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BlackFin Capital Partners

2 place Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75008, France

Overview

BlackFin is a sector-focused fund, specializing in Financial Services in Europe.The firm’s strategy focuses on asset-light (as opposed to balance-sheet intensive) businesses in the financial services sector, across continental Europe. BlackFin operates as an active and influential investor, substantially transforming its portfolio companies by growing them organically, improving operating margins and also through an active buy and build strategy. The firm supports successful management teams to take their businesses to the next level.

Total investments
31
Lead investments
17
Investments · 12mo
3
Active investors
12

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Cryptio

    Led · Series B · Mar 2026

    Cryptio offers a platform that standardizes and reconciles fragmented on-chain and off-chain data from blockchains, exchanges, custodians and brokerages to produce audit-ready financial records for regulated digital-asset activity. Its ERP-grade applications support accounting, reporting and operational workflows and are designed to meet institutional control and audit standards used by firms including Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC. Cryptio has expanded beyond accounting into Loan Management and Treasury Management applications to address institutional lending and treasury workflows. The company supports over 400 enterprises in more than 30 countries, has processed over $3 trillion in transaction volume, and counts customers such as Circle, Société Générale (SG Forge), Gemini and Securitize. Cryptio positions itself as core infrastructure for regulated digital-asset markets, enabling reconciliation of token supply and lifecycle activity including minting and burning.

  • Sinpex

    Led · Series A · Jan 2026

    Founded in 2019 by former Deloitte project lead Dr. Camillo Werdich, Sinpex offers an all-in-one platform that digitises every step of corporate client onboarding, from document collection and beneficial-owner identification to AML screening and ongoing reviews. Its extensible KYB data model and AI-driven document analysis produce fully audit-ready reports, helping customers comply with EU regulations such as AMLD5/6, PSD2/3, DAC7 and the forthcoming 2027 EU AML Regulation. The company claims to cut business onboarding time by roughly 80 %, turning a traditionally manual, document-heavy workflow into an automated process that surfaces evidence for every data point extracted. Financial institutions and fintechs including Otto Payments, Enpal, IKB, Bybit, Scayle Payments and KfW already rely on the product. Tougher AML enforcement and multimillion-euro fines faced by banks like N26 underscore the platform’s value proposition. With the fresh capital, Sinpex plans to accelerate product development, expand beyond its Central European core market, and grow its team of engineers and compliance specialists. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article.

  • Embankment

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

    Embankment is a fintech company headquartered in Denmark. The article does not disclose specific details about its core product, customer base, or target market, only noting that the firm operates within financial technology. In May 2024, the company secured a €15 million Series A round to support its next phase of growth. The fresh capital strengthens Embankment’s balance sheet and provides resources for continued product and market development, although the article does not outline concrete expansion plans. No historical operating metrics such as revenue, user numbers, or profitability were provided. Likewise, the article does not mention prior funding, suggesting this Series A may be the company’s first institutional round. Overall, Embankment remains early-stage and well-capitalized following this raise.

  • Aufinity Group

    Led · Series C · May 2025

    Aufinity Group provides digital, white-label-capable payment management solutions for car dealers and OEMs, covering vehicle sales through after-sales. Its products include 'bezahl.de' for German-speaking markets and 'Aufinity' for international customers. The platform aims to speed incoming payments, improve liquidity, increase operational efficiency and enhance customer experience. The company says it has been scaling its annualised platform volume while expanding into after-sales, enterprise customers and new geographies such as Iberia and Italy. Aufinity is pursuing European expansion and deeper strategic partnerships with OEMs and dealerships. In spring 2025 the company opened new branches in Madrid and Rome focused on those national markets.

  • Hawk

    Participated · Series C · Apr 2025

    Hawk, founded in 2018 and based in Munich, provides AI-supported anti-money-laundering and fraud-prevention technology for banks, payment providers and fintechs. It combines traditional rules with explainable machine learning to improve AML compliance and reduce false positives. The company reports it can raise alert prediction accuracy to almost 90%, cut false positives by 50%, and uncover twice as many previously undetected cases of novel criminal activity. Hawk serves more than 80 customers globally, including Ecobank, VakifBank International, Worldline, North, Synctera, CSI, Volt, Vodafone, and VR Payment. The new funding is intended to support continued product innovation and global expansion, with a stated emphasis on entering the US market. CEO Tobias Schweiger says AI is core to the company’s mission to transform anti-financial-crime operations. Hawk builds explainable AI software to detect and prevent financial crime, combining AML, sanction screening and fraud prevention in a modular platform. Its solution can enhance or replace traditional rules‑based systems with AI‑powered transaction monitoring, payment screening, perpetual KYC, and real‑time fraud prevention. Hawk says its explainable AI reduces false positive rates and detects unseen and novel crime to improve detection effectiveness. The company currently monitors or screens billions of transactions worldwide. Management plans to accelerate international growth and expand its banking client base in Asia‑Pacific, the US and beyond, leveraging investor support. Founded in 2018, Hawk has rapidly scaled globally amid strong demand for AI‑centric anti‑financial crime technology. Hawk AI develops cloud-native, modular AML surveillance software that aims to improve how banks and payment companies manage compliance risks through explainable AI. Founded in Munich in 2018, the company emphasizes the “highest level of explainability” in its decision-making engine to support audits and regulatory investigations. Its product suite includes payments screening, customer screening, transaction monitoring, transaction fraud and a customer risk rating tool that combines static and dynamic data. Hawk AI says its patent-pending technology provides the expected range of normal behavior and natural-language risk-factor scores to give context for suspicious-activity evaluations. Customers named in the article include Moss, North American Bancard and Banco do Brasil Americas. The company positions its cloud-native SaaS model against legacy on-premise incumbents and newer competitors, and plans to use new capital to bolster product development and accelerate global expansion. Hawk AI operates a cloud-native, modular and open transaction-surveillance platform that combines transparent, auditable machine learning with traditional rules to detect suspicious activity in real time and reduce false alerts. Its software integrates quickly with existing banking and payment systems to deliver actionable alerts to financial-crime specialists and improve regulatory compliance. The company says its ongoing monitoring covers billions of transactions annually and that the platform enables information sharing and surveillance across multiple institutions while complying with data-protection laws. Customers and partners include Ratepay, North American Bancard and Modularbank. Hawk AI plans to strengthen its European and U.S. footprint and expand to Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, and expects to double its headcount by the end of 2022.

Team

  • Eric May

    Founder and Partner

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  • Laurent Bouyoux

    Founder and Partner

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  • Bruno Rostain

    Founder and Partner

  • Paul Mizrahi

    Founder and Partner

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