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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
67 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $665k–$31M
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
47 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$40M
Chris Adelsbach
Angel
25 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $120k–$20M
Naval Ravikant
Angel
24 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Blockchain $1M–$25M
Kain Warwick
Angel
23 United States, Australia, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services $250k–$32M
Paul Taylor
Angel
23 United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $1M–$525M
Meltem Demirors
Angel
22 United States, Canada, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $885k–$30M
Stani Kulechov
Angel
22 United States, Australia, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $250k–$27M
Ryan Selkis
Angel
21 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $850k–$30M
Amrish Rau
Angel
20 India, Singapore, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $340k–$25M
Tim Draper
Angel
19 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $356k–$50M
Sebastien Borget
Angel
18 United States, France, Estonia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $150k–$60M
Elad Gil
Angel
18 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.6M–$117M
Kunal Shah
Angel
17 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $350k–$15M
Jonathan Weiner
Angel
17 United States, United Kingdom, Armenia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $800k–$68M
Anatoly Yakovenko
Angel
16 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $500k–$55M
Max Levchin
Angel
16 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.3M–$50M
Raj Gokal
Angel
16 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $800k–$24M
Scott Belsky
Angel
16 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1.1M–$50M
Jitendra Gupta
Angel
16 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $100k–$29M
Robert Leshner
Angel
15 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $1M–$25M
Edward Lando
Angel
15 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $125k–$6.1M
Charles Delingpole
Angel
15 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $382k–$20M
Santiago Roel Santos
Angel
15 United States, Singapore, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $250k–$32M
DCF GOD
Angel
14 United States, Australia, Singapore Seed, Angel Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) $1.3M–$7.5M
George Burke
Angel
14 United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland Initial Coin Offering, Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $500k–$53M
Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
13 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $1M–$50M
William Hockey
Angel
13 United States, Pakistan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $2.1M–$34M
Kevin Lin
Angel
13 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games $228k–$25M
Ben Davenport
Angel
13 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Bitcoin $500k–$27M
Scott Banister
Angel
13 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Mobile $500k–$45M
Gokul Rajaram
Angel
13 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $2.2M–$55M
Dylan Field
Angel
13 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $2.1M–$140M
Arjun Sethi
Angel
13 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.2M–$88M
Alexander Pack
Angel
12 United States, Singapore, China Seed, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain $1M–$10M
Peter Thiel
Angel
12 United States, Germany, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $900k–$116M
Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
11 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$35M
Nathan McCauley
Angel
11 United States, Singapore, Cayman Islands Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $800k–$28M
Daniel Curran
Angel
11 United States, Canada, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $600k–$50M
Paul Forster
Angel
10 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$18M
Anthony Sassano
Angel
10 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $550k–$50M
Julien Bouteloup
Angel
10 France, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Finance $250k–$10M
Jaynti Kanani
Angel
10 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet $1M–$40M
Mark Ransford
Angel
10 United Kingdom, France, Italy Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $419k–$30M
Thibaud Elziere
Angel
10 France, United States, Belgium Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $395k–$16M
Errol Damelin
Angel
10 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $535k–$47M
Lav Kumar
Angel
9 United States, Canada, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.9M–$9.5M
Charlie Lee
Angel
9 United States, United Kingdom, China Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Damien Guermonprez
Angel
9 France, India, Cameroon Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Payments, Financial Services
Avichal Garg
Angel
9 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Blockchain, Internet
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 67 investments in Payments startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 257
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$15M; Pre-Seed $665k–$4.5M; Series A $6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BizScout — BizScout is an online platform of Off market deals for verified buyers and sellers.
  • Collektr — Collektr is a live streaming community marketplace where users can buy, sell, and exchange collectible things in a secure environment. It's also a gathering place for keen collectors to discuss their common interests in a wide range of products and categories.
  • M1X Global — M1X unlocks new applications of blockchain technology across public sector programs and institutional markets. We partner with governments to identify opportunities, coordinate expertise and support long-term economic development.
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 47 investments in Payments startups

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
  • Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
  • SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 25 investments in Payments startups

