Led · Equity · May 2026

Palenca provides income-verification services and data products aimed at giving financial institutions reliable visibility into borrowers' earnings, including informal sources. The company processes income verifications at scale—nearly 5 million in 2025—and projects about 20 million verifications this year. Palenca's tools are designed to expand credit access and improve risk decisioning by supplying new layers of verified income data. The startup plans to develop additional data products, broaden the types of income it validates, and enhance predictive models with AI. Leadership includes CEO and co-founder José Carlos Aguilar. The company raised $4 million in a round led by Experian with participation from Foundation Capital, Gilgamesh Ventures and Dhow Ventures.

Participated · Series B · Oct 2025

Resistant AI provides machine-learning models that spot fraud in documents, transactions, and customer behaviour, integrating with a client’s existing risk tech stack. Its flagship products, Resistant Documents and Resistant Transactions, claim to deliver a 3× increase in document-fraud prevention, 5× faster review times, 90% automation rates, and a 5× boost in analyst productivity. The company reports that since its Series A round its annual recurring revenue has grown 10-fold, its customer base has quadrupled, and it has verified more than 150 million documents while increasing the number of transactions analysed for fraud and AML 100×. Customers include Dun & Bradstreet, Payoneer, Close Brothers, PennyMac, AXA, Anna Money, Finom, and Bank of Valletta. Resistant AI reached breakeven in September and now employs over 100 people across offices in Prague, London, and New York. With the new capital it plans to broaden its document-fraud and transaction-monitoring offerings to new territories and partners and to build out threat-intelligence capabilities in Europe. Management positions the business as a profitable EU AI champion protecting both human and autonomous “agent” fraud-fighters against increasingly AI-driven criminal networks.

Participated · Series B · Jul 2022

Lucinity develops AML software built on a 'Human AI' approach that combines next-generation artificial intelligence with human expertise. Its platform learns from every interaction and continuously improves, aiming to deliver fewer false positives and save time for investigators. The company serves customers ranging from Tier-1 banks to FinTechs and operates globally, with headquarters in Reykjavík. Lucinity has announced partnerships with Experian and Seon to enhance KYB, risk assessments, and joint AML/fraud solutions. The company intends to use new funding to accelerate growth and expand geographic coverage for its Human AI technology. Lucinity is led by founder and CEO Guðmundur Kristjánsson.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2021

Capitalise provides a platform that helps accountants find and deliver financing and financial services to SME clients. It is launching an integrated credit protection service called Capital Reports, powered by Experian, to assess clients’ and suppliers’ credit positions and warn of potential defaults. The new service is intended to help SMEs improve credit ratings and access capital at better rates amid fragile supply chains. Capitalise is used by over 1,800 accounting firms across the UK and has seen more than £1 billion of offers from 200 capital provider partners pass through its platform. On launch, Capital Reports will be available to about 500,000 SMEs via their accountants and another 500,000 via API and open-banking partnerships. The company plans a South Africa rollout in Q4 with more countries to follow. Founded in 2015, the startup has capitalised on £13.5 million in funding since inception.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2020

InfoSum offers a decentralized data collaboration platform that uses patented technology to connect customer records between companies without moving or sharing data. The platform is compliant with current privacy laws, including GDPR, and was recently bolstered by InfoSum Bridge, which expands customer identity linking and connects advertising identifiers with bunkered datasets. The company says its growth accelerated during the pandemic as businesses prioritized privacy-focused solutions. Since its prior round, InfoSum has tripled revenue, doubled its employee base, and added more than 50 customers, including AT&T, Disney, Omnicom and Merkle. The company currently has about 80 employees across offices in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany and says it is poised for exponential growth in 2021. InfoSum plans to use new funding to accelerate hiring across the business, expand into new regions, and further develop its platform. InfoSum has built a federated, decentralized architecture that uses mathematical representations to organise, read and query data so organisations can collaborate without passing raw data to each other. The company initially targeted the marketing industrial complex and released its first product two years ago. Its solution aims to reduce data leakage and devaluation by keeping data private while enabling analytics and matching. InfoSum plans to use new funding to continue fueling growth with a specific focus on the U.S. market and to expand into other verticals such as finance and healthcare. Leadership includes founder and CEO Nick Halstead and incoming executive chairman Brian Lesser. Financially, the company has raised a Series A and has $23 million in total funding to date. InfoSum builds decentralized technology that lets companies join thousands of siloed data sets to gain collaborative customer insight while avoiding the commercial and regulatory risks of centralized platforms. The company is led by founder and CEO Nick Halstead and Chief Commercial Officer Nicola Walker. InfoSum raised $5M in seed funding to support its launch. Backers mentioned in the raise include LocalGlobe and Mosaic Ventures. The firm plans to use the funds to build its senior management team and bring its first products to market. InfoSum is based in Basingstoke, UK. CognitiveLogic is a three‑week‑old startup founded by Nick Halstead to provide big‑data insight directly to enterprises using their own data. Its core product is a system that joins data between multiple companies to analyze combined datasets without either party sending raw data, addressing privacy concerns. The company intends to leverage technologies Halstead encountered at DataSift to enable research while avoiding exposure of individuals' private information. Initial target verticals are government, health, and finance. CognitiveLogic currently has four employees and plans to grow to ten in the next six months. Financially, the company has just closed a $3M seed round to kickstart operations.