Team

A small, founder-built firm.

Two operators — a managing partner and a venture partner — with two decades of building and exiting European FinTech between them. We keep the partnership deliberately small and the portfolio engagement deliberately deep.

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Julian Kaljuvee

Managing Partner

BSc Applied Maths (Harvard), MSc Statistics (Columbia). Former Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, JPMorgan. Co-founder of Bondora, EstateGuru and Investly — three of the leading VC-backed European lending marketplaces, cumulatively over €2.5B deployed. Now deploys that operating experience as Managing Partner at Founders Capital, leading sourcing and portfolio engagement across sovereign AI, defense, health and energy.

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Marek Pärtel

Venture Partner

Co-founder and former long-time CEO of EstateGuru, the leading European property-bridge lending marketplace. Two decades of operating experience across European real-estate finance, platform growth and regulated FinTech. Supports Founders Capital on portfolio strategy, later-stage governance and European market introductions.

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