# Visa

> Visa is a VC fund in San Francisco backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 146 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 146
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/visa
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Visa
- Website: https://www.visa.co.in
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VisaIND

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Visa. Shizune tracks 23 team members at Visa. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/visa?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Grant | $7.3k–$52k |
| Series B | $6.5M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 66 | 45% |
| Financial Services | 57 | 39% |
| Payments | 38 | 26% |
| Mobile Payments | 23 | 16% |
| Software | 21 | 14% |

142 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 20 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 19 | 13% |
| Grant | 18 | 12% |
| Series C | 17 | 12% |
| Corporate Round | 17 | 12% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 46 | 32% |
| Canada | 10 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 6% |
| Egypt | 5 | 3% |
| Germany | 5 | 3% |

31 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alfred Kelly | Chairman & Chief Executive Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alfred-f-kelly |
| Charles Scharf | President | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-scharf |
| Malak El Baba | Country Manager in Egypt | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/malak-el-baba |
| Thomas Campbell | Founding Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-campbell-2 |
| Ahmed Mohey | Country Manager - Libya & Sudan | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahmed-mohey-20ae |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| P-Agro Minerals | P-Agro Minerals develops chemical-free solutions for wastewater treatment plants, addressing phosphorus pollution. | $11.6K | Grant | Jun 15, 2026 |  |
| SCORE | SCORE is the Network of Volunteer Expert Business Mentors. | $200K | Grant | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Replit | 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 | Astrada is a software company that provides financial infrastructure, payments, and automation services. | $3.8M | Seed | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Celero | 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 | Moniepoint is a financial technology company that renders payments, credit, business management, and banking services for businesses. | $90M | Series C | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Osigu | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 146 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [International Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/international-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Citi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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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 Funding Round stage. Most of the 146 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 Visa's check size?

Visa typically joins rounds of $7.3k–$52k at Grant and $6.5M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Visa participates in.

### How do I contact Visa?

Public channels for Visa include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 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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