# Kora

> Kora is a VC fund in Brooklyn backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 61%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kora-management/
- Website: https://koracap.com/

Kora is a VC fund in Brooklyn focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Kora invests in exceptional teams building enduring businesses in emerging markets.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 17% |
| Gaming | 2 | 11% |
| Payments | 2 | 11% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 11% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 28% |
| Series C | 3 | 17% |
| Series E | 2 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 3 | 17% |
| United States | 2 | 11% |
| Egypt | 1 | 6% |
| Mexico | 1 | 6% |
| Turkey | 1 | 6% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nitin Saigal | Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer | 6 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Plata | Plata Card is a financial app for credit card. | $405M | Series C | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Plata | Plata Card is a financial app for credit card. |  | Secondary Market | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| Plata | Plata Card is a financial app for credit card. | $250M | Series B | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Plata | Plata Card is a financial app for credit card. | $160M | Series A | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Paymob | Paymob is a regional digital payments enabler that builds payments infrastructue technologies empowering the underserved with access to financial services. Paymob is bridging the financial inclusion gap in MEA region by enabling businesses of all sizes to benefit from the power of digital payments and what it unlocks. Paymob was founded in 2015and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. | $50M | Series B | May 09, 2022 |  |
| Aleo | Aleo provides a platform for building fully private applications using zero-knowledge technology. It offers a comprehensive toolkit that includes an application runtime environment, allowing software to compile, execute, and finalize its state autonomously. Aleo also supports a statically-typed programming language called Leo, designed specificallyfor private application development on the Aleo blockchain. The company engages its community through blogs and incentive programs to test the bounds of its decentralized technology. | $200M | Series B | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| DealShare | DealShare is a social e-commerce startup, an online buying platform for multi-category consumer products, focused on the new 'WhatsApp first'​ India. Its mission is to target the new 500Mn users in non-metro and rural markets who haven’t shopped enough online and who are still not comfortable on other platforms. These users are primarilyon mobile and social media.DealShare makes it easier for these users to buy in a couple of clicks. Further, it allows the users to buy and share deals with their friends. They offer discounts depending on the number of people purchasing the products.The idea is around demand aggregation (C2B) of mass-market products using social virality, thereby significantly reducing operational costs.DealShare's Product catalog includes fruits & vegetables, grocery items, beauty & wellness, baby care, fashion accessories, electronics, home décor, etc. They work on a sharp assortment leading to high capital efficiency and price efficiency. | $210M | Series E | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Dream Games | Dream Games is a mobile gaming company based in Istanbul. Their objective is to combine technology and creativity to develop high-quality mobile games that will be played for years. It specializes in the fields of casual games, video games, and the gaming industry. | $255M | Series C | Jan 18, 2022 |  |
| Momo | Momo is a FinTech startup that offers a mobile, electronic wallet, and payment application for iOS and Android devices. Its products help customers in Vietnam make nationwide cash transfers, pay more than 100 types of bills, recharge mobile phone accounts, settle personal loans, and purchase services such as software license and online game cards,airline and movie tickets, etc. The company’s payment system partners with 24 domestic banks and foreign payment networks, including JCB, MasterCard, and Visa. | $200M | Series E | Dec 21, 2021 |  |
| Forte | Forte is building economic technology for games that is secure, easy to use, and fully compliant. Its end-to-end blockchain platform enables the emergence of community economics, a system where the interests of game developers and players are aligned, leading to healthier, sustainable game communities. The team is composed of longtime industrymembers (Unity, ngmoco, Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Sony, and Rockstar Games, among others), and is currently working with over 25 acclaimed game developers from across the globe to reimagine the economics of games. | $725M | Series B | Nov 12, 2021 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Audeo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/audeo-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dragoneer Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dragoneer-investment-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hedosophia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hedosophia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Kora invest in?

Kora invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Gaming startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Kora?

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### Who are the partners at Kora?

The team at Kora includes Nitin Saigal (Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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