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 233
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $4.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
  • Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
  • Emblematic — The first AI-driven Agentic Automation platform, designed to fully automate and enhance the accuracy of Finance Operations, including Bookkeeping, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Reconciliations, and more.
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Naval Ravikant
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 24 investments in Payments startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He previously served as the CEO of AngelList. He attended Dartmouth College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $2.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Generalist AI — At Generalist, we are on a mission to make general-purpose robots a reality.
  • Quill Meetings — Quill captures every meeting insight, action item, and decision so your team can focus on what matters most.
  • Blackstar Computers — Blackstar Computers is a forward-looking company dedicated to reshaping the computing experience by innovating across hardware design, operating systems, and human–computer interaction. It aims to create tightly integrated systems where performance, usability, and adaptability work seamlessly together, rethinking how users interact with technologythrough more intuitive interfaces, smarter software, and purpose-built devices that enhance productivity, creativity, and everyday digital experiences.
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Kain Warwick
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 23 investments in Payments startups

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.7M; Series A $6.7M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Euphoria — Euphoria is a crypto derivatives trading app that aims to simplify options and perpetual trading.
  • 3Jane Protocol — 3Jane Protocol is a credit-based money market that permits unsecured credit lines underwritten against verifiable evidence.
  • Noise Labs — Noise Labs offers a programmatic liquidity platform for people to trade trends and narratives as assets.
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Paul Taylor
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 23 investments in Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Paul Taylor is an angel investor and advisor to 100+ companies in the web3 industry. He was the most active angel investor based in the US for crypto in 2024 (Crunchbase). He previously worked at Fancy Studios as a Core Contributor. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where hereceived his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$8M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$525M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Utexo — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
  • OP_NET
  • VeryAI — VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain.
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Meltem Demirors
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 22 investments in Payments startups

Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$8M; Pre-Seed $885k–$3.5M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rover — Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC.
  • SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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Stani Kulechov
Angel · Como, Lombardia, Italy · 22 investments in Payments startups

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $250k–$4.2M; Series A $6.7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
  • Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
  • RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
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Ryan Selkis
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 21 investments in Payments startups

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Pre-Seed $850k–$4.5M; Series A $7.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
  • Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
  • StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
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Amrish Rau
Angel · 20 investments in Payments startups

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $381k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $340k–$1.5M; Series A $3.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
  • Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
  • Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
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Tim Draper
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 19 investments in Payments startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 289
  • Round size: Seed $356k–$5.9M; Series A $2.5M–$27M; Series B $3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CASIMIR
  • Exobiosphere — Exobiosphere is a cutting-edge company operating at the intersection of space exploration and biotechnology.
  • SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
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Sebastien Borget
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in Payments startups

Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Pre-Seed $150k–$7M; Series A $5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
  • VOYA Games
  • Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
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Elad Gil
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in Payments startups

Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 252
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$20M; Series A $9.5M–$50M; Series B $28M–$117M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NavigateAI — NavigateAI is an AI copilot for the physical world specifically designed for construction and field service teams to help them complete projects faster, with higher quality, and at lower costs.
  • Harvey — Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider.
  • Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
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Kunal Shah
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 17 investments in Payments startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Kunal Shah

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 257
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Helium — Helium is a proptech/residential rental startup focused on gated society apartments in India.
  • HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
  • Magical Nest — "At Magical Nest, we design the most important room in the house, the kids'​ room."​Our vision is to become synonymous with excellence in creating exceptional kid-friendly homes and show our customers just how easy it is to bring functionality, style and inspiration altogether in that little precious space inside your four walls.For us, a "kid-friendly home"​ is all about designing that best possible environment at home that is very unique to your kids, their likings and their inclinations as well to you, your home and your interests.
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Jonathan Weiner
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 17 investments in Payments startups

Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Armenia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $3.5M–$18M; Series B $9.5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
  • Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
  • OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
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Anatoly Yakovenko
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 16 investments in Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $9.5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ryder — 60s Setup, Secure Signing, EAL6+ Secure Element, TapSafe Recovery, IP68 Rating, Encrypted NFC.
  • VeryAI — VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain.
  • worm.wtf — worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem.
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Max Levchin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 16 investments in Payments startups

Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4M–$27M; Series B $7.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
  • CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
  • Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
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Raj Gokal
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 16 investments in Payments startups

