Element finds, funds and nurtures the bold. Investors in tomorrow's financial technology
Employees: 1-10
Investment Stage: Series A
Portfolio 10
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 12.05.2022 | Token | token.io | $87.25M | United Kin... |
| 06.05.2022 | Januar | januar.com | $7.98M | Denmark, C... |
| 05.05.2022 | Arbolus | arbolus.com | $41M | United Kin... |
| 31.03.2022 | Wert.io | wert.io | $5M | Estonia, T... |
| 09.03.2022 | Thirdfort | thirdfort.com | $24.27M | United Kin... |
| 19.01.2022 | Banxware | banxware.com | $16.32M | Germany, B... |
| 08.07.2021 | Coincover | coincover.com | $39.47M | United Kin... |
| 04.03.2021 | hepster | hepster.com | $21.17M | Germany, M... |
| 16.02.2021 | Billhop | billhop.com | $16.7M | Sweden |
| 25.01.2021 | Minna Tech... | minnatechnologies.com | $25.45M | Sweden, Go... |
Persons 8
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| - | Nitya | Gupta | Fintech In... | linkedin.c... | - | n***a@elem... | - |
| - | Aleksandra | Tyurina | - | linkedin.c... | - | a********a... | - |
| - | Meera | Bissoondee... | Fintech In... | linkedin.c... | - | m***a@elem... | - |
| - | Joanna | Wlazlak | Head of Pl... | linkedin.c... | - | j****a@ele... | - |
| - | Steve | Gibson | Partner | linkedin.c... | - | s***e@elem... | - |
| - | Michael | McFadgen | Partner | linkedin.c... | - | i**o@eleme... | - |
| - | Spencer | Lake | Partner | linkedin.c... | - | s*****r@el... | - |
| - | Brendan | Woods | Venture Pa... | linkedin.c... | - | B*****n@el... | - |
News 17
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.05.2022 | Why we invested in Thirdfort | At Element Ventures, we focus on B2B fintech so it’s rare that we’ve had personal experience of using a product prior to investing. We must find other ways to validate the market need and customer experience. I often envy my consumer-focuse... |
| 05.05.2022 | Januar raises €6m to provide crypto gate for Europe | Januar raises historic €6 million seed round to provide compliant crypto gate for Europe |
| 29.04.2022 | Arbolus raises $15m to make human knowledge digital | London, 28th April: Arbolus, the knowledge-sharing platform, has closed a $15million Series A, led by Element Ventures. Arbolus is primed to be the leading disruptor in the expert knowledge industry. The company is transforming a previously... |
| 13.03.2022 | Thirdfort raises £15m to digitise AML | London, 8th March: Thirdfort a risk management platform for professional services, has secured £15m in a Series A round. The company will use the financing to ramp up growth and product development, in line with its vision to build a seamle... |
| 04.02.2022 | Element Ventures leads €10m investment round into Berlin based Banxware | Berlin, January 12th, 2022: Berlin-based Fintech Banxware has raised EUR 10 million as a Seed Extension round led by Element Ventures, and joined by co-investors D4 Ventures, FinVC and Varengold Bank AG. All three VC firms have an extensive... |
| 04.02.2022 | Why we invested in Banxware | Banxware – reputation of the team caught the eye, but great potential of the product won the heart (and investment!) |
| - | Wert, the payment gateway for NFTs lands seed round | Tallinn, 6th April: Wert.io, the first checkout for NFTs, has raised €4 million in a seed round to expand geographic coverage and to continue building innovative Web3 infrastructure solutions. |
| - | Why we invested in Minna Technologies | Subscription pricing is a great innovation. You can buy almost anything on subscription, the model allows for smoothing of purchases and creates predictability in finances. For companies, subscriptions create the recurring revenue stream so... |
| - | Why we invested in Hepster | There’s an iconic moment in Back to the Future where Doc Brown and Marty are standing in a carpark, hair frazzled and shocked, having just sent a dog one minute into the future. Their faces perfectly express one thought, ‘did we really just... |
| - | Token secures $40m to scale Open Banking payments in Europe | Open banking payments platform, Token.io, today announces it has raised $40m in a Series C funding. |
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Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.07.2023 | Rostock-based insurtech hepster raises €10 million to focus on profitability and sustainable growth | German embedded insurtech hepster has raised €10 million in a Series B funding round. Via its API it enables companies 'to integrate needs-based and individual insurance into their offerings', including mobility, electronics, equipment, tra... |
| 08.03.2022 | Meet Thirdfort, the startup that aims to take on rising money laundering and payment fraud nightmare with £15 million | With spiralling payment scams and money laundering now costing the U.K. economy £100 billion annually, regulated professionals face an ever-growing risk and compliance burden. Tackling this burden manually is not only costly but the client ... |
| 04.02.2022 | Element Ventures leads €10m investment round into Berlin based Banxware | Berlin, January 12th, 2022: Berlin-based Fintech Banxware has raised EUR 10 million as a Seed Extension round led by Element Ventures, and joined by co-investors D4 Ventures, FinVC and Varengold Bank AG. All three VC firms have an extensive... |
| 03.02.2022 | Sweden’s B2B payments startup Billhop ropes in €10.5 million led by EQT Ventures | Swedish proprietary straight-through processing (STP) payments platform Billhop has raised €10.5 million. The round was led by EQT Ventures with participation from Element Ventures. The funding will be used to scale aggressively – including... |
| 04.08.2021 | Element Ventures launches €109.6 million fund to invest in future leaders of B2B financial technology | Element Ventures, one of Europe’s leading B2B fintech-focused venture capital firms, is today announcing an approx. €109.6 million fund to invest in the founders building tomorrow’s financial enterprise technology businesses. Founded by Ste... |
| 03.08.2021 | Noi finanțări pentru startup-uri IT, dintr-un fond european de investiții de 130 milioane dolari | Startup-urile IT europene, care activează în domeniul tehnologiilor financiare (fintech) vor putea obține noi finanțări de capital de risc dintr-un fond european de investiții în valoare totală de 130 de milioane de dolari, lansat la Londra... |
| 03.08.2021 | UK-based Element Ventures launches new €109.4M fund to back “founders building tomorrow’s financial technology” | UK-based Element Ventures is a B2B fintech-focused VC fund that backs companies that utilise technology to deliver competitive advantages in B2B verticals. In a recent development, the VC firm announced a $130M (approx €109.4M) fund to inve... |
| 02.08.2021 | Element Ventures pulls in $130M to double-down on the fintech enterprise trend | With the rise of Open Banking, PSD2 Regulation, insurtech and the whole, general fintech boom, tech investors have realized there is an increasing place for dedicated funds which double down on this ongoing movement. When you look at the ri... |
| 02.08.2021 | Element Ventures announces $130M fund for future fintech leaders in UK and EU | UK venture capital firm, Element Ventures, has announced a $130 million fund aimed at funding the founders and ideas that will be powering tomorrow’s financial technology. The fund was backed by more than thirty founders and executives from... |
| 08.03.2021 | London’s Element Ventures leads £7.2M funding round for insurtech startup Hepster | London-based Element Ventures have led a $10 million (£7.23 million approx.) Series A funding round for insurtech startup Hepster. Hepster helps companies access and provide bespoke insurance policies that are not available through traditio... |
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