Valar Ventures

Valar Ventures, established in 2010, is a New York-based venture capital firm that invests globally in early-stage technology companies, with a particular focus on the fintech sector. Backed by Peter Thiel, the firm partners with entrepreneurs worldwide, recognizing the potential for transformative tech companies to emerge beyond Silicon Valley. Valar Ventures provides capital and support, understanding the unique challenges and opportunities faced by founders in diverse global markets.

Amina Abrahams

Principal

Elizabeth Klein

Principal

Erin Porterfield

Associate

Reuben Kobulnik

Operating Partner

Michael Roth

Principal

Sahar Shirazi

Principal

Past deals in Payments

Ivy

Venture Round in 2025
Ivy is a global provider of application programming interfaces (APIs) that specializes in facilitating instant bank payments. The company's innovative platform converts traditional bank accounts into instant payment wallets, enabling businesses to accept direct bank transactions efficiently. By eliminating the reliance on credit cards and digital wallets, Ivy streamlines online transactions for customers, allowing them to make payments directly from their bank accounts with minimal effort. This technology positions Ivy at the forefront of a shift towards more direct and efficient payment solutions in the digital economy.

Moss

Venture Round in 2024
Moss is a technology-driven payment and credit card platform designed to help businesses optimize their financial management. The company offers corporate credit cards with dynamic limits that can be significantly higher than traditional options, accommodating even the highest spending needs. Moss provides both virtual and physical credit cards, allowing teams to spend easily and securely while maintaining control over costs through individual spending limits and real-time data tracking by card, merchant, or team. The Moss app enhances financial oversight by enabling users to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignments. At the end of each month, all financial data and documents can be seamlessly exported to various accounting software, streamlining the reconciliation process for businesses.

Zed

Venture Round in 2024
Zed provides credit cards that are an effective way to use no interest, no international transaction fees, and unlimited virtual cards.

Fung Payments

Seed Round in 2024
Fung Payments is a Payment Service Provider that specializes in delivering embedded payment solutions tailored for vertical SaaS companies, including sectors such as electric vehicle charging, property technology, and accounting technology. The company has developed a payment service platform that integrates a crypto-native payment system, designed to facilitate online transactions for e-commerce businesses. This platform allows merchants to accept both fiat and cryptocurrency payments while ensuring compliance with evolving legal requirements. By providing a seamless payment experience, Fung Payments enables businesses to maintain operational continuity in a rapidly changing financial landscape.

Ivy

Series A in 2023
Ivy is a global provider of application programming interfaces (APIs) that specializes in facilitating instant bank payments. The company's innovative platform converts traditional bank accounts into instant payment wallets, enabling businesses to accept direct bank transactions efficiently. By eliminating the reliance on credit cards and digital wallets, Ivy streamlines online transactions for customers, allowing them to make payments directly from their bank accounts with minimal effort. This technology positions Ivy at the forefront of a shift towards more direct and efficient payment solutions in the digital economy.

Atoa

Seed Round in 2023
Atoa is a financial technology company that provides a payment platform enabling UK merchants to accept transactions through instant bank transfers. Its service allows merchants to receive payments immediately, bypassing the typical delay associated with card machines and debit cards. Atoa's offerings include various payment methods, such as in-store QR codes, phone QR codes, and payments via SMS, all designed to ensure secure transactions with Strong Customer Authentication. The company operates on a pay-as-you-go model with no contracts or hidden fees, making it a cost-effective alternative to traditional payment systems. By eliminating hardware costs and chargeback fraud risk, Atoa simplifies the payment process for merchants, facilitating both online and offline transactions efficiently. Merchants can quickly sign up for the service through the Atoa Merchant app.

Petal

Venture Round in 2023
Petal Card, Inc. is a credit card company focused on providing financial access to individuals without traditional credit histories, such as students and immigrants. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the company utilizes machine learning to analyze users' digital financial records, allowing for cash flow underwriting as an alternative to conventional credit scoring. This innovative approach enables Petal to offer higher credit limits and lower rates compared to competing credit cards. The company's flagship product, the Petal Visa, is designed to promote responsible spending and credit-building, accompanied by a user-friendly digital application for managing payments. Petal aims to make credit more honest, simple, and accessible, fostering a financial environment that encourages users to succeed.

