Visa
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.
- Total investments:
- 147
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
Last updated:
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Industries Visa invests in
Stages Visa invests in
Countries Visa invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 23 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Grant
- $7.3k–$80k
- Series B
- $6.5M–$60M
- Series C
- $4M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 66 (45%)
- Financial Services 58 (39%)
- Payments 39 (27%)
- Software 22 (15%)
- Mobile Payments 22 (15%)
Stage
- Series B 20 (14%)
- Grant 18 (12%)
- Series C 17 (12%)
- Corporate Round 17 (12%)
- Funding Round 16 (11%)
Country
- United States 46 (31%)
- Canada 10 (7%)
- United Kingdom 9 (6%)
- Egypt 5 (3%)
- Germany 5 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alfred Kelly
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
|
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Charles Scharf
President
|
President | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Malak El Baba
Country Manager in Egypt
|
Country Manager in Egypt | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Thomas Campbell
Founding Director
|
Founding Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Ahmed Mohey
Country Manager - Libya & Sudan
|
Country Manager - Libya & Sudan | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 23 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| P-Agro Minerals develops chemical-free solutions for wastewater treatment plants, addressing phosphorus pollution. | $11.6K / Grant / Jun 15, 2026 | ||
| SCORE is the Network of Volunteer Expert Business Mentors. | $200K / Grant / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| Replit provides a cloud-based software development platform that allows users to write, run, and deploy applications through a browser-based environment. The platform includes an integrated code editor, terminal, debugging tools, and hosting features that support the creation and deployment of full-stack applications from a single workspace. Replitsupports multiple programming languages and provides preconfigured development environments so projects can start without installing local software.The platform includes collaboration features that enable multiple users to edit and run code within the same project in real time. It also offers AI-assisted coding tools that generate code suggestions, help debug programs, and assist with building applications through natural language prompts. Replit provides project sharing, templates, and integration with external services and repositories to support development workflows. | Corporate Round / May 28, 2026 | ||
| Astrada is a software company that provides financial infrastructure, payments, and automation services. | $3.8M / Seed / May 05, 2026 | ||
| Celero is a company that helps small and medium-sized entrepreneurs to routine of the business financial sector. They provide total financial control, automatic bank reconciliation, and integration with business technologies. The platform is also available in a mobile version for Android, Apple, and iOs. They provide business financial servicesthrough easy-to-use financial management software. | $2.8M / Series A / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| Moniepoint is a financial technology company that renders payments, credit, business management, and banking services for businesses. | $90M / Series C / Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| Osigu provides an AI-powered healthcare revenue cycle and claims management platform for data processes and data transfers. Its platform also helps in all the transactions and data transfers that happen between insurance providers, insurance partners, and customers, eliminating all the overprocessed and haphazard paperwork found in the back-endsystems. Additionally, it provides clients with reliable and efficient technology that helps them serve their millions of customers easily and without any hassle. | $10M / Series B / Aug 28, 2025 | ||
| HoneyCoin is a cryptographic payment and monetization platform. They make peer-to-peer transactions and connect with users' friends and family from anywhere at anytime. They send and receive payments instantly. | $4.9M / Seed / Aug 12, 2025 | ||
| Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQconsolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively. | $8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 29, 2025 | ||
| Bayes Studio Inc. is specializing in AI-driven solutions for wildfire resilience and environmental monitoring. Our proprietary machine learning algorithms analyze data from multispectral sensors, including satellite imagery, UAVs, and ground-based sensors, to provide real-time, accurate insights with near-zero false positives. By leveraging AI,advanced sensors, and cloud-based systems, we empower decision-makers in government agencies, forestry management, insurance companies, and utilities to respond more effectively to wildfires, mitigating risks and protecting communities. Bayes Studio is committed to enhancing environmental resilience and sustainability through innovative, scalable solutions. | $7.3K / Grant / Jul 09, 2025 | ||
| See all 147 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Visa invest in?
Visa invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Series B and Grant stage. Most of the 147 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Visa invest in?
Visa typically joins rounds of $7.3k–$80k at Grant, $6.5M–$60M at Series B and $4M–$100M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Visa's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Visa took part in.
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Who are the partners at Visa?
The team at Visa includes Alfred Kelly (Chairman & Chief Executive Officer), Charles Scharf (President) and Malak El Baba (Country Manager in Egypt), among 23 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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