# Zinal Growth

> Zinal Growth is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Zinal Growth is an investment firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$33M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.3M–$2.8M |
| Series A | $10M–$76M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 8 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 20% |
| Payments | 6 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 14% |
| Software | 4 | 11% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 23% |
| Series A | 7 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Series B | 3 | 9% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 17% |
| United States | 5 | 14% |
| Ireland | 2 | 6% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 6% |
| India | 1 | 3% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guillaume Waser | Managing Director | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-waser |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apron | Apron is a platform that allows small businesses to pay their suppliers. | $29.3M | Series B | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Apron | Apron is a platform that allows small businesses to pay their suppliers. | $29.3M | Series B | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Ziina | Ziina is a financial technology platform that offers digital payment and money transfer services for consumers, freelancers, and businesses in the UAE. Its services include peer-to-peer transfers, payment links, QR code payments, Tap to Pay functionality, digital wallets, and payment gateway tools for online businesses. | $22M | Series A | Sep 04, 2024 |  |
| Bloom Money | Bloom Money is a savings club app designed to help growing communities in migrant communities and use technology to promote community, safety, and convenience. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 27, 2023 |  |
| Whop | Whop is building a platform to service the internet economy. Millions of people are building new products that they are selling guerrilla style on social media and on forums throughout the internet. Whop gives these sellers a sleek storefront that can accept payments, seamlessly deliver digital products, and attract new customers visiting theirmarketplace. They currently handle almost $150M+ in yearly payments with thousands of active merchants. To view their open roles, please visit https://careers.whop.com | $17M | Series A | Jul 20, 2023 |  |
| Pledge | Pledge empowers logistics and supply chain leaders to reach their sustainability goals through its accredited and integrated software. With a focus on accessibility and transparency, Pledge allows users to start measuring, reducing and removing their carbon emissions in minutes with its self-serve product, giving customers the confidence they needto take credible and impactful climate action in logistics supply chains. Pledge is accredited by the Smart Freight Centre (SFC) for its adherence to the Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) framework and is ISO 14083 compliant.Pledge was founded in 2021 by early employees of Revolut and the co-founder of Freetrade. | $10M | Series A | May 16, 2023 |  |
| Tema Global | Tema Global builds an ETF platform focused on ETF infrastructure and differentiated ETF strategies managed by experienced investment professionals. |  | Seed | May 08, 2023 |  |
| Flash.co | Flash is a payments management app. | $5.8M | Seed | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Pomelo | Pomelo provides a cloud-native financial technology platform that enables businesses to issue, process, and manage payment cards and related services through modular APIs and infrastructure. Its technology supports the issuance and processing of credit, debit, and prepaid cards, including options for businesses without their own issuing licensethrough BIN sponsorship and integration with Mastercard and Visa networks. The company’s platform also includes tools for transaction authorization, chargeback handling, fraud monitoring, tokenization for digital wallets, and logistical support for card production and distribution. Pomelo’s offerings aim to streamline card program development by consolidating technical, regulatory, and operational components into a unified system that can be tailored to diverse use cases across fintech, banking, and embedded finance sectors. It supports virtual and physical card workflows and provides dashboards and management interfaces to monitor and control card portfolios and transactions. The company collaborates with clients to integrate its APIs into existing systems and scale card products across multiple markets. Pomelo’s infrastructure emphasizes flexibility, data visibility, and compliance with international payment standards. | $18M | Series A | Nov 23, 2022 |  |
| ChatFood | ChatFood is a commission-free ordering platform that enables restaurants to take back control of their online business and sell via Instagram, WhatsApp, social media, and websites with built-in online payments solutions, third-party logistics integration, and marketing tools. | $3M | Convertible Note | Jul 27, 2022 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Visionaries Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/visionaries-club) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Mirana](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirana) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Zinal Growth invest in?

Zinal Growth invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Zinal Growth's check size?

Zinal Growth typically joins rounds of $3M–$33M at Seed, $1.3M–$2.8M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$76M 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 Zinal Growth participates in.

### How do I contact Zinal Growth?

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### Who are the partners at Zinal Growth?

The team at Zinal Growth includes Guillaume Waser (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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