Quona Capital

Capital One Ventures starts with a deep understanding of Capital One's strategic priorities, markets and technologies. We seek out companies across industries and investment stages. We align with entrepreneurs on the strategic rationale for our investment. We then help our portfolio companies with guidance on product and business development, and engagement with Capital One. CAPITAL ONE Founded on the belief that the banking industry would be revolutionized by information and technology, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity and humanity to banking. Still founder-led, Capital One is a Fortune 100 company offering consumer, small business and commercial financial services. Capital One is Changing Banking For Good: All-in on the Cloud Powered by machine learning & AI Committed to customers' succes OUR TEAM Based in San Francisco, New York and at Capital One's headquarters outside of Washington, DC, Capital One Ventures is a team of investors and operators with deep tech, data and financial services experience.

Our mission is to improve the wellbeing of the world’s underserved individuals and small businesses. Catalyst Fund was launched in 2015 as a global accelerator, managed by BFA Global, for early-stage inclusive fintech startups, offering affordable, accessible and appropriate digital financial solutions that improve the financial health of underserved communities in emerging markets. Initially backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase & Co., and fiscal sponsorship from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, over the years the accelerator scaled with support from the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), PayPal, and Mastercard Foundation. The Catalyst Fund startup accelerator worked to fill important gaps in the innovation ecosystems across Africa, Latin America and Asia, including: lack of patient capital to test and iterate products in-market, lack of skill sets to rapidly build viable solutions for underserved customers and lack of connections for many local founders with global and local investors and corporate partners. The accelerator tackled these challenges by offering a combination of catalytic grant capital, bespoke venture-building support from market and sector experts and access to a global network of investors and corporate innovators, while sharing insights, learnings and toolkits with the broader inclusive tech ecosystem. From 2015 to 2022, Catalyst Fund backed 61 companies across 15 emerging markets, constantly refining its proven model to take startups closer to product-market fit. Our portfolio companies have gone on to secure over US$656 million in follow-on funding and currently serve more than 14 million individuals and MSMEs globally. In line with our mission to support entrepreneurs who use technology, finance, and data innovation to tackle the biggest challenges and opportunities of our time, in 2022 we expanded our mandate to invest in enterprises that address the most pressing global challenge of our time: climate change. Building on lessons learned and core strengths, our new $40M pre-seed fund and accelerator will back high-impact tech startups that seek to improve the resilience of underserved, climate-vulnerable communities across Africa.

The Internet has reached in, grabbed, and made the world we once knew totally unrecognizable. Yet the world of finance is, sadly, totally recognizable. The way we transact, save, borrow, invest and manage our money has barely advanced. Yes, there has been some recent innovation– we’re proud to have invested behind many of the intrepid entrepreneurs who are leading the charge – but it is far from enough. In short, we are still at the beginning of the beginning. Case in point: less than 1% of all loans in the world are made online. (Yeah, you heard us right). We’re all stuck in a financial time warp. And just like newspapers, travel agents, hotels and taxi companies have been turned upside down from outside the cozy confines of their industries, don’t expect banks to lead us out of the warp. They’ve proven themselves either unable to create internal environments where innovation can flourish – or simply unwilling to change even though it’s best for their customers. Ribbit Capital is a global investment organization with one single, relentless mission: to change the world of finance. When we look back at our mantra from the day we launched in 2012, the beliefs and values motivating our mission have not changed. This we believe:We believe the unstoppable movement of consumers and business owners to mobile will resound in financial services for decades to come. We believe change favors new entrants and their new brands. We believe that legacy players will lag and sputter. We believe consumers are ready to be inspired. Over the past few years, our convictions have deepened. We have invested in visionary entrepreneurs who are also hard-headed pragmatists. We’ve given them support, guidance, and running room. And we’ve watched with awe as they have begun to reshape the financial world. Our goal isn’t just to write checks. It’s to deposit and grow ideas. We look at finance with a hungry eye for change, and with a desire to share our learning and experience – including some painful mistakes along the way –with ambitious entrepreneurs. When they succeed, they will create the next JP Morgans, Citibanks and Schwabs - tomorrow’s enduring brands. “Our goal isn’t just to write checks. It’s to deposit ideas.” For us, the passion is also personal: we have lived through hyperinflation in two countries, started innovative financial services businesses on three continents, and been regulated by seven governments. Since launching Ribbit, we have invested behind entrepreneurs in ten different countries who are providing financial services to customers in nearly every major city on earth. We invest this broadly because the tectonic shifts we are funding are deep and global. Millions who are joyfully stepping into the middle class now have opportunity to interact with the formal financial system for the first time. Consumers everywhere are waiting expectantly – and often with mounting frustration – for financial services providers to finally bring them true efficiency, transparency, and radical simplicity. The next generation of consumers has about as much patience for Big Finance as they do for Big Anything. Driven by this, we will help create and nurture a thriving, bustling new world in lending, personal finance, insurance, financial software, bitcoin, and more. The technology is here - the Internet, social networks, smart phones, electronic payment systems, and massive processing power in the cloud. The ideas are here as well. What’s in short supply is the investment focus, support, and partnership to accelerate their success. It takes money to change money.

