First Check Ventures
VC Fund
First Check Ventures is a VC fund focused on FinTech and Financial Services. First Check Ventures is focused on investing in early stage startups across the globe
- Total investments:
- 65
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
- Fund size:
- $3.9M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries First Check Ventures invests in
Stages First Check Ventures invests in
Countries First Check Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $350k–$1.8M
- Series A
- $15M–$46M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 15 (23%)
- Financial Services 15 (23%)
- Software 10 (15%)
- Internet 6 (9%)
- E-Commerce 6 (9%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 28 (43%)
- Seed 23 (35%)
- Series A 2 (3%)
- Funding Round 2 (3%)
- Angel 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 18 (28%)
- Mexico 7 (11%)
- Colombia 6 (9%)
- Peru 2 (3%)
- India 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ali Jamal
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Ruvo
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Cacao is a fintech platform that allows Brazilians to receive, store, spend, and withdraw USD instantly. | $4.6M / Seed / Feb 03, 2026 | |
Fleek
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Fleek is a subscription tracking and management platform that aims to streamline the industry by giving the user sole control of all subscription services with ease and simplicity. | $2.5M / Seed / Dec 01, 2025 | |
Fusepay
|
Modern Finance & Payments for Indian Ocean Islands | $350K / Pre-Seed / Aug 05, 2025 | |
Mango
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Mango offers suppliers and contractors in the construction industry real-time risk analytics, automated B2B payments, and embedded credit. | $3M / Seed / Jul 15, 2025 | |
Palla
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Palla is a REST API that lets banks empower their customers to request, receive and manage international inward remittances. Its product is built to allow its partners to fully customize the experience within their app and includes tailored reporting to drive customer insights and engagement. | $14.5M / Series A / May 28, 2025 | |
|
Motai
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$1M / Pre-Seed / May 07, 2025 | ||
Veikul
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Veikul is a marketplace that connects ride-hailing and delivery platforms with gig workers and provides them with a vehicle to do their jobs. It provides both the vehicles and the gasoline required, allowing drivers and couriers to make additional revenue. | $3M / Seed / Aug 14, 2024 | |
Taloflow
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Taloflow (YC W21) is a buying insights platform for the tech stack. We help CTOs at digital-native companies pick the best cloud infrastructure and API products for their specific use case, saving them weeks of soul-sucking analysis and costly mistakes for every big decision they make. | $1.3M / Seed / Jun 05, 2024 | |
Batech
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Batech, SaaS B2B that improves up to 30% the productivity and security of companies through AI-VISION transforming images from your current cameras into data for decision making. We convert any type of camera from 2 megapixels to intelligent, detecting behavior patterns and generating alerts and reports in real time. Mitigating 3 problems,pilferage, accidents and insecurity that represent losses of more than 451B usd annually in LatAm. central operation in Mexico, and through partners in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Costa Rica. | $726K / Pre-Seed / Dec 10, 2023 | |
Guama
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Guama leverages technology and Open Banking data to issue credit cards for people rejected by the traditional financial system. | $470K / Pre-Seed / Nov 28, 2023 | |
| See all 65 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does First Check Ventures invest in?
First Check Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 65 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 First Check Ventures's check size?
First Check Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$6M at Seed, $350k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed and $15M–$46M 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 First Check Ventures participates in.
How do I contact First Check Ventures?
Public channels for First Check Ventures include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at First Check Ventures?
The team at First Check Ventures includes Ali Jamal (Founding Partner). 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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