Top 10 Payments VC Funds &amp; Investors in Cyprus (May 2026)

Mobile TeleSystems OJSC ("MTS") is the leading telecommunications group in Russia and the CIS, offering mobile and fixed voice, broadband, pay TV as well as content and entertainment services in one of the world's fastest growing regions. Including its subsidiaries, as of June 30, 2014, the Group serviced over 100 million mobilesubscribers in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Turkmenistan and Belarus, a region that boasts a total population of more than 200 million. The Group’s fixed business, as of June 30, 2014, had a total of 12.390 million households passed and 7.294 million residential subscribers.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Retail, Big Data
Stage:Seed, Private Equity
Geography: Cyprus, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Seed $1M–$1.2M
Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ozon — leading e-commerce platform in Russia, first russian marketplace
SWiP — SWiP is designed FOR small business owners and small business managers who are working to retain their current customer baseThose who WANT/ NEED to improve product quality, invest in increasing revenue of the point of saleSWiP is an easy-to-use tool for winning back and retaining customers with automatic activity boost, which saves andincreases revenueWe help to retain and win back over 65% of customers for only a 10% discount on the checkUNLIKE most of the industry, SWiP uses artificial intelligence to make decisions on launching campaigns for customer retention and win-back and combines payment and guest loyalty points calculation into a single transaction, creating the ultimate convenience in payment.

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SIBF is a vast network of executive peers who leverage their collective knowledge, contacts and experiences

Investment focus

Industry: PaaS, FinTech, Internet
Stage:Seed
Geography: Cyprus

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Round size: Seed $4M–$6M
Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

BridgerPay — We’re solving the toughest payment challenges to deliver growth-ready payment infrastructure.

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APA Venture Partners is a pre-seed venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with the next generation of rule-breakers to build great companies.

Investment focus

Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Marketplace
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Canada, Cyprus

Investor stats

Total investments: 16
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

Vend Park — Unlock the true value of your parking asset with a fully digital parking access and revenue control system
Wolf — Wolf is an enterprise SaaS solution for temporary staffing agencies to power their talent marketplaces and help them match their customers with the right talent within hours instead of days. Entrepreneurs and staffing companies can launch their own UpWork style talent marketplace within hours for any industry: from healthcare (similar to: Nomadhealth, Clipboard health, Intelycare etc.), hospitality (similar to: Pared, JitJatJo, Instawork) to light industrial to name a few. Features include: Branded Marketplace, Branded iOS/Android apps, Marketing tools, accounting tools, Billing, Invoicing, Timesheets management, native W2 payroll processing, AI hiring and scheduling and more.
Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality

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The Leading One-Stop-Shop for Cryptocurrency Trading.

Investment focus

Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin
Stage:Seed, Series B
Geography: Canada, Cyprus, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

GigaStar — GigaStar brings YouTube Creators & Fans together as partners. Fans invest in YouTube Creators and Creators get funding while building an army of promoters.
EDX Markets — Edx description website
Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality

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Funding teams that are creating game-changing blockchain applications.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Stage:Seed
Geography: Germany, Cyprus, Georgia

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

peaq — Build decentralized applications and DePINs for vehicles, robots and devices, while empowering users to govern and earn as connected machines provide services.
Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality
peaq — Build decentralized applications for vehicles, machines and devices on the peaq network.

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Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 194
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.1M
Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
jiritsu.network — Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute.
Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.

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How do you navigate your eCommerce global payment processing? Unlimint has over 500 payment options and leading-edge banking services waiting for your digital company to run with. Be ready for tomorrow.

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality

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Daedalus Angel Syndicate is a blockchain-focused angel collective.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Cyprus, France, Sweden

Investor stats

Total investments: 14
Round size: Seed $2M–$2.9M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

fxhash — fxhash is an open platform to mint and collect Generative Tokens on the Tezos blockchain
Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
Lagrange Labs — Seamlessly interact between chains with cryptographically secured state proofs, not opaque intermediaries.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 64
Round size: Seed $1.2M–$15M; Series A $4M–$27M
Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

IronMill — IronMill is a Web3 infrastructure provider that focuses on offering customized integration solutions to program developers.
Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.
Franklin — Hybrid cash & crypto payroll

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