Best VCs for Payments
109 venture capitalists actively investing in Payments.
Managing Director
Khosla Ventures
Keith is a stage- and sector-flexible investor who looks for exceptional founders with decisive judgment, high agency, a contrarian insight, and the ability to recruit unusually strong talent. His rec
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Board Partner
First Round Capital
Richard applies experience from building startups and running global revenue organizations to help First Round companies navigate go-to-market. His stated scope spans GTM strategy, customer segmentati
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CEO of SCB 10X
SCB 10X
SCB 10X is the venture arm of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), Thailand's oldest bank. Invests in blockchain, DeFi, and digital assets to bridge traditional finance with crypto.
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Co-founder & CEO
Buda.com Ventures
Pioneer of crypto exchange infrastructure in Latin America through Buda.com. Now investing in blockchain projects across the LATAM region.
Co-founder & CEO
Coinify Ventures
Investing in blockchain and digital payment infrastructure in the Nordics. Brings deep experience from building crypto payment rails in Europe.
Founder
Free2ex
Building crypto exchange and investment infrastructure in the Caucasus and CIS region through Free2ex, focused on regional blockchain adoption.
Founder
ARI10
Building blockchain-based payment and loyalty solutions through ARI10, focused on bridging traditional retail with cryptocurrency.
CEO
UzCard Digital Ventures
Investing in digital finance and blockchain innovation in Uzbekistan through UzCard Digital Ventures, focused on modernizing Central Asian financial infrastructure.
CEO
Ard Financial Group (Web3)
Investing in blockchain and digital finance in Mongolia through Ard Financial Group, focused on bringing modern financial infrastructure to the Mongolian market.
Co-founder
Shorooq Partners
Investing in early-stage tech and blockchain startups across MENA at Shorooq Partners. Focused on digital infrastructure and fintech for the Arab world.
Managing Partner
Cypher Capital
Investing in blockchain and digital assets across the MENA region at Cypher Capital. Focused on building Dubai as a global crypto hub.
Managing Partner
Hashed Emergent
Investing in blockchain projects across South and Southeast Asia at Hashed Emergent. Focused on crypto adoption in emerging markets.
Co-founder
Crypto.com Capital
Strategic investments from Crypto.com Capital, the investment arm of one of the world's largest crypto platforms. Focused on ecosystem expansion and strategic portfolio building.
Managing Partner
Platanus Ventures
Investing in early-stage tech and blockchain startups in Chile and Latin America through Platanus Ventures, bringing Silicon Valley VC practices to LATAM.
CEO MX Global
MX Global (Malaysia)
Building crypto exchange and investment infrastructure in Malaysia through MX Global, focused on regulated digital asset trading and investment in Southeast Asia.
Managing Director
HongShan
Nihal's current HSG mandate is not yet public, so the defensible personal thesis comes from his prior first-person and attributed work: blockchain can extend open finance and coordination into payment
Founder & Solo GP
Varrock VC
Richard backs concentrated, contrarian pre-seed and seed bets in the future of finance. For crypto-native products, he looks for category creation, missionary founders, power-user retention and contin
Head of Franklin Crypto
Franklin Templeton
Chris bridges crypto-native markets and traditional institutional finance. As Head of Franklin Crypto, he leads active digital-asset strategies across tokens, protocols, and fintech opportunities. His
Head of research, Investment Associate
The Spartan Group
José researches and evaluates liquid and protocol opportunities for Spartan Capital. His work focuses on crypto becoming financial infrastructure: stablecoin adoption, yield markets, institutional use
Marketing, Portfolio Development
Polymorphic Capital
Nataly's Polymorphic work sits at the application and portfolio-development edge: finding and supporting products that use web3 infrastructure to transform markets beyond crypto-native users, particul
Founder & Managing Partner
Ribbit Capital
Grew up in Venezuela during hyperinflation and institutional collapse. That lived experience of broken money systems drives everything. Mantra: 'The world needs more financial innovation and less fina
Founding Partner
Maki.vc (Web3)
Pirkka backs ambitious Nordic teams at their first rounds, combining an operator's technology and scaling perspective with Maki's sector-agnostic, non-consensus approach. His attributed investments fa
Associate
Colosseum