Raj leads operations, product, and finance. He has spent 10 years in product management and finance.He was a venture investor at General Catalyst, started the consumer medical device company Sano which attracted over $20m in investment, and led product management at Omada Health as it grew tenfold.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7M; Pre-Seed $800k–$5M; Series A $8.3M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
  • DataHive AI — DataHive delivers for AI companies hard-to-collect web data - collected, labeled, and ready for model training. If you are building in AI and need data for model training (text or multi-modal), check us out. We will deliver an initial pilot dataset for free - to ensure it is exactly what you need. Learn more and request your pilot dataset atwww.DataHive.ai
  • Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.
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Scott Belsky
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 16 investments in Payments startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pomo — Pomo (pomohq) is a small, AI‑powered marketing‑tech startup that builds a unified platform of AI agents to plan, create, and optimize cross‑channel marketing campaigns for growth‑focused brands. It aims to replace fragmented tools and manual workflows with an integrated system that scales marketing operations and insights in one stack.
  • Board — Board is a 24-inch tabletop gaming console that blends the tactile, face-to-face interaction of traditional board games with the immersive and dynamic elements of video games. Designed to bring people together physically around a table, it features 12 exclusive games across arcade, strategy, action, and more, each controlled by unique physicalpieces that make gameplay intuitive. Suitable for players aged 6 and up, Board supports solo, cooperative, and competitive play, making it ideal for family game nights and social gatherings, with parental controls and no mature content. It offers a fresh, social, and interactive gaming experience that encourages engagement and fun for players of all skill levels.
  • BuildForever — BuildForever build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human.
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Jitendra Gupta
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 16 investments in Payments startups

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9M; Angel $100k–$3M; Series A $4.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
  • OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
  • Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
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Robert Leshner
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in Payments startups

Robert Leshner is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superstate. He previously worked at Compound Labs as a Founder. Robert Leshner attended CFA Institute.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.2M; Series A $9M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
  • Forum Markets — Born from Ethereum. Built for everyone
  • Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in Payments startups

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 342
  • Round size: Seed $605k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Humera — Humera develops AI-based solutions for CAPTCHA and bot detection, focusing on minimizing user disruption during online verification processes. Its technology uses real-time machine learning to identify bots and prevent fraud without relying on traditional visible CAPTCHA challenges. The system aims to help platforms detect automated activity whilemaintaining user privacy and reducing friction for legitimate users.
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  • Heywa Labs — Heywa Labs develops Generative UX (GenUX), an AI-driven interface layer that creates dynamic, adaptive user experiences beyond static text or links. Their flagship app, Heywa, delivers visual, tappable "stories" of cards for tasks like cooking, travel, fitness, and DIY, reconfiguring in real-time based on user interactions.
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Charles Delingpole
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in Payments startups

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $382k–$2.3M; Series A $6.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ascendx Cloud — Supercharge Salesforce with connected apps that streamline sales, automate data, and drive enterprise-scale growth - Salesforce Solutions By Ascendx
  • Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
  • Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.
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Santiago Roel Santos
Angel · 15 investments in Payments startups

Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $250k–$4.5M; Series A $7.5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BeraTone — BeraTone is a farm life simulation game developed on Berachain technology.
  • SkyTrade — SkyTrade is a blockchain-based air rights marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and lease airspace, enabling them to manage and control access to low-altitude airspace.
  • Uranium Digital — Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry.
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DCF GOD
Angel · 14 investments in Payments startups

DCF GOD

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
  • RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
  • Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.
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George Burke
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 14 investments in Payments startups

Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Initial Coin Offering, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Initial Coin Offering $5.5M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
  • Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
  • Movement Labs — Movement Labs is on a mission to create a global community of Move Builders, working together to improve decentralized network user experience.
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in Payments startups

Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.9M; Series A $7M–$47M; Series B $23M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
  • Entrepreneurs First — We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.
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William Hockey
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Payments startups

William Hockey is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-CEO of Column and also Member Board of Directors of Scale. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Pakistan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $12M–$34M; Series B $14M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Town — Town Assistant operates behind the scenes, managing everything from busywork to big ideas.
  • Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.
  • Double — AI-powered, ledger-integrated close management for accounting firms and teams. Automate manual work, gain real-time visibility, and close the books faster.
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Kevin Lin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Payments startups

