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Finovate Capital Partners is an investment banking boutique combining mergers and acquisitions, growth equity and strategic advisory services to entrepreneurs in the financial technology (FinTech) space. We specialize in the middle-market payments, financial data and capital markets technology segments
 
"Our Partners are former technology company CEOs who built their own successful businesses.
Because of this, we bring an operator's mindset to our engagements. Our unique background, combined with an unrelenting work ethic, set us apart from the competition".

ABOUT US

Deal Makers in FinTech



Finovate Capital Partners is a FinTech investment bank providing independent strategic advice on Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital raising to leading FinTech entrepreneurs, companies and investors across the globe. Our passion for financial technology, our financial acumen and our understanding of the entrepreneur's journey differentiate our advice from other investment banks. We help exceptional people build exceptional businesses to create more successfull technology companies across the Globe.

We focus on the middle markets, and help our clientes complete buy- and sell-side transactions in the $20 - $200 million enterprise value range. We specialize in the capital markets technology (FX & multi-asset trading systems for back, middle and front office), payments, insurance technology and financial data distribution segments, where we have closed a number of influential and notable transactions and maintain robust relationships with both companies and private equity and strategic investors.
 

SERVICES  services




Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
 
Finovate Capital Partners M&A services are focused predominantly on:

• Exits / Disposals
• Acquisitions​
• Strategic Alliances and Joint-Ventures

• Mergers
• Strategic Reviews
• Fairness Opinion (Valuation)

We act as a trusted partner to entrepreneurs and investors planning to sell their businesses or build by acquisition. Since inception our partners have completed several transactions with category leaders in the FinTech sector globally.

Our network across Europe, US, Latin America and Middle East allow us to provide expert and experienced, local service to clients; in addition we have access to market leading to technology consolidators across the globe.
Capital Raising (Private)

• Deal size from $10m to $150m

• Raising Equity capital at various development stages (series A,B,C,D)

• Arranging Equity capital for acquisitions​  

We have built up a unique, global set of relationships with private equity, venture capital investors who, like us, are passionate about technology.

We pride ourselves on building long-term relationships, and we work with our clients from growth equity fundraising, through debt restructuring, secondary fundraising.
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EQUITY ISSUANCE
IN OUR PROPRIETARY BLOCKCHAIN


Finovate digital platform powered by Globacap's automated platform drives efficiency while crushing cost throughout all parts of capital raising, securities issuance, administration, and custody.


Authorised and Regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)


CAPITAL RAISING & SECURITY ISSUANCE


  • Target a global investor audience
  • Interactive offering documents
  • Institutional and retail investor suitability, and KYC/AML checks globally
  • Equity and debt security issuance


Fast

Global Investor Audience

Low fees


 
 

ADMINISTRATION

  • Paying distributions (dividends/coupons)
  • Corporate actions (e.g. buybacks, splits)
  • Investor communications


Easy

Immutable audit trail

Cost-effective

CUSTODY

Custody of digital securities and cash
Nominee services when required for specific security issuance


Secure

Transparent

Digital




SECURE & CUTTING-EDGE PLATFORM



Audit Trail

Records are stored immutably on the Globacap blockchain; solves record keeping and storage requirements

Highly Scalable

Built on IBM's open-source Hyperledger Fabric to be highly scalable


User-Centric Design

Simple, easy, and intuitive

Criptographically Secure

Blockchain based secure architecture; granular access rights; full control over your records


FINANCIAL MARKETS CONNECTIVITY

Finovate's institutional connectivity future-proofs your private securities becoming publicly tradeable if and when required.

diagram We have deep relationships among property & casualty and life solutions providers. Our team specializes on front office through the middle office, core systems and back office, including insurance-focused BPO providers.

 

VC INVESTMENTS

Principal Investments


Finovate Capital, through its own dedicated investment fund, can decide to invest capital directly in certain targeted high-growth FinTech and TMT companies believed to have significant potential.
Finovate Capital can act as a co-investor with other reputable financial or strategic investor(s).


Portfolio companies:


Muinmos

Investment type: minority investment
Strategic rationale: growth capital to further develop the sales and marketing team in continental Europe
Finovate Capital has invested in muinmos'. Cloud-based PASS software instantly and globally categorises clients in accordance with MiFID II in the EU or as equivalent in the rest of the world (KYCC). Munimos instantly determines whether a financial institution can on-board a client to trade in a particular service (KYS), product (KYP) and country (KYCO) whilst performing the full suitability and/ appropriateness assessments. It also clears the anti-money laundering requirements (AML) by using a traffic light rating system with full detailed breakdown of the results.

Metafused

Investment type: minority investment
Strategic rationale: growth capital for product development
Metafused is a FinTech + AI driven company targeting innovation of traditional banking & finance processes by using AI/ML & predictive analytics. Metafused is based in London and works today with many of the global banks based in London and other key banking Capitals like Frankfurt, Singapore, Dubai and New York.