Michael's lens combines markets research with Colosseum's tournament-style venture funnel: use global hackathons and four-week build sprints to observe which founders ship, learn and attract users bef
Chief Investment Officer
Hashdex
Samir views crypto as a long-horizon technology and asset-class allocation rather than a short-term trade. His framework has two complementary pillars: bitcoin maturing as a scarce store of value and
Partner
Pantera Capital
Mason is an application-layer investor looking for products that use crypto coordination and ownership to change how large groups of people interact. His work emphasizes stablecoins as global payment
Co-CIO & General Partner
CV VC
Lukas backs early frontier-technology companies building a decentralized and tokenized economy, with a current emphasis on traditional businesses moving onto blockchain rails and the convergence of bl
General Partner
Lightspeed Faction
Banafsheh backs early blockchain companies and token networks that create fundamental utility. Her public discussions emphasize the infrastructure or 'plumbing' of crypto, globally relevant financial
Partner
V3V Ventures
Stanko invests in early-stage software, digital infrastructure and emerging technology, with a strong Web3 focus and an engineer's bias toward difficult, foundational systems. His current public filte
Partner
Northzone (Web3)
Sanjot leads Northzone's growth strategy. He looks for companies with proven product-market fit, repeatable go-to-market, viable unit economics, distinctive product IP, mission-critical customer value
Partner
Union Square Ventures (USV)
Nick's work connects open, decentralized systems with the infrastructure needed for the next computing cycle. His current 'Rebel Alliance' thesis argues that agentic AI will favor a modular ecosystem
Principal
ParaFi Capital
Josh focuses on blockchain infrastructure that can replace costly financial plumbing and connect digital assets to large, existing pools of economic activity. His public work highlights stablecoins fo
Investor
Blockchain Capital
Jonah studies where value and power accrue as crypto infrastructure matures. He argues that open rails can unbundle closed payment networks; user-owning applications can compress infrastructure margin
Investment Partner
Variant Fund
Elijah backs technically ambitious founders building new mechanisms, markets and infrastructure. His work joins crypto market design with a widening AI thesis: mature financial systems need expressive
Founder & CEO
Nestcoin
Building crypto infrastructure for Africa through Nestcoin. Focus on making crypto accessible to everyday Africans through exchanges, education, and local-first products.
Partner
Hack VC
Rodney backs technical infrastructure that removes adoption bottlenecks for high-value crypto use cases. His work favors modular, open AI stacks that solve data, compute and availability; stablecoin c
Principal
CoinFund
George looks for open, permissionless systems that expand financial access and remove cost, delay and gatekeeping from payments and DeFi. His writing starts with sharp workflow pain—especially cross-b
General Partner
ether.fi Ventures
David backs technical, early-stage teams at the intersection of finance, AI and crypto that pair crypto-native properties with real adoption. His clearest current thesis is a two-layer build: first ac
Investor
Blockchain Capital
Jonah studies where value and power accrue as crypto infrastructure matures. He argues that open rails can unbundle closed payment networks; user-owning applications can compress infrastructure margin
Partner
Shorooq Partners
Yousef backs technology businesses that can become durable leaders in Saudi Arabia and the wider MENA region. His public portfolio and Intelmatix commentary point to a value-investor lens: strong foun
Investor
Blockchain Capital
Anay focuses on the intersection of consumer behavior and crypto. Her work favors products that hide blockchain complexity inside a trusted, culturally native experience: mobile-first financial platfo
Venture Partner
Woodstock Fund
Prashanth works within Woodstock's research-led early- and growth-stage Web3 strategy. The firm's three lenses are convergence, financialisation, and virtualisation: interoperable infrastructure that
Venture Partner
Shorooq Partners
Kunal supports Shorooq's fintech and web3 practice with an operator's perspective across the UK, UAE, and Africa. His remit fits the firm's founder-first strategy: backing regional companies from idea
Managing Partner
Lightspeed Faction
Samuel backs early crypto infrastructure and protocols that make blockchain useful at scale. His public focus includes wallets, brokerages, developer tools, remittances, stablecoin and payment rails,
Managing Partner
Multicoin Capital
Open finance and tokenization. Strong views on stablecoins, DePIN, and crypto in emerging markets.
