Illuminate Financial
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Illuminate Financial is a specialist venture capital firm investing in early-stage Enterprise AI and Fintech companies. It operates with teams in London, New York, and Singapore, providing capital and connectivity to financial institutions.
Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2014. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in enterprise AI, fintech, digital Assets Infrastructure and financial Markets Infrastructure. $500M+ under management and 58 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Illuminate Financial is a specialist venture capital firm investing in early-stage Enterprise AI & Fintech companies.”
— Illuminate Financial, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- UK & Europe, North America, Asia, Rest of World
- Sectors
- Enterprise AI, Fintech, Digital Assets Infrastructure, Financial Markets Infrastructure, Private Markets, Wealth & Asset Management, Energy & Climate Fintech, Payments & CFO Stack, AI & Enterprise Tech
- Founded
- 2014
- Assets under management
- $500M+
- Portfolio
- 58 companies
Team, as Illuminate Financial publishes it
- Mark Beeston Founder & Managing Partner
- Alexander Ross General Partner & Head of New York
- Rezso Szabo General Partner & Head of London
- Luca Zorzino General Partner & Head of Singapore
- Rachel Townend General Partner & Chief of Staff
- Alex Gheorghe Investor
- Andrew Patey Chief Financial Officer
- Carlos Perez-Pla Investor
- Charlton Hook Investor
- Crystal Tan Executive Assistant
- Esther Muschamp Human Resources Business Partner
- Julie McCrimlisk Investor
Names and roles exactly as listed on illuminatefinancial.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 100 co-investors found.
- Molten Ventures 3 shared companies: bezerocarbon.com, genesis.global, getpliant.com
- Motive Partners 3 shared companies: getpliant.com, bunch.capital, zocks.io
- Kima Ventures 3 shared companies: finres.org, gladia.io, kiln.fi
- Motier Ventures 3 shared companies: gladia.io, fundamental.tech, vertesiahq.com
- Target Global 2 shared companies: copper.co, osome.com
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 2 shared companies: endowus.com, informatica.com
- Golden Ventures 2 shared companies: arteria.ai, bunch.capital
- FINTOP Capital 2 shared companies: talos.com, d1g1t.com
- Neva SGR 2 shared companies: pontoro.com, straiker.ai
- Hitachi Ventures GmbH 1 shared company: bezerocarbon.com
and 90 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Illuminate Financial publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.illuminatefinancial.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.illuminatefinancial.com/portfolioinvests_in_geographies, sectors
- https://www.illuminatefinancial.com/teampeople
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