FinLab

FinLab AG, established in 2003, is a prominent German investment firm specializing in venture capital investments within the financial services technology and cryptocurrency sectors. The company focuses on incubating fintech start-ups in Germany and participating in global venture funding rounds for fintech and blockchain companies. With a strong emphasis on providing active, long-term support, FinLab manages assets in the three-digit million range and leverages its network and expertise to aid in the development of its investments. Based in Frankfurt am Main, FinLab AG is recognized as one of the first and largest investors in fintech and blockchain technologies in Europe, aiming to drive innovation and growth within the industry.

Juan Rodriguez

Chief Financial Officer

Theo Woik

Senior Investment Manager

60 past transactions

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.

New Horizon GmbH

Private Placement in 2020
New Horizon GmbH develops a block chain based application to log and track data related to vintage vehicles. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

Iconic Lab

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.

Next Big Thing

Private Placement in 2019
Next Big Thing AG is a venture capital and accelerator firm specializing in incubation and seed/startup and series A investments. The firm seeks to invest in internet of things and services (IoT/IoS) and technology block chain in Europe. It offers three months program. Next Big Thing AG was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Upland

Seed Round in 2019
Think "Monopoly": In Upland people play games, earn money, and connect with each other. It is available via web, iOS, and Android and has its own in-game economy and currency, operating according to the laws of supply and demand set in motion by its users. Upland is the leading blockchain metaverse that goes beyond gaming by providing a simple user experience, engaging interactions, and the possibility for users to extract monetary value. Uplandme, Inc. was founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneurs Dirk Lueth, Idan Zuckerman, and Mani Honigstein and is operated by Uplandme, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based company with support from organizations such as Block.one (creators of EOSIO blockchain), and veterans from the gaming, real estate, and technology industries.

AlgoTrader

Series A in 2020
AlgoTrader AG designs and develops algorithmic trading software system for quantitative hedge funds. It allows automation of quantitative trading strategies in equity, foreign exchange, and derivative markets. It offers user interface and reports, automated cryptocurrency trading, order management and execution, strategy development an business function and automation. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Zürich, Switzerland.

Patriarch Multi-Manager GmbH

Pre Seed Round in 2004
Patriarch Multi-Manager GmbH is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Patriarch Multi-Manager GmbH is a subsidiary of Altira Aktiengesellschaft.

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.

SparkChange

Seed Round in 2021
Spark Change Group Inc. develops a technology platform and financial product ecosystem for investing in carbon instruments. Its platform is used for alternative investing, environmental impact, hedging carbon exposure, and qualifying for ESG standards. The company serves institutional and individual investors. Spark Change Group Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Seattle, Washington with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Boston, Massachusetts.

VCH Investment Group AG

Private Equity Round in 2007
Investment Firm

Instaffo

Private Placement 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.

Blockchain HELIX AG

Venture Round in 2019
Blockchain HELIX is service that gives people a digital identity & home. Endusers and institutions can exchange personal or business information in a secure manner. Each member has it´s own HELIX ID that is trusted through our network of Trust Providers like banks, insurance company and eGovernment. We are the only solution that fulfill all the needed aspects from regulators, compliance officers and governments. Our business model is related to the KYC process with an enormous revenue potential.

Iconic Lab

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.

AUTHADA

Private Placement 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.

awamo

Seed Round in 2018
awamo GmbH offers a cloud based microcredit management solution for microfinance institutions in emerging markets. Its solution is designed for mobile use and features biometric identification/authentication, as well as and digitizes credit management, risk management, and portfolio management processes. awamo GmbH was formerly known as BCB Biometric Credit Bureau. The company is based in Frankfurt, Germany.

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.

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.

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.

Next Big Thing

Series A in 2019
Next Big Thing AG is a venture capital and accelerator firm specializing in incubation and seed/startup and series A investments. The firm seeks to invest in internet of things and services (IoT/IoS) and technology block chain in Europe. It offers three months program. Next Big Thing AG was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Venturate AG

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
As of April 21, 2016, Venturate AG was acquired by kapilendo AG. Venturate AG operates an online portal which enables investor and founders of new start ups to interact with each other. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Munich, Germany.

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.

Deposit Solutions

Private Placement in 2018
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.

Cashlink

Seed Round in 2018
CASHLINK Payments GmbH offers payment processing services. The company is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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.

Innoplexus

Private Placement 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.

Iconic Lab

Private Placement 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.

