What does HSBC invest in?
HSBC invests most often at Debt and Venture (79% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Financial Services and Finance.

United Kingdom · Investor
Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 233 cheques on record.
Deploying nowGrowth equity
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65 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Debt and Venture: 79% of its rounds
Sole investor in 35 rounds, median $10M
1 exits from the portfolio
Every round we can evidence, newest first233 appearances
48 rounds
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
We hold 29 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
Who backs their funds
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Sept 2025.
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| HSBC Private Equity Fund II | 1997 | $50M |
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
The investors most often in the same rounds as HSBC. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies HSBC put money into.
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HSBC invests most often at Debt and Venture (79% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Financial Services and Finance.
233 investments on record, 65 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 3. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: IPID (Series A, Oct 2026), Bending Spoons (Undisclosed round, Sept 2026) and International Payments Identity (Series A, Sept 2026).
The median round it joins is $45M.
Sometimes: it led 3 of its 233 investments on record (1%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (28%), the United Kingdom (26%) and Singapore (10%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 65 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often HSBC UK (24 rounds together), BNP Paribas (23 rounds together) and Citibank (19 rounds together).
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