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Payments

89 VCs and 98 funds investing in Payments

VCs investing in Payments

Bobby Bao

Co-founder

95%

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.

SeedSeries ASeries B

Idris Guven

Founder

95%

ARI10

Building blockchain-based payment and loyalty solutions through ARI10, focused on bridging traditional retail with cryptocurrency.

Pre-seedSeed

Sherzod Akhmedov

CEO

95%

UzCard Digital Ventures

Investing in digital finance and blockchain innovation in Uzbekistan through UzCard Digital Ventures, focused on modernizing Central Asian financial infrastructure.

Pre-seedSeed

Ganbold Amarzaya

CEO

95%

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.

Pre-seedSeed

Bader Al Kalooti

Managing Partner

95%

Cypher Capital

Investing in blockchain and digital assets across the MENA region at Cypher Capital. Focused on building Dubai as a global crypto hub.

SeedSeries ASeries B

Mahmoud Adi

Co-founder

95%

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.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Tak Lee

Managing Partner

95%

Hashed Emergent

Investing in blockchain projects across South and Southeast Asia at Hashed Emergent. Focused on crypto adoption in emerging markets.

SeedSeries A

Joshua Foo

CEO MX Global

95%

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.

SeedSeries A

Guillermo Torrealba

Co-founder & CEO

95%

Buda.com Ventures

Pioneer of crypto exchange infrastructure in Latin America through Buda.com. Now investing in blockchain projects across the LATAM region.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Mark Højgaard

Co-founder & CEO

95%

Coinify Ventures

Investing in blockchain and digital payment infrastructure in the Nordics. Brings deep experience from building crypto payment rails in Europe.

SeedSeries A

Juan Pablo Crespi

Managing Partner

95%

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.

Pre-seedSeed

Giorgi Khazaradze

Founder

95%

Free2ex

Building crypto exchange and investment infrastructure in the Caucasus and CIS region through Free2ex, focused on regional blockchain adoption.

Pre-seedSeed

Richard Chen

Founder & Solo GP

93%

Varrock VC

Check: $600K–$900K at pre-seed and seed, published on Varrock's live website. The fund targets a small, concentrated portfolio, commonly 0–1 new investment per quarter, to maintain ownership and hands-on capacity rather than spray and pray.

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 continuous zero-to-one product innovation. For crypto-adjacent companies, crypto should be an enabling feature inside a much larger industry, led by commercially strong domain experts with superior distribution and unit economics rather than recent crypto pivots.

Pre-SeedSeed

Nihal Maunder

Managing Director

93%

HongShan

Check: No current person-specific HSG check size is publicly disclosed. Historical Pantera work spans early-stage through growth, but those prior fund parameters should not be assumed to apply to his HSG role.

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 payments, tokenization, consumer applications and open AI; early-stage decisions remain founder-led, with resilience through market cycles, practical utility and strong local-market understanding carrying more weight than hype.

Early StageVentureGrowth

Chris Perkins

Head of Franklin Crypto

91%

Franklin Templeton

Check: Franklin Crypto offers actively managed cryptocurrency strategies to institutional investors; it does not publish a personal venture check range for Chris. His current remit spans liquid digital-asset portfolio management rather than a disclosed startup check mandate, so past CoinFund round sizes are not used as a proxy.

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 published work concentrates on financial convergence: creating institution-ready rates, derivatives, custody, clearing, stablecoin, tokenization, and regulatory infrastructure that gives digital markets familiar risk-management tools while preserving their open, programmable advantages.

Liquid TokensPublic MarketsInstitutional Asset Management

Nataly Laktionova

Marketing, Portfolio Development

91%

Polymorphic Capital

Check: No Nataly-specific check size is public. Polymorphic's verified OpenVC-style profile lists firm-level initial bands spanning $250K–$3M, says it can lead, and covers pre-seed through Series B. Treat these as firm guidance rather than Nataly's authority; confirm the relevant partner, current allocation, stage and ownership target after intake.

