# Jason Gardner

> Jason Gardner is a seed investor in San Francisco backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmatthewgardner
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jmgards

Jason Gardner is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Jason Gardner is the Founder, Executive Chairman of Marqeta. He previously worked at MoneyGram International as a Vice President of PropertyBridge. Jason Gardner attended Arizona State University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5.2M–$60M |
| Series A | $3M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 60% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 60% |
| Payments | 5 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 40% |
| Finance | 3 | 30% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Series A | 4 | 40% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 70% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 10% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 10% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stitch | The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments. | $10M | Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| ClearGrid | ClearGrid, creating software and AI to streamline recovery and collaborate with the existing vendors. | $6.5M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| MoneyHash | MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration. | $5.2M | Seed | Jan 20, 2025 |  |
| Black Ore Technologies | Black Ore Technologies is a technology-driven company currently operating in stealth mode. The company's flagship platform, Tax Autopilot, offers end-to-end 1040 tax prep automation for CPAs and tax firms | $60M | Seed | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Silverflow | Silverflow is a payment processing technology company that provides direct card-network access to payment service providers. Its cloud-based processing platform provides an upgrade for payment providers to accelerate technological innovation. With Silverflow, PSPs can now directly access card networks, instantly add new functionality, havereal-time insight into transaction fees, and get smart data directly from the networks – all to better serve their merchants.Silverflow was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. | $17M | Series A | Dec 16, 2021 |  |
| zerohash | Zero Hash offers a post-trade settlement utility to bridge a fragmented market of diverse execution platforms. It supports a wide range of fiat and digital assets that can be combined into any product pair. Zero Hash combines this with an on-chain settlement for digital assets, which provides an independent ability to verify ownership via theblockchain.Zero Hash was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $35M | Series C | Sep 30, 2021 |  |
| Grow Credit | Grow Credit helps consumers with no credit or thin credit files establish or build credit for free using their existing subscription accounts, including Netflix, Disney Plus, Spotify, and many more. Grow is also the first platform to allow consumers to build credit with their cell phone bills. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in SantaMonica, California. | $6.3M | Seed | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| Zeal | Zeal makes it faster, easier, and better for staffing companies to onboard, pay, and bill. Our solutions are purpose-built to help staffing companies lower operational costs, improve worker retention, and unlock new revenue streams.Our onboarding solution allows you to automate worker onboarding so you can stay compliant and get workers startedfaster. Documents, tax forms, E-Signature contract collection, remote I-9 with E-Verify, certifications, and more all built into a unified onboarding flow.Improve worker retention with fast payments and unlock new revenue streams with Instant Pay, Paycards and Digital Wallets. Payroll, taxes, payments, compliance and more — Zeal handles it all for you.Our billing solutions make it easy to turn worker pay into accounts receivable, then invoice and collect payment from customers. Innovative routing and integrated capital make it simple to manage cash flow.With Zeal you're able to create a fully-functional, branded worker app, in minutes. This is not the same old third-party portal. Deliver onboarding, I-9, paycards, benefits, paystubs, tax documents, and more through a no-code, well designed, modern app.Built-in integrations allow you to connect best-in-class solutions to best-in-class onboard, pay, and bill. Simplify and automate workflows without sacrificing quality.Employment regulation is complex and constantly changing. We’ve built our own compliance engine to ensure that you always maintain compliance across federal, state, and local regulations.Zeal is more than software, we are a partner helping you craft better experiences for your workers, clients, and team. Our technology, people, and partnerships enable you to transform your operations and your business. | $13.8M | Series A | Jun 29, 2021 |  |
| Routable | Routable is a B2B payments-based platform that allows its users to send and receive business-to-business payments. Its platform uses API allows its users to build payments infrastructure in minutes. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $12M | Series A | Aug 09, 2020 |  |
| BloomCredit | Bloom Credit helps companies launch lending products, report consumers' payments, and create innovative credit experiences. We do this by providing our clients with the data they need from all three credit bureaus, the expertise they are looking for to launch seamlessly, and the proprietary analytics to supplement credit insights - alldelivered through Bloom’s developer-friendly API. With credit at the heart of financial customer relationships, BloomCredit creating advanced developer-friendly API solutions that can improve, monitor, and promote credit health to build trust between consumers and the financial institutions that serve them.It was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, United States. | $3M | Series A | Nov 14, 2019 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Commerce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerce-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [COTU Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cotu-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Point72 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/point72-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Raed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raed-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [9Yards Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9yards-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Jason Gardner invest in?

Jason Gardner invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 Jason Gardner's check size?

Jason Gardner typically joins rounds of $5.2M–$60M at Seed and $3M–$17M 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 Jason Gardner participates in.

### When did Jason Gardner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jason Gardner closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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