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October 29, 2024

Top investors including Index, Seedcamp and Balderton bought into Revolut in 2016. Here’s how much their stakes could be worth now.

The inventor of the iPod, London’s Balderton Capital and Berlin-based VC firm Point Nine are among the big winners from Revolut’s new valuation


Tom Matsuda and Anne Sraders

6 min read

Some of Revolut’s early investors could be in line for a sizeable payday should the fintech exit at its current valuation. Some of the fintech’s seed and Series A backers have seen the paper value (a term used to describe the worth of holdings in private companies, which can only be turned into actual money at the point of an exit) of their investments soar into the billions. Three of its early investors are currently sitting on stakes worth more than $2bn. 

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Tom Matsuda

Tom Matsuda is a fintech reporter at Sifted and writes our weekly fintech newsletter. Find him on X and LinkedIn

Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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