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Barclays Ventures

Corporate VC

London · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 1 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Barclays UK Ventures operates as an independent-mandate unit within Barclays aimed at accelerating the future of banking. It focuses on two central themes: connecting communities and building new business lines across financial and non-financial propositions. The unit blends a start-up, disruptive mindset with the distribution capability and customer base of Barclays, testing ideas in independent environments before scaling them. It plans to explore five or six themes captured via organic build-out, commercial partnerships and venture investments, seeking early-stage companies with disruptive ideas to invest in and co-develop customer propositions with.

Invests inFintechSector AgnosticLondonUnited Kingdom

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Late Stage
HQ
London, GB
Leads rounds
Follows
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2018
Tracked investments
2

Team · 1 people

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What they invest in

from 2 of 2 portfolio companies

Cybersecurity ×2Consumer ×1Enterprise Software ×1SaaS ×1

HQs:Israel×1United States×1

Investments · 2 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path
Evernymevernym.comOct 2019 · $8M

Evernym provides digital identity, cryptography, privacy, security, and governance solutions based on verifiable credentials technology, including a Travel Pass product for managing travel information.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSHerriman, US

Timothy Ruff(Executive Officer)Jason Law(Executive Officer)inSteve Havas(Executive Officer)Drummond Reed(Executive Officer)

Co-investorsTitanBlockMedici VenturesOutlier Ventures

SafeHouse Technologiessafehousetech.comin𝕏Nov 2019

Safehouse is a consumer VPN service that creates an encrypted tunnel between a user's device and the internet, offering IP masking, global server access, and protection from malicious links and data breaches.

ConsumerCybersecurityTel Aviv, IL

Co-investorsDas & Co.Kube VCTechstars

Frequently asked questions

What stage does Barclays Ventures invest at?
Barclays Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Late Stage stages.
What sectors does Barclays Ventures focus on?
Barclays Ventures focuses on Fintech, Sector Agnostic.
Where is Barclays Ventures located?
Barclays Ventures is headquartered in London, GB.
Does Barclays Ventures lead rounds?
Barclays Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.

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Ben Davey, Barclays Ventures CEO. on the lessons he has learned in responding to the covid19 crisis

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