Mouro Capital is a venture capital firm investing in the future of financial services. With $400m in assets under management, we back ambitious entrepreneurs leading early to growth stage businesses across Europe, North America, and Latin America. Like our namesake Mouro Island, whose lighthouse acts as a beacon for travelers to the Bay of Santander in Northern Spain, we help guide teams as they build the businesses that transform the financial sector. What we invest in We take a broad view to the future of financial services, looking even beyond today’s industry boundaries. We ask ourselves fundamental questions and build strong theses around topics we are passionate about while keeping an open mind to new ideas that challenge our beliefs. Better processes. How can we bring automation and real-time applications into banking infrastructure? Alternative delivery. How can banking services be delivered through APIs? How can finance be embedded in third-party journeys? New client propositions. What new client value propositions are emerging in developed and developing markets? Technology shift. How are novel technologies and new engineering paradigms (artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing) changing how we bank? Digital crossovers. What new enterprise solutions and emerging platforms will be the gateway to tomorrow’s financial services? Industry boundaries reinvented. How can industries be more integrated and converge into new white spaces fuelled by finance? What is the role of money in a data-rich world? How we invest We know how hard it is to change an industry as complex as financial services, so our investment style is flexible and adapts to each opportunity to best support you. We look for ambitious entrepreneurs, bold visions and relentless execution skills able to deliver industry-defining companies. If that describes you, get in touch. We are global but invest primarily across Europe, North America, and Latin America We invest across most lifecycle stages, from seed to early to growth We invest tickets up to $15 million and reserve additional capital for future rounds We prefer to lead but can follow others’ terms We are happy to co-invest with other value-add investors We want our investment to be meaningful enough to have a seat at the table We build the right interfaces to closely support your success We want to actively mobilize our portfolio, our network and our expertise for you

QED is the premier VC in the fintech space. We are operators well regarded for our expertise, engagement, and empathy. We invest in businesses that disrupt and empower. Fintech is about leveraging the best aspects of technology – mobile adaptation, optimising data, agile tech build, and heightening rapid learning – to make financial services better for consumers – through driving adoption, reducing friction, and creating transparency. Fintech is doing all of this rapidly, cheaply, and in modular/flexible form. But at its core, it’s about solving a problem for a user. Our Philosophy On their own, small hurdles are often easy to overcome. But stacked together, many small hurdles can present an overwhelming challenge, even for the best founder. We call this .8^5. It’s our job to help companies improve their chances of success. Back to Basics If you know anything about us, you will know we are fanatically focused on unit economics. Curious about the other principles we hold near and dear? Our Investment Criteria We invest in early-stage, disruptive financial services companies in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America. Our initial investment size typically is around $5M with significant reserves for follow-on. We keenly focus on talent. To build conviction around an investment, the company must have amazing leadership. This means that management is balanced and transparent, open to advice, and focused on unit economics. After all, Fintech is hard and we strive to work with CEOs who innately understand this. Founders who think they know all the answers are subject to stumble. We focus on companies who are unrelenting. Fintechs need to push through constant challenges in order to be true disruptors. The business must solve a real problem or create a palpable benefit for the user.Beware of technology zealots in search of a problem to solve. We are customer first in our thinking. The business must be thoughtful about managing opportunity and risk. Solving a narrower problem well is less risky, but often has less upside, than solving a bigger problem with a larger TAM. QEDis also hypothesis driven. We develop hypotheses, evaluate the universe of companies in the space, and apply full-court press to convert the best we can find. If we don’t reach a deal with a company we believe in, or if we don’t find one, we test further. Sometimes we will build it ourselves or assemble a team to build it and fund them from day zero. In that case, we tap into theCapital One diaspora – a now global network of industry leading business-builders with expertise in all aspects of financial services. We have had great success doing this through our Belay platform, building companies such as ClearScore, Wagestream, minu, MotoRefi, and two other companies that will be announced later this year, and we have scores of ideas in the pipeline.

EMVC is innovating the “strategic seed” category. We invest in early-stage companies that are driving accelerated innovation and local growth in India and that have relevance globally. Our cross-border fund is led by a team of passionate investors and industry leaders with a track record success and a deep understanding of the trends and technologies that are disrupting the status quo in India and the world. Our Unique Approach EMVC is focused on financial services and adjacent technologies in India that are “leapfogging” developed markets and driving the massive transformation that’s underway in the world’s fastest-growing consumer economy. Our approach is simple: We get hands-on to support the very best entrepreneurs who are dedicated to building the new economy for the next billion digitally-empowered users, helping founders connect and grow with the most relevant international leaders and corporations in the world. We are a mix between startup lab, corporate VC, and strategy shop. We believe in results over hype and empowering brilliant minds with capital and connectivity. We help scale hyper-local context and global collaboration in sectors on the cusp of change.NEXT GENERATION PAYMENTS FINTECH & DATA INFRASTRUCTURE SAVINGS, INVESTMENTS, & PERSONAL FINANCE INSURTECH SMALL BUSINESS 2.0 DECENTRALIZED ECONOMY DIGITAL TOOLS FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS NEXT-WAVE FINANCIAL INCLUSION