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Global Founders Capital

Global Founders Capital

Venture Capital

Global Founders Capital is a venture capital investor that participated in Benford's pre-seed financing.

Portfolio

16

companies

Investment by month

By category

  • FinTech£183M
  • AI/ML£31.2M
  • EdTech£21.0M
  • Uncategorised£15.4M
  • Marketplace£10.0M
  • Other£4.5M

By location

  • London£166M
  • New York£84.6M
  • Warsaw£14.7M

Portfolio companies

A

Arrakis

Arrakis builds artificial intelligence agents for industrial operations.

B

Benford

Benford provides automated statutory auditing services for mid-market companies.

Count

Count

Count provides a data platform that combines warehousing, transformation and reporting tools for early-stage technology companies.

F

Fuzey

Fuzey provides a digital operations platform for small businesses and independent contractors.

Keyzy

Keyzy

Keyzy provides a rent-to-own property platform that helps aspiring homeowners join the property ladder.

K

Knoma

Knoma offers zero interest loans to help individuals finance tech courses and digital upskilling.

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Team

Christopher Priebe

Christopher Priebe

Partner

Christopher brings investment and operating experience, having worked as a partner at Global Founders Capital and co-founded Zelt.

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Gerald Parloiu

Gerald Parloiu

Partner

Gerald brings venture capital and product management experience, having previously served as a partner at Global Founders Capital and a director of product management at Sana.

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David Sainteff

David Sainteff

Partner

David is a partner at Global Founders Capital and holds board positions at Pennylane, Defacto, Upway, and Orasio. He also lectures at Sciences Po.

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Recent investments

Pre-Seed
€5.0M

The financing round was led by firstminute capital and Global Founders Capital.

"Audit is one of the few services where the customer experience has got worse every year while the bill has gone up. We are not changing what an audit is. We are changing how it is delivered."
— Thibault Mallion, Co-founder and Co-CEO
Series A
$30.0M

Blossom Capital led the financing round alongside Accel and prominent technology executives.

"The West is under growing pressure to reindustrialise, but that renaissance won’t be powered by net new companies alone. It requires equipping our industrial champions with the tools to harness their data, navigate the AI transition and compete on a global stage. That’s exactly why we founded Arrakis"
— Rafael Quintanilla, Chief Executive
Seed
£4.5M

The seed round features participation from Y Combinator and Global Founders Capital to support multi-language expansion.

"In the era of AI, developers are writing apps faster than ever with the help of coding agents like GitHub Copilot or Claude Code. Deploying and running these applications as fast as creating them is the next major frontier and Shuttle is uniquely positioned to be a leader in this space and enable quick iteration cycles for every full-stack builder."
— Thomas Dohmke, CEO
Seed
£81.1M

The seed financing was led by Soma Capital and FoundersX with additional backing from Clear Haven Capital Management.

"Since securing our pre-seed funding and completing the Y Combinator programme, the total value of invoices we’re handling every month has increased tenfold. Traction is growing fast because suppliers and business buyers alike simply understand and like what Tranch can do for them. Against this challenging macroeconomic backdrop, buyers and suppliers have to ensure they can optimise their working capital cycle, and B2B BNPL is a commonsense way to achieve that. With our new investors and substantial credit facility in place, we’re in a great position to continue our growth in the US market out of our New York office so that every SMB that needs it can ‘pay with Tranch’ – flexibly and on their own terms."
— Philip Kelvin, Co-founder & CEO