Global Founders Capital

Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany. The firm focuses on investing in innovative companies at various stages of development, from early-stage ventures to those preparing for an initial public offering. With a global outlook, Global Founders Capital seeks to empower entrepreneurs across all continents, particularly in the software and technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. The firm evaluates investment opportunities based on their potential impact and feasibility, aiming to support individuals with transformative ideas.

Cedric Asselman

Partner

Leonardo Banchik

Partner

David Citron

Partner

Onur Erbay

Partner

Melvin Hade

Partner

Roel Janssen

Partner

Kendrick Geluz Kho

Investor

Benedikt Körling

Investor

Maximilian Mayer

Investor

Matthias Müller

Partner

David Sainteff

Partner

Donald Stalter

Partner

Guilherme Steinbruch

Partner

Sarra Zayani

Partner

Soheil Mirpour

Partner, Head of Growth and PE and COO

Past deals in API

Defacto

Series A in 2023
Defacto is a fintech firm that offers credit infrastructure using an API for small and medium companies. The platform of the company solves the working capital requirement, provides loans, and lets businesses to return when consumers pay, allowing businesses to finance any invoices and offer early payment to suppliers, as well as automate payments and reconciliation.

Apata

Seed Round in 2023
Apata is a provider of fraud prevention solutions specifically tailored for fintech issuers. The company has developed a three-dimensional secure authentication technology aimed at enhancing security while optimizing the user experience. By creating efficient challenge processes, Apata helps reduce abandonment rates during transactions, facilitating smoother onboarding for users. Their services are designed to empower fintech issuers, challengers, and processors with modern authentication infrastructure, effectively safeguarding against threats and cyber attacks.

Klikit

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Klikit is an innovative enterprise technology platform designed to enhance efficiency in dine-in and food delivery operations for restaurants. It offers a comprehensive solution that manages delivery across various brands, locations, and channels, utilizing automation to minimize human errors, missed orders, and downtime. Additionally, Klikit connects restaurants with influential creators to help launch virtual food brands, providing opportunities for additional revenue streams. By analyzing and optimizing operations across delivery channels, Klikit enables restaurants to maximize profits and improve overall business performance.

Hyperface

Seed Round in 2022
Hyperface is a banking-as-a-service startup focused on enabling companies to create and launch their own credit cards. It offers a modern credit card platform that simplifies the issuance process for financial technology and e-commerce firms. The platform provides customizable software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing users to design tailored credit card solutions. Additionally, Hyperface supports card lifecycle management and facilitates intuitive onboarding, empowering businesses to offer banking products directly to their customers in a contextual manner.

Peakflo

Seed Round in 2022
Peakflo is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that specializes in collections and payables for businesses in Southeast Asia. Its platform enables finance teams, ranging from early-stage startups to established unicorns, to optimize their financial operations through a straightforward API and seamless accounting software integration. Users benefit from significant time savings, reportedly reclaiming up to 100 hours monthly on finance tasks. The platform also enhances cash flow by accelerating invoice payments by 10 to 20 days and streamlining the vendor payment process, which can cut associated fees by 50 to 90 percent. By focusing on the payment needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, Peakflo helps businesses reduce bad debts and maintain healthier cash flow.

Defacto

Series A in 2022
Defacto is a fintech firm that offers credit infrastructure using an API for small and medium companies. The platform of the company solves the working capital requirement, provides loans, and lets businesses to return when consumers pay, allowing businesses to finance any invoices and offer early payment to suppliers, as well as automate payments and reconciliation.

REVER

Pre Seed Round in 2022
REVER is a software as a service (SaaS) platform focused on enhancing the returns process for B2B e-commerce operations. The platform aims to streamline and expedite product returns, making the experience more efficient for both businesses and their customers. By revolutionizing the post-sale process, REVER provides tools that facilitate not only returns but also re-sales and customer feedback. This approach empowers businesses to grow and scale while addressing a significant need for fast and sustainable returns solutions in the e-commerce sector. Through its innovative technology, REVER seeks to automate operations and reduce costs, positioning itself as a key player in the expanding B2B SaaS market.

