Crestone Venture Capital

Founded in 2019, Crestone is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage fintech companies across emerging markets. It focuses on embedded fintech, financial infrastructure, and consumer finance sectors.

Inanc Balci

Co-Founder, Partner

Kai Schmitz

Co-Founder, Partner

9 past transactions

OneLot

Pre Seed Round in 2024
OneLot streamlines used car sales through its operating system and collateralized auto loans. It empowers sellers with tools for efficient operations management and financing options secured against the vehicles they sell.

Hyperplane AI

Seed Round in 2023
Hyperplane AI is an enterprise-grade platform that helps to enhance productivity and efficiency of financial institutions.

Kanastra

Seed Round in 2023
Kanastra is a tech-driven backoffice for alternative investments, supporting private credit and private equity facilities. It develops an asset management platform designed to reduce friction in the securitization market, offering banking services, debt issuance, bookkeeping, distribution, passive management, and mirroring, along with real-time analytics and structured data to enable investors and originators to invest with greater freedom and efficiency.

Ringkas

Seed Round in 2023
Ringkas streamlines the mortgage process through its digital platform. It aims to make home ownership more accessible by efficiently matching customer profiles with suitable financial institutions based on risk appetite, and simplifying the pre-qualification process.

Welli

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Welli is a medical financing company based in Colombia. It provides patient loans at the doctor’s office or clinic in seven medical specialties that are paid out of pocket. Welli aims to become the financial partner of doctors and patients alike across Latam. Beyond the core credit product, offering includes doctor financing for medical equipment and savings clubs for patients ineligible for financing.

Kanastra

Seed Round in 2022
Kanastra is a tech-driven backoffice for alternative investments, supporting private credit and private equity facilities. It develops an asset management platform designed to reduce friction in the securitization market, offering banking services, debt issuance, bookkeeping, distribution, passive management, and mirroring, along with real-time analytics and structured data to enable investors and originators to invest with greater freedom and efficiency.

Kippa

Seed Round in 2022
Kippa is a mobile app designed for African small business owners and bookkeepers. It streamlines financial management by replacing physical record books with digital platforms, enabling users to track daily transactions, generate invoices, manage inventory, and monitor business fluctuations.

Betterteem AI®

Venture Round in 2022
Betterteem is a predictive and prescriptive AI platform that enables businesses to predict unwanted employee resignations with AI. Betterteem's AI-driven prediction resulted in an 18% increase in employee retention and a 41% increase in productivity in 2023, saving clients over US$18 million in backfill hiring costs and lost productivity.

Neivor

Seed Round in 2022
Neivor provides a mobile-centric property management platform for residential and multifamily buildings in Latin America, digitalizing administration and payments to reduce reliance on cash-based transactions and disparate payment flows. The platform enables building managers to handle resident-facing tasks from a single app, including payment collection, notices, agenda management, and common-area reservations, while residents can make payments and stay informed about housing activities. By automating collection notices and consolidating administrative functions, Neivor aims to streamline condominium operations, improve cash flow, and enhance resident engagement.
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