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BlackFin Capital Partners

Founders Bruno Rostain Eric May Laurent Bouyoux Paul Mizrahi

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Total investments 56
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 37
Rounds per year 3.73
Lead investments 24
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 7
Key employees 22
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Insurance
  • Software
  • Banking
Summary

In 2009 was created BlackFin Capital Partners, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in France. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris.

The current fund was established by Bruno Rostain, Eric May, Laurent Bouyoux, Paul Mizrahi. Besides them, we counted 34 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the BlackFin Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Playfair Capital, Paul Forster, Passion Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are e.ventures, Playfair Capital, Passion Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rabobank, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Cathay Capital Private Equity.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - France. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Payments. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ViaBill, Epsor, Pretto. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

Comparing to the other companies, this BlackFin Capital Partners performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HAWK:AI

Banking
Compliance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
13 Jun 2024 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Whistleblower Software

Legal
Security
Software
$17M05 Mar 2024 Valby, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Indy

Accounting
Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
Freelance
Machine Learning
Software
$47M20 Nov 2023 Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Carbon Equity

Environmental Consulting
Financial Services
$7M11 Oct 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Timeline

Apps
Financial Services
FinTech
Retirement
$13M25 Sep 2023 Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom

AKUR8

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Insurance
InsurTech
Machine Learning
SaaS
$27M01 Jul 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

bdeo

Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
Blockchain
Video
$8M29 Jun 2023 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Mooncard

Accounting
Banking
Enterprise
FinTech
Payments
$43M18 Apr 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

HAWK:AI

Banking
Compliance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$17M23 Jan 2023 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
News
Hawk AI Raises $10M USD in Series A Led by BlackFin Capital Partners to Fuel Global Expansion for Its AI-Based AML Platform

– Hawk AI announced that it has raised $10m USD in its Series A funding, with fintech specialist BlackFin Capital Partners leading the investment round and Picus Capital expanding its existing share.
– Hawk AI is Germany’s leading software platform for banks, payment firms and fintechs for the detection of transactions linked to financial crime.
– The software identifies patterns of suspicious activity in financial transactions with the help of artificial intelligence and provides anti-money-laundering experts with highly relevant, actionable alerts.
– Hawk AI eliminates false alerts by applying fully transparent and auditable Machine Learning to deliver significant process efficiencies.
– Hawk AI aims to become the leading compliance platform for transaction surveillance.

Tesseract Raises $25M in Series A Funding

– Tesseract from Helsinki is an institutional digital asset lending company in Europe and emerging markets.
– The company raised $25m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Augmentum Fintech with participation from Icebreaker.vc, BlackFin Capital Partners, Concentric, DN Capital, Jabre Capital Partners, LeadBlock Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute and Woorton as well as undisclosed local and international investors and strategic angels.
– The new investment will be used to develop the company’s institutional offerings and cross-trading venue margin lending platform even further, hire new talent to develop new and existing partnerships, and to boost innovation in new undisclosed financial products.

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Total investments 56
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 3.73
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HAWK:AI

Banking
Compliance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
13 Jun 2024 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Whistleblower Software

Legal
Security
Software
$17M05 Mar 2024 Valby, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Indy

Accounting
Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
Freelance
Machine Learning
Software
$47M20 Nov 2023 Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Carbon Equity

Environmental Consulting
Financial Services
$7M11 Oct 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Timeline

Apps
Financial Services
FinTech
Retirement
$13M25 Sep 2023 Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom

AKUR8

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Insurance
InsurTech
Machine Learning
SaaS
$27M01 Jul 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

bdeo

Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
Blockchain
Video
$8M29 Jun 2023 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Mooncard

Accounting
Banking
Enterprise
FinTech
Payments
$43M18 Apr 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

HAWK:AI

Banking
Compliance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$17M23 Jan 2023 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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