# Hayden Simmons

> Hayden Simmons is a seed investor at Lateral Frontiers backing FinTech and Payments. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lateral Frontiers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lateral-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/haydenmsimmons
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/thecovr
- Website: http://thecovr.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/haydenmayersimmons

Hayden Simmons is a seed investor at Lateral Frontiers in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Payments. Hayden Simmons is Founder of Rally Cap Ventures. He attended Colorado College.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 63% |
| Payments | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| Argentina | 1 | 13% |
| South Africa | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Upper | Transforming cross-border e-commerce in Latin America | $630K | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2025 |  |
| Solfium | Solfium is a one-of-a-kind solar energy company dedicated to providing the best solutions for your house, business, or industry. Everything we do is driven by the desire to provide you with the greatest possible experience. | $3M | Seed | Nov 27, 2023 |  |
| Revio | Revio was founded in 2020 to help businesses collect more revenue, through reducing payment failures and recovering lost revenue. Through a single API, we optimise merchants’ payment stacks with locally-optimised payment methods and smart payment routing, failover, and retries.We understand that there is more to getting paid than acceptingpayments, and believe that how you engage customers when trying to collect a failed payment is as important as when you are trying to acquire them. Our Recovery solution builds on this insight, empowering businesses with data-driven omnichannel interaction workflows to recover at-risk revenue from their customers. Today, we’re helping some of Africa's largest brands and fastest-growing startups increase their revenue through increased payment success rates, customer retention, and lifetime value. Locally grounded but globally relevant, we aim to be the go-to revenue recovery and growth partner for businesses across emerging markets. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 25, 2022 |  |
| Radar Treasury | Radar helps companies in Latin America to perform their bank transfers without human intervention. Radar created the first payouts to bank accounts API in Chile. | $410K | Angel | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Sydecar | Sydecar builds tools that remove the headache of organizing private investments -- so you can focus on making deals, not spreadsheets. Their lightweight, powerful technology helps you to manage subscription docs, compliance, banking, tax reporting, and admin for all of your deals, of any size, in one place. | $8.3M | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Frain technologies | Frain is developing a solution that will allow you to track all of your product's third-party dependencies from a single dashboard. | $473K | Pre-Seed | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| Rebill | Rebill.com is the payments and subscriptions platform specifically designed for digital businesses and global companies scaling in Latin America.With our platform and API, companies can integrate over 100 local payment methods from the region, including cards, bank transfers, cash, and even wallets. In addition, they always receive the best humansupport with fair pricing and utmost transparency, enabling them to scale across the region 10 times faster.We are backed and have received investment from some of the world's leading funds such as Tiger Global Management, Soma Capital, SV Angel, Y Combinator, as well as incredible angel investors like Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), among others. | $580K | Pre-Seed | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| Pngme | Pngme, they believe everyone deserves equal access to finance. Their platform enables this by making the process of collecting, analyzing, and using financial data by financial institutions frictionless and simple. Banks, Fintechs, and Credit Bureaus use our platform to create innovative financial products for un/underserved people. Theirplatform enables one-click data sharing, real-time insights, and credit scoring. Pngme is on a mission to give ownership of data back to people, thereby giving equal access to finance and enabling wealth creation for billions of people. | $15M | Series A | Aug 17, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Future Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-africa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aidi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aidi-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aruwa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aruwa-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Circle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/circle-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Lateral Frontiers

VC Fund · New York, United States

Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.

5 contacts available at Lateral Frontiers.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ochuwa Akhigbe-Ogionwo | Operating Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ochuwa-akhigbe-ogionwo |
| Samakab Hashi | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samakab-hashi |
| Hayden Simmons | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hayden-simmons |
| Kyane Kassiri | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyane-kassiri |
| Rob Eloff | Co-Founder & Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-eloff |

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## FAQ

### What does Hayden Simmons invest in?

Hayden Simmons invests primarily in FinTech, Payments and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Hayden Simmons last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hayden Simmons closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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