Moran Levinovitz, group head of ventures for HSBC, is one of the 100 leading corporate venturing professionals in our 2025 Powerlist.


Moran Levinovitz has headed financial services firm HSBC’s corporate ventures team for three years now, and a significant part of what he has done is to position it at the forefront of AI-based fintech investing.
“AI will be remarkably prolific for anything and everything around how we function,” says Levinovitz.
“How we work at HSBC and how the bank operates is going to change dramatically in the next five years. And we, at the ventures team, are at the heart of that transformation. “The bank is investing a lot in AI and defining its AI strategy. It is a very exciting time,” says Levinovitz.
In the past year, HSBC has taken part in a $500m round for AI software development platform Poolside, customisable AI software provider Contextual AI’s $80m series A, and a series B for data co-pilot creator Prophecy that stands at $82m.
The other substantial part of HSBC’s venture strategy involves digital assets, where Levinovitz says recent regulatory changes, particularly in the US, are making the sector more amenable for investors. He expects that and AI to play a substantial role in how the bank operates in the future.
“Digital assets and stablecoins…will be very profound in how they shape financial services”
“The evolving regulatory landscape in the US around digital assets and stablecoins has the potential to remove some of the friction around distributed ledger technology for financial services,” he says. “Those two categories will be very profound in how they shape financial services.”
His debut on the GCV Powerlist comes five years after Levinovitz made the Rising Stars list. He has now been at HSBC for 17 years, moving up through investment banking, with a focus on enterprise software, and then strategic investments.
The ventures team is getting busier. It was part of a $175m series F round for decision intelligence platform Quantexa in March this year and recently announced its first two investments in Indian startups, having expanded its venture team to more than a dozen people.
“Last year was a very active year for us,” says Levinovitz. “We did a dozen deals, encompassing five in AI, some in digital assets, capital markets, infrastructure, analytics and enterprise software.”

The Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist represents the 100 individuals spearheading the future of the corporate venturing industry.
These individuals excel in terms of their venturing approach and structure, number and quality of portfolio companies and in their contributions to the corporate venturing profession.