FinTech Venture Capital

Technology is continuing to power an unprecedented shift in financial services ecosystems, and FinTechs continue to attract significant amounts of funding despite a challenging and competitive market.

Operating at the forefront of the FinTech industry, our venture capital lawyers advise investors and companies throughout the venture capital lifecycle. Our team is able to leverage our deep industry knowledge across FinTech, blockchain, cryptocurrency, defi, challenger banks, online lending, trading and payments as well as being able to call on our deep bench of subject matter experts in enabling technologies including AI and critical services like cybersecurity.

Just as we can help investors to understand, identify and deal with regulatory and compliance risks affecting their investment strategy, we can help growth businesses leverage regulation to become stronger where it matters. We are experts in disruptive technologies.

Key contacts

Matthieu Grollemund

Partner

Matthieu Grollemund

Partner

Paris

Peter Huber

Partner

Peter Huber

Partner

Munich

Mahvesh A. Qureshi

Partner

Mahvesh A. Qureshi

Partner

Washington, D.C.

Simon Grimshaw

Partner

Simon Grimshaw

Partner

Birmingham, London

Meet the FinTech Venture Capital team

Representative experience

Flipkart, one of India's leading digital commerce entities, on its US$700m fundraising for PhonePe, a payments business.

A French-Korean private equity fund on its investment in a leading blockchain technology solution provider, Bitfury.

Mouro Capital (f/k/a Santander InnoVentures) on numerous fintech investments including most recently its investments in Upgrade, Blueprint Title, and DriveWealth as well as a follow-on investment in Crosslend.

PayPal on a US$125m investment into Pine Labs, India’s largest retail payment platform, alongside Temasek.

Accel, Creandum, Lakestar and Eight Roads on their €42m Series B investment in French fintech Swan.

Apis Global Growth Fund III, a fund managed by Apis Partners, a private equity and venture capital asset manager supporting growth-stage financial services and technology businesses, as lead investor on a c. £70m investment in Moneybox, a digital wealth management platform.