R5

Seed Round in 2022
R5 is a company based in Colombia that simplifies vehicle ownership for its customers. It operates an online platform designed to facilitate financing through the use of assets like cars and motorcycles as collateral. The platform caters primarily to low-income individuals, allowing them to refinance high-interest debt or secure funds for business investments. Additionally, R5 offers a digital solution for purchasing compulsory vehicle insurance at affordable rates, enabling customers to leverage their vehicles to access credit options with lower interest rates. This approach aims to make financial services more accessible and manageable for its users.

Pinhome

Series B in 2022
Pinhome is a technology-driven platform focused on enhancing property transactions and home financing accessibility. It aims to simplify the buying, selling, and renting processes by providing a comprehensive solution that organizes property data and information. The platform facilitates efficient property transactions and offers a range of services, including home and personal maintenance, ensuring that clients can seamlessly navigate their real estate needs. By digitizing property transactions and streamlining home financing, Pinhome addresses the challenges often associated with real estate, making it easier for customers to find and manage their homes.

Slope

Series A in 2022
Slope is a financial platform developer that provides a range of payment solutions for businesses. Its platform allows clients to manage various aspects of financial transactions, including loan processing, underwriting, debt collection, and payout management, once goods or services are delivered. By offering options such as credit card acceptance and invoice link generation, Slope enables businesses to facilitate installment payments at checkout. This approach not only helps improve cash flow and financial security for businesses but also reduces administrative burdens and enhances the overall customer experience. The platform is designed for easy integration with existing systems, making it a versatile solution for companies seeking to streamline their financial operations.

Integration.App

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Integration.App is an AI-driven integration platform designed to streamline the process of creating customizable native integrations for software applications. It provides product and engineering teams with a comprehensive suite of APIs, SDKs, and UI components, enabling them to construct integrations with multiple SaaS applications efficiently while maintaining the unique look and feel of their own applications. With over 100 pre-built connectors across various categories such as CRMs and accounting software, Integration.App allows users to perform API calls seamlessly using minimal code. Additionally, the platform supports the development of custom connectors for any application that adheres to an OpenAPI specification. By incorporating AI and LLM components, Integration.App transforms the integration landscape, making it easier for developers to build robust integration solutions without the need for complex point-to-point connections.

Arkania

Seed Round in 2022
B2B API solution for brands to create and sell online NFTs directly on their platforms

PayMongo

Series B in 2022
PayMongo Inc. is a payment processing platform based in Manila, Philippines, founded in 2019. It enables businesses to accept online payments through various methods, including credit cards, bank deposits, electronic wallets, and cash. The platform features a user-friendly dashboard for real-time transaction monitoring, analytics tools to analyze customer purchasing behavior, and an easy checkout process for customers. PayMongo also offers APIs that facilitate the development of diverse applications, ranging from e-commerce solutions to financial products. Merchants can share payment links via multiple communication channels, such as Messenger and email, simplifying the payment collection process. By streamlining online transactions, PayMongo aims to empower businesses in the rapidly evolving digital economy.

Archbee

Seed Round in 2022
Archbee is a product documentation platform tailored for software teams, offering tools to streamline the creation and management of documentation. The platform facilitates document editing and collaboration, enabling teams to efficiently share knowledge and manage information. It includes features such as Slack integration and file storage, which support real-time updates and task management. Archbee aims to enhance communication among team members, particularly for onboarding new employees and disseminating critical information related to project planning and execution.

Torii

Series B in 2022
Torii is an automated SaaS Management Platform that assists organizations in managing their cloud applications effectively. It provides tools for monitoring, measuring, and optimizing the costs associated with all SaaS applications utilized within a business. The platform automatically discovers and maps out current applications, helping to reduce expenses and enhance SaaS utilization through data analytics and automation. By streamlining operations and ensuring that teams remain aligned with their technology stack, Torii facilitates innovation while minimizing wasted resources and protecting sensitive data across both known and Shadow IT applications. Notable clients include Carrier Corporation, Instacart, Bumble, Athletic Greens, Palo Alto Networks, and Payoneer.

