Top 10 Payments Startup Investors in Isle of Man in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Isle of man. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Isle of man. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Payments Startup Investors in Isle of Man in May 2025

Investor	Payments Isle of Man investments
Chris Adelsbach	1
Force Over Mass Capital	1
Paolo Rubatto	1
Blockchain.com Ventures	1
Stuart Gardner	1
MakerDAO	1
Charles Delingpole	1
Will Neale	1
Tom James	1
James Isilay	1

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Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
SentientSports — SentientSports is revolutionising the sports industry by unlocking the full potential of AI in sporting organisations.

Paolo Rubatto is Managing Director of Start Capital. His background is mainly entrepreneurial, advising startups from the consumer internet to the life sciences sector in their business development strategies as well as in their fundraising. He holds an MBA from London Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
Coindirect — BVNK is a next-generation payments platform. We're making payments as accessible and resilient as the internet.
Kosmik — Kosmik is a visual collaboration platform. Kosmik is based around a zooming user interface where you can store and edit any type of data. Kosmik is the first "dSaaS" (decentralized Software as a Service), relying on a custom designed peer-to-peer database, maximizing user privacy, offering offline first comfort and end to end encryption.

Blockchain.com is the most popular place to securely buy, store, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other top cryptocurrencies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Galxe — Galxe is an industry-leading web3 growth platform powered by analytics, automation, and engagement solutions.
PolySign — PolySign develops state-of-the-art, secure, scalable infrastructure for financial institutions to fully leverage their digital assets. The company also develops a secure and scalable infrastructure for financial institutions to fully leverage their digital assets. They aim to integrate with existing financial organizations and global markets, andrigorously embrace the highest standards for regulation.
NEAR — NEAR is the chain abstraction stack, empowering builders to create apps that scale to billions of users and across all blockchains.

Stuart Gardner

Investment focus

Funding Platform, Financial Services, Customer Service
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
VIAN Therapeutics — VIAN Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company focused on transforming retinal disease treatment. With a first-in-class, non-invasive eyedrop as its lead product, VIAN aims to replace invasive injections for conditions like age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME). Backed by strong preclinical data andongoing clinical testing, VIAN is positioned to address significant unmet medical needs and disrupt the $15 billion retinal disease market.

Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Poland, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Multis — Multis is an all-in-one application to help web3 organizations manage their crypto-finances. Built on Gnosis Safe.
Contango — Contango is a decentralised protocol bringing perpetual futures built on top of money markets.
Harbor — Harbor is making trade finance more accessible, user-friendly, and efficient for businesses that trade both domestically and internationally. Our programs provide end to end solutions covering the entire cash conversion cycle.

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.