# Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in June 2026 ## Balaji Srinivasan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 64 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software 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. ## Sandeep Nailwal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 45 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services 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. ## Naval Ravikant - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 24 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Blockchain 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. ## Chris Adelsbach - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 24 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures ## Paul Taylor - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 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. ## Kain Warwick - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft ## Meltem Demirors - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 22 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services 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. ## Stani Kulechov - Type: Angel - Location: Como, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 21 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services 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. ## Ryan Selkis - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 21 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech 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. ## Amrish Rau - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 20 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs. ## Tim Draper - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 19 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School. ## Sebastien Borget - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 18 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency 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. ## Jonathan Weiner - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. ## Elad Gil - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Kunal Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Kunal Shah ## Max Levchin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 16 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile 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. ## Anatoly Yakovenko - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 16 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency 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. ## Jitendra Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 16 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter. ## Charles Delingpole - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments 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. ## Robert Leshner - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech 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. ## Scott Belsky - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet 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. ## DCF GOD - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) DCF GOD ## Raj Gokal - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software 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. ## Kevin Lin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games 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. ## Ben Davenport - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Bitcoin Ben Davenport is The Venture Partner at Blockchain Capital. ## Taavet Hinrikus - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services 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. ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Alexander Pack - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain 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. ## William Hockey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services 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. ## Gokul Rajaram - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services Gokul Rajaram is a founding partner at Marathon Management Partners and Board of Director of Niural. ## Scott Banister - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile 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. ## Peter Thiel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Dylan Field - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet 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. ## Arjun Sethi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland. ## Daniel Curran - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com. ## Philippe Teixeira da Mota - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia. ## Nathan McCauley - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Nathan McCauley is the co-founder and CEO of Anchorage. ## Errol Damelin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.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. ## Santiago Roel Santos - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital. ## Julien Bouteloup - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech 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. ## Mark Ransford - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Angel Investor ## Paul Forster - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Thibaud Elziere - Type: Angel - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin. ## Jaynti Kanani - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon ## Seth Weinstein - Type: Angel - Location: Weston, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Seth Weinstein is a Managing Member at ZAX LLC. ## Didier Valet - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Didier Valet ## Avichal Garg - Type: Angel - Location: Stanford, California, United States - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Blockchain, Internet 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. ## Arthur Hayes - Type: Angel - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Arthur Hayes is based out of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island and is the Advisor of Upexi. Arthur previously worked at BitMEX as a CEO. Arthur Hayes attended the University of Pennsylvania. ## Vinny Lingham - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device. He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites. Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006. He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town. ## Will Neale - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.