FinLab

FinLab is a large German company builders and investors in the financial services technology and the cryptocurrency sector. Started in December 2014, the company focuses on incubating German-based fintech start ups and investing globally in venture funding rounds of fintech and cryptocurrency companies.

Rodriguez, Juan

Board Member

36 past transactions

SparkChange

Seed Round in 2021
Spark Change Group Limited develops a technology platform for investing in carbon instruments. The company’s products are used for alternative investing, environmental impact, hedging carbon exposure, and qualifying for ESG standards. Spark Change Group Limited was incorporated in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It has additional offices in Seattle and Boston, London.

Wyden

Series A in 2020
Wyden is the global leader in institutional digital asset trading technology. By covering the entire trade lifecycle and supporting seamless custody, core banking, and portfolio management system integration, as well as full trade lifecycle automation, the Wyden platform streamlines digital asset trading. Engineered by a team of trading system veterans and crypto asset experts, Wyden offers best-in-class integrated infrastructure solutions that meet the highest institutional needs. Wyden has offices in Zurich, New York, and Singapore.

CHAINWISE Group

Seed Round in 2020
CHAINWISE Group offers a wide range of services within the blockchain ecosystem we are building such as token services, solutions, marketing, and enterprise consulting. Our token services include but are not limited to STOs/Tokenised Assets, ICOs, and Fundraising. We offer proven experience across all fields combined with expert level consulting to provide support constantly exceeding expectations.

AUTHADA

Corporate Round in 2020
AUTHADA revolutionizes existing identification processes using the eID of the identity card and the NFC interface of the smartphone. This allows the transmission of your customers identity within seconds, based on sovereign master data. The users can increase their customer base in a short period of time via the mobile, uncomplicated and fast legitimization. For the markets banking, insurance, eGovernment, eHealth and eCommerce additional identities are available online in the Know Your Customer (KYC) area, in line with anti money laundry legislation.

ZkSystems

Seed Round in 2020
ZkSystems provides software for Industry 4.0 champions. Our software is used by industrial manufacturing leaders like Siemens. We are an official partner of Oracle, Sopra Steria, and SAP.iO.

Sparrow

Series A in 2020
Sparrow Tech Private Limited operates an online crypto currency and trading platform. It offers customizable options settled by smart contract in an intuitive and easy-to-use trading interface and industry-leading trading tools. The company also provides professional traders trading application programming interfaces for maximum performance. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Singapore.

Spielworks

Seed Round in 2020
Spielworks brings the benefits of blockchain to mass-market gaming: True ownership of digital assets, secure handling of tokens and comfortable interaction with exceptional blockchain games. These benefits allow Spielworks to strive for groundbreaking game-models and true play-to-earn mechanics.

Captrace

Seed Round in 2020
CAPTRACE offers innovative software and services for the management of equities and investors. Its disclosure services provide issuers full transparency over their investor structure and present best-in-class solutions for forthcoming disclosure regulations in Germany and Europe broadly. CAPTRACE's registry service offers a unique custody solution that secures the safekeeping of securities with distributed ledger technology (DLT) and a central depository.

ARXUM

Seed Round in 2019
Blockchain meets industry - It is time for a new approach to manufacturing! Driven by Industry 4.0 ARXUM develops a worldwide production network for the supply chain. Manufacturers connected by ARXUM's protocol benefit from robust and secure connectivity, worldwide accessibility, and standardized production order protocol with rich data exchange. Based on Blockchain technology, ARXUM's decentralized production network outperforms today's infrastructure by driving down costs, increasing processing speeds and delivering end-to-end visibility into production fees, timing and delivery.

Upland

Seed Round in 2019
Launched in 2019, Upland is an immersive layer 1 gaming platform that uses virtual properties of the real world to engage players, creators, entrepreneurs, developers, and brands like FIFA or the NFL PA. The platform leverages the principles of the open metaverse to create a digital economy where users participate in various game loops and activities, earn in-game currency, and socialize with others in a vibrant community. Third-party developers can connect their Web2 and Web3 applications to the platform, benefiting from Upland's infrastructure, user base, and economy. Upland runs on the EOS blockchain, providing a secure and scalable environment for its ecosystem. SPARKLET is Upland's native utility token. It is an ERC-20 token that can be bridged to and from EOS.

Blockchain HELIX

Venture Round in 2019
Blockchain HELIX provides digital identity solutions for individuals and businesses. They provide technology that improves data quality while reducing operational costs.

