# Marqeta

> Marqeta is a VC fund in Oakland backing FinTech and Payments. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/marqeta-inc
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/marqeta
- Website: https://www.marqeta.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marqetainc

Marqeta is a VC fund in Oakland focused on FinTech and Payments. Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card issuing technology. Its modernarchitecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California and is enabled in 36 countries globally. For more information, visit www.marqeta.com.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $13M–$34M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 50% |
| Payments | 4 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 50% |
| Finance | 2 | 25% |
| Legal | 1 | 13% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 38% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brad Taylor | Sr. Director of Engineering | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-taylor-3 |
| Claire Roberts | VP Risk and Compliance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claire-roberts-2 |
| Regina Chien | Director, Post Launch and Tokenization | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/regina-chien |
| Tripp Faix | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tripp-faix |
| Vidya Peters | Chief Marketing Officer and Interim Chief Product Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vidya-peters |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ConnexPay | ConnexPay transforms payment acceptance and issuance for Travel and E-commerce providers which act as intermediaries. By offering clients a revolutionary way to minimize risks and reduce credit and debit card acceptance costs through linked real-time payments issued to suppliers, ConnexPay’s clients avoid the need for large lines of credit orpersonal guarantees.ConnexPay provides a comprehensive, integrated payments solution which incorporates powerful anti-fraud detection along with PCI-certified payment acceptance and payment issuance — driven by ConnexPay’s patent pending intelligent routing and single-use virtual cards — to handle every step of the process.Through a single provider under a simple contract, Travel and E-commerce providers can accept payments from clients and issue payments to suppliers with single-use virtual cards from multiple major card brands. ConnexPay’s advanced solution does not require clients to obtain large lines of credit, provide large reserves, or prepay for most services. Their difference makes all the difference. | $110M | Private Equity | Oct 25, 2022 |  |
| Paycast | The secure payments engine for online merchants, e-commerce platforms and marketplaces. Partnering directly with acquirers and marketplaces, Paycast enables a new way for buyers to complete transactions and online sellers to receive funds in a protected and totally secure manner. Paycast is the payments hub and digital wallet to online sellers,freelancers and gig-economy workers who sell their goods and services on C2C and B2B marketplaces around the world.Created in 2020, Paycast is the consumer facing proposition of the Shieldpay Group. Shieldpay was founded in 2016 and has quickly become a global leader in securing high-value transactions. The multi award-winning payment settlement engine is revolutionising multiple industries including real estate and mergers and acquisitions.Shieldpay and Paycast are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for payment services in the UK and available across Europe, the USA and Asia. | $34M | Series A | Dec 10, 2021 |  |
| ConnexPay | ConnexPay transforms payment acceptance and issuance for Travel and E-commerce providers which act as intermediaries. By offering clients a revolutionary way to minimize risks and reduce credit and debit card acceptance costs through linked real-time payments issued to suppliers, ConnexPay’s clients avoid the need for large lines of credit orpersonal guarantees.ConnexPay provides a comprehensive, integrated payments solution which incorporates powerful anti-fraud detection along with PCI-certified payment acceptance and payment issuance — driven by ConnexPay’s patent pending intelligent routing and single-use virtual cards — to handle every step of the process.Through a single provider under a simple contract, Travel and E-commerce providers can accept payments from clients and issue payments to suppliers with single-use virtual cards from multiple major card brands. ConnexPay’s advanced solution does not require clients to obtain large lines of credit, provide large reserves, or prepay for most services. Their difference makes all the difference. | $20M | Series B | Dec 09, 2021 |  |
| SPG | The SPG group of companies was formed in 2016 with the original concept of securing high value peer-peer payments such as cars, art and jewellery with a simplified digital escrow solution. By 2021, SPG and its two primary assets Shieldpay (ww.shieldpay.com) and Paycast (www.paycast.io) had processed over $2.3bn of payments for clients andcustomers all over the globe and has pioneered the development of contingent based payments in huge sectors such as M&A, fundraising, B2B and supply chain transactions, real estate and marketplaces. | $34M | Series A | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| Shieldpay | Shieldpay is a market leader in digital payment solutions across the legal and financial services industries. We offer a number of solutions including Third-Party Managed Accounts, Escrow, Paying Agent and integrated solutions – all utilising our unique settlement engine and easy-to-use platform. With Shieldpay, you can complete yourtransactions with confidence. Alongside streamlined and robust verification checks on all transacting parties, our digital platform enables businesses to operate efficiently and compliantly within increasingly pressured regulatory environments. Shieldpay’s solutions are used by clients of all sizes, from top 100 law firms and lenders to single partner firms and everything in between. Our APIs power transactions for other pioneering fintechs and legaltechs, equity management platforms and fundraising platforms. Awards Modern Law Combatting Fraud Award 2020 Tempo Top 50 startups to work for in London in 2021 and 2022 LegalEx Conveyancing Award 2019 Modern Law Innovation of the Year 2019 The ESTAS Conveyancer Award 2019 Innovate UK grant 2018 Barclays Entrepreneurship Award 2018 VISA PAY360 PayTech Innovation Award 2018 RegTech Spotlight Award for Financial Crime 2017 Mastercard Startpath participant 2018 Barclays Accelerator Techstars 2017 Shieldpay is fully authorised and regulated by the FCA for payment services and HMRC for trust services. | $34M | Series A | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| Afilio | Afilio provides families with a centralized location to create and consolidate personal estate management, legal, financial, and retirement planning. The company was founded by Till Oltmanns, Philip Harms, and Richard Musiol, with its headquarters in Berlin. | $13M | Series A | Aug 11, 2021 |  |
| Marqeta | Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card issuing technology. Its modernarchitecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California and is enabled in 36 countries globally. For more information, visit www.marqeta.com. | $2.1M |  | Apr 23, 2021 |  |
| Marqeta | Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card issuing technology. Its modernarchitecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California and is enabled in 36 countries globally. For more information, visit www.marqeta.com. | $2.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 23, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mastercard](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mastercard) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CreditEase](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creditease) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elliott Management Corp.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elliott-management-corp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FTV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ftv-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Global Secure Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-secure-invest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Marqeta invest in?

Marqeta invests primarily in FinTech, Payments and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Marqeta's check size?

Marqeta typically joins rounds of $13M–$34M 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 Marqeta participates in.

### How do I contact Marqeta?

Public channels for Marqeta include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Marqeta?

The team at Marqeta includes Brad Taylor (Sr. Director of Engineering), Claire Roberts (VP Risk and Compliance) and Regina Chien (Director, Post Launch and Tokenization), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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