# Top 50 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in May 2026

## Digital Currency Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 94
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

## Coinbase Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 85
- 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.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 75
- 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.

## Polychain
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 65
- 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.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 63
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Pantera Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 60
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 52
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

## Blockchain Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 51
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

## Shima Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 49
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

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

## Fenbushi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 47
- 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.

## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 46
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

## Dragonfly
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 45
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.

## Orange DAO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 43
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software

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## Alameda Research
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 41
- 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.

## Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

## The Spartan Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.

## Electric Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Building the future of Web3. We invest in the next generation of iconic founders.

## Hashed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 39
- 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.

## GSR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 37
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.

## Paradigm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 36
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech

Paradigm is an investment firm focused on supporting the great crypto/Web3 companies and protocols of tomorrow. Our approach is flexible, long term, multi-stage, and global. We often get involved at the earliest stages of formation and support our portfolio with additional capital over time.

## CMT Digital Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 36
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

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CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists

## Lemniscap
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 36
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Lemniscap is an early stage investment firm specializing in investments in emerging crypto assets.

## Multicoin Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 36
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. 

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## Sequoia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

We help the daring build legendary companies.

## Blockchain Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

## Robot Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in fintech / crypto companies with big ambitions and contrarian worldviews.

## Galaxy Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

## Fulgur Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

## Kenetic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 30
- 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.

## LedgerPrime
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- 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.

## Hack VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- 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.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## FBG Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital market.

## LD Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 29
- 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.

## CoinFund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

CoinFund is where web3 capable meets web3 capital: cryptonative technologists who invest in the future before it's a trend.

## Framework Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

A crypto venture firm that builds with our founders.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

## Tribe Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

We are a $1.6B+ AUM venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science.

## Draper Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

## CMS Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 28
- 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.

## Hashkey
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 28
- 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.

## TTV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.

## ParaFi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

## Anthemis Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

digitally native finance

## Signum Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 27
- 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.

## Castle Island Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Castle Island Ventures is a Cambridge, MA based early stage venture firm investing in startups building in the public blockchain industry.

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