# Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Singapore in May 2026 ## Global Founders Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 10 - 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. ## LuneX Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology LuneX Ventures is a spin-out from Singapore based VC firm Golden Gate Ventures. LuneX has a global mandate to invest exclusively in high-growth blockchain companies and cryptocurrency assets. Founded by Golden Gate’s former Head of Growth, Kenrick Drijkoningen. ## Vertex Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software. ## Alpha JWC Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Jakarta Pusat, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services Alpha JWC Ventures is an Indonesia-focused value-adding venture capital firm with expertise in FinTech and the Consumer tech sector. Alpha JWC Ventures is an independent and institutional firm that believes in investing in a disciplined manner combined with an active portfolio management approach. The firm was founded in 2015 and is based inJakarta Pusat, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia. ## Balaji Srinivasan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide. ## Golden Gate Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services Golden Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm investing across Southeast Asia. Since 2011, the firm has launched four funds, managed US$250M AUM, and invested in 60+ companies in over 7 countries in Asia. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies driven by the rising consumer class in Southeast Asia. ## GMO VenturePartners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it. ## AlphaCoin Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet AlphaCoin Fund is a venture capital focused on investing blockchain technology and tokens. Since 2017, AlphaCoin has invested in over 80 leading blockchain technology projects both home and abroad, with a total investment amount in exceed of 90 million USD. Our investment team consists of professionals from backgrounds covering traditional andcrypto venture capital investing, blockchain technology and crypto exchange operations. AlphaCoin Fund has founded strategic partnerships with both top-tier venture capital institutions such as Zhen Fund, Sequoia Capital, Danhua Capital, etc and service providers . With its connections in the blockchain industry, AlphaCoin Fund has been long dedicated to building an orbicular industry chain with its partners, so as to provide value-added services such as technology assistance, business development advising, marketing, partnership building and exchange listing consulting. ## Alameda Research - Type: VC Fund - Location: Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong. ## Vickers Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Mobile Funding a Better World: We invest in deep tech sectors globally to help solve real world problems. ## Signum Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology They are a Singapore-based firm that exclusively consults in Blockchain-enabled companies. Their mission is to realize the future of Blockchain economy by consulting in game changing projects and companies. They participate in Pre-sale stages of Token Generation Events and Equity investments. ## 1982 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Early stage venture capital investor focused on fintech in Southeast Asia ## Wavemaker Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds. ## HashKey Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology HashKey Capital is an investment firm. ## Moonwhale Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency Moonwhale is an STO Financial Advisory offering companies strategic advice on STO process & structure, as well as token issuance incl. lifecycle management and secondary market on-boarding for their projects. Moonwhale is also building an End-to-End Security Token Offering (STO) Investment Platform will cater to investors looking to invest inSTO projects, and to companies looking to raise capital through STO to finance business expansion or new ventures. Investors will be presented with vetted projects incl. due- diligence reports and will be able to manage their investments through our platform. ## Polychain - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Fenbushi Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia. Founded in Shanghai in 2015 by veterans across both blockchain and traditional financial industries, it has to date supported over 80 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape myriad industries such as finance,healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods. Fenbushi’s mission is to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem, and actively works as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio projects. ## CMS Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services CMS is a principal investment company that focuses on investing in the crypto-asset ecosystem. The firm plans to invest in both liquid and illiquid crypto tokens, as well as equity interests in select businesses. ## gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services gCC (gumi Cryptos Capital) is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem. ## Kenetic - Type: VC Fund - Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts. ## Startup-O - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Finance, Artificial Intelligence Startup-O is a global venture platform for startup assessments, investments & cross-border scaling. It is well recognized for its 'Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs' ethos, data-driven startup assessments, and venture scaling networks for 'post revenue' startups. Established in 2016, Startup-O is trusted by 2000+ startupsfrom 40+ countries by mid-2021. A proprietary methodology combining experts-led online evaluations and ranking algorithms determines top-rated tech opportunities. This provides deserving founders access to associated venture funds and global partner networks spread across 15 countries that help build the startup venture collaboratively. 24 companies on the platform have raised seed to pre-series A size funds successfully, while another 20+ companies are engaged with cross-border venture scaling and scores of other startups have benefitted from the community resources. Startup-O has also partnered with Enterprise Singapore to enable 17 first-time founders with SG Founder grant and has helped commercialize the deep tech company incubated as a partner with Deep Tech institution A*Star Accelerate. It has established its presence with AseanLabs in Japan in May 2021.In 2019, its awarded the No.1 slot in Asia for its outstanding contribution to building the startup ecosystem in a contest among 247 participants including leading VCs, incubators, accelerators, and corporate innovation entities. ## SNZ Holding - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology SNZ Holding was founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists. ## Toivo Annus - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce. ## LD Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem. ## ZBS CAPITAL - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer. ## Hashed - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco. ## Hashkey - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem. ## Mirana Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming We invest in projects and funds. Our Partners have built multiple organizations including: Windranger Labs, BitDAO, Dekrypt Capital... ## ArkStream Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Read writing from ArkStream Capital on Medium. Crypto-native web3 venture fund. Accelerate the decentralization on ARK. Every day, ArkStream Capital and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. ## Jungle Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## DWF Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology DWF Labs Global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm ## Antler - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now! ## Foresight Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Foresight Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency industry. They invest early and make quick judgments, and their ecosystem, which includes the crypto-exchange Bitget and the crypto-wallet BitKeep, provides extensive assistance. They are committed to identifying disruptive innovation prospectsfor the future decades in the Web3.0 space, while maintaining transparency, multidisciplinary collaboration, internationalization, and long-termism, and offering a complete spectrum of assistance for initiatives from zero to one till success. Foresight Ventures was founded in 2021 and is based in Singapore. ## 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. ## Incuba Alpha - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency Incuba Alpha is a crypto fund derived from Japan with focus on early entrepreneurs in Decentralized Finance (Defi), DAO, and Web3. ## Kosmos Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Enabling multi-chain future with core infrastructure and innovative dapps ## Partech - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages. ## Saison Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology They invest in Seed to Series A companies across South East Asia and India. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked. ## Gate Ventures Plc - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Finance, Cryptocurrency Gate Ventures invests in the media, e-commerce, consultancy, and operational projects, music, and theatre production businesses. ## FTX Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software For builders, by builders. We back great teams building great products. ## Baksh Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Cyber Security Birbal Singh Bajaj, The Director of Baksh Capital is known for being an effective communicator and motivator, second generation entrepreneur and a business leader. ## Fundamental Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Software A Web3 specialized VC fund, investing in the fundamental innovations that reshape the economy and the society. ## FBG Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital market. ## LedgerPrime - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services LedgerPrime is a quantitative and systematic investment firm in the Digital Asset space. With a data centric approach and a commitment to rapid innovation and technology, LedgerPrime seeks to become a global leader in generating sustained and superior risk-adjusted returns. ## DeFiance Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Defiance Capital is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focused cryptoasset fund that combines fundamental research with an activist investment approach. ## Token Bay Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Token Bay Capital is an early-stage venture fund that invests in digital assets and blockchain-related companies with a focus on Asia. ## Insignia Ventures Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology Insignia Ventures Partners is a venture capital firm that specializes in startup investment. Insignia Ventures Partners is an investment firm managed by a former Sequoia Asia partner, Yinglan Tan. ## AU21 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space ## Blockchain.com Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech Blockchain.com is the most popular place to securely buy, store, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other top cryptocurrencies. ## Hack VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Hack VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the cryptocurrency, fintech, and marketplaces sectors. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. # 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