Pollen Street Capital
Private equityLondon
Investment thesis
Pollen Street invests in and partners with companies across financial and business services, aiming to build market-leading businesses. Its portfolio spans payments, digital banking, insurance and insurtech, wealth and asset management software, credit and real estate platforms, core banking solutions, professional/restructuring services, and enterprise process automation. The firm emphasizes performing through partnership and scaling technology-driven, often regulated, financial services businesses primarily across Europe and the UK.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 6, 2026.
What they invest in
from 14 of 49 portfolio companiesFintech Γ10SaaS Γ4Marketplaces Γ3AI & Machine Learning Γ2InsurTech Γ2Mobility & Transportation Γ2AgTech Γ1B2B Marketplaces Γ1
HQs:United KingdomΓ3DenmarkΓ1GreeceΓ1LithuaniaΓ1PortugalΓ1
Investments Β· 49 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathInSoil provides mid-term debt capital and lending to agricultural SMEs across Europe, with a focus on sustainable agriculture financing.
AgTechClimate TechFintechVilnius, LT
Co-investorsFirstpickPractica Capital
Pivotal Growth acquires and consolidates UK mortgage and protection broker businesses, providing them with centralised IT, payroll, finance, and telephony infrastructure plus strategic support to drive growth.
Fintech
Mayank Prakash(Group Chief Executive)in
Co-investorsKartesia
Aryza provides SaaS solutions that automate financial processes across the credit lifecycle, including lending, collections, recovery, debt, and governance, risk and compliance.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
BidX1 runs an online platform for buying and selling property through digital auctions, providing upfront information and property advice to buyers and sellers.
MarketplacesPropTech
Cashflows is a payments provider that offers merchant acquiring and payment processing services to businesses.
Fintech
Global provider of core banking solutions
High-growth technology business with a unique data proposition
Pioneering innovation to reimagine debt collection
Digital payments platform with a track record of market leading innovation
Enabling digital trade by helping organisations around the world to control 100% of their spend
Global provider of enterprise-grade process automation software for regulated industries
Etops offers modular SaaS solutions for the wealth and asset management industry, providing portfolio management, automated reporting, regulatory compliance, and client-experience tools built on cloud and machine learning technology.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
A truly disruptive leading digital bank operating across Europe
Europe's largest digital property investment platform
Building a leading European fund services platform
The world's largest international mobile top-up service
A leading innovative, technology-led insurance broker in Italy
Leonard Curtis provides financial, legal and business advisory services to business owners and their advisers, helping manage financial distress, strengthen operations and pursue opportunities across the business lifecycle.
FintechLegalTech
Markerstudy Group is a UK insurance service provider offering a range of insurance products and services built on its own proprietary technology platforms.
FintechInsurTech
Richard Lilwall(CEO, VisionTrack)Ben Pickard(Chief Financial Officer, VisionTrack)Ross Barrington(CEO, Markerstudy Business)
Mattioli Woods provides wealth management and employee benefits services to individual and corporate clients, offering both in-house and third-party investment solutions including pensions, commercial property, and Venture Capital Trusts.
Fintech
A leading talent assessment software platform in the Nordics and Benelux
Rapidly growing provider of omni-channel payment services to SMEs
OrderYOYO provides restaurants with an all-in-one platform for online and in-store ordering, marketing, and payment processing.
B2B MarketplacesDirect to ConsumerMarketplacesRetail TechSaaSCopenhagen, DK
Co-investorsDamgaard CompanySEED Capital Denmark
Co-investorsCaesar VenturesYabeo
Market-leading payments enabled ecommerce solutions to restaurants
Pollen operates a battery-swapping network with universal, swappable batteries offered via subscription for electric mopeds, motorcycles, and other lightweight two-wheelers.
CleantechEnergyMobility & TransportationLisbon, PT
Co-investorsBynd Venture CapitalMSMNorthzone
A leading purpose-led digital bank
Spotawheel is an online platform for buying, leasing, and selling used cars, offering vehicles inspected across 200+ points with warranties of up to 5 years and car financing options.
E-commerceMarketplacesMobility & TransportationAthens, GR
Co-investorsRockaway VenturesVelocity.PartnersVentureFriends
Building the UK's leading, digitally enabled mortgage broker
The UK's fastest growing home emergency insurance platform
Leading UK multi-channel digital insurance platform
Scaled, vertically integrated UK wealth management platform
Validis extracts and standardizes transaction-level financial data from hundreds of accounting systems, delivering it via a portal, API, or MCP Server for use by teams, platforms, and AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintech
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesFund performance Β· per public LP disclosures Β· 4
as of Sep 2025| Fund | Vintage | Committed | Net IRR | TVPI | DPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSC V (A), L.P.LPs: Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association | 2025 | β | 7.8% | 1.09x | 0.00x |
| Pollen Street Capital V, L.P.LPs: Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island | 2023 | β | β | 1.40x | 0.23x |
| PSC Accelerator IILPs: Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association | 2023 | β | 33.4% | 1.53x | 0.03x |
| Pollen Street Capital IV, L.PLPs: Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island | 2020 | β | 17.0% | 1.43x | 0.36x |
Source: public limited-partner disclosures (CalPERS, CalSTRS). Net IRR / TVPI / DPI as reported by the limited partner; a fund's early-year IRR is an interim estimate (J-curve).
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Pollen Street Capital made?
- Pollen Street Capital has 45 tracked investments.
- What sectors does Pollen Street Capital focus on?
- Pollen Street Capital focuses on Enterprise Software, Fintech, InsurTech, PropTech, SaaS.
- Where is Pollen Street Capital located?
- Pollen Street Capital is headquartered in London, GB.
- Who does Pollen Street Capital co-invest with?
- Pollen Street Capital most often shares deals with Caesar Ventures, Damgaard Company, Kartesia, among 5 tracked co-investors.
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