Innoplexus

Series C in 2019
At INNOPLEXUS we are helping organisations move to continuous decision-making by generating broader, deeper and faster insights from structured and unstructured private and public data leveraging cutting-edge, patented Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and advanced analytics technologies. We aim to transform batch decision making in enterprises into a empowered, inspired and faster continuum. We focus on industries that need to constantly evaluate and improve their efficiency, reduce cost and mitigate risk to keep up with the changing business environment - like global banking, life sciences, and pharmaceutical companies. In addition to strengthening research efforts, we work to help healthcare organizations leverage technologies to expedite drug development process across all stages - preclinical, clinical, regulatory and commercial. Whether a drug developer is seeking existing research, a medical researcher is searching for alternative treatments, or a practitioner is attempting to find data on a particular disease - increasing access to relevant information removes roadblocks to discovery and fuels rapid growth. Our Data as a Service (DaaS) and Continuous Analytics as a Service (CaaS) solutions are helping Fortune 500 companies drive business outcomes. We automate the collection, curation, aggregation and analysis, of billions of data points from thousands of data sources, using machine learning, network analysis, ontologies, computer vision and entity normalization. Founded in 2015, INNOPLEXUS AG is headquartered in Eschborn Germany with offices in Pune, India, and Hoboken, USA.

Moonlighting

Venture Round in 2019
Moonlighting is a mobile, on-demand application that allows people to earn extra money and get tasks done instantly. It creates a virtual marketplace for individuals and small businesses, enabling communication between those needing a task done and those capable of fulfilling the need. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Instaffo

Series A in 2019
Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people. Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professional goals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.

Next Big Thing

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2016, Next Big Thing AG (NBT) is a venture studio for the Machine Economy located in Berlin, Germany. With its diverse portfolio of deep-tech ventures, Next Big Thing provides long-term support for aspiring founders to build transformational, tech-enabled businesses that deliver real-world impact and position Europe as a global leader. NBT’s team of thinkers and doers are dedicated to reimagining the future in ways that empower a more prosperous, sustainable, and democratized world.

ONPEX

Series A in 2019
ONPEX helps businesses build their own financial services. We provide multi-currency IBAN accounts and acquiring powered by flexible, API-driven technology to create simple, compliant, and cost-efficient payment and banking solutions.

Iconic Holding

Series A in 2019
Iconic envisions a tokenized economy where blockchain and cryptographic technology enable inclusive, transparent and secure financial markets. We are the bridge enabling enterprise-grade crypto asset investment opportunities as the tokenization of financial and real-world assets enhance financial institutional markets. Our team brings a wealth of professional, financial experience and a proven track record in the digital assets and blockchain industry. Our business units deliver excellence, providing the quality assurances investors expect from a world-class asset manager, as we champion our mission to decentralize wealth generation.

Cashlink

Seed Round in 2018
Cashlink is one of Europe’s leading Investment-Infrastructure-as-a-Service FinTechs. Cashlink empowers businesses to offer their end customers investments in alternative assets (Real Estate, Renewables, Collectibles etc.). All-in-one, with a fast time to market and costs savings. Cashlink’s regulatory licenses and compliant tokenization technology allow Cashlink’s customers to focus on their core business. Customers include renowned financial institutions such as Bankhaus Scheich, Hauck & Aufhäuser & Lampe, Lloyd Fonds AG but also leading investment platforms such as WIWIN or Econos. Cashlink is a cooperation partner of Deutsche Börse and a two-time winner of the FinTech Germany Award.

Instaffo

Seed Round in 2018
Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people. Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professional goals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.

awamo

Seed Round in 2018
awamo offers a mobile, biometric core banking system (SaaS) to microfinance institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. It is affordable, easy-to-use, and platform independent. Using this platform 300+ institutions serving 450,000+ consumers are being connected. Going forward, they will be able to additionally sell partner products & services, generating additional revenue and fostering local economic growth. The market awamo serves accounts for more than 600m individuals in sub-Saharan Africa – only considering awamo’s core services. In awamo's target markets, there are already more than 16,000 MFIs operational with more than 210,000 staff serving 53m+ consumers. Besides, the microfinance sector grows at >10% p.a. and Africa’s population is about to more than double to 2.4bn people until 2050. Currently, Awamo serves 300+ institutions with 450,000+ consumers in Uganda and Kenya. Month-over-month more than 150,000+ transactions are being processed, moving more than 7m EUR through the platform.

AUTHADA

Venture Round in 2018
AUTHADA revolutionizes existing identification processes using the eID of the identity card and the NFC interface of the smartphone. This allows the transmission of your customers identity within seconds, based on sovereign master data. The users can increase their customer base in a short period of time via the mobile, uncomplicated and fast legitimization. For the markets banking, insurance, eGovernment, eHealth and eCommerce additional identities are available online in the Know Your Customer (KYC) area, in line with anti money laundry legislation.

Iconic Holding

Seed Round in 2017
Iconic envisions a tokenized economy where blockchain and cryptographic technology enable inclusive, transparent and secure financial markets. We are the bridge enabling enterprise-grade crypto asset investment opportunities as the tokenization of financial and real-world assets enhance financial institutional markets. Our team brings a wealth of professional, financial experience and a proven track record in the digital assets and blockchain industry. Our business units deliver excellence, providing the quality assurances investors expect from a world-class asset manager, as we champion our mission to decentralize wealth generation.

