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Finch Capital

Concertgebouwplein 14, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, 1071 LN, The Netherlands

Overview

Finch Capital is a Growth Capital firm focused on investing in high-growth financial technologies companies run by exceptional entrepreneurs. Their mission is to fund and support the best entrepreneurs in creating products that will shape the future of finance. They leverage our international network and industry expertise to enable our portfolio companies to grow into leaders in their field.

Total investments
35
Lead investments
20
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
7

Sector focus

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • InsurTech
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • APEXX

    Led · Equity · Feb 2026

    APEXX Global offers an award-winning payment orchestration platform that connects enterprise merchants to acquirers, gateways, shopping carts, and alternative payment methods via one integrated API. Its intelligent routing technology improves conversion rates, reduces processing fees, and turns payments from an operational cost into a revenue driver. Recent enterprise wins such as Jet2, Iglu.com, and Norse Atlantic in late 2025 have expanded platform scale and pushed the company close to break-even profitability. The firm positions itself as agnostic, partnering broadly across the payments ecosystem to eliminate legacy complexity for merchants. Proceeds from its latest capital infusion will fuel continued product innovation and international expansion as demand for sophisticated payment orchestration grows. Management remains focused on delivering measurable value to merchants by simplifying global payments and enhancing unit economics.

  • big xyt

    Led · Equity · Nov 2024

    big xyt systematically collects, cleans, validates and stores large amounts of referential and tick data across global markets. It generates sophisticated metrics that measure all forms of trading and provides comprehensive, flexible APIs that support in-depth quantitative research and feed algorithms and decision-support systems. The platform addresses pre-trade, intra-trade and post-trade TCA, execution analysis and market structure analysis, and enables clients to analyse large datasets in T+1 and real time. Its client base includes banks and brokers, buy-side firms, market makers, exchanges, regulators and market intelligence companies worldwide. big xyt plans to use the funding for international expansion, advancing its analysis platform, new hires and strengthening partnerships with world-leading financial institutions. The company is profitable and conducted 10 years of bootstrapped growth before taking this first external funding.

  • eflow

    Led · Series A · Jul 2023

    eflow Global develops software solutions to help financial firms meet regulatory requirements, including market abuse surveillance, transaction-cost analysis, transaction reporting and eComms surveillance. Its solutions are used by over 100 financial institutions worldwide, including Aegon Asset Management and Plus500. The company was founded in 2004 and is led by CEO Ben Parker. eflow Global is based in London and serves clients internationally. The business plans to use new funding to accelerate growth with a particular focus on strengthening footholds in North America and Asia-Pacific. The company recently completed a funding round that affects its current financial position.

  • Webio

    Led · Equity · Jul 2023

    Webio offers a no-code conversational customer engagement platform that enables personalised conversations at scale across SMS, WhatsApp, webchat and other channels. Its platform is designed to get customers and partners up and running with conversational AI in hours. Customers named in the article include Very Group, Studio Retail, Hoist Finance, DCBL, NCO Europe and Anglian Water. The company emphasises applications in credit and collections, with the CEO saying the round endorses its strategy to bring conversational AI solutions to that industry. Webio announced new funding to support growth and further deployment of its platform. No operating metrics or revenue figures were disclosed in the article. Webio is a Dublin-based provider of a no-code conversational AI platform serving credit, collections and payments businesses. Its platform enables deployment over SMS, WhatsApp, webchat and other channels in hours, allowing customers to ask questions, change payment dates, or organise repayment schedules through conversational AI and automation. The company is used by Irish brands including The Very Group, Studio Retail, Hoist Finance, DCBL, NCO Europe and Anglian Water. Led by CEO Cormac O’Neill, Webio plans to deepen its conversational AI capabilities and expand its digital offerings. Following the fundraise, the company intends to triple its R&D team and expand sales, marketing and customer-success teams to address market demand in the UK and European markets. The article reports a $4M Series A led by Finch Capital.

  • NomuPay

    Led · Series A · May 2023

    Nomupay is an Irish fintech (founded in 2021) that offers a seamless, all‑in‑one payments solution via a gateway‑agnostic single API and single back‑office platform. The company supports pay‑ins, payouts and acquiring and serves 1,500+ merchants with a team of 230+ employees. It operates across Asia, EMEA and Europe and positions itself to simplify access to fragmented Asian payment markets for European, SEA, Middle East and ROW merchants. Nomupay says it will add additional countries and payment methods to support bi‑directional commerce between Japan, Asia and the rest of the world. The business aims to become the number one payment platform in Asia and cites regulatory and payments‑method complexity as drivers for demand. Recent financing activity and a strategic partnership with SB Payment Service Corp are intended to accelerate its regional expansion and product scalability. Nomupay builds cross-border payment rails and enables payments between countries that larger providers have overlooked, targeting merchants in Asia and the Middle East. Formed in 2023 out of Wirecard regional payment licenses, the company has grown 100% annually for the last two years and counts customers including Ikea. Nomupay projects it will turn profitable this year on ARR of about $20 million. Its platform addresses highly fragmented local payment methods and ISOs across multiple countries, supporting numerous wallets and regional payment schemes. It operates across Asia and beyond, with presences in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, Dublin, London (including Manchester via the Total Processing acquisition), Vilnius, Istanbul, Dubai and New Zealand. Nomupay plans to continue M&A to expand — it's in talks with a Singapore fintech to secure a money license and is targeting Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam. The company positions itself as enabling local players to compete with larger monoliths like Adyen and Stripe by focusing on complexity and underserved markets. NomuPay offers the Unified Payments (uP) Platform, an omnichannel payments acceptance and payout disbursement solution delivered via a single API integration. The uP Platform is gateway-agnostic and designed to simplify fragmented payment infrastructure across Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey, while augmenting existing payment stacks. The company targets scalable payment solutions with data management and reporting capabilities and has begun onboarding new clients as of Q4 2022. NomuPay is actively scaling its business in core markets and plans to use the new funding to enter additional markets and continue product development. Founded in 2021 and led by Peter Burridge, the executive team includes veterans from Hyperwallet (a PayPal service), US Bank, Barclays, Ingenico, Evo Payments and American Express. NomuPay maintains a presence in Dublin, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Istanbul and Bangkok.

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