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, particularly social, payments, finance, data and AI. Her independent research lens maps entire technology stacks and searches for the bottleneck or value-capture layer—such as training data, packaging capacity, safety certification, integration, agent payment rails or the software/hardware split—while distinguishing headline market sizes from more reliable directional signals.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Pirkka Palomäki

Founding Partner

90%

Maki.vc (Web3)

Check: Maki targets first rounds below EUR 5 million and supports consequent rounds; this is a firm round criterion, not Pirkka's personal check range. Active new investments come from Fund III.

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 favor experienced teams rebuilding large industries with scalable platforms—payments, sustainable construction materials, physical-world digital twins, enterprise systems, and other deep or brand-driven technologies.

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

Keith Rabois

Managing Director

90%

Khosla Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Keith invests across stages, and disclosed financings across his portfolio should not be treated as a standard personal allocation range.

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 record favors category-defining networks and platforms—payments, marketplaces, commerce, financial software, and technology-enabled services—where operational excellence and founder-led intensity can compound into market leadership.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Mason Nystrom

Partner

88%

Pantera Capital

Check: No person-specific check size is publicly disclosed. Pantera's published venture approach typically invests from Seed through Series B and aims to lead or co-lead; founders should confirm fit rather than infer a check from third-party databases.

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 infrastructure, peer-to-peer market structures, programmable internet-native capital formation and blockchain becoming invisible infrastructure inside useful consumer and real-world applications.

SeedSeries ASeries B

Stanko Nedic

Partner

88%

V3V Ventures

Check: No Stanko-specific check range is public. A current third-party V3V profile reports a firm-level typical range of $100K–$1M at pre-seed/seed, while public round databases describe the larger rounds V3V joins rather than its own checks. Treat $100K–$1M as directional and confirm instrument, allocation and follow-on capacity directly.

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 filter is a move away from narratives toward measurable fundamentals: real products, revenue, product traction, user retention and sustainable business models. Within crypto he highlights infrastructure, stablecoin and payment rails, institutional adoption, DeFi, cross-chain systems and the decentralized-AI stack across compute, storage, data, models and applications. V3V pairs capital with architecture, GTM, distribution and follow-on fundraising support.

Pre-seedSeedSelective later follow-on

Samir Kerbage

Chief Investment Officer

88%

Hashdex

Check: Samir is a public/liquid-markets asset manager rather than a disclosed venture check writer. Hashdex publishes fund and index methodologies, not a personal startup check range; pitches should concern investable assets, indexes, products, research, or institutional partnerships rather than assume venture capital authority.

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 macro asset, and smart-contract networks becoming financial infrastructure for stablecoins, tokenization, payments, DeFi, and staking. He favors diversified, transparent, rules-based access to mature liquid assets and evaluates adoption through economic utility, network effects, market infrastructure, regulatory progress, and portfolio contribution.

Liquid AssetsPublic MarketsETFs

Richard Alfonsi

Board Partner

88%

First Round Capital

Check: No current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Richard's official Board Partner role focuses on coaching existing First Round companies; firm-wide check ranges should not be attributed to him personally.

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 segmentation, product strategy, team building, and operating at scale. His value is less a sector prediction than pattern recognition across zero-to-one, the messy middle, and hypergrowth.

Existing Portfolio SupportGrowth and ScaleBoard and Advisory

Banafsheh Fathieh

General Partner

88%

Lightspeed Faction

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A through both equity and tokens; the firm's reported fund size and company round totals are not Banafsheh's personal range.

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 systems, and matching an application to the chain whose security, performance, and ecosystem fit its use case. Her personal motivation is informed by seeing how broken banking and state-controlled money affect people outside stable financial systems.

SeedSeries AToken Networks

Nick Grossman

Partner

87%

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: No personal check-size range is published. USV invests at the earliest stages and supports companies throughout their journey; investment decisions are made collaboratively by discussion rather than individual vote.

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 around foundation models—spanning orchestration, harnesses, memory, browsers, routing, identity, and payments—because production agents cross services, models, data environments, and trust boundaries.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Sanjot Malhi

Partner

87%

Northzone (Web3)

Check: No personal standard check-size range is published. Northzone has disclosed leading or co-leading large company rounds, but those totals are not Sanjot's individual allocation range and should not be presented as one.

