We build and invest
in companies that
reshape finance

Nova Founders Capital builds and supports sustainable, large-scale internet businesses in the financial services sector.
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Our latest success stories

We have been providing companies with the continuous financial and operational support they need to be successful since 2012.
“Nova strikes the right balance between providing guidance and encouraging management teams to shape their ventures – and Nova’s network of companies has proven valuable in sharing best practices and know-how”
- Sam Allen, CEO
http://www.compareasiagroup.com/
"Having worked with many VCs, I have to applaud Nova Founders for their professionalism and culture that they have set in their businesses. All moving parts in the company are designed to work together and head towards the same goals" - Prem Doowa, MD
https://www.frank.co.th
“I'm immensely proud and excited to look at what we've built in such a short time. Nova Founders helped us develop the expertise, provide the challenge and ensure we had the space we needed to grow and shape our business into what it is today!” 
- Hugh Batley, Managing Partner
http://www.lionandlion.com

What we do

We are a Global internet investment company that builds and supports sustainable, large-scale businesses in the financial services sector.
  • Build
  • Invest
  • Expand

We build.

We have successfully started more than 30 online businesses in various parts of the world. Having years of experience in rapidly growing internet markets, we have built several successful multinational businesses.
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We invest.

We work with outstanding entrepreneurs and provide them with the support they need to build a market leading and successful company.
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We expand.

We have a team of experts who enable us to grow already successful businesses into new geographical regions and evolving markets. We seek for businesses that have the potential to revive the financial services sector.
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Our Principles

Our Business principles, goals and beliefs drive our execution and culture, and it is the backbone for all we do.
Our assets are our trusted people, partners, network, capital and reputation.
Our goal is to provide superior returns to our shareholders.
We pursue excellence in all we do and take great pride in the professional quality of our work.
We stress creativity and imagination in everything we do.
We make an unusual effort to identify and find the very best person for every job.
We work as one firm and stress teamwork across all companies.
We offer our people the opportunity to grow, learn and move ahead more rapidly than it is possible at most other places.
Integrity and honesty are at the heart of our driven people and our business.
We walk ahead and our leaders apply showmanship in all imaginable situations.
We would rather be the best and most profitable company, than the biggest.
We put our companies and our shareholders interest ahead of our own.
Our people treat funding as if it is their own and leverage cost control as a competitive edge.
We must remain agile, fast, detailed and entrepreneurial, while being big enough to explore the biggest opportunities.
Our business is highly competitive, and we aggressively seek to expand it.
Our decisions are based on merit and our Business Principles.
We must be fair to our competitors and must never denigrate other companies.
We communicate internally before external.
We make fast but informed decisions and take full accountability for everything that we do.
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Team

We are a team of experienced and highly passionate entrepreneurs that have founded and operated over 30 market leading internet companies globally.
  • Management

    • Mads Faurholt-Jorgensen

      Mads Faurholt-Jorgensen

      Managing Partner

      Before founding Nova Founders Capital, Mads worked as a Global Partner and Managing Director at Rocket Internet and Managing Director at Groupon in Asia. Prior to this, Mads was a Consultant to CEO and Board at ProSiebenSat1, a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an Analyst with the Private Equity Fund DanKap.

      Mads holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a BSc in Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.

      Mads has been named one of the top talents in Denmark and is an Expert Advisor on Web Entrepreneurship to the EU Commission. As of today, he has started over 30 companies globally.

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    • Raphael Strauch

      Raphael Strauch

      Managing Partner

      Before founding Nova Founders Capital, Raphael worked as a Global Partner and Managing Director at Rocket Internet and as Managing Director at Groupon in Asia. Prior to this, Raphael was in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs and Lazard in London and Frankfurt where he was involved in major European IPOs and equity transactions.

      Raphael holds a Master in Business Administration from Vienna University of Economics and Business, and as of today has started over 30 companies globally.

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    • Stefan Bruun

      Stefan Bruun

      Managing Partner

      Before joining Nova Founders Capital, Stefan has worked as Marketing Managing Director for South East Asia at Rocket Internet and as Vice President at Groupon Asia. Stefan has also been involved in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley in London and private equity with the Nordic Real Estate Partners across Scandinavia respectively. He is on the Forbes 30 under 30 lists.

      Stefan holds a BSc in International Business from Copenhagen Business School and has so far started over 24 companies globally.

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  • Advisors

    • Tim Macready

      Tim Macready

      Tim is Skillcapital’s Chief Executive Officer and has led the development of the company since its inception in 1998 backed by Soros Private Equity Partners.