Vaultoro

Seed Round in 2017
Vaultoro is a financial technology company specialized in digital assets and commodities trading, founded in 2014 by Joshua and Philip Scigala. They have created a better way to store and invest the value you build. In turn, their solution has opened up the gold market, making it accessible to everyone, regardless of financial background. Vaultoro is part of a profound change in the world of finance led by the blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and new banking solutions that are transforming the way they save, transfer, spend and invest their money.

FastBill

Series A in 2017
FastBill is a pioneer in web-based finance management for small businesses.

Invesdor

Series B in 2016
Invesdor (formally Kapilendo) is an innovative online credit market place that enables small and medium-sized companies to make cheap, fast and unbureaucratic financing by private investors in comparison to banks. The funding candidates are subjected to a credit check at the highest level by Kapilendo AG and then presented on the platform. This gives investors the opportunity to decide in which projects they are investing and to achieve an attractive return and a high diversification of the risk already with low investment yields.

nextmarkets

Series A in 2016
Nextmarkets is dedicated to `helps private investors to operate in a sustainable and better educated manner on the stock exchange. For this purpose, the company developed a very easy-to-use trading platform in which private investors can trade more than 1,000 CFDs on equities , foreign exchange ( forex , FX ), bonds and commodities very intuitively - via web and mobile apps . It is scientifically proven that more than 80 percent of all private investors fail on the stock market . This has predominantly behavioral economic reasons.

Deposit Solutions

Series B in 2016
Deposit Solutions is a developer of an open banking platform designed to connect banks and depositors across Europe. The company's platform help banks to offer attractive third party deposit products to their own customers through their existing accounts so that the depositors can access best-in-class deposit offers without having to open a new account at another bank, enabling banks looking for funding to gather deposits from new markets and client groups without having to set up and operate their own retail infrastructure.

AUTHADA

Series A in 2016
AUTHADA revolutionizes existing identification processes using the eID of the identity card and the NFC interface of the smartphone. This allows the transmission of your customers identity within seconds, based on sovereign master data. The users can increase their customer base in a short period of time via the mobile, uncomplicated and fast legitimization. For the markets banking, insurance, eGovernment, eHealth and eCommerce additional identities are available online in the Know Your Customer (KYC) area, in line with anti money laundry legislation.

Deposit Solutions

Series A in 2016
Deposit Solutions is a developer of an open banking platform designed to connect banks and depositors across Europe. The company's platform help banks to offer attractive third party deposit products to their own customers through their existing accounts so that the depositors can access best-in-class deposit offers without having to open a new account at another bank, enabling banks looking for funding to gather deposits from new markets and client groups without having to set up and operate their own retail infrastructure.

nextmarkets

Seed Round in 2015
Nextmarkets is dedicated to `helps private investors to operate in a sustainable and better educated manner on the stock exchange. For this purpose, the company developed a very easy-to-use trading platform in which private investors can trade more than 1,000 CFDs on equities , foreign exchange ( forex , FX ), bonds and commodities very intuitively - via web and mobile apps . It is scientifically proven that more than 80 percent of all private investors fail on the stock market . This has predominantly behavioral economic reasons.

Venturate

Acquisition in 2015
Venturate operates a crowdfunding platform.

Varengold Bank

Post in 2009
Varengold is an asset management boutique that is focused on the development of unique, specialized hedge fund strategies from the managed futures space. With its current core business areas such as Prime Brokerage and Commercial Banking, the bank offers a wide portfolio of products and services to its users. The company provides retail clients with instant access savings and fixed term deposits. Asset management, commercial banking, and investment banking services are offered to business clients of the company. Varengold is based in Germany. The company was founded in 1995 by Yasin Sebastian Qureshi.

Clearsight Investments AG

Seed Round in 2008
Clearsight Investments AG is a principal investment firm specializing in direct and fund of funds investments.

VCH Investment Group AG

Private Equity Round in 2007
Investment Firm

Patriarch Multi-Manager

Series A in 2006
Patriarch Multi-Manager is an investment team that offers a wide range of funds and asset management techniques. They offer financial advisors, in particular, useful building pieces for asset allocation. They also set up funds under their own brands for larger partners. They decide who will serve as the administrators for its investors and provide them control over the initiated items. Investors now have access to knowledge that was previously only available to institutions and families.

Patriarch Multi-Manager

Pre Seed Round in 2004
Patriarch Multi-Manager is an investment team that offers a wide range of funds and asset management techniques. They offer financial advisors, in particular, useful building pieces for asset allocation. They also set up funds under their own brands for larger partners. They decide who will serve as the administrators for its investors and provide them control over the initiated items. Investors now have access to knowledge that was previously only available to institutions and families.
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