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, global platform potential, ecosystem influence, and defensibility that compounds. His process favors differentiated research and relationships built over time rather than auction-driven consensus investing.

Series BSeries CGrowth

Josh Solesbury

Principal

87%

ParaFi Capital

Check: No personal check range is publicly disclosed. ParaFi's private-markets strategy backs early- and growth-stage companies and protocols, but firm AUM and individual transactions should not be converted into a presumed standard ticket or unilateral authority.

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 for cross-border B2B payments, savings and remittances; tokenization and institutional adoption; protocol and application value capture; and capital-markets structures around Bitcoin and crypto treasuries. He evaluates opportunities through addressable volume, concrete workflow pain, distribution and operational implementation.

Early StageGrowth StagePrivate Markets

David Hsu

General Partner

85%

ether.fi Ventures

Check: $500K–$1M, from a current public ether.fi Ventures fundraising statement. The live site positions Fund I at pre-seed through Series A and publishes ventures@ether.fi. Confirm allocation, instrument, ownership target and whether the fund will lead; the current site says $20M committed capital while the April 2025 launch post described $40M, so fund-size headlines should not be used to infer check capacity.

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 achieve web2-grade safety, recourse, fraud prevention and consumer experience; then use composability, programmable money, non-custodial ownership, transparency and global 24/7 access to deliver step-change utility. He favors strategic partnerships where ether.fi's users, liquidity, validator capacity and distribution materially improve a company's odds—not passive capital alone.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

George Christopher

Principal

85%

CoinFund

Check: No standard personal ticket is published. CoinFund's 2026 articles identify the firm as lead on Trace's $32M Series A and Edge Markets' $29M Series A, with George authoring or contributing to the theses; round size is not equivalent to CoinFund's check or George's authority.

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-border settlement, prefunding, last-mile liquidity and fragmented banking rails—then tests whether stablecoins and high-throughput networks produce a simpler product for non-crypto-native users. He also tracks financial rails for prediction markets and other emerging on-chain venues.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

Yousef Albabtain

Partner

85%

Shorooq Partners

Check: No personal check range is published. Shorooq invests regionally from idea/pre-seed through late-stage growth via different vehicles. Founders should identify the stage-appropriate fund and not infer a check size from Yousef's Partner title or from announced company rounds.

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 founders, defensible technology, a locally important problem, evidence of commercial demand, and the capacity to unlock productivity or access in sectors such as fintech, enterprise AI, retail, logistics and real estate.

Pre-SeedSeedEarly Stage

Rodney Yesep

Partner

85%

Hack VC

Check: No personal or standard ticket is published. Hack VC is an earliest-stage investor and its articles identify the firm as leading rounds at pre-seed, seed and Series A; announced round leadership does not reveal Rodney's individual check authority.

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 chains that make the payment asset itself the gas and abstract crypto friction; and DeFi ecosystems whose consensus, liquidity and incentives align applications, validators and users. He looks for strong teams, correct problem selection and evidence of compounding ecosystem traction.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Anay Simunovic

Investor

85%

Blockchain Capital

Check: No personal check range or unilateral authority is publicly disclosed. Blockchain Capital is a multi-stage investor in equity and crypto assets; its September 2026 NG.CASH article announces a $15M BCAP investment, but that figure is a specific firm investment co-authored with a GP, not Anay's standard ticket.

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 platforms for underserved young users, stablecoins embedded in existing distribution, and portable social identity that lets communities create specialized software without restarting their networks. At seed, she weights founder character and learning velocity above a rigid initial thesis.

SeedEarly StageMulti-Stage

Yele Bademosi

Founder & CEO

85%

Nestcoin

Building crypto infrastructure for Africa through Nestcoin. Focus on making crypto accessible to everyday Africans through exchanges, education, and local-first products.

Pre-seedSeed

Prashanth Swaminathan

Venture Partner

85%

Woodstock Fund

Check: Woodstock does not publish a personal check range for Prashanth on its site. Third-party databases estimate firm ranges, but those estimates and portfolio round sizes are not treated as evidence of his individual authority.