Deal Partner
Lightspeed Faction
Will invests in useful early-stage blockchain projects across equity and tokens. His public Meld thesis highlights infrastructure that connects traditional money and crypto: simple, compliant, develop
Venture Partner
Craft Ventures
Jeff specializes in marketplaces, particularly vertical models that go deeper than horizontal incumbents. He evaluates density, liquidity, trust, network effects, take rate, gross profit, and capital-
Principal
Northzone (Web3)
Pascual focuses on early-stage AI, fintech, healthcare, and vertical SaaS, with particular interest in products that use growing data availability and improved computation to transform an industry. Hi
Senior Advisor
Finch Capital
George Coelho is listed by Finch Capital as Senior Advisor. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with proven economics and
Investment Partner, Head of Asia
CMT Digital
Ilag is CMT Digital's Investment Partner and Head of Asia, investing through the firm's early-stage blockchain strategy. His published Tazapay thesis favors full-stack cross-border payment infrastruct
Co-founder
Wintermute Ventures
Yoann brings high-frequency trading, hedge-fund and family-office experience to a proprietary-capital venture platform built around Wintermute's market infrastructure. The firm backs category-defining
Co-Founder and Partner
Verda Ventures
Amit backs fintech companies using stablecoin rails to deliver useful financial products in emerging markets. Verda's MiniPay strategy combines capital with Opera distribution and Celo infrastructure,
Partner
Maven 11 Capital
Darius works within Maven 11's crypto-native, early-stage strategy. The firm backs technically fluent founders who challenge the status quo by redefining ownership through open, inclusive, permissionl
Partner
Haun Ventures
Chris backs community-led and crypto-enabled businesses where open technology creates a durable advantage and a credible business model. His work focuses on the infrastructure of globally programmable
Venture Partner
Clocktower Ventures
David Lofthouse invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial service
Managing Director
Clocktower Ventures
Adriana Saman invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services,
Executive Assistant
Clocktower Ventures
Kaycee Suit is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at Clocktower Ventures. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.
Managing Partner
Finch Capital
Radboud Vlaar is listed by Finch Capital as Managing Partner. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with proven economics a
General Partner
Finch Capital
Aman Ghei is listed by Finch Capital as General Partner. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with proven economics and a
General Partner
Finch Capital
Mike Brennan is listed by Finch Capital as General Partner. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with proven economics and
CFO
Finch Capital
Johnny Harte is listed by Finch Capital as CFO. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with proven economics and a path to m
General Counsel
Finch Capital
Frances Eikenhorst is listed by Finch Capital as General Counsel. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with proven economi
Investment Manager
Finch Capital
Eugénie Colonna d'Istria is listed by Finch Capital as Investment Manager. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with prove
Investment Manager
Finch Capital
Philip van Engers is listed by Finch Capital as Investment Manager. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with proven econo
Associate
Finch Capital
Joe McHale is listed by Finch Capital as Associate. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with proven economics and a path
PR, Risk & Compliance Officer
Finch Capital
Puck Hoogveld is listed by Finch Capital as PR, Risk & Compliance Officer. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with prove
Associate
Finch Capital
Rossella Saponaro is listed by Finch Capital as Associate. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with proven economics and
Senior Advisor
Finch Capital
Dick Harryvan is listed by Finch Capital as Senior Advisor. The profile is aligned to the firm's published thesis: Partners with category-defining European software companies with proven economics and
Partner
AirTree Ventures (Web3)
Kell applies a long-horizon Silicon Valley investing perspective to Airtree's Australia and New Zealand mandate. His concise screen asks what drives demand, what makes the company different, and wheth
Investment Partner
CMT Digital
Hallene takes a generalist, early-stage approach within blockchain, spanning DeFi, stablecoins and payments, DePIN, sector-specific chains, and core infrastructure. Public interviews emphasize portfol
Partner
Shorooq Partners
Omer brings a hands-on operator lens from scaling Careem's commercial businesses and building mobile-money products. His investing focus is on ambitious technology founders in the UAE, Qatar and front
General Partner, Co-Head of Venture
Multicoin Capital
Consumer crypto, social tokens, attention economy. Crypto-native consumer applications.
