# Ryan King

> Ryan King is a Series A investor at Chime (San Francisco) backing FinTech and Finance. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Chime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chime-2)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanaking
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ryanking
- Website: https://x.com/ryanking
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ryanaking

Ryan King is a Series A investor at Chime in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Finance. Ryan A. King is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the is the Co-Founder Chime. Previously, Ryan was the VP of Engineering of Plaxo. Ryan A. King attended Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $13M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 50% |
| Finance | 2 | 50% |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 50% |
| B2B | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Tanzania | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nala | Nala is a FinTech company developing a mobile payments application to simplify money transfers and transactions without data connectivity. Their services include financial inclusion, digital financial services, mobile money, and fintech. | $40M | Series A | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Cerbos | Cerbos is a software company that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage. Cerbos provides plug-and-play collaborative authorization of permissions. | $7.5M | Seed | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| Parafin | Parafin is a financial infrastructure company that provides platforms with embedded financial products for their small businesses by abstracting the complexity of capital markets, underwriting, servicing, compliance, and customer support. Small businesses can run and grow themselves despite uncertain economic conditions by powering the financialservices of marketplaces and payment processors. In less than three years, Parafin has launched on Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash, TikTok, and more platforms to serve hundreds of thousands of businesses and extended over $8 billion in offers. | $60M | Series B | Aug 02, 2022 |  |
| Unit21 | Unit21 is the leader in AI Risk Infrastructure for fraud prevention and AML monitoring. Trusted by over 200 institutions, including Intuit, Chime, and Sallie Mae, our platform unifies detection, investigation, and decisioning in a single system built on data-agnostic architecture. Powered by agentic AI, Unit21 doesn’t just summarize alerts; itexecutes the full investigation workflow, reducing false positives by up to 93% and accelerating handle times by 80%. By automating repetitive tasks while maintaining full regulator-ready auditability, Unit21 empowers banks and fintechs to operate proactively and focus on real risk. | $13M | Series A | Oct 19, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acrew Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrew-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [A.Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-partners-l-p) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Core Innovation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/core-innovation-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Chime

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Chime is a fintech company that helps its members avoid bank fees, save money automatically, and lead healthier financial lives.It offers a modern, mobile, and connected approach to banking that gives members complete control of their finances. Chime members receive a Chime debit card, a Spending Account, a Savings Account, and a powerful mobileapp that keeps members in control. The Chime mobile app is available for iPhone and Android devices and has been featured as one of the best Money Management apps in the App Store.The company was co-founded in 2013 by Chris Britt and Ryan King.

5 contacts available at Chime.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Britt | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-britt |
| Gregory Stanger | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-stanger |
| Madhu Muthukumar | Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madhu-muthukumar-1464 |
| Ryan King | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-king |
| Alexandre Lazarow | Investor & Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-lazarow |

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## FAQ

### What does Ryan King invest in?

Ryan King invests primarily in FinTech, Finance and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 4 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 Ryan King's check size?

Ryan King typically joins rounds of $13M–$40M 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 Ryan King participates in.

### When did Ryan King last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ryan King closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 4 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.

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