# American Express

> American Express is a VC fund in New York backing Software and FinTech. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/american-express
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/americanexpress
- Website: http://www.americanexpress.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/americanexpress

American Express is a global service company. It's range of products and services includes charge and credit card products, expense management products and services, consumer and business travel services, stored value products, such as travelers chequeens and other prepaid products, network services, merchant acquisition and processing,servicing and settlement, and point-of-sale, marketing and information products and services for merchants, and fee services, including market and trend analyses and related consulting services, fraud prevention services, and the design of customized customer loyalty and rewards programs.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for American Express. Shizune tracks 19 team members at American Express. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/americanexpress?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 41% |
| FinTech | 5 | 19% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 19% |
| Internet | 4 | 15% |
| Advertising | 4 | 15% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 19% |
| Series C | 5 | 19% |
| Grant | 4 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 15% |
| Series D | 2 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 70% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |
| Sweden | 1 | 4% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin van Rooy | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-van-rooy |
| Bharathram Thothadri | EVP, Chief Credit Officer, Global Commercial Services, and Head of Merchant, and Network Risk | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bharathram-thothadri |
| Jennifer Skyler | Chief Corporate Affairs Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-skyler |
| Kevin Cox | Chief Human Resources Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-cox-4 |
| Sonia Cargan | Chief Diversity Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sonia-cargan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wag Heaven | Wag Heaven is pet supply store and self-serve dog wash. | $20K | Grant | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Tingsapp | Tingsapp is a moving platform where you can instantly schedule movers for your whole apartment or a few household items with an upfront price in a few taps. Just like booking your ride, convenient & affordable. | $14.6K | Grant | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Economic Opportunity Coalition | Economic Opportunity Coalition aimed at fostering inclusive economic growth through coordinated efforts between public and private sectors. Economic Opportunity Coalition Initiatives typically focus on creating opportunities for marginalized or underserved communities, promoting job creation, and entrepreneurship, and ensuring equitable access toresources and opportunities. | $35M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Junior Achievement USA | Junior Achievement USA is a youth organization. They are either part of a district or school for educational materials or part of a business. They provide services to the business community, educators, and volunteers. They support the business community. They conduct programs for entrepreneurship and financial literacy. They invited representativesof local programs to participate in contests. The volunteers teach local middle school students about business and personal finance. | $820K | Grant | Mar 08, 2023 |  |
| Candex | 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. | $12M | Series A | Nov 02, 2022 |  |
| Mirato | Mirato is the first company to provide both an orchestration and automation of bank’s TPRM program across all risk domains, from initial assessment to continuous monitoring and much beyond. Through machine-learning-based NLP models and sophisticated data harvesting, Mirato realized its vision of third party risk management as a business enabler. Aholistic tool that reduces risk, operational costs and heightens corporate performance. Mirato’s TPRM platform integrates into existing TPRM programs and replaces much of the manual work that makes up and complicates it, replacing it with automated smart processes. Funneling all risk silos into a single data lake allows us to flush out integrated risk, including aggregation/concentration risk. Mirato saves subject matter experts a considerable amount of work and allows them to make the most of their time and intellect. |  | Seed | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| FalconX | FalconX is a digital assets prime brokerage that provides trading, financing, and custody services tailored for financial institutions. The company focuses on facilitating access to global liquidity in the cryptocurrency market. FalconX employs data science techniques to enhance trade execution and optimize efficiency for its clients. The platformsupports a range of digital asset transactions, enabling institutions to manage their investments effectively. By offering comprehensive solutions in the digital asset space, FalconX meets the needs of institutional clients seeking to navigate the complexities of cryptocurrency trading and management. | $50M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| Dastkar | Dastkar is a private not-for-profit NGO established in 1981, working to support traditional Indian craftspeople, many of them women and village-based, with the objective of helping craftspeople regain their place in the economic mainstream, in a country where the craft sector is second only to agriculture in providing employment. | $136.6K | Grant | Jan 19, 2021 |  |
| Abra | 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. | $16M | Series B | Oct 23, 2017 |  |
| iZettle | iZettle is reinventing technologies and banking services that help small-business owners live better, work less and earn more. Based in Stockholm, the financial technology company revolutionized mobile payments in 2010 with the world’s first mini chip card reader and software for mobile devices. Today, small-business owners around the world useiZettle’s powerfully simple services to improve the speed and ease of payments at checkout, business management, sales analytics, customer engagement, and funding | $15.9M | Series D | Sep 11, 2016 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/american-express-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amerindo Investment Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amerindo-investment-advisors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flybridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flybridge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does American Express invest in?

American Express invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact American Express?

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### Who are the partners at American Express?

The team at American Express includes Benjamin van Rooy (Director), Bharathram Thothadri (EVP, Chief Credit Officer, Global Commercial Services, and Head of Merchant, and Network Risk) and Jennifer Skyler (Chief Corporate Affairs Officer), among 19 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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