Huddlestock

Investment type: minority investment
Strategic rationale: growth capital to scale the business in Europe and Asia
Huddlestock is a Norwegian FinTech company established in late 2014. The company is fully regulated by BaFIN in Germany with a license to operate and market its platform in most European countries. Huddlestock creates a marketplace for investors to find sophisticated investment strategies. The company is one of Norway’s leading crowd-trading platform that allows users to tap into investment ideas and strategies usually only available to professional investment managers.

GC Exchange

Investment type: minority investment
Strategic rationale: Seed capital for further product development, marketing and sales
Based in London, GC Exchange Limited (GCEX) part of the GC Group was established in 2018 in response to demand for regulated and compliant exposure to the Cryptoasset market for professional clients. GC Exchange Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 828730).

The company offer a range of Cryptoassets, Currencies, Commodities and Clearing products with tight spreads and deep liquidity.

Koine

Investment type: minority investment
Strategic rationale: pre-series A investment
Koine offers segregated, institutional custody & settlement of digital assets, providing essential Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI).

This brings together the full suite of governance, compliance, risk management and audit of real-world asset trading to the digital asset ecosystem for the first time. Institutional clients can engage with digital assets while fully adhering to regulated market practices.

Koine’s 'Digital Air Lock' technology embeds ‘EAL7+’ military grade security to secure digital assets and prevent them being compromised.

Ydentity

Investment type: minority investment
Strategic rationale: pre-series A investment
Subscription based personal data monitoring hub (online and mobile) helps protect clients data against: data fraud prevention, credit scoring and dark web monitoring


 

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Meet the management team:


Lars Holst

Chairman of the Board of Advisors
Lars Holst, Finovate Capital at Linked in
Lars is an expert in E-FX with over 20 years of experience in the banking sector. He co-founded and served as CEO of CFH Clearing with a unique background from both the retail and banking side and most recently from the technology sector of the industry. CFH Clearing was sold to Playtech (symbol: PTEC) in November 2016.

Prior to CFH Clearing, Lars was European Head of Currenex’s (StateStreet Bank) Margin Trading Group and responsible for both the product and the business side. Lars was employed to help create and build a new margin (retail) broker trading platform and was responsible for delivering the majority of the global budget.

Lars also spent several years with Dresdner Bank as Head of E-FX Sales and was a key player in all E-FX initiatives and the E- FX turnaround. His responsibilities included business sponsor for Dresdner’s white label solutions and for all relationship towards API clients, brokers, ECNs and multi-bank platforms. Before leaving, Lars was made interim business owner of the FX Prime Brokerage team.

Lars also has over five years’ experience with Saxo Bank in various leadership roles including Global Head of Sales and Account Management. Lars holds a BSc and MSc and is a CFA Charterholder.

Marcel Ricaud

Strategic Advisory Board
Ricardo Salcedo, Finovate Capital at Linked in
Joined Finovate Capital in April 2019. Marcel brings over 23 years of experience within Emerging Markets and with a strong focus on derivative products in FX, Rates and Local markets. During his career at four banks at Natwest Bank, Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank and Unicredit Bank, he was a key player for the acquisition of new accounts. His clients included top global hedge funds and asset managers in terms of AUM’s, numerous family offices, UHNWI and blue-chip corporates where he successfully provided tailor made investment solutions.

With his strong network among institutional investors globally, Marcel main focus is to originate new business in Europe and Latin America and to identify potential stakeholders among Finovate Capital mandates.


 


INDUSTRIES  services


Strong understanding
of capital markets technology ecosystem


diagram Within capital markets, we focus on software and solutions providers enabling sell side best execution, transaction cost analysis, post-trade and settlement for FX. Our coverage spans this value chain and includes all asset classes and security types.

Strong understanding of insurance technology ecosystem

diagram We have deep relationships among property & casualty and life solutions providers. Our team specializes on front office through the middle office, core systems and back office, including insurance-focused BPO providers.


Changing financial services ecosystem
will lead to a wave of M&A

diagram We expect a wave of M&A activity in the next 3 years as payment providers look to catch up with widespread innovation from new entrants, the internet majors scale up in financial services and the technology/software majors add new technology to deepen their offerings in this sector. We have unprecedented access to global investors; we know what they are looking for.

Strong understanding of financial
data distribution ecosystem

diagram We have deep relationships among financial data providers including Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Moody's, etc. Many financial data providers are today operating only at the edge of the FinTech revolution. To help engineer more fundamental improvements, they must now embrace new technologies through both organic and inorganic growth strategies.

 

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info@finovatecapital.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3960 8850
Finovate Capital Partners Ltd.
75 King William Street, 2nd Floor
EC4N 7BF
London
United Kingdom
 
 
Finovate Capital Partners is an Appointed Representative of GC Exchange Ltd (FCA registration: 828730) which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority