# 500 Fintech

> 500 Fintech is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

500 Fintech is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. 500 Fintech

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$7.7M |
| Series A | $7M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 60% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 40% |
| Payments | 3 | 30% |
| Finance | 2 | 20% |
| B2B | 1 | 10% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 50% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 10% |
| South Africa | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sheel Mohnot | General Partner & Founder | 90 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sheel-mohnot |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| finally | Back Office is a technology-based company that helps small businesses by automating their bookkeeping and accounting. It is a one-stop source for building a strong and vital company back office. Small and medium-sized businesses looking for administrative and operations services, including on-demand experts and back-office personnel turn to themfor help succeeding with their businesses each and every day.Back Office.co was founded in 2018 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. | $11M | Series A | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| Stitch | Stitch is a payments infrastructure company that helps businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, so they can deliver a better user experience and optimize operations. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Stitch launched in February 2021 and has global staff. Stitch offers all popular online payment methods and operates as aPayments Service Provider. Its platform supports a variety of pay-in methods and solutions; financial and payment management solutions; and Payouts. Learn more at stitch.money. | $2M | Seed | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| finally | Back Office is a technology-based company that helps small businesses by automating their bookkeeping and accounting. It is a one-stop source for building a strong and vital company back office. Small and medium-sized businesses looking for administrative and operations services, including on-demand experts and back-office personnel turn to themfor help succeeding with their businesses each and every day.Back Office.co was founded in 2018 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. | $500K | Seed | Mar 15, 2021 |  |
| Stitch | Stitch is a payments infrastructure company that helps businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, so they can deliver a better user experience and optimize operations. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Stitch launched in February 2021 and has global staff. Stitch offers all popular online payment methods and operates as aPayments Service Provider. Its platform supports a variety of pay-in methods and solutions; financial and payment management solutions; and Payouts. Learn more at stitch.money. | $4M | Seed | Feb 25, 2021 |  |
| Kilo | Kilo develops a retail platform that provides retailers access to price, assortment, and inventory management. The platform is designed specifically to serve small and medium-sized retailers. The Kilo network effect creates a virtuous growth cycle for both supply and demand. |  | Seed | Feb 09, 2021 |  |
| Chipper Cash | Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $30M | Series B | Nov 19, 2020 |  |
| Abound | Abound is a modern API solution that streamlines the collection of W-9 forms, verifies TINs, and manages 1099 filings for compliance. It reduces errors through real-time verification and allows businesses to maintain control over user data while automating processes. | $650K | Pre-Seed | Sep 16, 2019 |  |
| finally | Back Office is a technology-based company that helps small businesses by automating their bookkeeping and accounting. It is a one-stop source for building a strong and vital company back office. Small and medium-sized businesses looking for administrative and operations services, including on-demand experts and back-office personnel turn to themfor help succeeding with their businesses each and every day.Back Office.co was founded in 2018 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. | $1.9M | Seed | Apr 11, 2019 |  |
| First Access | First Access is a financial technology company that offers a smart data platform for emerging market financial institutions. Micro and SME lenders have a clear path to a digital future. With an intuitive user experience for digitizing paper-based operations, institutions can collect rich data, monitor trends, and then automate processes whilegaining more trust in the data. First Access has leveraged its credit scoring experience to allow incremental change without disrupting day-to-day operations. Financial institutions can grow more sophisticated with data, incorporating machine learning insights as it goes. The company's mission is to turn data into financial opportunity by helping lenders around the world digitize and automate access to credit with powerful, user-friendly technology.First Access was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York. | $7M | Series A | Nov 20, 2017 |  |
| Jiko | Jiko is a new type of bank built on US Treasury bills to unlock unprecedented yield, safety, and scale through direct products and an embedded finance API. Jiko removes the limits of traditional banking to create a new paradigm for building financial success at the scale and speed of today’s economy. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices inNYC and Reykjavik, Jiko's vertically integrated financial institution combines its nationally chartered bank and registered broker-dealer to hold cash as T-bills – all in safe custody. Learn more at www.jiko.com. | $7.7M | Seed | Oct 23, 2017 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Active Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CRE Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/africa-angels-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Firstminute Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstminute-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Future Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-africa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GTMfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gtmfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does 500 Fintech invest in?

500 Fintech invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is 500 Fintech's check size?

500 Fintech typically joins rounds of $500k–$7.7M at Seed and $7M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 500 Fintech participates in.

### How do I contact 500 Fintech?

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### Who are the partners at 500 Fintech?

The team at 500 Fintech includes Sheel Mohnot (General Partner & Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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