Link Financial Technologies

Series A in 2023
Link provides merchants with an alternate, low-cost payment solution and enables shoppers to pay with bank accounts. Through the power of Open Banking, Link allow customers to complete subscription and repeat transactions with unprecedented ease.

Mondu

Series A in 2023
Mondu is a technology company that develops software for B2B payments. Its core product is a buy-now-pay-later platform designed specifically for businesses, offering flexible payment terms such as net terms and split payments without the usual financial or operational complexities. This solution enables B2B marketplaces and merchants to facilitate sustained growth by providing their customers with more convenient payment options.

TreeCard

Series A in 2022
TreeCard Limited is a London-based company that specializes in providing eco-friendly payment solutions. Founded in 2020, TreeCard offers a unique wooden debit card designed to promote sustainability and environmental awareness among its users. The card is primarily made from FSC-certified British cherry wood, with minimal plastic used for the contactless chip, sourced from recycled plastic bottles. This innovative product allows consumers to make digital payments while contributing to reforestation efforts, as the interchange fees generated from transactions are allocated towards funding tree planting initiatives. Additionally, TreeCard integrates features such as expenditure tracking and compatibility with mobile payment platforms like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay, enhancing user convenience while fostering responsible financial practices.

Maplerad

Seed Round in 2022
Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.

Yellow Card

Series B in 2022
Yellow Card is a financial technology company that operates an online cryptocurrency trading platform, facilitating secure and cost-effective transactions across Africa. It specializes in providing on/off ramp services for stablecoins like USDT, USDC, and PYUSD, enabling users to buy and sell these coins using their local currency. The company partners with local merchants and vendors to offer voucher-based Bitcoin purchases, simplifying money transfers and enabling e-commerce participation in cryptocurrency. Yellow Card, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chamblee, Georgia, has expanded its operations to multiple African countries, processing over US$3 billion in transactions to date.

Mondu

Series A in 2022
Mondu is a technology company that develops software for B2B payments. Its core product is a buy-now-pay-later platform designed specifically for businesses, offering flexible payment terms such as net terms and split payments without the usual financial or operational complexities. This solution enables B2B marketplaces and merchants to facilitate sustained growth by providing their customers with more convenient payment options.

Zuro

Seed Round in 2022
Zuro is currently used by enterprises, banks and government agencies worldwide.They have delivered outstanding results for their clients, contact us for case studies and references.

Moss

Series B in 2022
Moss is a technology-driven payment and credit card platform designed to help businesses optimize their financial management. The company offers corporate credit cards with dynamic limits that can be significantly higher than traditional options, accommodating even the highest spending needs. Moss provides both virtual and physical credit cards, allowing teams to spend easily and securely while maintaining control over costs through individual spending limits and real-time data tracking by card, merchant, or team. The Moss app enhances financial oversight by enabling users to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignments. At the end of each month, all financial data and documents can be seamlessly exported to various accounting software, streamlining the reconciliation process for businesses.

Qonto

Series D in 2022
Qonto is a digital bank specializing in financial services for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as freelancers. It simplifies business banking, making it efficient and transparent. The company offers digital bank accounts for sending and receiving payments, catering to various company types, legal forms, and team sizes. Qonto's platform also facilitates bookkeeping, budget management, and fund transfers via a mobile application and physical/virtual cards, eliminating paperwork.

Petal

Series D in 2022
Petal Card, Inc. is a credit card company focused on providing financial access to individuals without traditional credit histories, such as students and immigrants. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the company utilizes machine learning to analyze users' digital financial records, allowing for cash flow underwriting as an alternative to conventional credit scoring. This innovative approach enables Petal to offer higher credit limits and lower rates compared to competing credit cards. The company's flagship product, the Petal Visa, is designed to promote responsible spending and credit-building, accompanied by a user-friendly digital application for managing payments. Petal aims to make credit more honest, simple, and accessible, fostering a financial environment that encourages users to succeed.

Simpl

Series B in 2021
Simpl Technologies Private Limited, established in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, operates a leading online payments platform that enhances the e-commerce experience. The company has developed a market-leading Pay-Later platform, allowing merchants to offer consumers a seamless 1-click checkout experience and a line of credit at the point of sale. Simpl's innovative approach streamlines the payment process by using algorithms and payment engineering to consolidate transactions, enabling users to avoid repetitive payments. Additionally, the platform provides full buyer protection, ensuring secure monetary transactions between customers and merchants. Through its services, Simpl aims to simplify and automate the online payment experience for all parties involved.