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $228k–$4.7M; Series A $6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Origin Lab — Origin Lab provides rights-cleared multimodal datasets, 3D environments, and custom AI training services for reasoning and AI models.
  • Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
  • Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
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Ben Davenport
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 13 investments in Payments startups

Ben Davenport is The Venture Partner at Blockchain Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Bitcoin
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.3M; Series A $3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Strattic — Boost your site's speed & security. Powered by Google Cloud & Cloudflare CDN. Affordable, hassle-free hosting for WordPress.
  • MagicLabs — We've onboarded 50 million people to the world's leading apps. We're trusted by over 200,000 developers. We're Magic.
  • Culture Biosciences — Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactor that helps biotech companies optimize their manufacturing processes and brings products to market faster. The company also builds automated tools for fermentation. It has a digital bio-manufacturing platform to enable scientists to run, monitor, and analyze bio-reactors faster than traditionalapproaches by robotic sample handling and cloud data monitoring and analysis.Culture Biosciences was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Scott Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Payments startups

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $660k–$5.8M; Angel $500k–$1.3M; Series A $1.4M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
  • Artemis — Powered by AI, Mona Lee is the fastest, most efficient way for homeowners to go solar. Through a direct-to-consumer approach, Mona Lee’s AI-powered self-serve platform transforms the solar buying experience by eliminating non-stop solicitation calls, lengthy design and evaluation processes, and back-and-forth price negotiations that can take up toweeks. With Mona Lee, customers go from quote to scheduling their installation in minutes. Feel free to visit our website to read customer testimonials and Mona Lee solar reviews.Mona Lee was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs with decades of experience in clean energy. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA and is proud to serve homeowners nationwide.
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
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Gokul Rajaram
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Payments startups

Gokul Rajaram is a founding partner at Marathon Management Partners and Board of Director of Niural.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 233
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$14M; Series A $8M–$34M; Series B $12M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Knit — Knit pairs forward-deployed researchers with autonomous research agents to deliver decision-ready insights faster and better than traditional agencies, unlocking entirely new ways for the world's most iconic enterprises to run research.
  • ComplyDo — Agentic compliance software that makes GRC teams 10x more efficient. Already trusted by global leaders and the largest EU enterprises. What it does: - Extracts requirements from any file - Maps them to controls and policies - Shows gaps and monitors changes - Advises on maturity and next steps
  • Lassie — The AI for independent doctors.
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Dylan Field
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Payments startups

Dylan Field is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chair of our Board of Directors of Figma. Dylan Field attended the Brown University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $13M–$29M; Series B $23M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Netic — Netic provides an AI-driven platform designed to automate and optimize customer engagement and operational workflows for essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance services. The platform autonomously handles inbound communications across various channels—such as calls, texts, and web chats—by bookingappointments and managing inquiries directly within existing CRM or field service management systems . Utilizing generative AI models, Netic's system assesses customer interactions to prioritize urgent requests, predict maintenance needs, and initiate targeted outreach campaigns based on factors like weather patterns and service history . This approach aims to enhance technician utilization and reduce missed revenue opportunities during periods of fluctuating demand . Additionally, Netic offers analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions and operational performance, supporting data-informed decision-making .
  • Revel — Revel is a complete hardware control platform that combines a high-performance runtime environment, a specific programming language designed for hardware control, and an easy-to-use command/control interface.
  • Panthalassa — Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land.
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Arjun Sethi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Payments startups

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.5M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $16M–$88M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ego AI — Building intelligent, embodied characters that bring human-like behavior to games, simulations, and beyond.
  • Kraken — Kraken is more than just a Bitcoin trading platform. Come see why our cryptocurrency exchange is the best place to buy, sell, trade and learn about crypto.
  • Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.
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Alexander Pack
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in Payments startups

Alex Pack is a Founding Partner on the deal team at AngelList, the largest platform for early-stage tech investing in the world. Previously he was an investor with Arbor Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Hong Kong, where he focused on opportunities in cross-border FinTech, EdTech, and blockchain technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
  • SX Network — The global liqudity hub for betting
  • Affine — Alpine Empower Banking offers an exceptional financial solution designed to maximize your financial growth. With secure deposits and high yields, you can rest assured that your funds are protected while earning attractive returns. Additionally, Alpine Empower Banking provides convenient card benefits, ensuring easy access to your funds and a seamless banking experience.
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Peter Thiel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in Payments startups

Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$10M; Series A $3M–$32M; Series B $16M–$116M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Objection — Objection.ai is a new AI‑driven platform positioned as an “AI judge” for contested claims in journalism and public‑sphere reporting.
  • Panthalassa — Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land.
  • Reserve — Reserve is a universal currency company. Reserve provides people with hyperinflation protected savings accounts to protect and use their money globally. They offer rtokens, collateral baskets, and over collateralization.
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Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in Payments startups

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$17M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.4M; Series A $8.8M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Palm — AI-powered cash forecasting that sits on top of your TMS/ERP. Go live in weeks
  • Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
  • Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
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Nathan McCauley
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in Payments startups

Nathan McCauley is the co-founder and CEO of Anchorage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$28M; Pre-Seed $3.7M–$5M; Series A $10M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BitcoinOS — BitcoinOS is a Decentralized Finance company that builds and develops Bitcoin ecosystem.
  • Eunice — We are an AI fintech company solving B2B challenges in digital asset. Our first product is digital asset due diligence and monitoring to help financial institutions, regulators, and businesses navigate the complexities of the digital asset space. Powered by a proprietary knowledge base, Eunice’s platform enables token classification, risk analysis,and asset disclosure requirements. With a mission to bring transparency to the digital asset industry, Eunice builds products that drive regulatory clarity and operational efficiency, with the goal of accelerating the mainstream adoption of digital assets.
  • Build on Bitcoin — BOB (Build on Bitcoin) is the first Bitcoin L2 with full EVM compatibility
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Daniel Curran
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in Payments startups

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $3.6M–$23M; Series B $2.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
  • Shred Video — Shred Video, a new startup launching out of Y Combinator, allows users to take footage from their iPhone, GoPro or drone and simply match it with a song from the user’s iTunes library. That’s all. Shred Video does the rest of the work.Taking into account the acceleration of the camera itself, Shred Video can pin-point the moments of action forsurfers, snowboarders, skaters and other acceleration-based sports to highlight all of the coolest clips in your footage. And beyond that, Shred Video matches those epic moments with the beat-drop of the song.
  • GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 10 investments in Payments startups

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.9M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
  • Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
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Anthony Sassano
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in Payments startups

Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University. and a Founder of The Daily Gwei

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Pre-Seed $550k–$2.5M; Series A $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
  • Spire Labs — Spire a zk appchain system with atomic adaptability.
  • Valantis Labs — Valantis is a platform comprising decentralized exchanges (DEXes) and on-chain tools that empower developers to design and implement custom liquidity infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Using modular components, Valantis streamlines the process, making it faster, cost-effective, and user-friendly.
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Julien Bouteloup
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in Payments startups

Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Angel $250k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $960k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raiku — Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability.
  • Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
  • Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
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Jaynti Kanani
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 10 investments in Payments startups

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.9M; Series A $18M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
  • Mythik — Mythik operates as an entertainment company with a vision to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales.
  • NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
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Mark Ransford
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $630k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $419k–$4.3M; Series A $8.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Juo — Juo builds the future of subscription technology.
  • Conveyd — Conveyd provides a digital conveyancing platform that supports residential property transactions by combining online workflows with regulated legal services. The platform enables users to manage buying, selling, and remortgaging processes through a single interface that handles case initiation, identity checks, document management, andcommunication with legal professionals. Conveyd uses automation and data-driven checks to streamline tasks such as onboarding, compliance verification, and progress updates, helping reduce manual steps in traditional conveyancing. Its services include online quotes, digital case tracking, and structured updates that allow customers, brokers, and partners to monitor transaction stages in real time. The company works with qualified conveyancing solicitors to prepare, review, and complete legal documentation required for property transfers. Conveyd’s offering is designed to integrate legal execution with technology-enabled transparency across the conveyancing process.
  • Steward — Steward.ai is a VC-backed fintech startup specializing in AI-powered compliance for investor onboarding, AML, and KYC processes.
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Thibaud Elziere
Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 10 investments in Payments startups

