# Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Oceania in June 2026

## Reinventure
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally.With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner,Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.

## Digital Asset Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fundinvesting in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies.

## Carthona Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

## Sydney Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.

## Stani Kulechov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Como, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Airtree Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

## x15ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Payments

x15ventures is a dynamic venture-building outfit, designed to bring to life the next generation of digital endeavors.

## Framework Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

A crypto venture firm that builds with our founders.

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## DCF GOD
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

DCF GOD

## Cultivation Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Cultivation Capital invests in young companies whose ideas have potential to transform the way we live and work.

## Apex Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps

Apex Capital is an investment firm which provides venture capital to exceptional founders who are revolutionising the financial services landscape. They have a strong track record of successfully establishing, investing in and growing businesses that have sought to provide innovative products and services to the financial services sector. Theirentrepreneurial backgrounds give us a unique perspective on what it takes to start and scale a business in financial services.Apex Capital was established over a decade ago and is wholly owned by its principals, each of whom have a wealth of experience from having worked across multiple continents with leading global firms in financial services, as well as having developed and operated their own start-up businesses.

## Square Peg Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.

## Blackbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Investible
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

## Rampersand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

We back ambitious ANZ tech founders from inception to seed, with proven support, no empty promises, and a track record of helping startups scale smarter.

## Scalare Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Scalare Partners is more than a technology investment fund. We provide critical funding and resourcing 

## Vitalik Buterin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Grant
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin is the Founder & Developer of TOKENEO. He previously worked at NextThought, LLC as a Developer Intern. Vitalik Buterin attended the University of Waterloo.

## Picus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

## AfterWork Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups.  Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a

## OIF Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

OIF is a venture capital firm focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs building businesses.

## Mark Harbottle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, FinTech

Matt Harbottle co-founded Melbourne-based SitePoint.com 10 years ago with Matt Mickiewicz, and grew it into a profitable, multi-million dollar company without any venture capital or outside funding. The company has been profitable every single month since its inception and is actively involved in publishing & marketplaces for Web Professionals.In 2008, Mark spun off 99designs out of SitePoint as its own separate business. 99designs has become the market leader in crowdsourced graphic design and currently sees a new graphic uploaded to the site every 7 seconds and pays out over $1,000,000 to designers every month. In April 2011 99designs received $35m in a Round A led by Accel Partners.99designs has run crowdsourced design projects for tens of thousands of small business owners, as well as big brands like Adidas, TiVo, Dish Networks, and bestselling authors like Tim Ferriss and Rick Warren (author of “The Purpose Driven Lifeâ€).In June of 2009, Mark and Matt launched Flippa.com, a marketplace for buying and selling small websites via auction. Flippa currently sells over $2 million worth of website assets per month, with its biggest sale ever being ReTweet.com which sold for $250,000.In January of 2011, Learnable.com was launched, again as a spin off from SitePoint. Learnable is a peer to peer education platform where anyone can create an online course and sell access to it online.

## Tidal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.

## Nightingale Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

First established in London in 1985, our private equity firm was founded on one word. Patience. Now headquartered in Australia and with offices in Sydney and Hong Kong, patience still is, and always will be, our guiding principle and how we achieve superior long-term returns for our stakeholders.

## KuCoin
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

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## Daniel Johnson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Data Integration

Daniel Johnson is the Founding Partner at We Scale Startups. He attended New Entrepreneurs Foundation.

## Magnivia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Data Integration

Magnivia invests at the end of the accelerator curve in late seed to growth stages in emerging themes where innovative product adoption is rapid. The firm invests across a wide variety of sectors, including fintech, enterprise, aerospace, artificial intelligence, proptech, and consumer Internet.

## Utiliti Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

At Utiliti Group, we've built a dynamic ecosystem of startups, investors, and tech visionaries. With our roots in innovation, investment, and international expansion, we fuel tech-driven transformations. Dive into our expansive network and redefine what's possible.

## Multicoin Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. 

## CrossFund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, B2B

For Angels, By Angels

## Solana Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Solana, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

## Ken Cheung Cheung
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Internet

Mr Ken Cheung is a CEO of MCC International.

## Radek Ostrowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

A talented developer and an architect able to hit the ground running. With his broad skill set, he has contributed to the success of many small local and big international projects. Effective in taking applications from inception to completion and in improving the existing solutions. Motivated by challenges and driven by ambition agileproblem-solver.

## Circle Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: East Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Circle Ventures invests in projects that accelerate global crypto innovation and adoption in service. They foster crypto innovation by assisting founders and teams that are committed to open access, financial inclusivity, and programmable commerce, all of which may contribute to global economic success.

## Scott Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet

Scott Moore is the Founder of Public Works. He previously worked at Ethereum as an Ecosystem Grants. Scott Moore attended the University of Toronto.

## Sam Kazemian
- Type: Angel
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sam Kazemian is the Founder of Frax Finance.

## MH Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

MH Ventures is a world class community-backed Venture Capital investing in top blockchain projects of the future

## Public Works
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

Public Works is an investment firm.

## Bosco Tan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Bosco Tan

## David Gordon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: B2B, Mobile, FinTech

David Gordon - Chairman @ Ordermentum Pty Ltd

## Anthony Warren
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Data Integration

Anthony Warren, Dealer Principal at Peter warren Toyota.

## Maven 11 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.

## Joyce Yang
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech

Joyce Yang - Founder @ Global Coin Research

## Son Tech Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Data Integration

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## Paloma Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Men's, Billing, Fashion

We partner with exceptional founders to transform novel ideas into high-growth companies.

## Boson Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Hardware, Payments

Investor for disruptors and force carrier for impact! We are an Australian Venture Capital that backs visionary founders of all backgrounds and grows exceptional deep tech or business model innovation companies to become truly transformative!

## Rayn Ong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Marketing

Rayn Ong - Partner @ Archangel Ventures

## Vectr
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Vectr is a venture firm based in Hong Kong. They combine investment, creation and growth to deliver game-changing impact to teams ready to tackle global issues, transform industries and improve the lives of millions.That combines capital, creation and partnership to deliver game-changing impact. We strive to be the ideal partner for founders thatare building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses into asia.

## Yolo Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallin, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Sports

Yolo Investments is focusing on late seed & series A stage investments in igaming, fintech and crypto.

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