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ING Ventures is the venture capital arm of ING, making minority investments in early and growth stage companies that have a strategic relevance to ING. It targets series A to D stage companies with differentiating technology, a solid team, market traction and a proven solution to impact ING’s business and enable ING’s clients to access innovative and best-in-class services.
Who/what: €350m fund to support the acceleration of ING’s innovation strategy making minority equity investments in early and growth stage companies
Strategy: hands-on investor targeting companies with a strong team, technology, traction and strategic relevance for ING
Focus: Global mandate concentrating on fintech, regtech, proptech and advanced analytics in Europe, the US and Asia
Initial ticket size: €250k – €10m with capacity to support in follow-on rounds
Based in Amsterdam but shadowing ING’s geographic footprint of 41 countries, ING Ventures is a €350 million fund that supports its entrepreneurs with hands-on support, know-how, scaling expertise and access to ING’s distribution network.
Investment | Stage | Location | Focus |
 | Early stage | USA | Ascent is an AI-driven regulatory compliance software that automatically identifies and updates regulatory obligations |
 | Early stage | Italy | AXYON provides AI-driven solutions to realise efficiency gains and improved performances to asset management and trading |
 | Growth stage | Germany | Clark is an insurance robo-advisor for retail users with transparent, automated and comprehensive advice |
 | Early stage | Netherlands | Cobase is a multibank platform for cash management and treasury services for mid and large sized corporates |
 | Early stage | Singapore | Contour operates a trust network between banks and corporates as a basis to digitize trade finance products |
 | Early stage | UK | Counting up is a mobile banking app for UK based freelancers & self-employed merging banking and accounting functions |
 | Early stage | UK | Divido is a white-label retail finance platform and technology provider enabling banks and merchants to offer point of sale financing |
 | Early stage | USA | Eigen technologies provides natural language processing technology to help customers extract unstructured data from documentation |
 | Growth stage | Spain | Fintonic is a virtual bank providing users financial behavior insights and access to a marketplace for financial products |
 | Exited | Germany | FinCompare is an online platform that connects SMEs and lenders in Germany, automating financing applications for SMEs |
 | Early stage | USA | Flowcast provides an AI solution that powers and automates smarter decisions in credit risks |
 | Early stage | UK | Fnality provides alternative settlement rails to create a network of decentralised Financial Market Infrastructures (dFMIs) |
 | Exited | UK | Funding options operates a lending brokerage platform providing SMEs a one-stop shop for their financing needs |
 | Early stage | Luxembourg | HQLAx leverages DLT to deliver liquidity and collateral management solutions for banks |
 | Exited | USA | Kabbage is an online instant SME lender driven by AI based alternative credit scoring |
 | Early stage | Switzerland | Komgo operates a secure network of verified actors to digitalize trade finance workflows and transaction processes |
 | Early stage | UK | Neptune provides real-time and high quality bond pre-trade data from sell-side banks to buy-side clients |
 | Growth stage | USA | Openfin is an operating system and desktop integration platform allowing secure interoperability between industry relevant applications |
 | Growth stage | Benelux | Payconiq is a B2B technology provider and mobile payment scheme for retail customers and merchants supporting POS, online and P2P transactions |
 | Early stage | UK | Proda is an AI-enabled property data standardisation platform that captures, standardises and quality checks rent roll data |
 | Early stage | USA | Sardine is a fraud prevention platform for financial services firms based on advanced KYC, behaviour biometrics and device intelligence |
 | Exited | Germany | Scoperty is a C2C transaction platform for German residential real estate facilitating housing transactions |
 | Early stage | Netherlands | SeMI Technologies is a provider of open-source vector search engine that interprets unstructured data to obtain actionable insights |
 | Early stage | Singapore | Stemly helps companies to manage supply chain and finance processes by using autonomous ML technology |
 | Early stage | USA | R3 provides a DLT (Corda) and works with financial institutions to develop use cases for the industry |
 | Growth stage | UK | Thought Machine is a cloud native core banking system provider for retail & commercial banks |
 | Early stage | UK | Marco Polo Network is a payment commitment, supply chain finance and receivable finance transaction platform that leverages DLT |
 | Early stage | UK | TransFICC is an API-gateway provider to connect banks and asset managers with fixed income trading venues |
 | Exited | Czech Republic | Twisto provides credit and money management solutions targeting retail clients |
 | Early stage | UK | Vakt operates a DLT based post-trade management platform focusing on the energy market |
 | Early stage | UK | Vault is a whistleblowing platform that uses a data-driven approach to track, report and resolve workplace misconduct |
 | Growth stage | China | WeLab provides consumer lending and digital-only banking services in Asia |
The ING Ventures team consists of a diverse group of seasoned investment professionals with extensive venture capital experience.
Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. So whatever your financial needs, whether you are looking to expand and want strategic advice, or just want to make your day-to-day banking more efficient, we are here to support your business ambitions.
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