      Additionally, Tim is an investor director in a number of privately owned companies such as Ellas Kitchen (www.ellaskitchen.com) a baby food company recently sold to Hain Celestial, Joinin (www.joinin.com) a social media company, ScribeStar (www.scribestar.co.uk) a legal software company, and an investor at OPTO International (www.Optosystem.com) a US based retail display company along with a number of other private equity backed companies.

      Prior to starting Skillcapital Tim had studied Law at Leeds University where he graduated with LLB Hons.

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    • Jonathan Paul

      Jonathan Paul

      Jonathan Paul has more than 25 years of experience in a broad variety of financial markets globally, including having founded and run an event driven hedge fund, Ardmore Park Capital.

      Prior to this, Jonathan worked at Deutsche Bank, where he held a variety of roles, including Global Co-Head of Client Coverage for Global Markets and Head of Corporate Finance in Asia. Previously he worked in the fixed income divisions of Goldman Sachs and Solomon Brothers. He was also a consultant to Decura, a fiduciary based fund in the UK.

      Jonathan has a degree in mechanical engineering from Bath University. He lives in Singapore with his family.

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Partners

We are supported by leading investment firms

Pacific Century Group

Pacific Century Group (PCG) is an Asia-based private investment group, founded in 1993, with interests in infrastructure, property and other investments mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, including Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. PCG has a strong track record of holding and developing assets over the long term, and has a network of well-established connections in Asia. PCG has more than a 10-year track record in the financial services industry.

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

Jardines

Founded as a trading company in China in 1832, Jardine Matheson is today a diversified business group focused principally on Asia. Its businesses comprise a combination of cash generating activities and long-term property assets. Jardine Pacific Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides engineering, construction, transport, shipping, and IT services. Additionally, the company owns and operates restaurants and hotels.

PCCW

PCCW is a Hong Kong-based conglomerate which holds interests in telecommunications, media, IT solutions, property development and investments. The Company holds a majority interest in HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider.

Pinebridge

Pinebridge is a global asset manager with over USD70bn in assets under management. PineBridge’s legacy in investment management dates back to the early 1960s, managing assets for companies around the world.

ACE & Company

ACE & Company is a global private equity firm that specializes in providing co-investment opportunities for private companies across all investment stages. ACE is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with operating offices in New York, London, Cairo and Hong Kong.

FWD

FWD is the insurance business arm of PCG. FWD’s business spans Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand and the Phillipines, offering life insurance services, as well as general insurance, employee benefits and financial planning services in Hong Kong. In addition, FWD has a brand presence in Indonesia.

Route 66 Ventures

Route 66 provides early and growth stage venture capital and growth stage private equity to emerging financial services companies. These companies include FinTech disruptors, financial services incumbents, and service providers to incumbents in the financial services space.

Stem Financial

Stem Financial is a Hong Kong based private investment firm focused on mid-cap companies in Asia Pacific. Stem builds leading middle-market businesses in partnership with strong management teams to maximize shareholder value.

Portfolio

We are very disciplined company builders and investors and understand how to efficiently grow companies. We believe value can only be created through a rigorous focus on execution, operational excellence and constant innovation.
  • CompareAsiaGroup

    Backed by Goldman Sachs, Jardine Pacific, and Route 66 Ventures amongst others, CompareAsiaGroup is Asia’s fastest-growing financial comparison platform, with a presence in 8 countries in Asia.

    Founded: 2014
    HQ: Hong Kong
    Employees: +100
    http://www.compareasiagroup.com
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  • CompareEuropeGroup

    Backed by ACE & Company, Mark Pincus, and Seier Capital amongst others, CompareEuropeGroup is Europe’s fastest-growing financial comparison platform, with a presence in 5 countries in Europe.

    Founded: 2015
    HQ: London
    Employees: +100
    http://www.compareeuropegroup.com
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  • CompareLatamGroup

    CompareLatamGroup is the most comprehensive financial product comparison group in Latin America, headquartered in Mexico.

    Founded: 2015
    HQ: Mexico City
    Employees: 50
    http://www.comparelatamgroup.com
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  • CompareGlobalGroup

    CompareGlobalGroup is the most comprehensive financial product comparison group in the world, active across 14 countries.

    Founded: 2014
    HQ: Hong Kong
    Employees: +200
    http://www.compareglobalgroup.com
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  • EdirectInsure Group

    EdirectInsure Group operates leading online insurance platforms in Asia, offering consumers an alternative to buy non-life insurance direct versus through brokers and agents.

    Founded: 2016
    HQ: Hong Kong
    Employees: 100
    https://www.edirectinsure.com
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  • StartechAsia

    StartechAsia.com provides best-in-class, scalable software and web development solutions to internet companies globally.

    Founded: 2012
    HQ: Hong Kong
    Employees: +100
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  • Lion & Lion

    Nova Founders Capital exited Lion & Lion when it was acquired by Japanese listed Septeni Holdings in 2016.

