13books Capital

13Books Capital is a venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2019. The firm specializes in providing financial assistance and support to companies, with a particular focus on the financial technology sector. It manages investment processes and offers financial services aimed at fostering growth and innovation within its target industries.

Steve Gibson

Partner

Brendan Woods

Venture Partner

24 past transactions

Najar

Series A in 2024
Welii is a developer of a software as a service (SaaS) management platform that aims to enhance operational efficiency by aligning the interests of IT and finance departments within organizations. The platform provides a comprehensive solution that includes tools for shadow management, optimized inventory, and contract monitoring, allowing businesses to gain valuable insights into their SaaS usage and spending. Additionally, it offers procurement support to streamline the management of software contracts. By facilitating better oversight and control over SaaS tools, Welii helps organizations improve their performance and operational effectiveness.

Briink

Seed Round in 2024
Briink is a technology company that utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance the workflows of sustainable finance teams. It has developed a platform that automates the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) audit reporting processes for asset managers, auditors, and corporations. By streamlining taxonomy management and facilitating compliance with sustainable finance disclosures, Briink empowers private equity firms and other organizations to make informed investment decisions. The platform aims to improve sustainability profiles, enhance transparency in ESG data, and address issues related to greenwashing, ultimately supporting the broader goals of sustainable finance.

Infact Systems

Seed Round in 2024
Infact Systems is a company dedicated to modernizing affordability and credit information, primarily within the banking sector. By providing real-time, contextual data, Infact Systems aims to enhance responsible financial behavior and facilitate more informed lending decisions. Their platform offers comprehensive credit reporting, allowing lenders to access up-to-date information that aids in making swift and accurate lending choices. Additionally, Infact Systems focuses on integration and customization services for its HPZone platform, ensuring seamless connectivity with external laboratory systems. The company also emphasizes empowering women to take control of their financial futures through targeted services.

Aria

Series A in 2023
Aria is a fintech startup founded in 2019 and based in Paris, France, that focuses on improving payment processes for businesses and their freelancers. The company offers innovative financial software that allows organizations to manage their payment terms effectively, thereby enhancing their cash flow and competitiveness. Aria's platform provides a credit infrastructure that enables instant payments, allowing companies to unlock cash on demand from corporate lenders. By aligning with each client's billing procedures, Aria simplifies the payment process, helping businesses maintain financial stability while they grow.

Banxware

Series A in 2023
Banxware is a fintech startup based in Berlin, founded in 2020 by Miriam Wohlfarth, Jens Röhrborn, and Fabian Heiß. The company specializes in embedded lending solutions designed for platform-based businesses, including fintechs and banks. Its lending-as-a-service platform allows digital marketplaces, payment providers, and other aggregators to offer white-label financial products, particularly loans, to their merchants. By integrating essential financial infrastructure directly into various platforms, Banxware enables small and medium-sized enterprises, e-commerce sellers, and restaurant owners to access necessary liquidity. The platform features robust capabilities such as customer onboarding, credit scoring, risk management, and loan origination, thereby promoting growth and enhancing customer convenience. With a dedicated team of over 50 employees, Banxware aims to streamline financing solutions across Europe, adapting to the needs of a rapidly evolving digital economy.

Crezco

Series A in 2023
Crezco is a developer of payment processing software aimed at reducing trade friction and facilitating business growth. The company offers innovative payment solutions that promote cardless and contactless transactions through open banking facilities. By enabling account-to-account payments, Crezco helps clients minimize costs associated with traditional card schemes, providing a more efficient and economical payment method. Additionally, the company fosters collaboration between suppliers and customers while offering role-based access for internal team members, enhancing the overall user experience and operational efficiency.

hepster

Venture Round in 2023
Hepster is an InsurTech company specializing in the development of customized insurance products that are seamlessly integrated into digital processes and systems. The company operates primarily on a B2B model, which is enhanced by a B2C webshop. Hepster's core strength lies in its fully API-driven, cloud-based, and modular insurance solutions, enabling rapid construction and deployment of digital insurance products tailored to the specific needs of its partners. Its diverse product portfolio encompasses insurance for bicycles, e-bikes, electronics, pets, and sports equipment, offering clients in the insurance value chain a comprehensive end-to-end experience.