Frontegg

Series A in 2021
Frontegg develops a user management platform aimed at enhancing software as a service (SaaS) solutions. The platform enables SaaS companies to integrate fully managed, scalable features with minimal coding, facilitating seamless implementation into existing applications. Frontegg supports modern application needs by providing a comprehensive suite of functionalities, including authentication flows, multi-tenancy, fine-grained authorization, API-token management, and single-sign-on (SSO). Its user interfaces serve as customer-facing management tools, while the backend is strengthened by a rich set of software development kits (SDKs) compatible with various programming languages and frameworks. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Frontegg positions itself as a key enabler for product-led growth in the SaaS industry.

Slope

Seed Round in 2021
Slope is a financial platform developer that provides a range of payment solutions for businesses. Its platform allows clients to manage various aspects of financial transactions, including loan processing, underwriting, debt collection, and payout management, once goods or services are delivered. By offering options such as credit card acceptance and invoice link generation, Slope enables businesses to facilitate installment payments at checkout. This approach not only helps improve cash flow and financial security for businesses but also reduces administrative burdens and enhances the overall customer experience. The platform is designed for easy integration with existing systems, making it a versatile solution for companies seeking to streamline their financial operations.

Defacto

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Defacto is a fintech firm that offers credit infrastructure using an API for small and medium companies. The platform of the company solves the working capital requirement, provides loans, and lets businesses to return when consumers pay, allowing businesses to finance any invoices and offer early payment to suppliers, as well as automate payments and reconciliation.

Embed Financial Technologies

Series A in 2021
Embed provides modern securities execution, clearing, settlement, and custody APIs for fintechs, broker-dealers, RIAs, banks, and trust companies.

Hyperface

Seed Round in 2021
Hyperface is a banking-as-a-service startup focused on enabling companies to create and launch their own credit cards. It offers a modern credit card platform that simplifies the issuance process for financial technology and e-commerce firms. The platform provides customizable software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing users to design tailored credit card solutions. Additionally, Hyperface supports card lifecycle management and facilitates intuitive onboarding, empowering businesses to offer banking products directly to their customers in a contextual manner.

Dots

Seed Round in 2021
Dots is a multichannel payouts API that automates manual processes for marketplaces. Dots' API lets a marketplace pay their sellers in the ways they want to be paid, including Venmo, Paypal, ACH and Zelle. As more Americans earn a living by becoming a 1099 worker, marketplaces need to provide flexible payout options and we make supporting these payouts easy through a single API.

Luwjistik

Seed Round in 2021
Luwjistik is a software-as-a-service platform based in Singapore, founded in 2021 by Syed Ali Ridha Madihid and Wong Yingming. The platform specializes in e-commerce logistics integration, functioning as an API bridge that connects clients with network partners. This allows users to establish direct connections with a variety of service providers tailored to their logistics needs. By facilitating these connections, Luwjistik aims to streamline the logistics process for e-commerce businesses, enhancing efficiency and improving service delivery.

Skript

Seed Round in 2021
Skript is an Open Banking infrastructure provider, offering both API and application layer capabilities. Our focus is to provide SaaS based capabilities that redefine information collection, Internet Banking and payment services. In Australia, Skript is a fully Accredited Data Recipient under the Consumer Data Right, and has verified access to all 114 Australian banks.

XREX

Seed Round in 2021
XREX Inc. is a blockchain-based financial institution based in Taipei, Taiwan, that specializes in providing a range of services to facilitate crypto markets and transactions. Founded in 2009, the company offers a suite of solutions, including crypto exchange, escrow services, and fiat-to-crypto transactions. XREX's platform includes various blockchain services designed for organizations involved in market-making, banking, and custodial services, as well as payment gateways and decentralized applications. The company aims to create an inclusive financial ecosystem by partnering with banks and regulators, helping merchants, especially in emerging economies, to streamline international transactions through its cloud-based blockchain APIs and SaaS offerings.

