# Matteo Stefanel > Matteo Stefanel is a private equity investor at Apis Partners backing FinTech. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Apis Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apis-partners) - Total investments: 28 - Last investment: Jul 2026 - Lead investor: 68% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteostefanel Matteo Stefanel is a private equity investor at Apis Partners focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Matteo Stefanel - Managing Partner @ Apis Partners ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | FinTech | 10 | 36% | | Financial Services | 10 | 36% | | Payments | 5 | 18% | | Banking | 4 | 14% | | Finance | 3 | 11% | 27 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Private Equity | 4 | 14% | | Funding Round | 3 | 11% | | Series A | 2 | 7% | | Series B | 2 | 7% | | Series C | 2 | 7% | 9 stages tracked in total. ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | India | 4 | 14% | | United Kingdom | 3 | 11% | | Singapore | 2 | 7% | | China | 1 | 4% | | Egypt | 1 | 4% | 9 countries tracked in total. ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Moneybox | Moneybox is a user-friendly app designed to help individuals save, invest, and manage pensions with ease. The app allows users to save specifically for their first home, making it an excellent choice for first-time buyers. The company focuses on helping individuals build wealth over time by offering a variety of financial services, including savingaccounts, investment products, and pensions, all accessible through a mobile app. | $60.1M | Secondary Market | Jul 13, 2026 | | | BIPO | BIPO provides cloud and mobile-based human resource management solutions. | $50M | Private Equity | Jun 18, 2026 | | | Paymentology | In 2021, SaltPay acquired both Tutuka and Paymentology, resulting in a ‘payments and card processing powerhouse’ with CEO Rowan Brewer at the helm. The merger combined the ultra-advanced, multi-cloud platform of Paymentology with the global reach and experience of Tutuka to revolutionise cloud-based processing globally. Now, Paymentology is thefirst truly global issuer-processor, giving banks and fintechs the technology, team and experience to issue and process cards anywhere in the world, at scale. They currently have payments experts with deep, local market knowledge on the ground in 50 countries, across 14 time zones, guaranteeing 24/7 support. Their superior multi-cloud Platform, offering both shared and dedicated processing instances, vast global presence, and richer real-time data, set them apart as the leader in payments. | $175M | Private Equity | May 12, 2026 | | | Xoxoday | Xoxoday offers a suite of products that empower organisations to drive growth through meaningful rewards, recognition, loyalty, and engagement programs. Our suite includes five core products: Plum, a rewards and incentives platform with a global redemption marketplace; Empuls, an employee engagement and recognition tool; Loyalife, a platform forrunning customer loyalty programs; Compass, a sales commission and incentive automation system; and Loopr, a solution for managing and distributing merchant offers.We work with over 5,000 businesses worldwide ranging from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 companies like Freshworks, Grammarly, and H&M. Our products are used by teams in HR, sales, marketing, product, customer experience, and partnerships to drive measurable outcomes: improving engagement, increasing conversion rates, reducing customer acquisition costs, and lowering employee attrition.The platform supports 10 million+ reward options across 175 countries and 30+ categories. We support 50+ languages, 55+ currencies, and integrate with over 100 popular business tools such as Slack, Teams, HubSpot, Workday, and SAP. Rewards include digital gift cards, merchandise, travel, experiences, and charitable donations. We offer global support, enterprise-grade security, and a flexible pricing structure to fit different needs. Headquartered across 12 global offices, including the US, Xoxoday is committed to helping companies create lasting emotional connections with their employees, customers, partners, and merchants. | | Series C | Jan 14, 2026 | | | Roojai | Roojai is a MGA, developping, pricing and managing its own suite of retail insurance products, mainly on the Motor and Health insurance vertical. Roojai operates in Thailand since 2016 and Indonesia since 2022. | $60M | Series C | Nov 26, 2025 | | | Thunes | Founded in 2016, Thunes is a global B2B payment infrastructure platform that powers payments for the world’s fastest-growing businesses – from gig economy giants such as Uber and Deliveroo and Southeast Asia’s super-app Grab to global fintech leaders such as PayPal, Remitly, Finastra and Revolut. Through a single, simple connection, consumers andbusinesses can send payments to – and get paid in – every corner of the world. Thunes currently supports 80 currencies, enables payments to 132 countries and helps to accept 300 payment methods. In April 2022, Thunes acquired a controlling stake in a leading anti-money laundering and compliance platform company Tookitaki, which now enables the company’s advanced compliance, anti-fraud and anti-money laundering capabilities, setting an international benchmark for sustainable compliance. The company is headquartered in Singapore, with regional offices in London, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Miami and Nairobi. Current investors include Visa, EDBI, Endeavor Catalyst, Marshall Wace, Bessemer Venture Partners, 01Fintech, Future Shape, Insight Partners, Checkout.com, Helios Investment Partners and GGV Capital. For more information, visit www.thunes.com | $150M | Series D | Apr 28, 2025 | | | Xoxoday | 1000's of businesses of all sizes, from start-ups to large enterprises, use Xoxoday’s Rewards and Incentives technology & APIs to calculate incentives, send rewards, manage commissions & disburse payouts online. The company is operational in Australia, India, Ireland, Philippines, Singapore, UAE, UK and USA. | | Private Equity | Mar 03, 2025 | | | Xoxoday | Xoxoday offers a suite of products that empower organisations to drive growth through meaningful rewards, recognition, loyalty, and engagement programs. Our suite includes five core products: Plum, a rewards and incentives platform with a global redemption marketplace; Empuls, an employee engagement and recognition tool; Loyalife, a platform forrunning customer loyalty programs; Compass, a sales commission and incentive automation system; and Loopr, a solution for managing and distributing merchant offers.We work with over 5,000 businesses worldwide ranging from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 companies like Freshworks, Grammarly, and H&M. Our products are used by teams in HR, sales, marketing, product, customer experience, and partnerships to drive measurable outcomes: improving engagement, increasing conversion rates, reducing customer acquisition costs, and lowering employee attrition.The platform supports 10 million+ reward options across 175 countries and 30+ categories. We support 50+ languages, 55+ currencies, and integrate with over 100 popular business tools such as Slack, Teams, HubSpot, Workday, and SAP. Rewards include digital gift cards, merchandise, travel, experiences, and charitable donations. We offer global support, enterprise-grade security, and a flexible pricing structure to fit different needs. Headquartered across 12 global offices, including the US, Xoxoday is committed to helping companies create lasting emotional connections with their employees, customers, partners, and merchants. | $70M | Private Equity | Mar 03, 2025 | | | Cashfree Payments | Cashfree is a payments and banking technology company that enables businesses in India to collect payments online and make payouts. Cashfree enables more than 50000 businesses with payment collections, vendor payouts, wage payouts, instant loan disbursements. Cashfree customers include leading internet companies such as Cred, BigBasket, Zomato,HDFC Ergo, Ixigo, Acko, Zoomcar, and Delhivery among others.Cashfree was founded in 2015 by Akash Sinha and Reeju Datta, based in Bengaluru, India. | $53M | Series C | Feb 04, 2025 | | | Leap | Leap is an ed-tech company that provides services such as guidance for university selection, IELTS preparation, financial planning, visa assistance, and SOP reviews for Indian students pursuing higher education abroad. The company provides expert counseling services and test preparation for exams like SAT and IELTS, helping students prepare fortheir educational journey. | $65M | Series E | Jan 29, 2025 | | 10 of 28 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Development Partners International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/development-partners-international) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [International Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/international-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [JG Summit Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jg-summit-holdings) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Blue Earth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-earth-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Jungle Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jungle-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Lok Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lok-capital-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together ## About Apis Partners VC Fund · London, United Kingdom Apis Partners is a PE asset manager focused on Financial Institutions and related Business Services (FS) in growth markets. It is managed by a tried-and-tested team, who have worked together for over 20 years with extensive expertise in FS growth markets and garnered in the leading firms in both private equity and investment banking. From theoutset, Apis Partners can count on extensive industry-specialized human capital and resources. In addition to the core team, the operating partner network consists of 20+ financial services professionals, on-the-ground presence in 5 countries and an extended network of 27 partner companies. 5 contacts available at Apis Partners. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Kaj-Erik Relander | Chairman of the investment committee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaj-erik-relander | | Alexia Yannopoulos | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexia-yannopoulos | | Asad Naqvi | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asad-naqvi-2 | | Hossam Abou Moussa | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hossam-abou-moussa | | Matteo Stefanel | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matteo-stefanel | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Foresight Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foresight-group) — VC Fund - [YFM Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yfm-equity-partners) — VC Fund - [Fondaction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fondaction) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Matteo Stefanel invest in? Matteo Stefanel invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### When did Matteo Stefanel last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Matteo Stefanel closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 28 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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