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 links web3 with traditional and emerging technology; regulated, risk-managed financial rails that bring real users and sticky capital onchain; and gaming or creator experiences where virtual ownership improves the product. His institutional background is especially relevant to capital markets, regulation, risk, and the bridge between traditional finance and digital assets.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Kunal Savjani

Venture Partner

85%

Shorooq Partners

Check: Shorooq invests across the equity journey from pre-seed through late-stage growth, but neither the firm nor Kunal publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals are not treated as check-size evidence.

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 through scale and global frontier companies where technology modernizes financial access, payments, wealth, business operations, or digital ownership. Shorooq's blockchain thesis favors crypto augmenting existing consumer behavior and solving real-world problems rather than replacing useful behavior with complexity.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Samuel Harrison

Managing Partner

85%

Lightspeed Faction

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A using equity and tokens; its fund commitments and disclosed financing totals should not be interpreted as Samuel's standard check.

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, and other foundational systems. He combines a long-duration belief in blockchain with a pragmatic demand for real utility, technically credible teams, and precise execution through volatile market cycles.

SeedSeries AToken Networks

Elijah Fox

Investment Partner

85%

Variant Fund

Check: Variant does not publish a reliable personal check range. Elijah works at the earliest stages, but founders should confirm fund vehicle, allocation, ownership, lead/co-lead appetite, token/equity structure and reserves with the partnership.

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, risk-aware primitives beyond speculation, while specialized AI can beat general models when domain reasoning is idiosyncratic and output quality can be objectively verified. Across both, infrastructure should expand user agency and support real applications.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Mukaya Panich

CEO of SCB 10X

85%

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.

Series ASeries BSeries C

Tushar Jain

Managing Partner

83%

Multicoin Capital

Open finance and tokenization. Strong views on stablecoins, DePIN, and crypto in emerging markets.

SeedSeries AToken

Pascual Cortes-Monroy

Principal

82%

Northzone (Web3)

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Pascual invests at early stage through Northzone; founders should confirm current round fit directly and should not infer his allocation from portfolio-company financing totals.

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. His portfolio spans AI for legal work, medical analysis, debt collection, sales, payments, and mental healthcare, indicating an applied, industry-specific orientation.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Jeff Fluhr

Venture Partner

82%

Craft Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Craft attributes investments from seed through growth to Jeff, but public round totals are company financings and not his personal allocation authority.

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-efficient growth, and has extended that operating lens into payments and AI applications. His recent Venture Partner transition preserves an early-stage, marketplace-oriented role while Craft's broader strategy shifts toward later stages and other categories.

SeedSeries ASeries B

Chris Ahn

Partner

80%

Haun Ventures

Check: No reliable Chris-specific ticket range is public. Haun invests from seed through scale and announced $1 billion of new early- and later-stage capital in May 2026; round evidence includes leading or co-leading seed, Series A and an $82M growth financing, but round size is not the same as Haun's check.

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 finance—stablecoin payments and FX, secure blockspace, onchain real-world assets, business accounts, custody and long-duration Bitcoin products—while testing whether governance, monetization and scale mechanics actually fit the product.

SeedSeries AGrowth

David Lofthouse

Venture Partner

80%

Clocktower Ventures

Check: Clocktower Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; it reports more than $350M in committed capital.

David Lofthouse invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, with emphasis on the United States and Latin America.

SeedSeries AGrowth

Adriana Saman

Managing Director

80%

Clocktower Ventures

Check: Clocktower Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; it reports more than $350M in committed capital.

Adriana Saman invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, with emphasis on the United States and Latin America.

SeedSeries AGrowth

Darius Rugys

Partner

80%

Maven 11 Capital

Check: Maven 11 does not publish Darius's personal check range or decision authority. Third-party investor databases estimate ranges, but those figures are not treated as verified evidence. The current firm describes an early-stage venture strategy without attaching a check range to him.

