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SBI

Venture Capital

SBI Holdings was established as a pioneer of Internet-based financial services, operating a financial conglomerate spanning securities, banking, insurance, and biotechnology.

Portfolio

11

companies

Investment by month

By category

  • Quantum Computing£339M
  • FinTech£258M
  • SecurTech£38.3M
  • AI/ML£33.0M
  • TravelTech£10.2M
  • Other£1.5M

By location

  • Oxford£339M
  • London£303M
  • San Francisco£38.3M

Portfolio companies

B2C2

B2C2

B2C2 provides liquidity and trading infrastructure for institutional cryptocurrency markets.

Cleo

Cleo

Cleo provides an AI powered digital assistant that helps young people manage their money.

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Divido

Divido provides a white-label platform for retail finance and point of sale payments.

Elliptic

Elliptic

Elliptic provides cryptoasset risk management and blockchain analytics for financial institutions.

Habito

Habito

Habito provides digital mortgage brokerage and lending services to simplify homebuying in the UK.

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Onfido

Onfido provides digital identity verification and authentication through artificial intelligence.

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Team

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Tomoyuki Nii

Executive Officer

Tomoyuki serves as director and executive officer of overseas investment at SBI Investment, following various leadership roles within the firm since 2006.

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Yoshitaka Kitao

Representative Director, President & CEO

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Recent investments

Series C
£260M

Bullhound Capital led the Series C financing, which stands as Europe's largest private quantum funding round.

"Globally, it represents a clear shift in the market from long-term promise to near-term delivery in quantum computing. For OQC, this gives us the capital to scale internationally, advance our technology roadmap, and meet increasing demand from customers seeking secure, scalable access to quantum computing infrastructure."
— Gerald Mullally, CEO
Series B
£78.8M

SBI Investment led the Series B round to support the international rollout of OQC quantum platforms.

"To solve the world's most pressing challenges – from climate change to accelerated drug discovery – we need to put quantum computers in the hands of humanity and at the fingertips of our most brilliant minds. We're proud to be pioneering enterprise ready quantum with our customers, partners and investors."
— Ilana Wisby, Chief Executive Officer
Series C
£43.7M

Evolution Equity Partners led the Series C financing round, with backing from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and existing investors.

"At Elliptic, we help financial institutions, from crypto exchanges to the world's leading banks, embrace cryptoassets more safely. This fundraising round is an endorsement of the opportunity for cryptoassets in the financial industry – and our absolutely critical role in the ecosystem."
— Simone Maini, CEO