Crezco

Seed Round in 2023
Crezco is a developer of payment processing software aimed at reducing trade friction and facilitating business growth. The company offers innovative payment solutions that promote cardless and contactless transactions through open banking facilities. By enabling account-to-account payments, Crezco helps clients minimize costs associated with traditional card schemes, providing a more efficient and economical payment method. Additionally, the company fosters collaboration between suppliers and customers while offering role-based access for internal team members, enhancing the overall user experience and operational efficiency.

Runa

Series B in 2022
Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail capable of sending and accepting digital value at scale. With Runa, companies can pay the people they serve in any form of digital value, anywhere, instantly. The Runa Network provides a wide range of digital payout types including gift cards, prepaid cards, subscriptions, donations, cryptocurrencies and more. Legacy payment mechanisms struggle to adapt to low-volume, high-velocity transactions both locally and globally, such as sending payouts to gig workers, creators, or sending rewards to customers or employees wherever they are. Runa’s infrastructure and network facilitates payouts to these recipients, helping businesses expand their reach, retain their users while modernizing the way in which they manage and transfer money: instantly, internationally, and free of charge for the senders and the recipient. Runa was established as WeGift in October 2016 by Aron Alexander in London, England.

Infact Systems

Seed Round in 2022
Infact Systems is a company dedicated to modernizing affordability and credit information, primarily within the banking sector. By providing real-time, contextual data, Infact Systems aims to enhance responsible financial behavior and facilitate more informed lending decisions. Their platform offers comprehensive credit reporting, allowing lenders to access up-to-date information that aids in making swift and accurate lending choices. Additionally, Infact Systems focuses on integration and customization services for its HPZone platform, ensuring seamless connectivity with external laboratory systems. The company also emphasizes empowering women to take control of their financial futures through targeted services.

Getmomo

Seed Round in 2022
Getmomo is a digital banking platform focused on streamlining property management processes. It offers solutions that allow landlords to manage rental deposits and rents effortlessly while integrating with existing software. The platform facilitates the quick setup of rental accounts and digital tenancy contracts, enabling landlords to secure rental units rapidly. With an emphasis on convenience, Getmomo allows users to open business and owner accounts instantly and provides online banking access tailored to meet the specific needs of rental management. By simplifying inventory management and digital claims settlement, Getmomo helps landlords reduce operational costs and increase their income efficiently.

Token.io

Series C in 2022
Token.io develops open banking payment infrastructure, enabling businesses and financial institutions to facilitate account-to-account payments. Its platform offers direct bank connectivity, real-time payment initiation, data access from verified bank accounts, integrated reporting, and settlement tools. This streamlines payment acceptance for merchants, banks, and payment service providers, reducing costs and enhancing customer experience.

Januar

Seed Round in 2022
Januar is a payment gateway for cryptocurrency businesses that enables compliant fiat payments and payouts, bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance by providing secure access to fiat through IBAN services and allowing crypto companies to access bank accounts and send and receive payments in a compliant and reliable manner.

Arbolus

Series A in 2022
Arbolus is a professional networking platform that leverages technology to facilitate and enhance advisory relationships. The company serves over 80 clients, including major firms like KPMG and leading global strategy consultancies, as well as innovative companies such as UiPath. By utilizing artificial intelligence, Arbolus redefines knowledge sharing and enables more efficient outsourcing of work. Its platform streamlines processes, allowing clients to access diverse perspectives essential for due diligence and strategic initiatives. This approach not only eliminates inefficiencies but also reduces the time required to gain insights, enabling consultants to focus on high-value expert interactions and monetize their expertise effectively.

Thirdfort

Series A in 2022
Thirdfort is a London-based provider of an intelligent client due diligence and onboarding platform for regulated sectors, including law, property, and finance. The platform combines KYC, AML, and payment-fraud protection with automated identity verification, risk assessment, and real-time compliance monitoring. By leveraging Open Banking and transaction-specific data, it rapidly verifies individual and corporate clients, enabling professionals to onboard clients in minutes while maintaining regulatory standards. Thirdfort supports ongoing risk monitoring and due diligence throughout property transactions and related advisory activities. The company is FCA regulated and serves professionals seeking secure, efficient onboarding and ongoing compliance in sensitive financial processes.