Partner
Hack VC
Herbie invests at the intersection of crypto, AI and productive infrastructure. His GAIB thesis treats compute as a scarce commodity that can become an investable, yield-producing on-chain asset, fina
Co-Founder
CMT Digital
Jan-Dirk views blockchain and distributed-ledger technology as a multi-decade shift that can make valuable information as easy to transfer as smartphones made ordinary information. His operating philo
Managing Partner
Newtown Partners
Newtown Partners invests in blockchain companies across Africa and globally from Cape Town. Early backers of Luno and VALR, two of Africa's largest crypto exchanges.
Founding Partner
Africa Blockchain Fund
Africa Blockchain Fund invests in blockchain projects across Africa from Ghana. Focuses on financial inclusion and real-world blockchain applications for African markets.
Principal
Clocktower Ventures
Natalie Charney invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial service
Partner
Clocktower Ventures
Steve Drobny invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services,
Principal
Clocktower Ventures
Josh Zoffer invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, w
Associate
Clocktower Ventures
Shalini Haupt invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services,
Founder & CEO
Daftar (Web3)
Daftar invests in tech and web3 across South Asia and MENA. One of the few funds bridging Pakistan's tech talent with global crypto opportunities.
Founder
Caribbean Blockchain Fund
Pioneer of digital currency adoption in the Caribbean. Founded the first Bitcoin company in Barbados and advised the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank on their digital currency project.
Founder & CEO
Lemon Ventures
Built Lemon Cash into Latin America's leading crypto app with 2M+ users. Lemon Ventures invests in crypto infrastructure for emerging markets.
Managing Director
Clocktower Ventures
Ned Daoro invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, wit
Founding Partner
Shorooq Partners
Shorooq Partners invests in MENA fintech and crypto. Leading the charge on web3 adoption in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and broader Middle East.
Founder
CryptoDex
Pioneer of crypto adoption in Ukraine. Building crypto exchange and blockchain infrastructure for Eastern Europe through CryptoDex.
Co-founder & CEO
Bitso Ventures
Bitso is Mexico's and Latin America's leading crypto exchange. Bitso Ventures invests in crypto and fintech across Latin America.
Partner
Clocktower Ventures
Ben Savage invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, wi
Principal
Clocktower Ventures
Erika Hull invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, wi
Head of Ventures
Circle Ventures
Leads Circle Ventures, investing in the USDC ecosystem and projects that advance digital dollar adoption worldwide.
CEO
Saudi Venture Capital (SVC)
SVC is Saudi Arabia's government-backed venture capital fund, with growing interest in fintech and digital assets.
Associate
ego death capital
Principal
Stillmark
Investment Associate
Reciprocal Ventures
Research Analyst
Polaris Fund
Venture Investor
Nascent
Investment Team
Hashed Emergent
Investment Manager
Foresight Ventures
Angel Investor & Founder
Investment Manager
MZ Web3 Fund
Vice Chairman
KXVC