Seaya is a prominent European venture capital fund that backs exceptional entrepreneurs building global technology companies. The firm manages over €650m across five early-stage funds and assists portfolio companies with international expansion.
Portfolio
2
companies
AUM
£650M
under management
Passionfruit
Passionfruit connects businesses with vetted independent talent through an intelligent collaboration platform.
Toqio
Toqio builds a financial software platform enabling businesses to launch custom financial products.
Aristotelis Xenofontos
Partner
Aristotelis is a partner at Seaya Ventures. He previously held roles at Banco Santander, Thomson Reuters, and J.P. Morgan.
LinkedInBeatriz Gonzalez
Founder and Managing Partner
Seaya led the Series A investment to help the workforce platform expand its product suite and grow in North America.
"We started our business because we believed that the next generation deserved a new way to operate their professional lives, and we realised that if we could reimagine career infrastructure end-to-end for the 21st century, businesses would also be enabled to operate in a more agile way, one that drives more efficient growth."
The Series A round was led by AlbionVC and will support expansion into France and Germany.
"After rapidly growing our team and entering the Spanish market, we’ll now be broadening our focus within Europe, including expansion into France and Germany. This new funding round will enable us to keep evolving and delivering on our vision: we aim to become the world’s premier fintech SaaS platform, giving our clients the ability to create, customise, and launch bank-grade digital finance solutions, enriched by our Marketplace of reputable and trusted partners."
The seed round was backed by Seaya Ventures, Speedinvest and SIX FinTech Ventures to support international expansion and team growth.
"After exiting the last business we kept getting pulled towards FinTech. With our backgrounds in SaaS and operating in the FinTech space, many opportunities came to us from banks, startups and big brands. We kept seeing the same problem, and no solution in the market. Regulation has changed and Banking-as-a-Service provided the plumbing for new solutions, but everyone was still building solutions from scratch. It felt like the same situation that has occurred again and again in the software industry before a new sector emerged, and we had an opportunity to be a first-mover to deliver a meaningful solution, with FinTech SaaS."
