# Larry Diamond

> Larry Diamond is a seed investor at Zip (Sydney) backing FinTech and Mobile Payments. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Zip](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zipmoney-payments)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diamondlarry

Larry Diamond is a seed investor at Zip in Sydney focused on FinTech and Mobile Payments. Larry Diamond is the founder of ZipMoney, a company that provides shoppers with online credit facilities. He was previously a director at Diamond Capital Partners. Diamond holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Technology, Sydney and a master’s degree from UNSW Australia.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$12M |
| Pre-Seed | $103k–$2.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 45% |
| Mobile Payments | 3 | 27% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 27% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 18% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 8 | 73% |
| Czech Republic | 1 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flyweel | Flyweel is agentic fintech for businesses that depend on ads for their growth. It connects spend, cash, and revenue, then acts on them in real time, shifting budget to the ads that work, drawing capital when the numbers justify it, and easing off when cash runs low, all without anyone in the loop. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| Safewill | Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will | $11M | Series B | Nov 25, 2024 |  |
| Stables | Where crypto meets your everyday. We’re the stablecoin wallet replacing your bank. | $3.7M | Seed | Feb 18, 2022 |  |
| Instant | Instant is a fintech startup that makes online payments quick and simple. Instant's software is used by sellers of all sizes to simplify the shopping, checkout, and purchasing journey for their customers, increasing conversion and customer satisfaction. Instant will enable sellers to ensure that they have the opportunity to win not only at thecheckout, but also in data, payments, social commerce, and other areas, making online shopping fun, rewarding, and instant for their Gen Z customers. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| InvestorHub | Fresh Equities provides access to listed capital raises for institutions, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. | $2.3M | Seed | Dec 04, 2021 |  |
| Leslie | Leslie provides hospitality industry players across the UK with a simplified and efficient way to order, tip and pay. The company’s technology, accessible to the end-user via a QR code, with no app download required, delivers an easy customer experience and checkout process, enabling customers to pay for food and drink via their smartphoneinstantly. |  | Seed | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| Honey Insurance | Honey Insurance is Smarter home insurance helping you prevent avoidable accidents. | $11.8M | Seed | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| Twisto | Twisto is a payment app for the mobile-first era. Connected with a Mastercard and Apple Pay-compatible, the Twisto account enables customers to pay for their online purchases with just one click, deal with bills and invoices by taking a photo of them within the app, and pay just about anywhere else with the card, a special payment bracelet or ApplePay.On top of that, the account comes with the best exchange rate possible for international payments. Twisto aggregates the payments in a neatly designed mobile app, and customers pay them all at once at the end of each month. | $21.8M | Series C | Jan 14, 2021 |  |
| Spotii | Spotii is an innovative payments platform for Fashion, Beauty, and Lifestyle brands that empowers the communities to shop now and pay later with no interest, no cost, and no catch. Spotii was founded in 2020 by Anuscha Iqbal and Ziyaad Ahmed. |  | Corporate Round | Dec 17, 2020 |  |
| Superhero | Superhero operates as a share-trading startup. | $5.4M | Series A | Sep 07, 2020 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flying Fox Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flying-fox) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Reinventure](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reinventure) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TEN13](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ten13) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/velocity-capital-fintech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel Ventures scout fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel-ventures-scout-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Zip

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

Zip is an online payments technology provider that offers consumers credit options for online shopping. The company was founded in 2013 by Larry Diamond, Niamh Mc Enaney, and Peter Gray and is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

5 contacts available at Zip.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brad Lindenberg | Co-Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-lindenberg |
| Cynthia Scott | Managing Director & Group CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cynthia-whelan |
| Doron Ostrin | Director of Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doron-ostrin |
| Larry Diamond | Co-Founder & Global CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larry-diamond |
| Mitchell Tilbrook | Senior Mobile Developer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitchell-tilbrook |

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## FAQ

### What does Larry Diamond invest in?

Larry Diamond invests primarily in FinTech, Mobile Payments and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Larry Diamond's check size?

Larry Diamond typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$12M at Seed and $103k–$2.2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Larry Diamond participates in.

### When did Larry Diamond last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Larry Diamond closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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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