PayPal Ventures
VC Fund
San Jose, United States
PayPal Ventures is a VC fund in San Jose focused on Financial Services and FinTech. PayPal Ventures is PayPal's venture capital arm, investing in PayPal's strategic interest fields for return.Leveraging PayPal Venture's expertise and experience, PayPal – and the companies in which it invests – are helping to bring innovative solutions to market more quickly, scale them faster, and build a global financial systemthat is more transparent, personalized, inclusive, and customer-focused. PayPal Venture's investments reinforce its commitment to leading the financial technology industry and supporting entrepreneurship.
- Total investments:
- 149
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
Last updated:
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Industries PayPal Ventures invests in
Stages PayPal Ventures invests in
Countries PayPal Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $11M–$55M
- Series B
- $14M–$100M
- Series C
- $30M–$260M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 49 (33%)
- FinTech 44 (30%)
- Software 24 (16%)
- Payments 20 (13%)
- Finance 14 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 34 (23%)
- Series A 27 (18%)
- Series C 21 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 15 (10%)
- Seed 10 (7%)
Country
- United States 51 (34%)
- United Kingdom 7 (5%)
- India 6 (4%)
- Israel 4 (3%)
- Germany 4 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Peter Sanborn
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Peter Thiel
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 272 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atum is the open payments network that coordinates those systems. | $13.5M / Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online. | $40M / Series B / Jun 03, 2026 | ||
| Carro is a modern dropshipping marketplace that connects Retailers who want to expand their product catalog and grow average order value to high-quality, DTC Suppliers who want to develop new sales channels. Carro helps Retailers avoid the hassle and risk of traditional wholesale agreements such as upfront capital, inventory commitments, andhandling fulfillment. Meanwhile, Carro lets Suppliers control who they partner with, grow their brand awareness without investing in marketing, and acquire new customers – they get customer data when their products are bought on a partner’s store.Carro is E-Commerce platform-agnostic, meaning it connects Retailers and Suppliers both on and off Shopify to each other. This opens the door for Retailers of all shapes and sizes to use Carro. They can be popular brands primarily known for selling one product, that want to curate complementary products to sell alongside it. Carro Retailers can also be marketplace businesses or platforms such as social selling apps, wedding/gifting platforms, and rewards programs. Carro ensures it has the best quantity and quality of Suppliers and products, because it can tap into any DTC brand, regardless of which platform they’re on.With thousands of Retailers and Suppliers, hundreds of thousands of products, and over $55 billion in orders analyzed, Carro is the world’s largest modern dropshipping marketplace. | $50M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 13, 2026 | ||
| Cart.com is the provider of comprehensive commerce and logistics solutions that unify commerce operations across channels and capabilities, enabling B2C and B2B companies to operate seamlessly across channels and sell and fulfill anywhere their customers are. Cart.com drives powers digital and physical commerce operations for over 6,000 customers,including some of the most beloved consumer brands and most complex B2B organizations. With over 1,000 employees, a team of AI and data scientists and 14 warehouses nationwide, our scale allows us to support middle market and enterprise level companies across industries. | $180M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| XFlow is a software company that builds payments infrastructure that enables businesses to send and receive money. They perform compliance checks such as determining the purpose of transfers, completing required forms, and generating electronic foreign inward remittance advice. | $16.6M / Series A / Feb 23, 2026 | ||
| Efex is platform that helps businesses and individuals to make and manage their payments. Efex offers international and domestic payments, invoicing, reconciliation, collection, and risk analysis of its clients. This allows our customers to engage in smarter, simpler, faster payments and trade. | $10.6M / Seed / Feb 19, 2026 | ||
| Pinch is a no-code, AI-powered abuse mitigation platform that helps merchants gain control over their margins and customer acquisition costs by predicting post-purchase buyer behavior. | $5M / Seed / Jan 15, 2026 | ||
| Klearly simplifies payment acceptance for small and medium-sized businesses by transforming smartphones and tablets into secure payment processing devices, allowing businesses to easily take payments. Businesses can focus on what they do best with our all-in-one digital payment solution, while Klearly handles the rest. | $14M / Series A / Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| Klearly helps B2B revenue teams—Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success—by giving them to power to know what has happened, is currently happening, and what to do next to grow revenue. No more vanity metrics or lagging indicators. Klearly leverages machine learning to give B2B marketing the predictive power to know which accounts to prioritize, whatactivities to focus on next, and the expected business impact. It's all about Winfluence. Get ready to see Klearly. | $14M / Series A / Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| Identify, prioritize, and mitigate security on risk before development starts. | $20M / Series A / Dec 09, 2025 | ||
| See all 149 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does PayPal Ventures invest in?
PayPal Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 149 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is PayPal Ventures's check size?
PayPal Ventures typically joins rounds of $11M–$55M at Series A, $14M–$100M at Series B and $30M–$260M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds PayPal Ventures participates in.
How do I contact PayPal Ventures?
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Who are the partners at PayPal Ventures?
The team at PayPal Ventures includes Peter Sanborn (Managing Partner) and Peter Thiel (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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