Sectors

Fintech

The most durable financial companies we have backed sell to the people who keep the books: controllers, treasurers, payroll teams. Their problems are unglamorous, their budgets are real, and once a product runs the month-end close, it rarely gets replaced.

5

companies

4

active

1

exit

2013

first investment

What we look for

We look for founders who have done the job they are automating, and who understand the licences, audits and bank partnerships that sit between a good demo and a product a finance team can trust.

The finance back office

Payables, treasury, payroll and close: work that is still manual at most companies with fewer than a thousand people.

Embedded products

Insurance, lending and payments sold inside the software a business already uses, rather than beside it.

Risk in real time

Fraud and compliance tools built for instant payments, where a decision has to be made in milliseconds.

Building in Fintech?

We read every pitch, and a partner replies within ten working days.

Building in Fintech?

We read every pitch, and a partner replies within ten working days.

Letters from Northwood

Our quarterly letter and the occasional essay, by email. Four or five times a year.

London

14 Fitzroy Square

London W1T 5HP

New York

211 Elizabeth Street, Floor 4

New York, NY 10012

Stockholm

Birger Jarlsgatan 18

114 34 Stockholm

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Northwood Partners LLP is a fictional firm used to demonstrate this theme. Nothing on this website is an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, an interest in any fund.

Northwood Partners LLP is a fictional firm used to demonstrate this theme. Nothing on this website is an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, an interest in any fund.

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