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, permissionless networks. Its current third-fund focus has shifted from foundational rails toward founders using those rails to reinvent credit, payments, stablecoins, and trading. Darius's own public comments emphasize extensive research into the actual product and business case rather than following a crowded token market.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Yoann Turpin

Co-founder

80%

Wintermute Ventures

Check: Wintermute Ventures currently publishes flexible $500K–$5M+ global investments, primarily Seed and Series A, using proprietary capital and often leading or co-leading. This is a firm range—not Yoann's personal promise—and the firm also makes selective later-stage investments.

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 financial and enterprise technologies across the crypto value chain where its trading, liquidity, governance, integration and treasury expertise can materially accelerate long-term adoption.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Amit Chu

Co-Founder and Partner

80%

Verda Ventures

Check: Verda's live FAQ says the MiniPay Fund typically invests $100K–$250K initially at earlier stages and $500K–$2M later, seeks roughly 5–10% early ownership and 2–6% later, and can be first check or co-invest. These are current vehicle ranges, not Amit's personal angel checks.

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, targeting payments, remittances, identity, banking and consumer applications that can serve underbanked users. The broader thesis is that stablecoins become valuable when embedded invisibly in faster, cheaper and more accessible financial services, not when sold as speculation.

Idea and IncubationPre-SeedSeed

Augustus (Augie) Ilag

Investment Partner, Head of Asia

80%

CMT Digital

Check: Firm-level public estimate: $100K-$5M; typical check around $1.5M

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 infrastructure that connects real-time local rails with stablecoins while directly owning licensing, liquidity, compliance, and settlement complexity.

SeedSeries A

Kaycee Suit

Executive Assistant

80%

Clocktower Ventures

Check: Clocktower Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; it reports more than $350M in committed capital.

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.

SeedSeries AGrowth

Omer Zabit

Partner

79%

Shorooq Partners

Check: No personal check range is disclosed. Shorooq's Bedaya strategy invests from pre-seed through early rounds, while the broader equity platform reaches late-stage growth. Founders should identify the relevant Shorooq vehicle instead of assuming Omer can deploy across every strategy or size.

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 frontier markets who can prove customer pull, build high-performance teams, and turn a large regional problem into a scalable category. His public comments emphasize founder mindset, operating quality and measurable execution over polished storytelling alone.

Pre-SeedSeedEarly Stage

Sam Hallene

Investment Partner

79%

CMT Digital

Check: $100K-$5M; public directory sweet spot approximately $1.5M

Hallene takes a generalist, early-stage approach within blockchain, spanning DeFi, stablecoins and payments, DePIN, sector-specific chains, and core infrastructure. Public interviews emphasize portfolio construction, long-term founder relationships, and the conviction that more global financial activity will move onto blockchain rails.

SeedSeries A

Kell Reilly

Partner

79%

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Check: Neither Airtree nor Kell publishes his personal check range or decision authority. The firm describes itself as seed-first and able to support companies over time; portfolio round sizes and prior-firm deals are not treated as evidence of his current range.

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 whether he is excited to work with the team. He looks for founders who combine the passion to become the best, humility to keep learning, and the courage to remain stubbornly optimistic.

SeedEarly StageGrowth

Herbie Fu

Partner

77%

Hack VC

Check: No personal check range is publicly disclosed. Hack VC says it partners at the earliest stages across crypto, AI and frontier technology, and the firm led GAIB's seed round; neither the round nor third-party ticket estimates establish Herbie's standard or unilateral check authority.

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, financing cloud and data-center growth while opening participation in AI economics. His prior fund-building and advisory work across Asia supports a cross-border ecosystem lens as well as a founder/operator perspective.

Pre-SeedSeedEarliest Stage

Jan-Dirk Lueders

Co-Founder

76%

CMT Digital

Check: $100K-$5M, with a reported $1.5M sweet spot, according to an external investor directory; confirm current sizing directly with 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 philosophy is deliberately agile: combine complementary people, pursue the best trading and investment opportunities available, and move on when the evidence no longer supports them.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

Gabriel Abed

Founder

75%

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.

