Insiders Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingSt. Helier · Seed–Series A · 6 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Insiders Ventures positions itself as more than capital, providing founder-driven support from a selective network of proven builders and operators who have exited or scaled companies. The fund emphasizes real, practical value, warm introductions, and helping founders convert early signals into traction and growth from seed to scale. Rooted in Europe but operating globally, it aims to support founders wherever they are. It was founded by Niccolo Maisto and Michele Attisani, the entrepreneurs behind FACEIT, who now back the next generation of founders driving a shift from hype to value.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
Team · 6 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesFounder mafia
2 people who came through Insiders Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 28 of 32 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×18SaaS ×12Fintech ×10Developer Tools ×9Enterprise Software ×8Cloud Computing ×5Marketing Tech ×4Data & Infrastructure ×3
HQs:United Kingdom×7United States×7Canada×1Ireland×1Italy×1Peru×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 24 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×112 founders×73 founders×34+ founders×3
Where their founders studiedfrom 30 founders with education data
University of Melbourne ×4Columbia University ×2Damascus University ×2Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati ×2Università Bocconi ×2University of Cambridge ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 28 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×12Engineering ×6Economics ×5Business & Management ×3Finance & Accounting ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 34 founders with career history
Bosch ×3Apple ×2Boss Consulting SA ×2Goldman Sachs ×2HSBC ×2IBM ×2Lendable ×2National Australia Bank ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 32 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12022 · 12 dated
Airwallex operates a global banking platform that provides cross-border payments, financial infrastructure, and AI-powered financial software for businesses.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSingapore, SG
Jack Zhang(CEO)inMax Li(Co-Founder and Head of Design)inLucy Yueting Liu(Co-Founder and President)inXijing Dai (Jacob Dai)(Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer)inKi-Lok Wong(Co-Founder and Principal Architect)inJacob Dai(Founder)in
Co-investors20VCActivant CapitalAEF Greater Bay Area FundAirTree VenturesAthletic VenturesBlackbird Ventures+26 more
An AI-powered home and property management platform that digitizes property details, anticipates homeowner needs, and connects users to services like insurance and repairs.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerMarketplacesPropTech
Nigel(Founder and CEO)Natasha(Co-Founder and CFO)Nick(Co-Founder and B2B lead)
Co-investorsClearance Venture PartnersTorch Capital
Architect provides an AI agent that installs on a company's website with one line of code to answer visitor questions, personalize pages in real time, and help convert visitors into buyers.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSLondon, GB
Chris Nicolas(Founder)inTed Eltringham(Founder)in
Co-investorsProject A VenturesRLC VenturesRace CapitalTogether FundTq Ventures Llc
Atria is an AI-powered advertising platform whose agent "Raya" analyzes a brand's ads, data, and competitor intelligence to generate creative briefs, produce and batch-upload ad creatives to platforms like Meta and TikTok, and grade ad performance.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Co-investorsFuel Ventures
Axon Labs builds brain-inspired AI that runs on small, efficient world models at the edge to make sub-second predictions, with its first application in high-frequency trading and capital markets.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechFintech
Ayush B Shah(Founder)in
Ceartas uses AI to scan millions of websites and platforms for leaked content, deepfakes, and impersonator accounts using a customer's likeness, then issues takedowns across DMCA and other legal frameworks.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyCybersecurityDublin, IE
Dan Purcell(Founder)in
Co-investorsAirbridge Equity PartnersEarlybird Venture CapitalUpside Ventures
Clera is a talent agent service that matches job seekers with startup roles, using their experience, preferences, and dealbreakers to recommend fits and make direct introductions to founders and hiring managers.
Future of WorkHR TechMarketplaces
Alexander Farr(Founder)inSebastian Scott(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlue Wire Capital
Emerge builds a privacy-first AI personalization layer that gives products tailored, context-aware user experiences without lengthy onboarding quizzes.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSLondon, GB
Griffin is a banking-as-a-service platform offering API-based banking infrastructure for fintechs and other businesses to embed banking and financial products.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSLondon, GB
David Jarvis(Founder, Chief Executive Officer)inAllen Rohner(Founder, Chief Technology Officer)inPhoebe Wallis(Chief Revenue Officer)inEd Carter(Chief Operating Officer)inDora Grant(Chief Risk Officer)inRob VanBreda(Interim Chief Financial Officer)
Co-investorsNotion CapitalCrane Venture PartnersDG Daiwa VenturesNordicNinjaOutrun VenturesPortfolio Ventures+3 more
Inceptron provides a platform for deploying, optimizing, and scaling AI models in production, offering compiler-driven performance optimization and inference infrastructure for machine learning teams.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Steffen Malkowsky(Founder)in
Co-investors42CAPLU InnovationDreamcraft
Karoo is a financial services company operating in Canada that aims to provide fairer and more customer-focused financial products and services.
FintechToronto, CA
Hugo Markland(Founder)inJeanot Dawson(Founder)inOliver Lambson(Founder)in
Co-investorsNeer Venture PartnersY CombinatorBand of AngelsBatch VenturesGarage CapitalInflect Health+3 more
Leasy provides vehicle financing and leasing solutions, offering auto credit that lets customers select a vehicle, receive it quickly, and choose a payment plan to eventually own it.
