Valar Ventures

9 tracked neobanks backed · North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, Africa, MENA · valar.com ↗

New York fintech fund co-founded in 2010 by Peter Thiel with Andrew McCormack and James Fitzgerald; the closest thing venture has to a dedicated neobank fund (N26, Wise, Qonto).

Valar Ventures appears in the publicly disclosed early funding rounds of 9 of the 358 neobanks tracked in the open dataset — a portfolio spanning traditional and hybrid crypto players. Sources are linked on each profile; this is notable-backer data from disclosed rounds, not a complete cap table.

Key people

Andrew McCormack — founding partner ↗James Fitzgerald — founding partner ↗

Portfolio

Novo Miami, US · est. 2016 traditional

Majority Houston, US · est. 2019 traditional

Neo Financial Calgary, CA · est. 2019 traditional

N26 Berlin, DE · est. 2013 traditional

Qonto Paris, FR · est. 2016 traditional

Wise London, UK · est. 2011 traditional · 19M customers

albo Mexico City, MX · est. 2016 traditional

Kuda Lagos, NG · est. 2019 traditional

Bitpanda Vienna, AT · est. 2014 hybrid crypto

Frequent co-investors

Firms appearing alongside Valar Ventures in the same neobanks' disclosed rounds.

Tencent · 2 shared Andreessen Horowitz · 1 shared DST Global · 1 shared Index Ventures · 1 shared Insight Partners · 1 shared Allianz X · 1 shared Speedinvest · 1 shared Crosslink Capital · 1 shared Greyhound Capital · 1 shared Stripes · 1 shared

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