Nicolai Bastian

Venture Capital Investor | Early-Stage & Growth | B2B Software, FinTech, RegTech & Capital Markets Technology

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
VC🌍 Germany
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Shareholder Representative
Mar 2025
21strategies is a leading company for context-aware Enterprise AI. Our mission is to transform how organizations make strategic and tactical decisions under uncertainty. To aim at our mission, we build and operate analytical engines to train AI-powered machines which perform similarly good or better than humans when performing tasks for the supply chain, capital markets and national security.
Shareholder Representative
Dec 2023
Triple is a fintech company with the most powerful transaction enrichment platform. Our services include: - Enriching brand names & logos - Contact details - Fraud detection - Categorization - Subscriptions - Carbon footprint tracking The platform automates payment enrichment, saving you time and resources while providing more accurate and actionable data. Triples technology has enriched more than 1 billion transactions, offering 90% global coverage.
Shareholder Representative
Jul 2023
TransFICC is an e-trading technology company, providing connectivity and workflow solutions for banks and asset managers operating in the Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. Its "One API for eTrading"​ product provides clients with an alternative to maintaining connectivity with multiple e-trading venues. By delivering low-latency, scalable and secure connectivity, TransFICC resolves the issues of market fragmentation, market data throughput, and increased regulation. TransFICC does three things: - It translates Execution Venue API’s to a single API. Clients connect once to TransFICCs unified API, and TransFICC manages connectivity with the electronic venues from that point. - It uses low-latency, scalable and secure technology, essential to keep pace with price updates and not get beaten to a trade by high frequency trading firms. - It provides timestamps for price and order messages. Measured in microseconds, timestamps record when data arrives at the bank or asset manager, helping to provide an audit trail, which supports Best Execution.
late stageCapital Markets
Shareholder Representative
Jan 2023
Secfix is Europes end-to-end security compliance platform. We help SMBs and mid-market companies across Europe get certified, stay compliant, and build real security cultures, without drowning in manual work, spreadsheets, or expensive consultants. Our platform combines AI-powered compliance automation with CISO-as-a-Service: - Compliance automation across ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, TISAX, and GDPR - CISO-as-a-Service with real security expertise - Continuous monitoring, incident management, penetration testing, and security questionnaires - Automated evidence collection, policy management, risk assessments, and audit preparation Hundreds of companies across 15+ European countries trust Secfix, from SMBs to banks, energy companies, and multinational groups. Many came for their first ISO 27001 certification. They stayed because we became their long-term security and compliance partner. → secfix.com
Shareholder Representative
May 2022
Conpend is an independent software vendor, focused on the successful digital transformation of our Banks and Corporates with minimal impact on their business. Conpend’s aim is to use AI and Machine Learning technology, LLM, to empower operatives, compliance officers and relationship managers by eliminating the manual burdens associated with processes such as documentary trade finance.
Shareholder Representative
May 2022
Meet spaciv, your innovative CRE and workplace strategy platform. We enable corporations to create their ideal office environment, fully based on employees’ needs and data. spaciv empowers you to dynamically adapt to changing circumstances and ensures the continual, cost-efficient optimisation of your workplace.
Investor
Dec 2021
Kraken helps people own the power of their money. Founded in 2011, were one of the worlds longest-standing crypto platforms, now offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and more. Trusted by millions of institutions, professional traders, and consumers across 190+ countries. Built on the belief that everyone should own the power of their money, Kraken has been a category leader in crypto since 2011. Weve grown into a global financial platform offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and institutional infrastructure — all on a single foundation built for the future of finance. Our product lineup: — Kraken: the worlds leading hybrid investment platform, built for the future of finance from the ground up — Kraken Pro: the all-in command center that unleashes your trading potential — Krak: the next-generation money platform that turns every type of asset into usable money Proof of Reserves since 2014. Assets held 1:1. Trusted by 13M+ people, thousands of institutions, and a growing community of developers building on Kraken rails. Our mission: accelerate the global adoption of crypto so everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Risk Disclosure: https://www.kraken.com/en-ca/social-media-disclosure
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2025
Shareholder Representative
Mar 2025
21strategies is a leading company for context-aware Enterprise AI. Our mission is to transform how organizations make strategic and tactical decisions under uncertainty. To aim at our mission, we build and operate analytical engines to train AI-powered machines which perform similarly good or better than humans when performing tasks for the supply chain, capital markets and national security.
2024
Senior Investment Manager
Jan 2024
Invest. Build. Connect. We are neosfer - early-stage investor and innovation unit of the Commerzbank Group. Under the vision "Driving transformation by connecting people, technology and capital", we offer financial service providers and their customers access to digital and sustainable innovations - on the one hand through investments in early-stage start-ups (invest) and on the other hand through our own developments (build). We believe in the added value of collaborating with our network partners to identify and offer the best possible solutions (connect). For us, technology is not an end in itself, but always a tool to achieve the goal. In our three business areas (invest, build, connect), the topic of sustainability is deeply rooted alongside digitalization: we consciously invest in start-ups that offer solutions for sustainable transformation, look at future technologies, evaluate their impact and bring the FinTech and sustainability scene together through our formats. Our projects include the IMPACT FESTIVAL, Europes largest B2B event for sustainable innovations, and the IMPACT SOLUTIONS platform. With Lissi, we also spun off our first own venture in 2023. You want to get a personal impression of it? Then just drop by our monthly event series "Between the Towers": always on the first Tuesday evening of the month! Or subscribe to our monthly newsletter here on LinkedIn!
2023
Shareholder Representative
Dec 2023
Triple is a fintech company with the most powerful transaction enrichment platform. Our services include: - Enriching brand names & logos - Contact details - Fraud detection - Categorization - Subscriptions - Carbon footprint tracking The platform automates payment enrichment, saving you time and resources while providing more accurate and actionable data. Triples technology has enriched more than 1 billion transactions, offering 90% global coverage.
Shareholder Representative
Jul 2023
TransFICC is an e-trading technology company, providing connectivity and workflow solutions for banks and asset managers operating in the Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. Its "One API for eTrading"​ product provides clients with an alternative to maintaining connectivity with multiple e-trading venues. By delivering low-latency, scalable and secure connectivity, TransFICC resolves the issues of market fragmentation, market data throughput, and increased regulation. TransFICC does three things: - It translates Execution Venue API’s to a single API. Clients connect once to TransFICCs unified API, and TransFICC manages connectivity with the electronic venues from that point. - It uses low-latency, scalable and secure technology, essential to keep pace with price updates and not get beaten to a trade by high frequency trading firms. - It provides timestamps for price and order messages. Measured in microseconds, timestamps record when data arrives at the bank or asset manager, helping to provide an audit trail, which supports Best Execution.
late stageCapital Markets
Shareholder Representative
Jan 2023
Secfix is Europes end-to-end security compliance platform. We help SMBs and mid-market companies across Europe get certified, stay compliant, and build real security cultures, without drowning in manual work, spreadsheets, or expensive consultants. Our platform combines AI-powered compliance automation with CISO-as-a-Service: - Compliance automation across ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, TISAX, and GDPR - CISO-as-a-Service with real security expertise - Continuous monitoring, incident management, penetration testing, and security questionnaires - Automated evidence collection, policy management, risk assessments, and audit preparation Hundreds of companies across 15+ European countries trust Secfix, from SMBs to banks, energy companies, and multinational groups. Many came for their first ISO 27001 certification. They stayed because we became their long-term security and compliance partner. → secfix.com
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