & Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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Kibo Ventures
Kibo Ventures, based in Madrid (Spain) is a VC Fund focused on early-stage investments in digital companies. Kibo Ventures manages $130 million from a mix of institutional and private investors, including IEF, Telefonica, the Spanish Government (through CDTI), Mutua Madrileña (Spain’s largest insurance company) and Axis (ICO’s 25 year-old private equity arm). Specifically, Kibo likes to invest in companies which combine exceptional and committed teams, aiming to digitalize a product or service in a big-enough market with international potential. Kibo is managed by an experienced team of professionals with a solid track record, who are actively involved in the companies in which they invest. Kibo follows a stage-investment approach and financially supports portfolio companies as they grow, whilst promoting co-investment from valuable investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Seaya Ventures
Seaya Ventures is a Spanish venture fund investing in early and growth-stage Internet and technology-enabled companies in Spain and Latin America. The firm seeks to transform early and growth-stage companies into category leaders, with a focus on innovative businesses that require growth or expansion capital and can build lasting value. Its investments are focused on products and services that facilitate the migration to a digital world such as digital marketplaces, consumer and internet media, consumer and mobile media, enterprise, and consumer software and services, and Payment: Internet and Mobile.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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JME Ventures
JME Venture Capital is an early-stage investment fund based in Madrid and Barcelona. The company was established in 2009 and is based in Madrid, Spain.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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K Fund
K Fund is a multi-stage venture capital firm that provides early-stage venture investments to startups across Spain, Portugal and Latin America. We believe in promoting the evolution of the Spanish ecosystem by investing in digital-first companies. K fund was founded in 2016 by Inaki Arolla, Carina Szpilka and Ian Noel and is based in Madrid, with offices in Barcelona and Lisbon.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Internet, Venture Capital
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Faraday Venture Partners
Faraday Venture Partners is a private investors club that offers an exclusive investment service to its partners. The company analyzes innovative start-up projects in need of private financing and offers promising projects for investment to partners, co-investors, and business angels. The company offers project analysis and selection services, to carry out a strictly confidential due diligence process. Active management and assessment of investment stake, to offer diligent acquisition and sales assessment of customers existing investment with the company itself. The company also offers empowerment of entrepreneurial initiatives and custom exit strategy assessment, to maintain a close relationship with portfolio companies, offering personalized support and resources. Faraday Venture Partners was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Bankinter
Bankinter is an innovative Spanish commercial bank. From an investment perspective, Bankinter’s Venture Capital team and Fundación Innovación Bankinter jointly develop a program called Venture Capital Program, focused on identifying and investing in high potential startups using the bank’s resources. The program has been active since 2013, and from that moment it has already invested in more than 40 startups. In addition to the investment itself, the program tries to add value to the companies with which it interacts through the sharing of experiences and best practices. A key part of the company’s strategy is the quality of customer service and innovation. The spirit is defined by the values ​​agility, enthusiasm, integrity, and originality. The company offers a wide range of financial products and services, in addition to advising clients, aggregators, product simulators, and a variety of value-added services. The company’s staff are trained, agile, flexible workforce, capable of adapting to technological and market changes. Bankinter was founded on 1965 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, Venture Capital
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Civeta Investment
The Civet is a mammal small, omnivorous, with excellent hearing and vision and very prolific . Inspired by these characteristics a business group of the Internet world came together in 2013 to bring these features to the Internet investment. Civet Investment SA is a company established in March 2013 with the objective of investing in technology startups. They seek investments with high growth potential where they can bring something more than capital: What they call Smart Money or Smart Money. Thanks to the experience of their founders and members of the board, try their entrance as partners in a company contribution experience, advice and support arising from synergies between projects which they are partners. They can consider Civet Investment SA as a Business Angel Association, where they seek to grow periodically to accommodate more members and more investment.
