Rabobank has launched Rabo Frontier Ventures (RFV) – a €60 million strategic investment fund that focuses on early-stage Fintech and food and agriculture companies.
Forming part of the bank’s innovation strategy, RFV is completely financed by Rabobank with the objective of providing a boost for FinTech and food and agriculture innovations. RFV will collaborate with and invest in companies that offer new possibilities for customers in the long term and align with the bank’s strategic direction.
The related focus is on four themes: financial cruise control, platform banking, emerging technologies as a business model enabler and Data4Food.
RFV has already made strategic investments in startups such as we.trade and Peaks. Both of these startups emerged from Rabobank’s internal ‘Moonshots’ accelerator programme.
Harrie Vollaard, responsible for Rabo Frontier Ventures: “Investing in and developing strategic innovations is a key part of Rabobank’s strategy. We have, for example, already launched a number of successful innovations through our own internal accelerator programme.
“RFV provides Rabobank with an added vehicle for working more shoulder-to-shoulder with innovative businesses with the aim of transforming the Fintech and food & agri sector and building a sustainable and future-proof banking model.”
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