    Founded: 2012
    HQ: Kuala Lumpur
    Employees: 170
    https://www.lionandlion.com
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  • frank.co.th

    frank.co.th was born in 2016 with the aim to provide people an alternative by buying insurance direct versus through brokers and agents.

    Founded: 2016
    HQ: Bangkok
    Employees: +50
    https://www.frank.co.th
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  • MoneyHero.com.hk

    MoneyHero.com.hk is Hong Kong’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.moneyhero.com.hk
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  • HaloMoney.com.id

    HaloMoney.co.id is Indonesia’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.halomoney.co.id
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  • Money101.com.tw

    Money101.com.tw is Taiwan’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.money101.com.tw
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  • MoneyGuru.co.th

    MoneyGuru.co.hk is Thailand’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.moneyguru.co.th
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  • CompareHero.my

    CompareHero.my is Malaysia’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.comparehero.my
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  • MoneyMax.ph

    MoneyMax.ph is the Philippines’ most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.moneymax.ph
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  • SingSaver.com.sg

    SingSaver.com.sg is Singapore’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.singsaver.com.sg
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  • Samlino.dk

    Samlino.dk is Denmark’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.samlino.dk
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  • ComparaJá.pt

    ComparaJá.pt is Portugal’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.comparaja.pt
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  • Vertaaensin.fi

    Vertaaensin.fi is Finland’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.vertaaensin.fi
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  • Samlino.no

    Samlino.no is Norway’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.samlino.no
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  • TopCompare.be

    TopCompare.be is Belgium’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.topcompare.be
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  • ComparaGuru.com

    ComparaGuru.com is Mexico’s most comprehensive comparison platform for financial products and services.
    https://www.comparaguru.com
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Careers

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  • Global Internship Program | London

Global Internship Program | London

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Do you want to kickstart and get ahead in your career? Are you looking for challenges and want to invest in your professional and academic development? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? If so, now is the time to apply for our 1-year Global Internship Program.

 

About us

Nova Founders Capital is a global operational investment company that identifies opportunities for creating and investing in innovative internet businesses. We’ve launched and exited multiple successful businesses across the world.

 

What we offer you

As part of our Global Internship Program, you will rocket launch your career in a high-paced environment with a continuously steep learning curve. You’ll get a tremendous level of autonomy, ownership of your own projects, and the opportunity to learn, develop and grow both personally and professionally, whilst being supported by very successful entrepreneurs. You get the chance to test the water, show us you can swim, and if so you’ll be rewarded with an invitation to join our Management Trainee Program, where you’ll pursue a bachelor’s degree while working full time as a manager in Nova Founders Capital.

The Global Internship Program lasts 1 year, and you’ll be working out of our HQ in London. In short, we offer the brightest talents:

  • An opportunity to fast track your career through responsibility for high impact projects that constantly push you out of your comfort zone
  • Hands-on experience building and scaling ventures together with the sharpest minds
  • An amazing network and the possibility of reporting directly to C-level staff and Managing Directors
  • An opportunity to be trusted with tasks usually reserved for individuals with multiple years of work experience.
  • A monthly contribution to cover living costs
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Your responsibilities

The common denominator for all of our interns is that they are involved in everything from the most mundane to the most glamourous. Some of your tasks will include office management; e.g. scheduling meetings and making sure the office is looking its best. At the same time you will be assisting our global portfolio CEOs with ad hoc tasks and participate in board meetings. Besides that your responsibilities will vary depending on the specific role you’ll be assigned. Depending on the role you take, responsibilities could entail (e.g.):

  • Supporting our recruitment function covering both candidate sourcing as well as scheduling and speaking with possible candidates
  • Being part of speaker booking which means building and maintaining valuable relationships with our speakers
  • Working on marketing and SoMe content creation by developing, implementing and managing social media and marketing strategy; including defining the most important social media KPIs and both managing and overseeing social media content
  • Working with finance; carrying out weekly cash, P&L, AR and AP reporting

 

What we expect from you

You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you:

  • Finished high school/college with outstanding results
  • Experience from working part-time or from extracurricular activities
  • EU work permit
  • Have Danish as native language
  • You have an exceptional attention to detail
  • You possess exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
  • You’re excellent at communicating both written and verbally

 

Start date: As soon as possible

Apply here and we will be in contact in the nearest future.

  • Talent Associate | London
  • Management Associate | London

Talent Associate | London

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Do you want to be a key player in building new and exciting ventures? Are you looking to be challenged and wanting to invest in your professional and academic development? Do you want to find and develop this generation’s greatest talents while building a large and broad network? If so, you may be Nova Founders Capital’s new Talent Associate.