Stages: Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Internet of Things
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Banco Santander
Banco Santander is a global multinational bank in 2012 was confirmed for the third time in recent years, such as the Best Bank in the World, according to the annual ranking of Euromoney . At the end of last year, Santander was the largest in the Eurozone and one of the thirteen largest in the world by market capitalization: 63.000 million euros. Based on a business model that focuses on products and commercial banking services to individuals, small businesses and companies, Santander now serves over 100 million customers a global network of 14,400 offices, the largest banking international. Manages funds 1,388 billion euros for all customer segments, has more than 3.3 million employees and 187,000 shareholders. Founded in 1857 in the Spanish city of Santander on 76 businessmen linked to the regional economy and colonial trade in Spain with America, over one hundred Banco Santander rose during the twentieth century all rungs of the financial ladder to become the twenty-first century in a global banking leader concerning good management and solvency of the sector, with a strong presence in ten countries on two continents, Europe and America, and businesses in more than forty different markets. Today, Santander is the largest financial group in his home country, Spain, and also in Latin America, a continent where its most important markets are Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina. It has achieved very high positions in the UK, Germany, Portugal, Poland and the U.S. northeast. It also offers consumer financing, in addition to these major markets in the Nordic countries plus the Netherlands, Austria, Italy and Belgium.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Banking, Cyber Security, Finance, Financial Services, Legal
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Telefónica Innovation Ventures
Telefónica Innovation Ventures is Telefónica’s corporate venture vehicle that invests and builds strategic partners aligned with Telefónica’s global strategy. It invests directly in tech startups or through a network of leading venture capital funds in which TIV participate as a limited partner in key markets for Telefónica. Currently, its portfolio is formed of 10 startups invested directly and more than 80 startups invested through 12 Venture Capital funds. It has offices in Silicon Valley and Madrid, with an investment scope focused on Europe, the United States, Israel and, Latin America. It has focus on investing in 5G and next-generation communications, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, internet of things, cloud, edge, video, gaming and financial technology, and digital transformation.
Stages: Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Data Services, Cyber Security, Financial Services, Internet of Things, Network Security, Venture Capital, Video
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Fellow Funders
Fellow Funders is an independent firm with the goal of accompanying SMEs and Startups in their plans for expansion and consolidation through optimal financing formulas. The finance symphony represents the harmony of all 4 movements at the service of entrepeneurs, executives and their companies, and investors. The Finance Symphony’s composition consists of four movements: the company’s value assigned through Fair Value, then the financing rounds through the Crowd Investment platform (Equity Crowdfunding), afterwards the financial and strategic consulting through Alternative Assets. And lastly, providing help to our customers, once they are in the capital markets, through our Capital Markets division.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Crowdfunding, Financial Services, FinTech
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VAS Ventures
VAS Ventures is Martin Varsavsky’s early stage investment fund. They are looking for companies whose innovative founders think big and are courageous enough to shape the future. Martin is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School and investor. As a founder, he has built 5 successful companies, Viatel, Jazztel, Ya.com, Fon and Prelude. Viatel, Jazztel, and Ya.com all sold for over $700m. As an investor, he backed fascinating companies such as 23andMe, Eolia, Smarthings, Tumblr and Aura Biosciences. VAS Ventures’ key for success is offering hands-on mentoring from Martin.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Inception Capital
Inception Capital is a London-based VC firm that invests in digital companies. The firm focuses on internet, mobile platforms, digital contents, and innovative technology projects.
Stages: Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Onza Capital
Onza Capital is a venture capital company that invests in innovative Internet companies and mobile platforms in key segments of the online world. The firm invests in digital companies that have successfully completed seed stage and combine two essential characteristics: a proven business model and international scalability.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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Top Seeds Lab
Top Seeds Lab, founded by Ignacio Macias, has accelerated dozens of startups and invested in 40 of them through different investment vehicles. It is the only Spanish accelerator belonging to the prestigious Global Accelerator Network (GAN) and has received multiple awards.
In 2015 Dr Javier Gonzalez-Soria joined Top Seeds Lab as CEO, to specialise it exclusively on TravelTech and only provide acceleration services to those startups where a related investment vehicle had invested, creating a world-class Advisory Board, with more of the 80 most significant travel and digital companies, represented at C-level, which asses Top Seeds Lab about what are the problems to be solved in the travel industry and what solutions and technology seem to be more promising.
As Ignacio and Javier manage both Top Seeds Lab and TRAVEL TECH 1 SCR, there is a total alignment between all the resources and objectives, which allows TRAVEL TECH 1 SCR to enjoy the world-class operating procedures and networking of GAN, have direct access to the Advisory Board of Top Seeds Lab and be a relevant part of the agreement signed between Top Seeds Lab and the UN World Travel Organization. Besides, both Managing Partners of TRAVEL TECH 1 SCR are committed to creating a fluent relationship between the distinguish Limited Partners and between them and the top C-levels of the Advisory Board of Top Seeds Lab, according to the needs of the Limited Partners.
Stages: Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Traveltech
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FINTECH VENTURES
Fintech Ventures Fund provides equity to emerging potential leaders and quality niche players in non-banking lending and payment spaces. We are focused on investing in growing technological companies in initial stages of development, from start-up to growth companies. At Fintech Ventures, we have many years of collective personal entrepreneurial, managerial and investment experience in building billion dollar companies from humble beginnings.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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TrenLab
TrenLab is a global startup acceleration program in collaboration with WAYRA. It is an innovation hub in the mobility, transport and logistics sector. TrenLab is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Stages: Seed
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Transportation
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