Calanthia Mei
Investment Partner @ The Community Fund
New York, United States
Calanthia Mei is a seed investor at The Community Fund in New York focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Calanthia Mei currently serves as the director of strategy at Fast. She is also an investment partner at the Community Fund, where she invests in early-stage, community-driven FinTech and commerce enablement companies. Prior to joining Fast, Calanthia was a FinTech venture capital investor at PayPal Ventures where she joined as the 2nd full-timehire in 2017.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Calanthia Mei invests in
Stages Calanthia Mei invests in
Countries Calanthia Mei invests in
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Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $4M–$5.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (75%)
- Financial Services 3 (75%)
- Finance 2 (50%)
- Payments 1 (25%)
- Software 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (25%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
Country
- South Africa 1 (25%)
- United States 1 (25%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| baraka is an investment app, founded in the UAE. It empowers people to become confident investors by providing educational content, digestible market news and in-depth stock analysis. Access to thousands of stocks and ETFs creates the freedom to explore new opportunities. baraka’s mission: to give everyone access to the markets, and empowereveryone to invest. It’s what they call: investing. empowered. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Mar 11, 2021 | ||
| Stitch is a payments infrastructure company that helps businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, so they can deliver a better user experience and optimize operations. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Stitch launched in February 2021 and has global staff. Stitch offers all popular online payment methods and operates as aPayments Service Provider. Its platform supports a variety of pay-in methods and solutions; financial and payment management solutions; and Payouts. Learn more at stitch.money. | $4M / Seed / Feb 25, 2021 | ||
| Moov is rebuilding banking infrastructure for a cloud-native world without any legacy technology dependencies. Moov’s banking-as-a-service platform takes a developer-first approach of being open-source, portable to cloud providers or on-premises, modular for customization, and decoupled from any single bank program. Their protocols offer the firstde facto standard for embedded payment infrastructure offered publicly.Moov was established in 2017 and is based in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States. | $27M / Series A / Dec 04, 2020 | ||
| Moov is rebuilding banking infrastructure for a cloud-native world without any legacy technology dependencies. Moov’s banking-as-a-service platform takes a developer-first approach of being open-source, portable to cloud providers or on-premises, modular for customization, and decoupled from any single bank program. Their protocols offer the firstde facto standard for embedded payment infrastructure offered publicly.Moov was established in 2017 and is based in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States. | $5.5M / Seed / Aug 18, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About The Community Fund
The Community Fund is a $5 million early-stage fund investing in community-driven companies through an investment partner team. The investment team consists of operators, founders, and investors that bring a wide range of complementary functional and industry expertise. The Community Fund is led by Lolita Taub and Jesse Middleton.
The Community Fund Contacts
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Calanthia Mei
Investment Partner
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Hassan Bhatti
Investment Partner
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Jesse Middleton
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Kara Weber
Investment Partner
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Sonia Nagar
Investment Partner
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What does Calanthia Mei invest in?
Calanthia Mei invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Calanthia Mei invest in?
Calanthia Mei typically joins rounds of $4M–$5.5M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Calanthia Mei's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Calanthia Mei took part in.
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When did Calanthia Mei last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Calanthia Mei closed in Mar 2021. 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.
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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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