PAYZE

Seed Round in 2021
PAYZE is a technology-driven payment gateway that simplifies the onboarding process for online merchants and enhances the capabilities of online marketplaces. By offering a flexible API, PAYZE allows these marketplaces to establish various payment split schemes, eliminating the need for repeated adjustments or concerns about tax compliance. Their platform supports multiple payment methods, including split payments, email payments, recurring payments, and QR payments, which facilitates faster and more secure transactions for both customers and merchants. This streamlined approach enables businesses to scale their operations without the complexities of managing settlements and accounting across different stakeholders.

Nium

Series D in 2021
Nium is a payments services company that specializes in cross-border payment solutions. The company provides banks, payment vendors, and businesses with comprehensive payment and card issuance services through its integrated platform, network, and APIs. Nium's offerings include virtual wallets for holding funds, traditional bank transfers for sending and receiving payments, and currency conversion with competitive rates and transparent fees. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including travel, marketplaces, financial institutions, and payroll, enabling businesses to streamline their international payment processes while ensuring secure transactions.

Railz

Series A in 2021
Railz is a developer of an accounting data platform designed to create a comprehensive financial data network that connects financial institutions and fintechs with their small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. The platform offers an Accounting Data-as-a-Service solution that allows users to access real-time financial data from major accounting service providers through a single API. This enables financial institutions to efficiently navigate complex data landscapes and gain insights into customer financial transactions, analytics, and reports. By optimizing conversion rates with its front-end module, Railz facilitates the seamless collection and analysis of accounting data, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency for its clients.

Simetrik

Seed Round in 2021
Simetrik, founded in 2017 and based in Bogotá, Colombia, provides verification and reconciliation services for transactional data, focusing on financial control and automation for corporate clients. The company offers a no-code/low-code platform that enhances efficiency and productivity, allowing finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automations for a variety of use cases. Simetrik's secure big data infrastructure supports high volumes of data while mitigating operational, compliance, and reputational risks. Currently, it reconciles $75 billion in total payment volume annually across 28 countries, serving notable clients such as Mercado Pago, Rappi Bank, and NuBank. The platform integrates various data sources, regardless of origin or format, enabling businesses to gain control over their financial movements and receive accurate results at a reduced cost.

Embed Financial Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Embed provides modern securities execution, clearing, settlement, and custody APIs for fintechs, broker-dealers, RIAs, banks, and trust companies.

Torii

Series A in 2021
Torii is an automated SaaS Management Platform that assists organizations in managing their cloud applications effectively. It provides tools for monitoring, measuring, and optimizing the costs associated with all SaaS applications utilized within a business. The platform automatically discovers and maps out current applications, helping to reduce expenses and enhance SaaS utilization through data analytics and automation. By streamlining operations and ensuring that teams remain aligned with their technology stack, Torii facilitates innovation while minimizing wasted resources and protecting sensitive data across both known and Shadow IT applications. Notable clients include Carrier Corporation, Instacart, Bumble, Athletic Greens, Palo Alto Networks, and Payoneer.

Invopop

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Invopop specializes in providing invoicing solutions for global software companies, ensuring compliance with local invoicing regulations. The company offers an API that efficiently records sales, generates invoices, and formats them according to the requirements of the relevant tax authorities. Its invoicing software incorporates a comprehensive library and micro-services that define local tax structures, validation rules, and digital signature protocols. By converting invoices into various local formats, such as PDFs and XML standards, and facilitating their transmission to accounting platforms, Invopop simplifies the invoicing process for developers and finance teams. This enables businesses to navigate complex regulatory environments with ease.

Frontegg

Seed Round in 2020
Frontegg develops a user management platform aimed at enhancing software as a service (SaaS) solutions. The platform enables SaaS companies to integrate fully managed, scalable features with minimal coding, facilitating seamless implementation into existing applications. Frontegg supports modern application needs by providing a comprehensive suite of functionalities, including authentication flows, multi-tenancy, fine-grained authorization, API-token management, and single-sign-on (SSO). Its user interfaces serve as customer-facing management tools, while the backend is strengthened by a rich set of software development kits (SDKs) compatible with various programming languages and frameworks. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Frontegg positions itself as a key enabler for product-led growth in the SaaS industry.