SeedStrategic

Llew Claasen

Managing Partner

75%

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.

SeedSeries A

Kwame Rugunda

Founding Partner

75%

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.

Pre-seedSeed

Shane Shin

Founding Partner

75%

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.

SeedSeries A

Michael Chobanian

Founder

75%

CryptoDex

Pioneer of crypto adoption in Ukraine. Building crypto exchange and blockchain infrastructure for Eastern Europe through CryptoDex.

Seed

Josh Zoffer

Principal

75%

Clocktower Ventures

Check: Clocktower Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; it reports more than $350M in committed capital.

Josh Zoffer invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, with emphasis on the United States and Latin America.

SeedSeries AGrowth

Ned Daoro

Managing Director

75%

Clocktower Ventures

Check: Clocktower Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; it reports more than $350M in committed capital.

Ned Daoro invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, with emphasis on the United States and Latin America.

SeedSeries AGrowth

Steve Drobny

Partner

75%

Clocktower Ventures

Check: Clocktower Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; it reports more than $350M in committed capital.

Steve Drobny invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, with emphasis on the United States and Latin America.

SeedSeries AGrowth

Shalini Haupt

Associate

75%

Clocktower Ventures

Check: Clocktower Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; it reports more than $350M in committed capital.

Shalini Haupt invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, with emphasis on the United States and Latin America.

SeedSeries AGrowth

Natalie Charney

Principal

75%

Clocktower Ventures

Check: Clocktower Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; it reports more than $350M in committed capital.

Natalie Charney invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, with emphasis on the United States and Latin America.

SeedSeries AGrowth

Rabeel Warraich

Founder & CEO

75%

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.

Pre-seedSeed

Daniel Vogel

Co-founder & CEO

75%

Bitso Ventures

Bitso is Mexico's and Latin America's leading crypto exchange. Bitso Ventures invests in crypto and fintech across Latin America.

SeedSeries A

Marcelo Cavazzoli

Founder & CEO

75%

Lemon Ventures

Built Lemon Cash into Latin America's leading crypto app with 2M+ users. Lemon Ventures invests in crypto infrastructure for emerging markets.

Pre-seedSeed

Ben Savage

Partner

70%

Clocktower Ventures

Check: Clocktower Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; it reports more than $350M in committed capital.

Ben Savage invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, with emphasis on the United States and Latin America.

SeedSeries AGrowth

Erika Hull

Principal

70%

Clocktower Ventures

Check: Clocktower Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; it reports more than $350M in committed capital.

Erika Hull invests or supports investments through Clocktower Ventures's published strategy: Invest opportunistically from seed through growth in extraordinary teams reinventing financial services, with emphasis on the United States and Latin America.

SeedSeries AGrowth

Nabeel Koshak

CEO

65%

Saudi Venture Capital (SVC)

SVC is Saudi Arabia's government-backed venture capital fund, with growing interest in fintech and digital assets.

SeedSeries ASeries B

Wyatt Lonergan

Head of Ventures

65%

Circle Ventures

Leads Circle Ventures, investing in the USDC ecosystem and projects that advance digital dollar adoption worldwide.

