# Amit Jhawar

> Amit Jhawar is a Series A investor at Venmo (Chicago) backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Venmo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venmo)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitabhjhawar/

Amit Jhawar is a Series A investor at Venmo in Chicago focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Amit Jhawar is COO at Braintree.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $30M–$65M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 5 | 71% |
| FinTech | 4 | 57% |
| Payments | 2 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |
| Series D | 1 | 14% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| France | 1 | 14% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| kevin. | kevin. aims to evolve traditional card, pay by link, POS, direct debit, and online payments. Offering fully customisable solutions which scale to the size of any business, kevin. helps improve customer experience and thereby conversion, while also saving money on the cost of payment acquiring services for the merchants. | $65.1M | Series A | May 03, 2022 |  |
| Lydia | Lydia develops a mobile payment platform intended to make payments easier. Lydia is a social interface that connects phones with cards to pay anyone with one app, allowing users to make pain-free payments through a mobile wallet system without carrying any cheques or ATM card. Lydia was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Paris, France. | $100M | Series C | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| Socure | Socure provides artificial intelligence for digital identity verification, fraud prevention, and sanction screening. | $450M | Series E | Nov 09, 2021 |  |
| Pagos Solutions | Pagos is building a data “platform” and API-driven micro-services that it says can integrate with any payment stack. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. | $10M | Seed | Oct 15, 2021 |  |
| Socure | Socure provides artificial intelligence for digital identity verification, fraud prevention, and sanction screening. | $100M | Series D | Mar 16, 2021 |  |
| Lydia | Lydia develops a mobile payment platform intended to make payments easier. Lydia is a social interface that connects phones with cards to pay anyone with one app, allowing users to make pain-free payments through a mobile wallet system without carrying any cheques or ATM card. Lydia was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Paris, France. | $74.3M | Series B | Dec 17, 2020 |  |
| Blockchain.com | Blockchain.com is a developer of a digital assets platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.It creates a financial system for the internet that empowers anyone in the world to control their money. Over 50+ million customers have signed up to use the Blockchain.com platform. It's a fast and easy way to buy Bitcoin, tradecrypto, send, receive, secure, and borrow digital currencies. The Blockchain.com explorer is one of the most trafficked websites in the world to find out what's happening in the crypto markets and the Blockchain.com exchange supports a fast trading experience. | $30M | Series A | Oct 07, 2014 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Capital One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Commerce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerce-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flint Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flint-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Generation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/generation-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Scale Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [T. Rowe Price](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/t-rowe-price) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Venmo

VC Fund · New York, United States

Venmo offers an app that allows users to share and make payments with friends for a variety of services. It was founded in 2009 by Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail.

5 contacts available at Venmo.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amit Jhawar | General Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-jhawar |
| Andre Henry | Systems Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-henry |
| Andrew Kortina | Co-founder & CFO & Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-kortina |
| Denise Leonhard | Chief Commercial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denise-leonhard |
| Rachel Hyman | iOS Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rachel-hyman |

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## FAQ

### What does Amit Jhawar invest in?

Amit Jhawar invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 Amit Jhawar's check size?

Amit Jhawar typically joins rounds of $30M–$65M 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 Amit Jhawar participates in.

### When did Amit Jhawar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Amit Jhawar closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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