01Selling the tooling
Workflow-embedded platforms
Software institutions run on daily.
—CLIMBING IN GOOD COMPANY, SINCE 2022.
BackingFintechFounders.
Bold enough to take the first step.
FocusB2B Fintech
StagesPre-Seed – Series A
GeographiesEurope + US
Alphastream
Overmind
Rain
Zocks
ThreatFabric
Skillvue
MODEL ML
NARO IQ
Augmetec
FlowFi
Guideflow
Instimatch Global
JOB ENGINE
Nomerra
Playbook
Project B
Rumli
Spinal
TUNE INSIGHT
Zalos
Zefi
ZenlyticAlphastreamOvermindRainZocksThreatFabricSkillvueMODEL MLNARO IQAugmetecFlowFiGuideflowInstimatch GlobalJOB ENGINENomerraPlaybookProject BRumliSpinalTUNE INSIGHTZalosZefiZenlytic01: Why we exist
Conviction capital
FOR THE CLIMB.
Fourteen mountains on earth rise above eight thousand metres. Standing on top of all of them is not principally a feat of strength. It is preparation, timing, judgment, and the willingness to turn back, repeated over years, in conditions that forgive nothing.
Company-building works the same way. Not one summit but a sequence of them, each demanding a different route, a different team, a different appetite for risk. By the time the last hundred metres are in view, the outcome has usually been decided by choices made much lower down. We invest in those choices, and we stay on the rope for the descent as well as the climb.
14Peaks Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Switzerland with a presence in the United States, investing out of its second fund. Backed by entrepreneurs, financial services executives and family offices, we pair our in-house experience in financial services and fintech with the knowledge, access and reach of our LP base. That combination is what makes us relevant partners to the founders we work with, and what turns support into growth.
02: How we work
HOW WE WORK, BEYOND THE CHEQUE.
The cheque is the starting point. What follows is the work.
Access
01
Our platforms network and reach opens the right doors: commercial conversations, and the industry voices that sharpen product direction.
Expertise
02
Leveraging our domain knowledge to pressure-test where it counts: go-to-market, pricing, compliance, and the decisions that follow.
Ecosystem
03
Sector focus compounds. Playbooks, customers and institutional relationships travel from one company to the next.
Partnership
04
Active on the cap table, never passengers. Hiring, capital formation, pivots. On the rope for the hard calls.
03: WHERE WE INVEST
Three layers, one operating thesis.
Three layers of the stack, compounding knowledge from one company to the next.
02Selling the plumbing
Core rails & infrastructure
Data pipelines, compliance engines, orchestration and core connectors.
03Selling the outcome
Tech-enabled services
Owning the end-to-end workflow, not just the tool.
Focus verticals
- Wealth, Markets & AltsSolutions for institutions that manage capital - across wealth, capital markets, and private markets
- Payments & InfrastructureThe rails that move money, and the connective tissue around them.
- Compliance & RiskSolutions that turn regulatory and cyber burden into operational leverage.
- Accounting & TreasuryThe numbers function reimagined for the modern finance team.
- Payroll & BenefitsPay, benefits and people operations for the global workforce.
- B2B TechHorizontal technology with high portability into financial services.
04: HOW WE INVEST
Our
Starting
Altitude.
We deploy patient and flexible capital, structured around what the founders and company need.
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Initial Entry Ticket
$1M-2M
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Target revenue/ARR profile
$0-5M
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