 

About us

Nova Founders Capital is a global operational investment company that identifies opportunities for creating and investing in innovative internet businesses. We’ve launched and exited multiple successful businesses across the world.

 

What we offer you

As our Talent Associate, you’ll get a unique opportunity to be a key part of a team that truly needs you and what you do. Our success fundamentally depends on our ability to find the right people to support our vision, ambition, and principles and give them the right tools to succeed. This is exactly where we need your help. In a team of collaborating, and ambitious people, we offer you the chance to collaborate closely with our managing partners on finding the greatest talents and developing them into the CEOs of today and tomorrow. We try to stand out by creating and executing new strategies for sourcing, testing and interviewing candidates, and we want to give you the chance to come innovate with us. You can watch this video where we elaborate a bit on our thoughts on recruiting and why we believe it to be the most crucial task facing businesses.

 

Working out of our HQ in London, you’ll be part of expanding and building a winning culture throughout Nova Founders. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:

  • A workplace with great talents and leaders that will inspire and challenge you on a daily basis
  • International exposure where you will expand your c-suite network and get unique access to our network of leaders and investors
  • An opportunity for getting operational experience in start-ups and scale-ups where both your work and the results are highly tangible
  • Unlimited growth potential in our company – we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally
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Your responsibilities

You will be recruiting for positions across our portfolio. It means assuming responsibility for recruiting c-level through management positions all the way down to entry-level positions. More specifically you will be:

  • Taking ownership of all aspects of the recruitment process, including; role profiling, candidate sourcing, CV screening, assessment planning, creating interview scripts and conducting interviews
  • Building a strong employer brand and attracting both the obvious talents (what we call shouting talents) as well as the more covert talents (what we call whispering talents)
  • Owning the execution of further developing and automating our recruiting processes
  • Improving our onboarding process in close collaboration with management

 

What we expect from you

You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. Moreover, You are humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. While we have no preferences as to whether you have a background in HR, marketing, sales, or something completely different, we expect that you have an innate desire to get to know other people and learn, develop, and push yourself. If need be, we will teach you everything you need to know about recruiting. We do expect you to:

  • Have acquired a Bachelor or Masters Degree with outstanding results
  • Have an EU work permit
  • Be curious about and have a genuine and deep passion for working with and understanding people
  • Want to spend your day speaking with people ranging from students to current CEOs
  • Have a natural ability to make people feel comfortable around you

 

Start date: As soon as possible

Apply here and we will be in touch in the nearest future.

Management Associate | London

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Do you want to be a key player in building new and exciting ventures? Do you thrive in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment? Would you like to be part of a culture that is rooted in an ever-unquenched thirst for knowledge, where we listen to each other and strive to deliver extraordinary results? If so, you might be Nova Founders Capital’s next Management Associate.

 

About us

Nova Founders Capital is a global operational investment company that identifies opportunities for creating and investing in innovative internet businesses. We’ve launched and exited multiple successful businesses across the world.

 

What we offer you 

As our Management Associate, you’ll get a unique growth opportunity in a role that is crucial to reaching our strategic goals. You will expand, build, and run parts of our portfolio companies, which means assuming responsibility for high-impact decisions that will develop you to be part of the next generation of CEOs. Attaining the extraordinary means investing lots of time, effort, and moving fast when new insights or opportunities arise. In this process we will be there with you, providing the right questions, sparring and guidance needed.

Depending on your interests and our businesses needs, you’ll be working out of one of our offices in Europe. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:

  • A workplace with great talents and leaders that will inspire and challenge you on a daily basis
  • Responsibility for high impact projects that constantly push you out of your comfort zone and gives you the opportunity to be the best you can
  • International exposure where you will expand your c-suite network and get unique access to our network of leaders and investors
  • Projects that will fast-track you to become CEO, CMO, or CFO of a company in Our Group
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Your responsibilities

Your tasks will vary, but some of your responsibilities will be:

  • Driving projects, such as starting new ventures, creating stellar marketing operations, crafting and executing sales strategies or recruiting and leading A+ teams – basically anything related to building new companies
  • Developing and executing strategies as you gain new insights
  • Supporting expansion and daily operations

 

What we expect from you

You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you:

  • Have acquired a Bachelor or Masters Degree with outstanding results
  • Have experience from a start-up, consultancy, bank, or top tier organisation
  • Have an EU work permit
  • Possess exceptional analytical and structured problem solving skills
  • Have a genuine interest in learning and is proactively looking for ways to improve
  • Have a genuine interest in learning and act on the desire 

 

Start date: As soon as possible

Apply here and we will be in touch in the nearest future.

Get in touch

We work with the best and the brightest and are continuously growing our talents. We look for success-minded professionals with the desire to make a mark in the world - reach out directly to learn more about opportunities at Nova Founders Capital.
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