SeedSeries A

Ranga Deshmukh

Investment Team

30%

Hashed Emergent

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Darshan Gandhi

Research Analyst

30%

Polaris Fund

IncubationPre-seedSeed

Sam Ruskin

Investment Associate

30%

Reciprocal Ventures

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Vikash Singh

Principal

30%

Stillmark

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Adam Gebner

Associate

30%

ego death capital

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Thanaarmates Arriyavat

Vice Chairman

30%

KXVC

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Pratyush Shah

Investments Lead

30%

CoinSwitch Ventures

Pre-seedSeed

Michael H. Conn

Chairman, CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer

30%

Rule72

SeedSeries AGrowth

Leo Zhao

Investment Director

30%

MEXC Ventures

Series AGrowthStrategic

Pranav Pandya

Investment Principal

30%

Superscrypt

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

John Ng Pangilinan

Managing Partner

30%

Signum Capital

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Kate Wang

Manager

30%

Onigiri Capital

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Irmansyah Putera

Principal

30%

Onigiri Capital

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Qin En Looi

Partner

30%

Saison Capital

SeedSeries A

Rinko Kawamoto

Analyst

30%

SBI Ven Capital

SeedSeries AGrowth

Miki Isakari

Investment Manager

30%

MZ Web3 Fund

SeedSeries A

Alvin Ng

Angel Investor & Founder

30%
Pre-seedSeed

Bryan Vong

Investment Manager

30%

Foresight Ventures

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Jack Simison

Venture Investor

30%

Nascent

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

Funds focused on Payments

SCB 10X

Bangkok, Thailand

AUM: $200M

9 people71 investments

Pantera Capital

Menlo Park

AUM: $5B

23 people16 investments

Multicoin Capital

Austin

AUM: $1B

15 people19 investments

Newtown Partners

Cape Town, South Africa

AUM: $30M

2 people23 investments

Adaverse

Lagos, Nigeria

AUM: $20M

1 people21 investments

Mercy Corps Ventures (Web3)

Nairobi, Kenya

AUM: $50M

28 people0 investments

Circle Ventures

Boston

15 people2 investments

Coinbase Ventures

San Francisco

2 people7 investments

Norrsken Impact Fund

Kigali, Rwanda

AUM: $50M

12 people0 investments

Clocktower Ventures

Santa Monica, California

10 people0 investments

Flat6Labs Tunis (Web3)

