# Joel Yarbrough

> Joel Yarbrough is a Series A investor at Rapyd backing FinTech, Payments and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rapyd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rapyd)
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelyarbrough/
- Website: https://x.com/joelpy
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joelyarbrough

Joel Yarbrough is a Series A investor at Rapyd focused on FinTech and Payments. Joel Patrick Yarbrough is based out of Singapore, Singapore and is the Chief Executive Officer of Moment. Joel previously worked at Grab as a Head of Corporate Development and Integration. Joel Patrick Yarbrough attended the University of Pennsylvania.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4.7M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 67% |
| Payments | 4 | 67% |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 50% |
| Mobile Payments | 2 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 2 | 33% |
| India | 1 | 17% |
| Singapore | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Decentro | Decentro provides banking and payment APIs that make it possible to quickly construct fintech solutions like banking, payment cards, neobanking, and collections and payout services. | $4.7M | Series A | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Decentro | Decentro develops an API banking software platform designed to launch products in a hassle free way. The platform integrates with desired banking APIs permitting financial integrations with a few lines of code and claims to simplify the product development cycle, enabling clients to simplify the integration processes. | $4.7M | Series A | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| firmly.ai | firmly.ai makes digital ads and impressions more shoppable with significantly higher conversions. It a multi-patented streamlined checkout experience that requires 0 changes for the Merchant site where the customer is inspired to shop—without redirects, extra clicks or missing data. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| Weel | DiviPay is an all-in-one virtual corporate card and expense management platform that enables finance teams to better manage, control and streamline spending across their organisation. DiviPay solves a common pain point for small and large businesses alike: issuing corporate cards to staff while staying in control of spending and collecting receiptsand accounting data. DiviPay enables businesses to instantly issue virtual corporate Mastercards to employees to make online and in-store purchases via Apple Pay and Google Pay. | $20M | Series A | Dec 12, 2021 |  |
| Weel | Weel is an all-in-one virtual corporate card and expense management platform that enables finance teams to better manage, control and streamline spending across their organisation. Weel solves a common pain point for small and large businesses alike: issuing corporate cards to staff while staying in control of spending and collecting receipts andaccounting data. Weel enables businesses to instantly issue virtual corporate Mastercards to employees to make online and in-store purchases via Apple Pay and Google Pay. | $20M | Series A | Dec 12, 2021 |  |
| Ziina | Ziina is a financial technology platform that offers digital payment and money transfer services for consumers, freelancers, and businesses in the UAE. Its services include peer-to-peer transfers, payment links, QR code payments, Tap to Pay functionality, digital wallets, and payment gateway tools for online businesses. | $7.5M | Seed | Jun 07, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Leonis Investissement](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonis-investissement) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Uncorrelated Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uncorrelated-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Zinal Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zinal-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ANIM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anim) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avenir](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avenir-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Rapyd

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Rapyd is a payments platform that inserts fintech services into any app and simplifies the complex offering of local payment methods.It enables e-commerce merchants, gig platforms, challenger wallets, remittance platforms, online lenders, and traditional banks to break free of their old infrastructure and limitations and create newmobile-friendly solutions. By utilizing Rapyd's payments network and Fintech-as-a-Service platform, businesses and consumers can engage in local and cross-border transactions in any market. The Rapyd platform unifies the fragmented payment systems by bringing together 900-plus payment methods in over 100 countries. Investors such as Stripe, General Catalyst, Oak FT, Coatue, Tiger Global, Durable Capital, Target Global, and TaL Capital backs the company.In 2016, Arik Shtilman, Arkady Karpman, and Omer Priel established the company in London, England.

5 contacts available at Rapyd.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arik Shtilman | CEO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arik-shtilman |
| Antonio de la Mora y Madrigal | Chief Auditor of Risk & Compliance Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-delamora |
| Eran Nachshon | VP Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eran-nachshon |
| Eric Rosenthal | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-rosenthal-3 |
| Helcio Nobre | Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helcio-nobre |

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## FAQ

### What does Joel Yarbrough invest in?

Joel Yarbrough invests primarily in FinTech, Payments and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Joel Yarbrough's check size?

Joel Yarbrough typically joins rounds of $4.7M–$20M 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 Joel Yarbrough participates in.

### When did Joel Yarbrough last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joel Yarbrough closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 6 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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