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Illuminate Financial
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Illuminate Financial is a specialist venture capital firm investing in early-stage Enterprise AI and Fintech companies. It combines capital with connectivity to global financial institutions to help founders build and scale.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfintechenterprise aifinancial servicescapital marketsregtechsustainable finance
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Or find every investor that fitsIlluminate Financial lists 52 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 15 funding rounds, 4 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 54% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (47%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and Crypto & Web3 (7%). 63% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Lightspeed Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures and AFG Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Illuminate Financial, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Illuminate Financial's whole history. Rounds on record name 14 companies; its own site lists 52. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 54% |
| Series B | 39% |
| Growth | 8% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 5 | 2 |
| '26 | 9 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 85th | 52 companies |
| Recent activity | 95th | 10 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 95th | 25% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 81th | 47% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 47% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 7% | 1% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
| Legal & Compliance | 3% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 6 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 4 |
| AFG Partners | 3 |
| Fin Capital | 3 |
| Motive Partners | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| Cherry Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5198%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company12%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Lightspeed Venture Partners
Compare Illuminate Financial head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Illuminate Financial| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Nov 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 29 Jun 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 17 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 18 May 2026 | Series B | |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 5 Feb 2026 | Series A |
Round details for Illuminate Financial
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Illuminate Financial's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
52 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accacia helps companies achieve their sustainability goals by tracking emissions data and providing green building materials and energy-efficient equipment | Real Estate & ConstructionSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Arteria AI provides enterprise AI for financial services operations | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Baton Systems provides liquidity management and payment solutions for financial institutions. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| BeZero Carbon applies independent, risk-based, project level carbon ratings for investing in carbon projects | Climate & Energy | Dec 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Blockdaemon provides digital ecosystem infrastructure and services for institutions to manage and scale their digital assets and transactions. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides infrastructure and services for private market fund operations, including fund accounting, reporting, and administration. | FintechFintech | May 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| CloudMargin provides a platform for automated collateral management and workflow automation for financial institutions. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Karta issues a US charge card for global citizens with credit lines up to $200,000 based on US assets and offers concierge services | Fintech | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Copper provides digital asset infrastructure for institutions, including custody, trading, settlement, and collateral management services. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Crossover Markets operates a digital asset exchange for institutional participants | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Mar 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| The company provides a wealth management platform for financial institutions and advisors to manage client relationships and operations | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Dv01 provides loan data management, reporting, and analytics for structured products and private credit | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Emmi provides climate risk data for companies and investors in financial terms | FintechClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Endowus provides wealth management services, including calculating and presenting historical performance of funds | Fintech | Oct 2025Round | Page + round | |
| Enmacc provides an OTC energy trading platform | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| FileAI turns fragmented, unstructured data into a single trusted record AI workflows can run on. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Finres provides solutions to secure the future of agricultural farms and industries by analyzing economic and climate data | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Flox provides a reproducible and governed stack for developers to work on and deploy software applications. | Developer ToolsAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Fordefi provides a comprehensive MPC wallet platform and web3 gateway for managing digital assets | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- illuminatefinancial.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 27 May 2021
- Companies checked
- 52
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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