Amex Ventures
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Amex Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on FinTech and Software. Founded in 2011, AMEX Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of American Express based in New York, New York. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the mobile, consumer payments, marketplaces, loyalty, lifestyle services, business-to-business, supply chain analytics, fintech, enterprise technology & software, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, automation, servicing and customer experience, identity, risk management, data, cybersecurity, and fraud detection sectors.
- Total investments:
- 233
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Amex Ventures invests in
Stages Amex Ventures invests in
Countries Amex Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $4M–$30M
- Series B
- $11M–$60M
- Series C
- $20M–$250M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 48 (21%)
- Software 39 (17%)
- Financial Services 34 (15%)
- Information Technology 19 (8%)
- Artificial Intelligence 18 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 50 (21%)
- Series C 30 (13%)
- Series A 27 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 20 (9%)
- Series D 19 (8%)
Country
- United States 99 (42%)
- United Kingdom 7 (3%)
- India 4 (2%)
- Israel 4 (2%)
- Mexico 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kevin Tsang
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Alex Grossi
Investment Manager
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Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Anatoly Kvitnitsky
Director / Principal
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Director / Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Margaret Lim
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 22 | Find email | |
MaryJane Powell
Executive Assistant to Managing Partner/Head, Global Investment
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Executive Assistant to Managing Partner/Head, Global Investment | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fazeshift provides an AI-driven solution that automates invoicing, cash application, and collections for enterprises. The platform enhances cash flow management by streamlining accounts receivable processes and reducing errors. Fazeshift adapts to unique business challenges, offering customizable workflows to improve operational efficiency. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
| Pie is an AI technology company that provides an agentic growth platform for small businesses. Its platform automates local marketing by managing business visibility across Google Maps, Yelp, Nextdoor, and AI search platforms such as ChatGPT and Gemini. Pie also uses AI to optimize marketing performance in real time and handle customer phone calls,enabling business owners to focus on daily operations. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Zafran Security is a cybersecurity startup specializing in vulnerability prioritization and threat exposure management, aiming to identify, remediate, and mitigate risks within organizations. The AI-native exposure management platform developed by the company aims to proactively avert the exploitation of vulnerabilities by incorporating autonomousagents throughout all stages of the vulnerability management lifecycle. With threat actors rapidly exploiting newly revealed security vulnerabilities through AI automation, Zafran's platform enables organizations to take action before these vulnerabilities result in incidents. The company’s solutions work alongside current security tools, utilizing AI agents to pinpoint weaknesses, provide contextual information, and address these issues by linking them to controls and evaluating the potential for exploitation. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 22, 2026 | ||
| Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a global payments fintech that enables businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.In today’s fast-changing digital era, Airwallex's purpose is to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders, and by doing so, contribute to the global economy. With technology at its core, Airwallex builta proprietary global financial infrastructure platform to help businesses transact, collect and pay in any foreign currency across 130+ countries and 50+ currencies, without the constraints of the traditional global financial system. | $320M / Series H / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Bluefish helps brands turn AI into a powerful new marketing channel to reach consumers and tell their story online. | $43M / Series B / Apr 14, 2026 | ||
| Palm is the business identity network - the identity fabric that connects partners, businesses, and government to verified business data across every jurisdiction. Palm connects directly to authoritative data sources across all 50 states and the IRS, combining verification, compliance automation, and continuous monitoring into a single API. Everycompliance filing, from annual reports, registered agent updates, and regulatory filings renews the identity and keeps it current across the network. Financial institutions, fintechs, insurers, and vertical SaaS platforms embed Palm for onboarding, verification, and perpetual monitoring. Government agencies use Palm as a verification gateway alongside existing e-filing infrastructure. Businesses get one verified profile, kept current with the state, in real time. 125 million businesses in the network and billions of attributes updated every day. Verified once, trusted everywhere. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 13, 2026 | ||
| Worth AI is a SaaS platform that leverages AI to enable inclusive financial underwriting. The company streamlines any operations by consolidating platforms, leading to faster approvals, improved compliance, and smarter risk management. | $30M / Series A / Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| Candex collaboration apps manage payments between companies and their vendors. Blockchain technology benefits are realized with phenomenal ease of use, speed and security. Their solution is trusted by Fortune 500 leaders like BP, First Data and Pfizer. They fulfill all of their control and reporting requirements, while users are able to executetransactions in a chat interface. Candex is growing rapidly by modernizing how organizations pay. They cut out red tape, boost employee management capabilities, and enhance spend visibility for better decision making. | $7M / Series C / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| Traversal is building the AI SRE for the enterprise. | $5M / Seed / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| Prophet Security provides security operations by automating the triage, investigation and response process. | Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 25, 2026 | ||
| See all 233 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Amex Ventures invest in?
Amex Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 233 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Amex Ventures invest in?
Amex Ventures typically joins rounds of $4M–$30M at Series A, $11M–$60M at Series B and $20M–$250M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Amex Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Amex Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Amex Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Amex Ventures?
The team at Amex Ventures includes Kevin Tsang (Managing Director), Alex Grossi (Investment Manager) and Anatoly Kvitnitsky (Director / Principal), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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