PayMongo

Series A in 2020
PayMongo Inc. is a payment processing platform based in Manila, Philippines, founded in 2019. It enables businesses to accept online payments through various methods, including credit cards, bank deposits, electronic wallets, and cash. The platform features a user-friendly dashboard for real-time transaction monitoring, analytics tools to analyze customer purchasing behavior, and an easy checkout process for customers. PayMongo also offers APIs that facilitate the development of diverse applications, ranging from e-commerce solutions to financial products. Merchants can share payment links via multiple communication channels, such as Messenger and email, simplifying the payment collection process. By streamlining online transactions, PayMongo aims to empower businesses in the rapidly evolving digital economy.

Railz

Seed Round in 2020
Railz is a developer of an accounting data platform designed to create a comprehensive financial data network that connects financial institutions and fintechs with their small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. The platform offers an Accounting Data-as-a-Service solution that allows users to access real-time financial data from major accounting service providers through a single API. This enables financial institutions to efficiently navigate complex data landscapes and gain insights into customer financial transactions, analytics, and reports. By optimizing conversion rates with its front-end module, Railz facilitates the seamless collection and analysis of accounting data, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency for its clients.

Paragon

Seed Round in 2020
Paragon is an embedded integration platform for SaaS apps, enabling companies to build products that integrate with the SaaS ecosystem. With Paragon, software companies can integrate with hundreds of different SaaS apps in minutes while providing their customers with a seamless, unified integration experience. Paragon's vision is to build the connecting layer for all software that enables every application in the world to work together seamlessly. In the last year, they've grown by over 6x and now work with nearly 100 customers around the world. They've raised over $3.5M from world-class investors like Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Soma Capital, and Village Global, and have been featured in Techcrunch and Forbes.

Lean Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Lean Technologies Limited, founded in 2019 and based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is a FinTech startup that specializes in providing an application programming interface (API) platform for financial data applications. The company's API suite simplifies access to consumer financial data, allowing businesses to navigate the complexities of financial infrastructure with ease. By enabling seamless access to customers' financial information and facilitating instant bank transfers, Lean Technologies aims to enhance the accessibility, transparency, and utility of financial data and payments. This approach fosters a more inclusive and interconnected financial landscape, ultimately benefiting both consumers and businesses.

SWAP

Seed Round in 2020
SWAP provides a modular payment platform that enables companies to enhance their financial operations through innovative technology and a unique business model. By offering APIs for end-to-end, white-label financial solutions, SWAP allows clients to create comprehensive financial ecosystems that include features such as pre-paid cards, digital wallets, and various financial services. This platform facilitates secure money disbursements to merchants, assists with fund collection and bill payments, and supports peer-to-peer transactions via QR codes. By integrating these services, SWAP empowers businesses to expand their core offerings, eliminate barriers, and develop new revenue streams, effectively establishing internal fintech capabilities.

Commerce.js

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Commerce.js is a developer of a modular eCommerce platform designed for developers and designers, facilitating custom eCommerce development in a simpler and faster manner. The platform offers headless, API-first backend tools that empower users to create tailored experiences and seamlessly integrate various eCommerce software. By leveraging advanced technology, Commerce.js enables its clients to maintain control over their brand narrative and enhance their online presence through customizable solutions.

Atom Finance

Series A in 2019
Atom Finance, Inc. is an online investment research platform that caters to individual investors by providing access to institutional-quality data, documents, news, and events related to companies. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Atom Finance offers a user-friendly app and global enterprise software solutions, including APIs and embeddable user interfaces. The platform is tailored to accommodate investors at various skill levels, from novices to experts, and features unique insights, dynamic tools, and distinctive visualizations. This allows users to engage effectively with the investment process, facilitating informed decision-making from research through to trade execution.

