Portfolio News

BullionVault and WhiskyInvestDirect Founder Paul Tustain shares his entrepreneurial journey in the Financial Times.

Onfido, the global identity verification provider, today announced it has raised $50M in funding, bringing the total investment in the company to over $100M.

Metro Bank, Starling Bank and ClearBank (in partnership with Tide) have been awarded a combined £280m from an RBS fund designed to boost business banking competition.

Monese, the globally-connected banking service, has joined up with Avios, the loyalty currency, so users can easily track and maximise their Avios balance and check their transactions.

Small business lending challenger iwoca has closed a total fundraise of £150m, led by an earlier £7.5m investment from London-listed fund Augmentum Fintech.

Monese nominated for City AM’s Innovative Company Award

Our Venture Partner Martyn Holman writes on how unequal returns in Venture Capital have influenced the industry.

Monese nominated for City AM’s Innovative Company Award

Co-founder of Previse discusses the implications of late payments

BusinessCloud releases their recent 101 Fintech Disrupters list, which feature three of our portfolio companies

Augmentum invests £2.5 million in a ‘part-own, part-rental’ proposition

Monese, a European challenger banking app, recently raised a Series B round

Seedrs partners with US equity crowdfunding platform to create a transatlantic partnership

Tide recently secured £8m of funding with £3m convertible note from Augmentum Fintech

Explores Augmentum Fintech’s recent trio of investments into the European B2B fintech space

Previse recently secured £3.5m of Series A funding with £2m from Augmentum Fintech

Two fintech startups Zopa and CommuterClub collaborate to reduce the cost of travelling for commuters.

Interactive Investor sells its Internaxx Bank SA operation to Swissquote Group