Velocity

Series A in 2021
Velocity is a prominent financial solution provider in India, specifically catering to digitally native businesses. Founded in 2020 by Abhiroop Medhekar, Atul Khichariya, and Saurav Swaroop, the company seeks to reshape the landscape of banking and financial services for modern enterprises. Velocity offers a diverse array of financial services, including term loans, revenue-based financing, overdrafts, and payment solutions. It distinguishes itself by providing funding options that do not require equity dilution or personal guarantees, allowing clients to repay loans as a fixed percentage of their future revenues. This innovative approach presents an alternative to traditional venture capital and standard loans, enabling businesses to access necessary funds while maintaining greater control over their financial obligations.

Zuro

Seed Round in 2021
Zuro is currently used by enterprises, banks and government agencies worldwide.They have delivered outstanding results for their clients, contact us for case studies and references.

Yellow Card

Series A in 2021
Yellow Card is a financial technology company that operates an online cryptocurrency trading platform, facilitating secure and cost-effective transactions across Africa. It specializes in providing on/off ramp services for stablecoins like USDT, USDC, and PYUSD, enabling users to buy and sell these coins using their local currency. The company partners with local merchants and vendors to offer voucher-based Bitcoin purchases, simplifying money transfers and enabling e-commerce participation in cryptocurrency. Yellow Card, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chamblee, Georgia, has expanded its operations to multiple African countries, processing over US$3 billion in transactions to date.

Point Card

Series B in 2021
Point is focused on enhancing the debit card experience by integrating rewards and benefits traditionally associated with credit cards. The company aims to provide users with financial tools that facilitate better money management while offering incentives for everyday spending. By reimagining how debit cards function, Point seeks to deliver a more engaging and rewarding banking experience.

Moss

Series A in 2021
Moss is a technology-driven payment and credit card platform designed to help businesses optimize their financial management. The company offers corporate credit cards with dynamic limits that can be significantly higher than traditional options, accommodating even the highest spending needs. Moss provides both virtual and physical credit cards, allowing teams to spend easily and securely while maintaining control over costs through individual spending limits and real-time data tracking by card, merchant, or team. The Moss app enhances financial oversight by enabling users to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignments. At the end of each month, all financial data and documents can be seamlessly exported to various accounting software, streamlining the reconciliation process for businesses.

Velocity

Seed Round in 2021
Velocity is a prominent financial solution provider in India, specifically catering to digitally native businesses. Founded in 2020 by Abhiroop Medhekar, Atul Khichariya, and Saurav Swaroop, the company seeks to reshape the landscape of banking and financial services for modern enterprises. Velocity offers a diverse array of financial services, including term loans, revenue-based financing, overdrafts, and payment solutions. It distinguishes itself by providing funding options that do not require equity dilution or personal guarantees, allowing clients to repay loans as a fixed percentage of their future revenues. This innovative approach presents an alternative to traditional venture capital and standard loans, enabling businesses to access necessary funds while maintaining greater control over their financial obligations.

Moss

Series A in 2021
Moss is a technology-driven payment and credit card platform designed to help businesses optimize their financial management. The company offers corporate credit cards with dynamic limits that can be significantly higher than traditional options, accommodating even the highest spending needs. Moss provides both virtual and physical credit cards, allowing teams to spend easily and securely while maintaining control over costs through individual spending limits and real-time data tracking by card, merchant, or team. The Moss app enhances financial oversight by enabling users to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignments. At the end of each month, all financial data and documents can be seamlessly exported to various accounting software, streamlining the reconciliation process for businesses.

Point Card

Series A in 2020
Point is focused on enhancing the debit card experience by integrating rewards and benefits traditionally associated with credit cards. The company aims to provide users with financial tools that facilitate better money management while offering incentives for everyday spending. By reimagining how debit cards function, Point seeks to deliver a more engaging and rewarding banking experience.

Petal

Series C in 2020
Petal Card, Inc. is a credit card company focused on providing financial access to individuals without traditional credit histories, such as students and immigrants. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the company utilizes machine learning to analyze users' digital financial records, allowing for cash flow underwriting as an alternative to conventional credit scoring. This innovative approach enables Petal to offer higher credit limits and lower rates compared to competing credit cards. The company's flagship product, the Petal Visa, is designed to promote responsible spending and credit-building, accompanied by a user-friendly digital application for managing payments. Petal aims to make credit more honest, simple, and accessible, fostering a financial environment that encourages users to succeed.