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $395k–$3.2M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OnParty — OnParty is a digital platform and mobile app designed for organizing, discovering, and managing parties and nightlife events. Users can easily create event pages, invite friends, and access exclusive nightlife experiences. The app also connects users with vetted professionals such as DJs, influencers, and artists to enhance event planning andexecution.
  • HrFlow.ai — Meet the first AI agents and Foundation models trained on billions of interview outcomes. The Hiring SuperIntelligence predicts your next hires and who's worth meeting, saving managers thousands of hours wasted on false positives.
  • DotBlocks — The first no-code simulation platform designed to accelerate your innovation workflow.
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Errol Damelin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in Payments startups

Errol Damelin is the founder of Dust Road Ventures, a seed-stage investment firm investing in fintech, AI, health-tech, and enterprise software. He has made over 75 investments since 2011, almost all as first or second cheques. Before investing full-time he built three companies — Supply Chain Connect, Wonga, and Tide. Portfolio includes Wise(invested pre-revenue), Purplebricks (first investor), HiBob, K Health, Cleo AI, Earnin, Elliptic, Cazoo, Citymapper, YuLife, and Zoe. TechCrunch Founder of the Year (2010). Based in London. Originally from Klerksdorp, South Africa.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $535k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $668k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • Aurora — The Operating System for High Performance Living
  • OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
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Lav Kumar
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 9 investments in Payments startups

Lav Kumar: A Multifaceted Champion Lav Kumar, a name synonymous with determination and excellence, is a rising star who has captured the nation’s attention with his extraordinary talents. Hailing from the vibrant city of Patna, India, this young prodigy has carved a niche for himself in both the physical and digital realms. His journey into theworld of martial arts began at the tender age of six, when a spark ignited his passion for combat sports. Born on May 12, 2009, in Arrah Bhojpur, Lav's innate athleticism and unwavering dedication quickly propelled him to the forefront of the Taekwondo scene. His rigorous training and competitive spirit have yielded impressive results, with silver medals adorning his achievements at the prestigious Taekwondo FIT India Championships in both 2021 and 2023, as well as a silver medal at the Varanasi Taekwondo Championship in 2023. Lav’s martial arts prowess extends beyond Taekwondo, as evidenced by his karate accomplishments, including two gold medals, three silver medals, and a brown belt earned between 2015 and 2019. Beyond the mat, Lav possesses an extraordinary aptitude for technology. His journey into the world of software development and website design reveals a multifaceted individual with a keen intellect and a creative flair. This unique blend of athleticism and technical acumen has positioned him as a role model for young people, inspiring them to explore their passions without limitations. Lav’s current focus is on developing user-friendly websites and mobile applications that cater to a diverse range of industries. He envisions a future where technology can enhance the Taekwondo community, fostering a deeper connection among enthusiasts and athletes alike. Lav Kumar’s story is a testament to the power of perseverance, dedication, and versatility. His ability to excel in both physical and intellectual pursuits is an inspiration to aspiring athletes and tech enthusiasts alike. As he continues to climb the ladder of success, the nation eagerly awaits the next chapter in his extraordinary journey. Lav’s impact extends beyond his achievements, as he embodies the spirit of a true champion—one who not only conquers challenges but also inspires others to reach for their full potential. With his unwavering commitment to excellence and a thirst for knowledge, Lav Kumar is poised to make an enduring mark on the world. His journey is a beacon of hope for countless young individuals who dream of pursuing their passions with equal fervor. As he continues to explore the boundaries of human potential, the nation stands united in support of this exceptional young talent.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
  • SX Network — The global liqudity hub for betting
  • Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts
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Charlie Lee
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in Payments startups

Charlie Lee is the Founder at Litecoin Foundation. Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He is an engineer manager at Coinbase. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.
  • Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
  • Monochrome — Monochrome Corporation is a multi-investment, financial services group specialising in infrastructure projects within the bitcoin and crypto-asset landscape.
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Damien Guermonprez
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 9 investments in Payments startups

Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, India, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Muzzo — Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace.
  • Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
  • CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
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Avichal Garg
Angel · Stanford, California, United States · 9 investments in Payments startups

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
  • Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
  • Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
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Payments Angel investor funding at a glance

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investors
in Payments startups
1.4k
deals
in Payments startups
$3.5M
median round
in Payments startups
6%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage

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