PayMongo

Seed Round in 2019
PayMongo Inc. is a payment processing platform based in Manila, Philippines, founded in 2019. It enables businesses to accept online payments through various methods, including credit cards, bank deposits, electronic wallets, and cash. The platform features a user-friendly dashboard for real-time transaction monitoring, analytics tools to analyze customer purchasing behavior, and an easy checkout process for customers. PayMongo also offers APIs that facilitate the development of diverse applications, ranging from e-commerce solutions to financial products. Merchants can share payment links via multiple communication channels, such as Messenger and email, simplifying the payment collection process. By streamlining online transactions, PayMongo aims to empower businesses in the rapidly evolving digital economy.

Simetrik

Seed Round in 2019
Simetrik, founded in 2017 and based in Bogotá, Colombia, provides verification and reconciliation services for transactional data, focusing on financial control and automation for corporate clients. The company offers a no-code/low-code platform that enhances efficiency and productivity, allowing finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automations for a variety of use cases. Simetrik's secure big data infrastructure supports high volumes of data while mitigating operational, compliance, and reputational risks. Currently, it reconciles $75 billion in total payment volume annually across 28 countries, serving notable clients such as Mercado Pago, Rappi Bank, and NuBank. The platform integrates various data sources, regardless of origin or format, enabling businesses to gain control over their financial movements and receive accurate results at a reduced cost.

Torii

Seed Round in 2019
Torii is an automated SaaS Management Platform that assists organizations in managing their cloud applications effectively. It provides tools for monitoring, measuring, and optimizing the costs associated with all SaaS applications utilized within a business. The platform automatically discovers and maps out current applications, helping to reduce expenses and enhance SaaS utilization through data analytics and automation. By streamlining operations and ensuring that teams remain aligned with their technology stack, Torii facilitates innovation while minimizing wasted resources and protecting sensitive data across both known and Shadow IT applications. Notable clients include Carrier Corporation, Instacart, Bumble, Athletic Greens, Palo Alto Networks, and Payoneer.

Nium

Series C in 2018
Nium is a payments services company that specializes in cross-border payment solutions. The company provides banks, payment vendors, and businesses with comprehensive payment and card issuance services through its integrated platform, network, and APIs. Nium's offerings include virtual wallets for holding funds, traditional bank transfers for sending and receiving payments, and currency conversion with competitive rates and transparent fees. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including travel, marketplaces, financial institutions, and payroll, enabling businesses to streamline their international payment processes while ensuring secure transactions.

Nium

Series B in 2017
Nium is a payments services company that specializes in cross-border payment solutions. The company provides banks, payment vendors, and businesses with comprehensive payment and card issuance services through its integrated platform, network, and APIs. Nium's offerings include virtual wallets for holding funds, traditional bank transfers for sending and receiving payments, and currency conversion with competitive rates and transparent fees. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including travel, marketplaces, financial institutions, and payroll, enabling businesses to streamline their international payment processes while ensuring secure transactions.

Nium

Series A in 2016
Nium is a payments services company that specializes in cross-border payment solutions. The company provides banks, payment vendors, and businesses with comprehensive payment and card issuance services through its integrated platform, network, and APIs. Nium's offerings include virtual wallets for holding funds, traditional bank transfers for sending and receiving payments, and currency conversion with competitive rates and transparent fees. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including travel, marketplaces, financial institutions, and payroll, enabling businesses to streamline their international payment processes while ensuring secure transactions.

Monedo

Series A in 2013
Monedo is a financial solutions firm focused on enhancing financial freedom for the underbanked through technological innovation. The company utilizes non-traditional data sources and machine learning to offer a range of services, including consumer loans, a digital wallet, and a personal finance manager that assists customers in managing their credit scores and budgeting. Additionally, Monedo provides a "Lending as a Service" model, allowing partners to integrate its credit products into their own platforms via an API. Through its offerings, Monedo aims to create more accessible and convenient digital banking experiences for its clients.
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