Andreas Ioannou

FinTech Collective is a global, early stage venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs who are rewiring the way money moves through the world. Founded in 2012 with offices in New York City and London, the firm has deep experience investing across capital markets, wealth and asset management, banking, lending, payments, insurance, and DeFi. The managing partners of FinTech Collective met in their mid 20’s and helped build, scale, and successfully exit four fintech businesses. Backed by some of the world’s leading institutional investors, FinTech Collective manages over $800m in regulatory assets. Over the last decade the firm has had 10 exits, taken one company from pitch deck to public markets and invested in 96 portfolio companies including well known firms such as Anyfin in Stockholm, Flutterwave in Lagos, IMMO in London, Minu in Mexico City, Mondu in Berlin, Simetrik in Columbia, and several important businesses in NYC including MoneyLion, NYDIG, Ocrolus, Quovo (acquired by Plaid) and Vestwell. The firm publishes a weekly newsletter, delivered every Saturday, which provides a tightly edited rundown of global fintech news, along with a bit of original analysis (available at fintech.io/newsletter).

Founded in 2014, CommerzVentures is a specialist fintech investor with €550m under management. CommerzVentures backs early and growth-stage companies in the fintech, insurtech and Climate FinTech sectors. A returns-driven Europe-first investor, CommerzVentures’ global strategy includes Israel, the USA, and Africa. CommerzVentures’ first €100m fund was launched in 2014, their second €150m fund started investing in October 2019, whilst their third €300m fund was launched in 2022. All three are managed by the same team of experienced venture capitalists, who personally co-invest in each investment. CoV Management GmbH is the independent manager of the CommerzVentures funds. Commerzbank AG is the anchor investor across all three funds.