FintechMobility & TransportationLima, PE
Co-investorsDeBa Ventures
Radiant builds compute infrastructure and services designed to operate as a utility, providing the foundational platform for AI and intelligence applications at scale.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & Infrastructure
Mahdi Yahya(President)inVishal Padiyar(Executive Chairman)
Co-investors6 Degrees CapitalArtem VenturesAsahi Kasei Corporate Venture CapitalBanyan VenturesEpisode1Humans Of The Internet+5 more
Pavo offers a platform and embedded applied-science teams that run a "continual improvement loop" for production software systems, connecting production evidence, ranking improvement opportunities by expected lift, and validating changes against benchmarks.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Pixaera transforms written incident reports into interactive, scenario-based learning experiences where workers make decisions within simulated workplace conditions to develop judgment rather than passive document review.
EdTechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Mousa Yassin(Founder)in
Co-investorsLocalGlobeYork IELatitud Ventures
Praktika is an AI-powered language learning app that provides conversational practice with lifelike AI tutors, offering real-time feedback on pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary along with personalized study plans.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTech
Adam Turaev(Founder)in
Co-investors500 GlobalBlossom CapitalBlue Wire CapitalCreator VenturesOnstageYellow Rocks!
Qomodo is a digital payment platform offering merchants a smart POS that accepts card payments and lets customers pay in installments (2 to 12 payments, up to €5,000) while the merchant is paid immediately.
FintechRetail TechSaaSMilan, IT
Gaetano de Maio(Founder)in
Co-investorsLMDV CapitalLumen VenturesPrimo VenturesProximity CapitalRTP GlobalFasanara Capital
Replit is a platform for software development that aims to make app creation accessible to non-programmers through intuitive tools and AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCreator EconomyData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEdTechEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Haya Abdalla(Founder)inAmjad Masad(Co-founder & CEO)inHaya Odeh(Co-Founder, Design)inLuis Héctor Chávez(CTO)
Co-investors137 Ventures7BC Venture CapitalA.Capital VenturesAbstract VenturesAIspace VenturesAllied Venture Partners+63 more
Requesty is an AI gateway that routes requests across 600+ LLM models with intelligent routing, cost optimization, and real-time analytics.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareLondon, GB
Daniel Trugman(Founder)inThibault Jaigu(Founder)in
Co-investors20VCTapestry VC
SAPI provides payment-linked financing where repayments are collected directly from card and account-to-account payment flows, serving small business owners—including many immigrant and woman-owned businesses—often excluded by banks.
FintechSaaSLondon, GB
Co-investorsDigital HorizonDigital Horizon VCPassion CapitalStart CapitalSyndicate One
Scalapay offers a buy-now-pay-later service that lets shoppers split purchases into three interest-free monthly instalments while receiving orders immediately, usable both online and in-store.
E-commerceFintechRetail Tech
Raffaele Terrone(Founder)in
Co-investorsYadayTiger Global ManagementWilloughby Capital
Semaloop provides AI agents that run end-to-end tests on mobile apps by interacting with them like real users across text, visual, and audio flows on real devices.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSLondon, GB
Rory Smith(Founder)in
Co-investorsFJ LabsAndreessen HorowitzWEEKEND
Sintra is a platform offering role-based AI "employees" — chatbot-style digital workers that handle tasks like social media, customer support, email, content creation, and business operations.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS
Chris Sidlauskas(Founder)in
Co-investorsEarlybird Venture CapitalInovo VCPractica Capital
Smallest AI develops small, efficient multi-modal voice AI models, including text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and a sub-3B language model, along with an agentic platform for building and deploying voice agents.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Akshat Mandloi(Founder)inSudarshan Kamath(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetter CapitalDeVCpeerchequeSierra VenturesUpsparks Capital3one4 Capital
Sparkles provides a platform for teams to run AI coding agents that connect to GitHub repositories and generate pull requests.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ai Daniil Bekirov(Founder)in
Co-investorsDMZ VenturesMoonfire VenturesScribble VenturesY CombinatorChapter One
Seattle game studio behind Metalstorm, a free-to-play 5v5 air-combat arena shooter for PC and mobile.
Seattle, US
Lou Fasulo(Founder)inTaylor Daynes(Director)Joshua Rosen(Director)
Co-investorsBitkraft Esports VenturesPlay VenturesvgamesBITKRAFT VenturesDune VenturesGlobal Founders Capital
Stelia provides a sovereign, production-ready platform for building, deploying, and scaling AI agents in enterprise environments with built-in governance and security.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsEpisode1Redbus Ventures
TrueLayer operates a Pay by Bank payment network enabling businesses to accept direct bank payments instead of card-based transactions.
FintechLondon, GB
Luca Martinetti(Founder)inFrancesco Simoneschi(Founder)in
Co-investorsAnthemis VentureCNIConnect VenturesGraph VenturesIsomer CapitalMouro Capital+9 more
Twin1 is an AI company backed by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersF-Prime CapitalDawn CapitalNotable CapitalTribeca Venture Partners
Permissionless “conviction” / prediction-market protocol where users create, trade, and resolve yes/no markets on real-world events, with adaptive liquidity (LS-LMSR) instead of a fully curated Polymarket/Kalshi-style catalog.
San Francisco, US
Ali Habbabeh(Founder)inWalid Al Habboul(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investors20VCPICUS CAPITAL
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Agon
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesSmallest AI · finsmes.com · Jul 31, 2026
Airwallex · finsmes.com · Jun 25, 2026
Replit · techcrunch.com · Mar 11, 2026
Sparkles · ycombinator.com · Feb 4, 2026
Sintra · eu-startups.com · Jun 10, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Insiders Ventures made?
- Insiders Ventures has 32 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Insiders Ventures invest at?
- Insiders Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- Where is Insiders Ventures located?
- Insiders Ventures is headquartered in St. Helier.
- Who does Insiders Ventures co-invest with?
- Insiders Ventures most often shares deals with 20VC, Earlybird Venture Capital, Episode1, among 141 tracked co-investors.
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