Billhop

Venture Round in 2022
Billhop is a payment institution based in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2011. The company specializes in a financial payment platform that allows both businesses and consumers to pay bills and invoices using their credit or debit cards. Billhop's platform is designed to simplify the payment and management of bills, providing a regulated payment tool that enhances user convenience. It offers various features, including the ability to use digital cards while maintaining high standards of privacy and security. By eliminating fixed fees, Billhop enables users to leverage their existing payment cards for bill payments, ensuring a seamless and efficient transaction experience.

hepster

Convertible Note in 2022
Hepster is an InsurTech company specializing in the development of customized insurance products that are seamlessly integrated into digital processes and systems. The company operates primarily on a B2B model, which is enhanced by a B2C webshop. Hepster's core strength lies in its fully API-driven, cloud-based, and modular insurance solutions, enabling rapid construction and deployment of digital insurance products tailored to the specific needs of its partners. Its diverse product portfolio encompasses insurance for bicycles, e-bikes, electronics, pets, and sports equipment, offering clients in the insurance value chain a comprehensive end-to-end experience.

Banxware

Seed Round in 2022
Banxware is a fintech startup based in Berlin, founded in 2020 by Miriam Wohlfarth, Jens Röhrborn, and Fabian Heiß. The company specializes in embedded lending solutions designed for platform-based businesses, including fintechs and banks. Its lending-as-a-service platform allows digital marketplaces, payment providers, and other aggregators to offer white-label financial products, particularly loans, to their merchants. By integrating essential financial infrastructure directly into various platforms, Banxware enables small and medium-sized enterprises, e-commerce sellers, and restaurant owners to access necessary liquidity. The platform features robust capabilities such as customer onboarding, credit scoring, risk management, and loan origination, thereby promoting growth and enhancing customer convenience. With a dedicated team of over 50 employees, Banxware aims to streamline financing solutions across Europe, adapting to the needs of a rapidly evolving digital economy.

CoinCover

Series A in 2021
CoinCover provides cryptocurrency insurance-backed technology to protect digital assets from hacks, human error, and fraudulent transactions. The company offers protection that aims to keep assets safe and accessible, including theft protection from phishing, hacking, and cyber attacks, and a fast recovery of crypto funds with no deductible. It also offers a Deposit Protection Guarantee covering lost access to deposits due to password, device, or key loss and, in certain cases, business failure, ensuring funds remain accessible. Its Transaction Checker monitors transactions in real time to identify and flag suspicious activity. Additionally, CoinCover offers online and offline secure storage and protection of digital assets with multiple sign-off models to prevent losses before they occur. The firm focuses on safeguarding digital currencies and reducing the impact of security threats for end-users.

hepster

Series A in 2021
Hepster is an InsurTech company specializing in the development of customized insurance products that are seamlessly integrated into digital processes and systems. The company operates primarily on a B2B model, which is enhanced by a B2C webshop. Hepster's core strength lies in its fully API-driven, cloud-based, and modular insurance solutions, enabling rapid construction and deployment of digital insurance products tailored to the specific needs of its partners. Its diverse product portfolio encompasses insurance for bicycles, e-bikes, electronics, pets, and sports equipment, offering clients in the insurance value chain a comprehensive end-to-end experience.

Billhop

Series A in 2021
Billhop is a payment institution based in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2011. The company specializes in a financial payment platform that allows both businesses and consumers to pay bills and invoices using their credit or debit cards. Billhop's platform is designed to simplify the payment and management of bills, providing a regulated payment tool that enhances user convenience. It offers various features, including the ability to use digital cards while maintaining high standards of privacy and security. By eliminating fixed fees, Billhop enables users to leverage their existing payment cards for bill payments, ensuring a seamless and efficient transaction experience.

Minna Technologies

Series B in 2021
Minna Technologies is a provider of subscription management services that connects banks and fintech companies with subscription businesses, allowing consumers to manage their subscriptions directly within their banking apps. The company's applications help users identify and display their active subscriptions, enabling them to switch to more affordable alternatives or cancel unwanted services. Minna Technologies focuses on streamlining the management of monthly payments for various subscriptions, including energy, mobile, and broadband services. By offering a reliable and secure platform, the company enhances the customer experience while promoting cost-effective subscription management.
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