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Barbod Namini

General Partner

Venture | Munich

13

Years at HV

6

Active board roles across his portfolio

4+

Continents lived and worked across

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Investing acrossFintech, Digital Assets and AI

I’m on the lookout for

The most compelling fintech founders I back know exactly how financial services work, and have absolutely no interest in replicating them. That combination of insider knowledge and outsider conviction is what produces category-defining companies. It's what I look for before everything else.

Infrastructure that unlocks new possibilities

The most durable companies aren't building better products on top of broken infrastructure. They're replacing the infrastructure itself. That foundational layer, modular, adaptable, globally relevant, is where I've focused since before most funds had a thesis around it.

The curiosity that keeps compounding

What keeps me in venture capital after more than a decade is the same thing that drew me in. The founders I work with are always operating at the frontier, and staying close to that requires genuine curiosity. That intellectual restlessness, equal parts technical rigour and openness to what comes next, is what this work demands. And what I love most about it.

The first wave of fintech was about the front end: better apps, better experiences, better ways to reach customers. What's happening now is deeper. To genuinely reimagine financial products, you have to rebuild the infrastructure underneath them. More modular, more adaptable, more global and potentially more decentralised. AI and blockchain technologies will accelerate this in ways that are still being understood, making it possible to create financial environments that are genuinely personalised, built around each person's actual situation rather than the broad categories the industry has always defaulted to. The opportunity is still early. And still enormous.

Barbod taught himself programming as a teenager and never really stopped thinking like an engineer. That instinct has taken him further than most. He studied Software Engineering at Imperial College London with First Class Honours, completed his MBA at Columbia Business School, and spent his early career moving between worlds that rarely overlap: London trading floors, global equities at GMO, and a role backing the first privately funded submarine cable on Africa's east coast.

From there, VP of Investment Management at Rocket Internet as Berlin's startup ecosystem was just finding its footing. When Barbod joined HV Capital in 2013, fintech infrastructure in Europe was still an open field. More than a decade later, his portfolio includes Qonto, Yapily, Midas, Payrails and Zopa. He didn't follow the fintech wave. He was already there.

Companies Backed14

Current portfolio

  • fintechearly

    Founders: James Kirimy

    Founded: 2021

    HV Entry: 2024

    Funding: Fund IX Ventures

    HQ: Paris, France

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini

    Website: https://www.doorfeed.com/

  • ai-enterprise-softwareearly

    Founders: Sean Ward Martin Szummer

    Founded: 2023

    HV Entry: 2024

    Funding: Fund IX Ventures

    HQ: London, United Kingdom

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini
  • fintechearly

    Founders: Peter Hill

    Founded: 2021

    HV Entry: 2021

    Funding: Fund VIII

    HQ: London, United Kingdom

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini

    Website: https://www.januus.io/

  • fintechearly

    Founders: Thibault Lancksweert Xavier De Pauw Edmund Parsons

    Founded: 2021

    HV Entry: 2023

    Funding: Fund IX Ventures

    HQ: London, United Kingdom

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini
  • fintechearly

    Founders: Dennis Dinkelmeyer Fabrice Grinda

    Founded: 2020

    HV Entry: 2024

    Funding: Fund IX Ventures

    HQ: Berlin, Germany

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini

    Website: https://midas.app/

  • cybersecurityearly

    Founders: Soo Choi-Andrews Christopg Hartmann Dominik Richter Patrick Münch

    Founded: 2019

    HV Entry: 2024

    Funding: Fund IX Ventures

    HQ: San Francisco, United States of America

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini
    Said Haschemi
  • fintechgrowth

    Founders: Orkhan Abdullayev Emre Talay

    Founded: 2021

    HV Entry: 2021

    Funding: Fund VIII, Fund IX Growth

    HQ: Berlin, Germany

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini
    Alexander Joël-Carbonell

    Website: https://www.payrails.com

  • fintechgrowth

    Founders: Alexandre Prot Steve Anavi

    Founded: 2016

    HV Entry: 2019

    Funding: Fund VII

    HQ: Paris, France

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini

    Website: https://qonto.com/

  • fintechgrowth

    Founders: Stefano Vaccino

    Founded: 2017

    HV Entry: 2018

    Funding: Fund VII

    HQ: London, United Kingdom

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini

    Website: https://www.yapily.com/

  • fintechgrowth

    Founders: David Nunn

    Founded: 2020

    HV Entry: 2021

    Funding: Fund VIII

    HQ: London, United Kingdom

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini

Enduring portfolio

  • fintechacquired

    Founders: Nick Bortot

    Founded: 2013

    HV Entry: 2016

    Funding: Fund VI

    HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini
  • fintechacquired

    Founders: Abe Smith

    Founded: 2009

    HV Entry: 2017

    Funding: Fund VI

    HQ: London, United Kingdom

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini

    Website: http://www.dealflo.com/

  • ai-enterprise-softwareacquired

    Founders: Stephen Upstone Marco van de Bergh

    Founded: 2011

    HV Entry: 2014

    Funding: Fund V

    HQ: London, United Kingdom

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini
  • fintechgrowth

    Founders: Dr. Roland Folz Jörg Diewald Dr. Jörg Howein Thomas Rasser

    Founded: 2016

    HV Entry: 2020

    Funding: Fund VIII

    HQ: Berlin, Germany

    Investors:
    Barbod Namini

    Website: https://www.solarisbank.com/

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