Abra
VC Fund
Mountain View, United States
Abra is a VC fund in Mountain View focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Abra is the digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin.Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serialentrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Abra invests in
Stages Abra invests in
Countries Abra invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 3 (75%)
- FinTech 2 (50%)
- Finance 2 (50%)
- UX Design 1 (25%)
- Blockchain 1 (25%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (75%)
- Seed 1 (25%)
Country
- Belgium 1 (25%)
- Germany 1 (25%)
- United States 1 (25%)
- United Kingdom 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ali Gates
Senior Product Manager
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Senior Product Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bill Barhydt
Co-Founder and CEO
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Co-Founder and CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Daryl Puryear
CTO
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CTO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Gowdey
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Ishmael Riles
Senior Software Developer
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Senior Software Developer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
LI.FI
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Li.Finance provides the cross-chain swap across all liquidity pools and bridges. Li.Finance is a mesh of aggregated cross-chain liquidity networks and protocols that makes liquidity available when needed to fuel next-generation DeFi initiatives with superior UX. It is founded in 2021 and is based in Berlin, Germany. | $17.5M / Series A / Mar 30, 2023 | |
Credix
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Credix is a next-generation FinTech platform that allows any B2B platform to offer flexible financing options to its business buyers. Embed Credix into your platform to begin offering short-term financing to attract customers, drive volume, and enhance their experience today.With investors such as Valor Capital Group, Motive Partners, and ParaFiCapital, the company has already raised US$100 million in equity and debt financing. | $11.1M / Series A / Sep 06, 2022 | |
United Capital Finance LLC
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United capital finance is a global alternative investment management firm, since its founding in 2010, this firm has operated with a long-term approach to investing, focused on diversifying and uncorrelated alpha strategies.The objective of this firm's discretionary global macro strategies is to produce a high risk-adjusted return over thelong term by using a disciplined, repeatable investment process within a strong risk management framework.United believes in integrity, transparency, and alignment of interest are essential, uncompromising parts of your busses model. | $9.5M / Series A / Mar 25, 2020 | |
Coin Center
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Court Innovations develops and implements online negotiation systems for courts and constituents. The company’s online solutions enable its customers to extend their courts to provide online resolution options for litigants charged with relatively-minor offenses; help litigants with outstanding issues to understand their options and navigate thecourt online without needing to hire an attorney; and more.Court Innovations is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. | $1M / Seed / Feb 21, 2017 |
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FAQ
What does Abra invest in?
Abra invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Abra?
The team at Abra includes Ali Gates (Senior Product Manager), Bill Barhydt (Co-Founder and CEO) and Daryl Puryear (CTO), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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