Pollen Street Capital is an independent alternative investment management company, focused on accelerating the progress of the financial and business services sectors. Established in 2013, it operates across private equity and credit strategies on behalf of investors including leading pension funds, asset managers, banks, and family offices from around the world. We are a team of 70+ professionals with offices in London and New York.
In financial and business services, technological innovation and changing consumer behaviours are creating opportunities to build quality businesses that serve well-defined target markets. Pollen Street Capital uses its deep experience to help its partner companies take advantage of these opportunities and build high growth, sustainable businesses that deliver a compelling proposition to their customers.
Portfolio
Pollen Street Capital works with partners who have a solid foundation and strong core attributes, supporting them and their management teams with expertise and capital to drive growth.
We invest in sectors which have the agility and ambition to be at the forefront of change, and maximise opportunities within the evolving landscape, looking in particular at high growth lending, insurance, wealth, payments, technology, and services.
Pollen Street Hub
The Pollen Street Capital Hub facilitates a collaborative approach and builds a trusted ecosystem that facilitates best practice adoption and accelerated innovation in a fast-changing environment.
The Hub is a dedicated team with a systematic approach to drive growth, technology development and collaboration across the portfolio. It enables insights and access to expertise on opportunities such as data, technology and ESG, as well as a formulaic approach for business development across the portfolio and wider Pollen Street Capital network.
In financial and business services, technological innovation and changing consumer behaviours are creating opportunities to build quality businesses that serve well-defined target markets. Pollen Street Capital uses its deep experience to help its partner companies take advantage of these opportunities and build high growth, sustainable businesses that deliver a compelling proposition to their customers.
Portfolio
Pollen Street Capital works with partners who have a solid foundation and strong core attributes, supporting them and their management teams with expertise and capital to drive growth.
We invest in sectors which have the agility and ambition to be at the forefront of change, and maximise opportunities within the evolving landscape, looking in particular at high growth lending, insurance, wealth, payments, technology, and services.
Pollen Street Hub
The Pollen Street Capital Hub facilitates a collaborative approach and builds a trusted ecosystem that facilitates best practice adoption and accelerated innovation in a fast-changing environment.
The Hub is a dedicated team with a systematic approach to drive growth, technology development and collaboration across the portfolio. It enables insights and access to expertise on opportunities such as data, technology and ESG, as well as a formulaic approach for business development across the portfolio and wider Pollen Street Capital network.
Location: United Kingdom, England, Westminster
Employees: 51-200
Founded date: 2013
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Portfolio 32
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 13.07.2025 | etops | etops.com | - | - |
| 13.07.2025 | Keylane | keylane.com | - | Netherland... |
| 13.07.2025 | OrderYOYO | orderyoyo.com | $9.5M | Denmark, C... |
| 13.07.2025 | Mattioli W... | mattioliwoods.com | - | - |
| 10.11.2023 | Assessio | assessio.com | - | Sweden, St... |
| 07.11.2023 | Aro | aro.co.uk | - | United Kin... |
| 26.07.2023 | Finsolutia | finsolutia.com | - | United Sta... |
| 26.07.2023 | Wide Group... | widegroup.eu | - | Italy, Tre... |
| 25.01.2023 | Onto | on.to | $358.4M | United Kin... |
| 25.11.2022 | PAIR Finan... | pairfinance.com | - | Germany, B... |
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Persons 69
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Gary | Wong | Chief Risk... | - | - | - | |
| - | Olivia | Penny | IR Associa... | - | - | - | |
| - | Paul | Valentine | Group Fina... | - | - | - | |
| - | Dennis | Lo | Compliance... | - | - | - | |
| - | Paul | Varty | Investment... | - | - | - | |
| - | Sally | Jewell | Personal A... | - | - | - | |
| - | Esme | Rose | Team PA | - | - | - | |
| - | Ethan | Saggu | Investment... | - | - | - | |
| - | Matthew | Potter | Partner | - | - | - | |
| - | Michael | England | Partner | - | - | - |
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Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.05.2022 | Swedish banking icon backs Ark Kapital with €15 million to accelerate market expansion and tech even faster | After raising €165 million to offer long-term alternative financing options in March and another €150 million debt facility from Pollen Street Capital in April, Stockholm-based ArK Kapital has doubled its equity funding from €15 million to ... |
| 19.04.2022 | Sweden-based ArK Kapital secures €145.1M after raising €165M last month | Stockholm-based ArK Kapital, a data-driven precision financing company that empowers technology startups to grow faster, announced that it has raised SEK 1.5B (approximately €145.13M) in a mixture of debt and equity funding. This fundraise ... |
| 19.04.2022 | Ark Kapital unlocks €150 million to help startups grow smarter with AI-driven financial forecasts | After raising €165 million to offer long-term alternative financing options in March, Stockholm-based ArK Kapital has roped in a €150 million senior secured debt facility from Pollen Street Capital. The investment will enable the company to... |
| 27.07.2021 | Electric car on-demand service Onto raises $175 million | Accelerating the shift towards electric mobility, the EV subscription platform Onto has raised $175 million in a Series B round. The company offers a UK-wide subscription that includes insurance and free access to over 11,000 charge points.... |
| 08.07.2021 | Challenger bank bunq raises €193 million, starts the M&A spree with Ireland’s Capitalflow | Amsterdam’s bunq has closed a record-breaking European fintech Series A round at €193 million. This now gives the bank a valuation of €1.6 billion. Not too bad for a company that until this announcement had remained bootstrapped by its foun... |
| 07.07.2021 | European challenger bank Bunq raises $228 million at $1.9 billion valuation | Amsterdam-based challenger bank Bunq has been self-funded by its founder and CEO Ali Niknam for several years. But the company has decided to raise some external capital, leading to the largest Series A round for a European fintech company.... |
| 03.09.2020 | Tandem Bank due for major ‘restructuring’ as it winds down credit cards | Tandem, one of the UK’s earliest digital banks, is scrapping its standout credit-card line as it focuses on trying to break even, the company has informed its users in an email. Ricky Knox, Tandem’s chief executive, told Sifted that the dec... |
| 03.09.2018 | BidX1 Secures Private Equity Investment | Pollen Street Capital is to make a ‘strategic investment’ in Irish online property platform BidX1, which was established by Steve McCarthy in 2011 to facilitate disposals of distressed properties. BidX1 enables users to buy or sell property... |
| 01.11.2017 | Castlehaven Has €350m For Building Finance | Alternative lender Castlehaven Finance is to put €350m in development and bridging finance into the housing market next year as it expands into Cork, Galway and Limerick, which it hopes will finance construction of more than 2,500 residenti... |
| - | Electric car on-demand service Onto raises $175 million | Accelerating the shift towards electric mobility, the EV subscription platform Onto has raised $175 million in a Series B round. The company offers a UK-wide subscription that includes insurance and free access to over 11,000 charge points.... |
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