# Joe Saunders

> Joe Saunders is a Series A investor at Green Visor Capital backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Green Visor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/green-visor-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-saunders-28883aa6

Joe Saunders is a General Partner and Chairman at Green Visor Capital and was a CEO at Visa. He attended the University of Denver.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 50% |
| FinTech | 3 | 38% |
| Payments | 2 | 25% |
| Consumer Lending | 2 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 13% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 38% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flutterwave | Flutterwave provides a payment infrastructure for merchants and payment service providers. They offer an online marketplace for businesses to list their products and services for sale. They provide payment tools, including a smart payment ordering system for businesses to accept payments. | $250M | Series D | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| Flutterwave | Flutterwave provides a payment infrastructure for merchants and payment service providers. They offer an online marketplace for businesses to list their products and services for sale. They provide payment tools, including a smart payment ordering system for businesses to accept payments. | $170M | Series C | Mar 09, 2021 |  |
| Flutterwave | Flutterwave provides a payment infrastructure for merchants and payment service providers. They offer an online marketplace for businesses to list their products and services for sale. They provide payment tools, including a smart payment ordering system for businesses to accept payments. | $35M | Series B | Jan 21, 2020 |  |
| Flutterwave | Flutterwave provides a payment infrastructure for merchants and payment service providers. They offer an online marketplace for businesses to list their products and services for sale. They provide payment tools, including a smart payment ordering system for businesses to accept payments. | $10M | Series A | Jul 31, 2017 |  |
| Mercury Financial | Mercury Financial is a non-bank credit card and consumer lending company. Mercury Financial is an innovative and growing financial services company with locations in both Austin, Texas and Wilmington, Delaware. Mercury Financial's mission is to help those who need a second chance to build and maintain their financial future. | $35M | Series A | Jan 22, 2015 |  |
| Kash | Kash is a San Francisco-based mobile payment company that clears transactions without interchange or card fees and is guaranteed against chargeback. The company gets rid of credit cards and middle-men that stand between bank accounts and retailers. It uses SecureDebit technology, a direct bank payment method that avoids the credit card network andallows retailers to save 2% to 5% in transaction processing fees. Kash uses its funding received from Draper Associates, Green Visor Capital, and Structure Capital to develop, market, and expand its mobile payments technology. | $2M | Seed | Nov 04, 2014 |  |
| Mercury Financial | Mercury Financial is a non-bank credit card and consumer lending company. Mercury Financial is an innovative and growing financial services company with locations in both Austin, Texas and Wilmington, Delaware. Mercury Financial's mission is to help those who need a second chance to build and maintain their financial future. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 01, 2014 |  |
| Happy Money | Meet Happy Money, we’re not just a business, we’re a movement, providing financial tools and services for human happiness, working outside of the Sad Money™ complex with an innovative business model that works for members. The category that needs a mission-based company the most – finance/banking – has none. It's time to leave mindlesscapitalism behind and usher in a new world of more mindful capitalism. Our mission is helping borrowers become savers™. Our values of love, trust and hustle are our culture and they inspire us to deliver for our team, our members, our partners, our investors and society. Join the Happy Money Movement today and help us deliver the future of Happy Financial Services. Happy Money. A Happier Future™.Learn more at www.happymoney.com | $7M | Series A | Dec 03, 2013 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Golden Palm Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-palm-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [9Yards Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9yards-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Avenir](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avenir-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Glynn Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glynn-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Green Visor Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Green Visor Capital invests in, and works with, passionate entrepreneurs that use innovative technology to solve substantive issues in financial services and do so in a socially responsible manner, which we believe will generate large-scale shareholder value.Green Visor Capital was launched in late 2013 and its general partners include JoeSaunders, the former Chairman and CEO of Visa, Inc., the world's largest payments company.

4 contacts available at Green Visor Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Joe Saunders | General Partner and Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-saunders-2 |
| Michael Walsh | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-walsh-5 |
| Simon Yoo | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-yoo |
| Louis Forster | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louis-forster |

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## FAQ

### What does Joe Saunders invest in?

Joe Saunders invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Series A and 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 Joe Saunders last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joe Saunders closed in Feb 2022. 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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