# Western Union

> Western Union is a VC fund in Englewood backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Englewood, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/western-union
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/WesternUnion
- Website: http://westernunion.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/westernunion

Western Union is a VC fund in Englewood focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Western Union focuses on providing businesses and consumers with solutions to send and receive money throughout the world. They enables its customers to transfer money through their mobile application or agents. Western Union was founded in 1851 and is based in Englewood, Colorado.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Western Union. Shizune tracks 10 team members at Western Union. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/western-union?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 80% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 80% |
| Banking | 1 | 20% |
| Billing | 1 | 20% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 20% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Grant | 1 | 20% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ashutosh Shinde | Head - Technology Engineering Center (India) | 0 | — |
| Caroline Tsai | Chief Legal Officer | 0 | — |
| Jack M. Greenberg | Chairman | 1 | — |
| Jean-Claude Farah | Head of Network | 1 | — |
| Jeffrey Joerres | Board Of Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| COMESO GmbH | COMESO exists to make healthcare access in Africa fair, transparent, and reliable. We build digital payment infrastructure that allows families both abroad and within their home countries to directly pay for medical services for their loved ones. Our mission is to ensure that every payment sent for health, whether from across the world or acrosstown, reaches hospitals and clinics in full, improving lives and strengthening local health systems.We combine financial technology with community-based healthcare delivery, COMESO enables the domestication of payments from afar, turning everyday financial support into a trusted channel for health access. Our goal is to reduce out-of-pocket spending, empower underserved families, and create a scalable model for inclusive health financing across emerging markets. | $50K | Grant | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| StoreCash | StoreCash is a mobile payment service that allows users to pay with QR codes at over 200,000 shops while earning cash back. | $2.6M | Seed | Sep 05, 2022 |  |
| stc pay | In harmony with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 to progress and diversify digital services, stc pay, a subsidiary of stc Group, is meant to become a pioneering service of the futuristic wave that enables new endeavors and unlocks new possibilities.We share a future vision with customers and businesses to provide new and innovative technologies anddigital experiences. Using stc powerful network, we are able to better connect merchants with their customers through our secure digital wallet solution, stc pay, to empower both sides to complete their transactions quickly, easily, and securely.stc pay is an integrated payment application that covers your daily needs. |  | Corporate Round | Nov 22, 2020 |  |
| Walletron | Walletron, Inc. provides a platform that enables enterprise clients to automate the entire life cycle of distributed wallet items. Its portfolio includes cloud-based solutions, such as Walletron moBills, a solution that allows billers to open a new payment and presentment channel in a centralized location on smartphones; and Walletron Loyaltysolution, which enables to systematically maintain a branded presence on customers' mobile devices, notify customers within close proximity to their locations, send instant over-the-air updates, gather real-time performance data, and leverage built-in segmentation to push highly-targeted content to the right individuals at the right time. |  |  | Dec 06, 2016 |  |
| Digital Currency Group | Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, DCG has been an active seed investor in the digital currency industry with 150+ investments in over 30 countries.In addition, DCG owns and operates CoinDesk, the top media and eventsplatform in the blockchain space, Genesis Trading, the industry's leading bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset management firm. |  |  | Apr 28, 2016 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gesellschaft-fur-internationale-zusammenarbeit) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Western Union invest in?

Western Union invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Banking startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Western Union?

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### Who are the partners at Western Union?

The team at Western Union includes Ashutosh Shinde (Head - Technology Engineering Center (India)), Caroline Tsai (Chief Legal Officer) and Jack M. Greenberg (Chairman), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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