ONPEX Holding GmbH

Private Placement in 2019
ONPEX Holding GmbH provides cloud-based account and payment solution that combines Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and cross-border SWIFT transactions via a white label Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. The platform provides modular, white-label payment, banking-, and compliance-as-a-service solutions that optimize payment and banking transactions management. The company caters to small and medium sized banking and financial companies. ONPEX Holding GmbH was founded in 2013 and is based in Munich, Germany with additional offices in Luxembourg, Germany, and Hong Kong.

Spielworks

Private Placement 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.

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.

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.

kapilendo AG

Series B in 2016
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.

Moonlighting

Venture Round in 2019
Moonlighting, Inc. operates a freelance hiring platform, which connects freelancers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses for hiring for short to long-term jobs, projects, and tasks. The company creates virtual platform to its users. It also provides blockchain supported platform and a full turnkey solution with a suite of tools to empower millions of independent workers worldwide. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Uplandme, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Uplandme, Inc. develops an online gaming platform that offers digital buying and selling real estate properties. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Captrace

Private Placement 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.

Sparrow

Private Placement 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.

Instaffo

Private Placement 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.

ONPEX

Private Placement 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.

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.

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.

SparkChange

Private Placement in 2020
Spark Change Group Inc. develops a technology platform and financial product ecosystem for investing in carbon instruments. Its platform is used for alternative investing, environmental impact, hedging carbon exposure, and qualifying for ESG standards. The company serves institutional and individual investors. Spark Change Group Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Seattle, Washington with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Boston, Massachusetts.

kapilendo AG

Private Placement in 2016
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.

ARXUM

Private Placement 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.

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.

awamo

Private Placement in 2018
awamo GmbH offers a cloud based microcredit management solution for microfinance institutions in emerging markets. Its solution is designed for mobile use and features biometric identification/authentication, as well as and digitizes credit management, risk management, and portfolio management processes. awamo GmbH was formerly known as BCB Biometric Credit Bureau. The company is based in Frankfurt, Germany.

FastBill

Series A in 2017
FastBill GmbH develops a Web-based solution to create and send estimates, invoices, credit notes, and more online for Fortune 500 businesses/small businesses, freelancers, and jimdo shop users. Its solution also allows clients to create and send digital documents (for services and products); organize projects; track and archive receipts and expenses; know financials; provide reports to accountants; and offer time tracking and client management options. The company is based in Essen, Germany.

iVE.ONE

Private Placement in 2020
iVE.ONE provides a fully regulated issuance and investment platform for digital assets, supporting companies in venture and project funding as well as enabling investors to purchase, trade, and manage their digital assets. The iVE.ONE platform puts usability first, featuring a minimalistic, intuitive and functional front-end while powerful integrated systems are hidden out-of-sight.

CASHLINK Technologies GmbH

Private Placement in 2018
CASHLINK Technologies GmbH builds and launches a platform that simplifies the process of raising capital for start-ups and provides professional investors transferable start-up shares regulated under German law in the form of a security token. It offers Stokera, a platform that enables startups, professional investors, business angels, and venture capital funds to tokenize company equity and manage the investment process. The company’s Stokera will also offer OTC trading of startup shares and other types of security tokens. It serves financial sector clients. CASHLINK Technologies GmbH was founded in 2016 and is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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.

nextmarkets

Private Placement 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.

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.

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.

Blockchain HELIX AG

Private Placement in 2019
Blockchain HELIX is service that gives people a digital identity & home. Endusers and institutions can exchange personal or business information in a secure manner. Each member has it´s own HELIX ID that is trusted through our network of Trust Providers like banks, insurance company and eGovernment. We are the only solution that fulfill all the needed aspects from regulators, compliance officers and governments. Our business model is related to the KYC process with an enormous revenue potential.
Patriarch Multi-Manager GmbH is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Patriarch Multi-Manager GmbH is a subsidiary of Altira Aktiengesellschaft.

Venturate

Acquisition in 2015
Venturate operates a crowdfunding platform.

AlgoTrader

Private Placement in 2020
AlgoTrader AG designs and develops algorithmic trading software system for quantitative hedge funds. It allows automation of quantitative trading strategies in equity, foreign exchange, and derivative markets. It offers user interface and reports, automated cryptocurrency trading, order management and execution, strategy development an business function and automation. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Zürich, Switzerland.

Clearsight Investments

Seed Round in 2008
Founded in 2008, Clearsight Investments is an investment firm based in Switzerland. The firm invests in private equity markets throughout Europe.