# Bobby Mehta

> Bobby Mehta is a seed investor in Chicago backing FinTech, Fraud Detection and Financial Services. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-mehta-9842a116/

Bobby Mehta is a seed investor in Chicago focused on FinTech and Fraud Detection. Bobby Mehta

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$5.2M |
| Series A | $12M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 50% |
| Fraud Detection | 2 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 50% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |
| Payments | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| India | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Verdata | Verdata develops a data and insight platform intended to empower POS financing companies to mitigate merchant risk. The company's platform offers underwriting, notifications, and portfolio health check, enabling POS financing companies to avoid fraudulent and poorly behaving merchants. It was headquartered in Richmond, Virginia in 2020. | $3M | Seed | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Bureau | Bureau is a no-code identity and risk orchestration platform that tackles friction and fraud. It assists businesses in automating decisions, onboarding good customers, preventing fraud, and enabling seamless user experiences. The platform utilizes real-time insights, instant logins, and risk profiling to secure and simplify authentication andaccelerate onboarding. Bureau provides extensive protection throughout the entire customer journey with solutions that include customer onboarding, account monitoring, device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and transaction monitoring. Its unique Identity Bureau Network utilizes contextual data to deliver actionable insights, enabling businesses to make well-informed choices regarding digital identities. | $12M | Series A | Dec 16, 2021 |  |
| Orum.io | Orum is the simplest API for fast, reliable payments. Orum’s API solution delivers access to all major rails – RTP, FedNow, Same Day ACH, ACH, and Wires – and now instant bank account verification. Orum allows businesses to launch instant payments and instant bank account verification in just days, without costly bank integrations or prolongedcompliance. This in turn empowers businesses and banks to launch new payment experiences that attract and monetize more customers.Founded by Stephany Kirkpatrick and led by expert fintech operators from LearnVest, Square, N26, Klarna, Marqeta, and Stash, Orum has raised over $82M from leading investors, including Accel, Canapi, Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, BoxGroup, Clocktower Ventures, Primary Ventures and American Express Ventures. We provide the technology and expertise required to power a better financial system where everyone has the freedom to build to their potential. To learn more, visit Orum.io. | $21M | Series A | Apr 09, 2021 |  |
| Orum.io | Orum is the simplest API for fast, reliable payments. Orum’s API solution delivers access to all major rails – RTP, FedNow, Same Day ACH, ACH, and Wires – and now instant bank account verification. Orum allows businesses to launch instant payments and instant bank account verification in just days, without costly bank integrations or prolongedcompliance. This in turn empowers businesses and banks to launch new payment experiences that attract and monetize more customers.Founded by Stephany Kirkpatrick and led by expert fintech operators from LearnVest, Square, N26, Klarna, Marqeta, and Stash, Orum has raised over $82M from leading investors, including Accel, Canapi, Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, BoxGroup, Clocktower Ventures, Primary Ventures and American Express Ventures. We provide the technology and expertise required to power a better financial system where everyone has the freedom to build to their potential. To learn more, visit Orum.io. | $5.2M | Seed | Aug 06, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acrew Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrew-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Clocktower Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clocktower-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Homebrew](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/homebrew-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Inspired Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inspired-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Bobby Mehta invest in?

Bobby Mehta invests primarily in FinTech, Fraud Detection and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 Bobby Mehta's check size?

Bobby Mehta typically joins rounds of $3M–$5.2M at Seed and $12M–$21M 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 Bobby Mehta participates in.

### When did Bobby Mehta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bobby Mehta closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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