# Payment Ventures

> Payment Ventures is a VC fund in Washington backing FinTech and Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Oct 2026

Payment Ventures is a Washington, D.C.-based seed fund focused on investments in small and medium businesses.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 38% |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Payments | 2 | 25% |
| Social Media | 2 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Angel | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tony VanBrackle | Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-vanbrackle |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Legalyze.ai | Legalyze.ai is an AI toolkit for lawyers to chat with their case documents, generate legal documents, and search for case law | $100K | Angel | Jan 24, 2024 | https://legalyze.ai |
| Legalyze.ai | Legalyze.ai is an AI toolkit for lawyers to chat with their case documents, generate legal documents, and search for case law |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 14, 2023 | https://legalyze.ai |
| Cultivate | A user enters what they want to market and Cultivate creates and executes a tailored marketing plan that continuously evaluates itself. The system scans a robust amount of data and makes qualitative recommendations to users. As data is accumulated, the system will be able to provide data intelligence to enterprise users. |  | Angel | Jul 13, 2017 | http://www.cultivate.social/ |
| Pay By Group | Pay By Group's white-label checkout solution is the fastest way for any merchant to integrate group-payment and installment capabilities into their online checkout. Our clients span travel, e-commerce, and healthcare and love the fact we increase conversions by 27% or more for this highly lucrative business segment. | $3.4M | Seed | Oct 13, 2016 | https://www.paybygroup.com/ |
| Alpharank | Alpharank is a bank technology company that develops a behavioral commerce platform.The platform identifies and ranks customers, profiles consumers based on their purchasing patterns, and detects customer influences and preferences, enabling businesses and enterprises to influence and retain their customers. It uses social contagion science,generating insights from historical transaction/purchase data.In 2015, Brian Ley founded the company in Redwood City, California. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Jul 02, 2015 | http://www.alpharank.io |
| Vest Financial | Vest is driven by the conviction that investors desire more certainty in their investment outcomes. Founded in 2012 to address this market need, Vest’s early investors were Y Combinator, Payment Ventures and First Round Capital. In 2016, Vest became an asset management subsidiary of CBOE Holdings, Inc., one of the world’s largest exchange holdingcompanies and owner of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (the largest U.S. options exchange and creator of listed options), the Bats exchanges, CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and other subsidiaries. Today CBOE Vest offers institutional-quality target outcome investments built on the backbone of its unique investment philosophy and CBOE’s indexes—that strive to buffer losses, amplify gains or provide consistent income—to a diverse spectrum of investors.OUR MISSIONReengineering Investing Most investments today target speculative returns, with uncertain levels of risk, over an uncertain period. While opportunistic, this approach to investing brings a degree of uncertainty. We are building a new class of investments, called Target Outcome Investments, that target a defined return profile, with an allowance for a specific level risk, at a specific point in time in the future. Such investments strive to provide investors with targeted protection, enhanced returns, or consistent income, with a level of predictability unattainable with most other investments. | $720K | Seed | Mar 22, 2015 | https://www.vestfin.com/ |
| CardFlight | CardFlight is committed to making payment acceptance easy for business owners. SwipeSimple, our signature product, is used by more than 50,000 small business across the US. Ten of the top 30 merchant acquirers in the US recommend SwipeSimple because the products easy for businesses to use. CardFlight takes pride in building SaaS solutions that areahead of the curve in technology, reliability, and user experience. Delivering simple payment solutions and quick response to industry shifts, has made us one of the fastest growing companies in America. To learn more about our company and team, visit www.cardflight.comFrom iOS and Android apps to a Virtual Terminal to EMV and NFC contactless card readers, SwipeSimple products offer just what small businesses need. CardFlight is a PCI Level 1 compliant service provider supporting all major US processors.CardFlight takes pride in building and maintaining solutions that are a step ahead of the curve in technology, reliability, and user experience. As the US leader in EMV Quick Chip enablement, CardFlight makes it easy, accessible, and secure for partners and merchants to accept payments. | $1.6M | Seed | Oct 02, 2013 | https://cardflight.com |
| Legalyze.ai | Legalyze.ai is an AI toolkit for lawyers to chat with their case documents, generate legal documents, and search for case law |  | Angel |  | https://legalyze.ai |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Great Oaks Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-oaks-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atlas Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/er-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ff Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ff-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Forum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forumventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Payment Ventures invest in?

Payment Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Payment Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Payment Ventures?

The team at Payment Ventures includes Tony VanBrackle (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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