Tunis, Tunisia

AUM: $5M

8 people0 investments

Newtopia VC

Buenos Aires, Argentina / Miami, Florida, United States / Latin America

AUM: $50M

4 people0 investments

ARI10

Istanbul, Turkey

AUM: $10M

4 people0 investments

Nestcoin

Lagos, Nigeria

AUM: $10M

1 people2 investments

Signum Capital

Singapore

3 people0 investments

ARK Invest

St. Petersburg

2 people0 investments

Sora Ventures

Taipei

AUM: $1B+

1 people0 investments

Bitso Ventures

Mexico City, Mexico

AUM: $30M

1 people1 investments

Lemon Ventures

Buenos Aires, Argentina

AUM: $10M

1 people1 investments

MZ Web3 Fund

Tokyo, Japan

AUM: $100M

1 people0 investments

ego death capital

Austin

AUM: $100M

1 people0 investments

17Sigma

Buenos Aires

AUM: $30M

0 people0 investments

21M Capital

Tel Aviv

AUM: $100M

0 people0 investments

3one4 Capital

Bengaluru

AUM: $570M

0 people0 investments

468 Capital

Berlin

AUM: $400M

0 people0 investments

4Di Capital

Cape Town

AUM: $37M deployed

0 people0 investments

500 Global

Palo Alto

AUM: $2.3B+

0 people0 investments

7 Gate Ventures

Vancouver

AUM: $24M

0 people0 investments

ABN AMRO Ventures

Amsterdam

AUM: €150M

0 people0 investments

Accion Venture Lab

Cambridge

AUM: $61.6M

0 people0 investments

Acrew Capital

San Francisco

AUM: $1.7B+

0 people0 investments

Addition

New York City

AUM: $7B

0 people0 investments

Alumni Ventures

Manchester

AUM: $1.5B

0 people0 investments

Apex Innovative Investments Ventures

Toronto

AUM: $35M

0 people0 investments

Apis Partners

London

AUM: $2.3B

0 people0 investments

Atomico

London

AUM: $1.2B+

0 people0 investments

Blizzard Fund

New York

AUM: $200M+

0 people0 investments

Canaan Partners

Stamford

AUM: $6.8B

0 people0 investments

Canapi Ventures

Wilmington

AUM: $650M+

0 people0 investments

Capstone Partners

Seoul

AUM: KRW 502B

0 people0 investments

Chain Reaction Capital

Boston

AUM: $12M target

0 people0 investments

Chiratae Ventures

Bengaluru

AUM: $1.3B

0 people0 investments

Crowberry Capital

Reykjavik

AUM: €90M

0 people0 investments

Digital Horizon

George Town

AUM: $350M

0 people0 investments

Draper Dragon

San Mateo

AUM: $80M

0 people0 investments

Earlybird Venture Capital

Berlin

AUM: €2.5B

0 people0 investments

GV

Mountain View

AUM: $10B

0 people0 investments

Gilgamesh Ventures

New York

AUM: $20M

0 people0 investments

Globis Capital Partners

Tokyo

AUM: ¥180B

0 people0 investments

GnosisVC

Zug

AUM: $40M

0 people0 investments

Golden Gate Ventures

Singapore

AUM: $300M

0 people0 investments

Golden Ventures

Toronto

AUM: $100M

0 people0 investments

Granite Asia

Singapore

AUM: $8.5B

0 people0 investments

Hanaco Ventures

Herzliya

AUM: $2B

0 people0 investments

Helios Investment Partners

London

AUM: $3B+

0 people0 investments

Hypra Fund

Kyiv

AUM: $25M

0 people0 investments

IAN Alpha Fund

New Delhi

AUM: $100M

0 people0 investments

IAN Group

New Delhi

AUM: ₹1,400Cr invested

0 people0 investments

IDC Ventures

Copenhagen

AUM: $800M+

0 people0 investments

IDG Capital

Beijing

AUM: $23B

0 people0 investments

Inazuma Capital

Tokyo

1 people0 investments

Index Ventures

London

AUM: $11.7B

0 people0 investments

Inflection Point Ventures

Gurugram

AUM: $110M

0 people0 investments

Insight Partners

New York City

AUM: $90B

0 people0 investments

JAFCO

Tokyo

AUM: ¥1.2T cumulative

0 people0 investments

Launch Africa Ventures

Trianon

AUM: $36M

0 people0 investments

LeapFrog Investments

London

AUM: $2.8B

0 people0 investments

Life.SREDA VC

Singapore

AUM: $140M+

0 people0 investments

LoftyInc Capital

Lagos

AUM: $43M first close

0 people0 investments

Lotte Ventures Japan

Tokyo

AUM: ¥7.5B

0 people0 investments

MUFG Innovation Partners

Tokyo

AUM: $650M

0 people0 investments

Marina Bay Labs

Singapore

AUM: $250M

0 people0 investments

Metaplanet Ventures

Tokyo

AUM: $25M

0 people0 investments

Mouro Capital

London

AUM: $1B+

0 people0 investments

Prelude

London

AUM: $30M

0 people0 investments

RRE Ventures

New York

AUM: $2.5B+

0 people0 investments

Ripple Ventures

Toronto

AUM: $10M

0 people0 investments

RockTree Capital

Beijing

1 people0 investments

Runa Capital

Luxembourg City

AUM: $427M

0 people0 investments

Syntax Capital

Boca Raton

1 people0 investments

The Venture Dept.

New York

AUM: $5.1M

0 people0 investments

Unitus Ventures

Bengaluru

AUM: $50M

0 people0 investments

Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures

Lagos

AUM: $60M

0 people0 investments

Viola Group

Tel Aviv

AUM: $6B+

0 people0 investments

Vision Plus Capital

Hangzhou

AUM: $2B

0 people0 investments

i-nest capital

Tokyo

AUM: ¥73B

0 people0 investments

Anthemis Group

AUM: $1.2B

0 people0 investments

Arche Capital

Austin

AUM: $100M target

0 people0 investments

Bogazici Ventures

Istanbul

AUM: $250M+

0 people0 investments

CommerzVentures

AUM: €550M

0 people0 investments

FirstCheck Africa

AUM: $10M

0 people0 investments

Flashpoint Capital

Riga

AUM: $600M

0 people0 investments

Flybridge

New York

AUM: $1B

0 people0 investments

Foresight Ventures

Singapore

1 people0 investments

Fred Ehrsam

San Francisco

AUM: $12.7B

0 people0 investments

GMO VenturePartners

AUM: ¥30.3B

0 people0 investments

HV Capital

AUM: €2.8B

0 people0 investments

HongShan

1 people0 investments

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