Firestartr

Firestartr is a venture capital firm based in London that backs digital entrepreneurs across SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, digital media, fintech and e-commerce. It provides capital and hands-on support, drawing on the founders' entrepreneurial experience and a wide network of senior advisors to drive sustainable growth from seed stage to Series A and beyond.

Richard Muirhead

Co-founding Chairman

Past deals in Bitcoin

Qori

Seed Round in 2022
Qori is an innovative mobile payment solution that enables brick-and-mortar merchants to accept both bank and cryptocurrency payments through a simple QR code generated on their mobile devices. The platform allows merchants to engage with both registered and unregistered clients without requiring an app on the client side, thereby streamlining the payment process. Qori addresses the evolving trends in the payments industry, such as open banking and cryptocurrency, by providing a cost-effective and frictionless alternative to traditional card and cash payments. Merchants can facilitate in-store, e-commerce, and remote transactions, enhancing the customer experience by allowing payments through direct bank transfers or cryptocurrencies with minimal effort. The platform's features include the ability to send QR codes for remote payments and display payment icons on e-commerce websites, ensuring a seamless and efficient payment journey for users. Overall, Qori positions itself as a preferred multi-channel payment method that eliminates intermediaries while offering advanced client engagement tools.

Coins.ph

Venture Round in 2014
Coins.ph is a blockchain-based financial platform that provides a mobile wallet enabling consumers and small businesses to access a suite of digital financial services. The wallet supports transfers, bill payments, mobile top-ups, and the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, along with merchant payments and ATM cash pickup. The platform aims to simplify financial transactions by leveraging mobile devices and blockchain technology, delivering direct access to digital payments, remittance services, and online shopping. Founded in 2014, Coins.ph is based in Pasig City, Philippines.

BTCJam

Seed Round in 2014
BTCJam is a bitcoin lending platform that facilitates online personal loans for users worldwide, having served over 100,000 individuals across more than 200 countries. The company aims to provide affordable credit by employing a proprietary credit scoring algorithm to assess borrowers' repayment potential. BTCJam enables users to apply for loans with competitive interest rates starting at 6.7% APR and offers investment opportunities that average 19% APR for those looking to earn interest on their bitcoin. The platform is integrated with Coinbase, ensuring simple and efficient bitcoin transfers for both borrowers and investors.

ChangeCoin

Seed Round in 2014
ChangeCoin is a micropayment infrastructure for the Internet that specializes in the fields of micropayments, bitcoin, social commerce, digital currencies, and payments. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bitaccess

Seed Round in 2014
Bitaccess is an Ottawa-based technology company founded in 2013 that provides access to public blockchain technology and digital assets. It develops software and hardware solutions for fintech infrastructure, including compliance, security, and customer onboarding, and also manufactures Bitcoin ATMs. The company serves clients in multiple countries and emphasizes secure, accessible, and easy-to-use blockchain-enabled financial transactions, leveraging smart contracts and hardware security modules to publish data on blockchains and enable near-instant onboarding.

Korbit

Seed Round in 2014
Korbit, Inc., founded in 2013 by Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu, is a Seoul-based company that provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Korbit utilizes blockchain technology to facilitate global money transfers in under half an hour, allowing users to securely buy, sell, and exchange cryptocurrency with bank-level security. As of September 26, 2017, the company operates as a subsidiary of NXC Corporation.
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