Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures

Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures, which trades as Velocity Fintech Ventures, is a venture capital firm that invests only in financial technology. It backs early-stage companies with determined founders.

The team has run businesses in heavily regulated business and consumer sectors, and offers that experience to the founders it funds.

What Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures offers

• Early-stage fintech investment: capital for young financial technology companies.
• Operating experience: advice from people who have run regulated companies.
• Founder backing: support for fintech teams the partners judge to be determined and capable.

Customers and markets

Fintech founders. Its portfolio spans a digital payments platform for Africa, an online impact-investing platform for emerging markets, digital banking software for financial institutions, a consumer credit platform for emerging markets, a motor claims repair tool for insurers, and Yoco, a card payment and sales tool for small businesses. It has also been linked with investments in BUX, Meniga and Gotrade.

Key facts

• Focus: fintech
• Stage: early stage
• Portfolio region: strong presence in Africa and emerging markets