# Orkhan Abdullayev

> Orkhan Abdullayev is a pre-seed investor at Payrails backing Recruiting and Human Resources. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Payrails](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/payrails)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orkhanab
- Website: https://x.com/orkhan_ab

Orkhan Abdullayev is a pre-seed investor at Payrails in Berlin focused on Recruiting and Human Resources. Orkhan Abdullayev is based out of Berlin, Berlin, and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Payrails. Orkhan previously worked at Delivery Hero as a VP of Fintech. Orkhan Abdullayev attended the Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recruiting | 1 | 100% |
| Human Resources | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TalentGrid | Building a community of developers from under-tapped markets and developing its own matching algorithms, Grid scales the headhunting effort of companies. TalentGrid supports the companies throughout the hiring process, maintaining the needed human touch with candidates. Ultimately TalentGrid makes hiring fast, seamless and borderless. | $400K | Pre-Seed | Mar 21, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Payrails

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

Payrails helps businesses transform payments and other connected financial workflows from an operational bottleneck into a competitive edge. From Payment Orchestration to Unified Analytics, Tokenization, Automated Reconciliation, Chargeback Management, and more, Payrails helps category-defining merchants to get more from their financialinfrastructure. With a modular, provider-agnostic approach that allows teams to integrate our products at any scale and combination, our track record has made Payrails a trusted partner for some of the world’s most recognized names including Puma, Vinted, Flix, Careem, InDrive, and many more.

5 contacts available at Payrails.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Edward Moore | Chief Revenue Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-moore-e1db |
| Emre Talay | COO / Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emre-talay |
| Orkhan Abdullayev | CEO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orkhan-abdullayev-37f6 |
| Patrick Bellinghausen | VP of Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-bellinghausen-r |
| Willian Carminato | Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/willian-carminato |

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## FAQ

### What does Orkhan Abdullayev invest in?

Orkhan Abdullayev invests primarily in Recruiting, Human Resources and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Orkhan Abdullayev last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Orkhan Abdullayev closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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