What does Barclays Ventures invest in?
Barclays Ventures invests most often at Debt and Venture (59% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Token, Crypto and Decentralized.

United Kingdom · Investor
Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 128 cheques on record.
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18 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Debt and Venture: 59% of its rounds
Sole investor in 23 rounds, median $30M
Barclays is a British universal bank. Our businesses include consumer banking, as well as a top-tier, global corporate and investment bank.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first128 appearances
16 rounds
25 rounds
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International BankOnline BankingPrivate BankUS Consumer Bank
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The investors most often in the same rounds as Barclays Ventures. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Barclays Ventures put money into.
Barclays Ventures invests most often at Debt and Venture (59% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Token, Crypto and Decentralized.
128 investments on record, 18 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 5. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Capitolis (Series E, Oct 2026), Advanced Electric Machines (AEM) (Growth, Aug 2026) and iwoca (Debt, Jul 2026).
The median round it joins is $23M.
Sometimes: it led 5 of its 128 investments on record (4%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (53%) and the United Kingdom (45%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 18 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Barclays Corporate Banking (38 rounds together), Citibank (13 rounds together) and Techstars (13 rounds together).
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