# Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in India in May 2026 ## Amrish Rau - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs. ## Blume Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services Blume Ventures provides pre-series A and early stage funding to tech-focused/tech-enabled ventures. They are typically the first institutional investors in their portfolio companies and invest for about 8-10 years. They are proponents of a collaborative approach and like to co-invest with like-minded angels and seed funds. They then providefollow-on investments to their stellar portfolio companies. ## Jitendra Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter. ## Better Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Clara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Better is a micro venture firm that creates and invests in innovative business which deliver value & impact, and have a strong focus on profitability. Better Labs is our operating portfolio of product businesses that we create and fund and includes ReadyContacts, PicBackMan, DataDoctor, Magik, Simple wall, and Maroun Place. ## BEENEXT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally. ## Kunal Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Kunal Shah ## Prime Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Prime Venture Partners is a natural destination for the startups targeting global markets ## Peak XV Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce We help the daring build legendary companies. ## Matrix Partners India - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce We work with visionary founders of early-stage startups to amplify their intrinsic talent. ## Venture Highway - Type: VC Fund - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Software Venture Highway teams up with the next generation of entrepreneurs by providing guidance and capital to early-stage nascent ideas in technology.We are looking to team up with founders who demonstrate a passion and ability to create world-class businesses. If you’ve got the ability, drive, desire, passion, perseverance, and all that ‘good’ (butreally really painful) stuff then you’ve reached the right place. ## 3one4 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology At 3one4, we are biased towards action and channel the relevant resources to support generational innovation engines out of India. We partner with early-stage companies that are mission-oriented and are setting new standards for inclusive value creation and sustainable growth. ## Kalaari Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India.Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them throughevery aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success. ## Kevin Lin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader. ## IvyCap Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology IvyCap Ventures has launched a venture capital fund guided by an entrepreneur-centric investment approach. We celebrate excellence, innovation, fresh ideas in sunrise industries and, most importantly, the entrepreneurial zeal that is at the core of a business venture.Our vision is to build a portfolio of world-class enterprises, driven byexceptional entrepreneurs and powered by IvyCap Ventures. ## Kae Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services Kae Capital is a pioneer of early-stage investing in India, focused on tech startups, and has been investing in India for 10+ years. ## General Catalyst - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet Investing in powerful, positive change that endures ## Singapore Angel Network - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care SGAN is an early stage VC anchored by the multi billion dollar Thakral Group of Companies and has investments across India, Singapore and the USA. ## Global Founders Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel. ## Elevation Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce Elevation Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on consumers, enterprises, logistics, and B2B. ## Flourish Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Redwood City, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders. ## Seth Weinstein - Type: Angel - Location: Weston, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Seth Weinstein is a Managing Member at ZAX LLC. ## Lightspeed India Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Lightspeed Venture Partners has invested in direct and cross-border. They invest across several stages and sectors, including technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in sectors such as advertising and media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail. ## Kunal Bahl - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software Kunal is the co-founder and CEO of Snapdeal Private Limited, India's largest no-frills, value focused marketplace. Previously, he has also worked at companies such as Deloitte Consulting and Microsoft in the US. Kunal is an engineer from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a business degree from The Wharton School. He loves backpackingthrough remote parts of the world, savoring unique cuisines and studying development politics in India. ## Varanium Capital Advisors - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology Varanium Capital Advisors is a SEBI-registered portfolio management company that provides investment solutions to high networth individuals (HNI) and institutional clients, through customized investment products across a vast spectrum of traditional and alternate asset classes. Varanium Capital Advisors is an investment advisor to Varanium AssetManagement. Varanium Asset Management offers US Dollar denominated investment opportunities across debt, equity, and structured notes through its funds to offshore investors.Varanium Capital Advisors was founded on 1990 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India. ## Xseed Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Education Xseed Partners is a part of Indian Start-up echo system and specialize in Startup Mentoring, Investment Advisory, Syndication and Consulting ## Sandeep Nailwal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering. ## Sriram Krishnan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Sriram Krishnan - SVP Product, Marketing & Partnerships @ HeadSpin ## VentureSouq - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio. ## Ashneer Grover - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Ashneer Grover is the CEO and Co-Founder of BharatPe. Attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. ## growX ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Software, Health Care growX is a B2B and deep tech focused early-stage investment firm ## Anand Chandrasekaran - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University. ## JITO Angel Network - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, Health Care, E-Commerce JITO Angel Network is backed by JITO's 15000+ Industrialits, Businessmen and HNI's of the Jain community spread worldwide. They provide Business support that accelerates the growth of startups. ## Quona Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world. ## GenNext Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning GenNext Ventures is a venture capital firm specialized in early stage investments. ## Cloud Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet Early-stage Venture Capital for the Cloud Economy ## Binny Bansal - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Apps Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering. ## Lalit Keshre - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech Lalit Keshre is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Groww. ## Mumbai Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage Mumbai Angels Network is a sector-agnostic, new age, early-stage, venture investment platform with a diverse membership base, spanning the globe. Today, the network is 600+ members strong, across 70 locations all over the world. They have a 170+ strong portfolio with over 70 exits and next rounds of investments. ## Accel - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce First partner to exceptional teams everywhere ## Rajan Anandan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago. ## Malpani Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence We fund frugal Innovation in India ## Jungle Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early and growth-stage startups in Southeast Asia and India, focused on building category-defining businesses that stand the test of time. ## Ujjwal Sahay - Type: Angel - Location: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Ujjwal Sahay is the Founder & CEO of Ment Tech Labs - An Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider. Ujjwal backed Ment Tech Labs with $60,000 of seed round to start scaling the Fintech products globally which made Ment Tech Labs as the only complete Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider.Ujjwal is a passionatetechnologist and successful startup executive with 5+ years of experience in Fintech Solutions Development, Engineering, and Marketing—focusing on lean methodology, design prototyping, mobile apps, SaaS platforms, and APIs. Ujjwal's leading advocated for customer-centric design, UX, and the thoughtful application of technological innovations. Ujjwal also led high-performing product launch, engineering, Dev-ops and QA teams—both on and off-shore.Fintech, Blockchain, Machine Learning & Cryptocurrency are few of his field of interest and expertise. Writing about the technology used to be his hobby always and this turned into a profession as well with two of his published books, Hack-X-Crypt and X-Shell. ## Omnivore - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming Omnivore funds entrepreneurs building the future ofagriculture and food systems. ## PayU GPO - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments PayU India website homepage ## Coinbase Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. ## Polychain - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets. ## EMVC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software EMVC is a next-generation venture capital fund investing in fintech entrepreneurs that are transforming India and other high-growth markets. The firm partners with the world's top global financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and investors. The most transformational financial technology come ## Venture Gurukool - Type: VC Fund - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments We are early investors in stellar teams inspired by successes overseas, which are localized to address the massive India opportunity. Ventures in our Gurukool attain unparalleled impact mentorship through our vast industry networks in India and abroad and greatly enhance their likelihood of raising follow on investments through our InternationalRoadshows. ## Earlsfield Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Real Estate We provide venture capital investment for early-stage startups & business models run by aspirational founders, with the ability to nurture and scale organizations | Earlsfield Capital # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co