Qonto

Series C in 2020
Qonto is a digital bank specializing in financial services for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as freelancers. It simplifies business banking, making it efficient and transparent. The company offers digital bank accounts for sending and receiving payments, catering to various company types, legal forms, and team sizes. Qonto's platform also facilitates bookkeeping, budget management, and fund transfers via a mobile application and physical/virtual cards, eliminating paperwork.

Petal

Series B in 2019
Petal Card, Inc. is a credit card company focused on providing financial access to individuals without traditional credit histories, such as students and immigrants. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the company utilizes machine learning to analyze users' digital financial records, allowing for cash flow underwriting as an alternative to conventional credit scoring. This innovative approach enables Petal to offer higher credit limits and lower rates compared to competing credit cards. The company's flagship product, the Petal Visa, is designed to promote responsible spending and credit-building, accompanied by a user-friendly digital application for managing payments. Petal aims to make credit more honest, simple, and accessible, fostering a financial environment that encourages users to succeed.

Qonto

Series B in 2018
Qonto is a digital bank specializing in financial services for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as freelancers. It simplifies business banking, making it efficient and transparent. The company offers digital bank accounts for sending and receiving payments, catering to various company types, legal forms, and team sizes. Qonto's platform also facilitates bookkeeping, budget management, and fund transfers via a mobile application and physical/virtual cards, eliminating paperwork.

Petal

Series A in 2018
Petal Card, Inc. is a credit card company focused on providing financial access to individuals without traditional credit histories, such as students and immigrants. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the company utilizes machine learning to analyze users' digital financial records, allowing for cash flow underwriting as an alternative to conventional credit scoring. This innovative approach enables Petal to offer higher credit limits and lower rates compared to competing credit cards. The company's flagship product, the Petal Visa, is designed to promote responsible spending and credit-building, accompanied by a user-friendly digital application for managing payments. Petal aims to make credit more honest, simple, and accessible, fostering a financial environment that encourages users to succeed.

Qonto

Series A in 2017
Qonto is a digital bank specializing in financial services for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as freelancers. It simplifies business banking, making it efficient and transparent. The company offers digital bank accounts for sending and receiving payments, catering to various company types, legal forms, and team sizes. Qonto's platform also facilitates bookkeeping, budget management, and fund transfers via a mobile application and physical/virtual cards, eliminating paperwork.

Kalo

Series A in 2017
Kalo is a company established in 2015 that specializes in streamlining the onboarding, management, communication, and payment processes for external workers. The platform offers businesses a user-friendly solution to eliminate the complexities of spreadsheets and invoice emails, facilitating seamless collaboration with freelancers and vendors. Kalo's clientele includes notable organizations across various industries, such as technology and fashion, allowing them to enhance their operational efficiency and improve the overall experience of working with external teams.

Qonto

Seed Round in 2017
Qonto is a digital bank specializing in financial services for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as freelancers. It simplifies business banking, making it efficient and transparent. The company offers digital bank accounts for sending and receiving payments, catering to various company types, legal forms, and team sizes. Qonto's platform also facilitates bookkeeping, budget management, and fund transfers via a mobile application and physical/virtual cards, eliminating paperwork.

Petal

Funding Round in 2017
Petal Card, Inc. is a credit card company focused on providing financial access to individuals without traditional credit histories, such as students and immigrants. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the company utilizes machine learning to analyze users' digital financial records, allowing for cash flow underwriting as an alternative to conventional credit scoring. This innovative approach enables Petal to offer higher credit limits and lower rates compared to competing credit cards. The company's flagship product, the Petal Visa, is designed to promote responsible spending and credit-building, accompanied by a user-friendly digital application for managing payments. Petal aims to make credit more honest, simple, and accessible, fostering a financial environment that encourages users to succeed.

Kalo

Series A in 2016
Kalo is a company established in 2015 that specializes in streamlining the onboarding, management, communication, and payment processes for external workers. The platform offers businesses a user-friendly solution to eliminate the complexities of spreadsheets and invoice emails, facilitating seamless collaboration with freelancers and vendors. Kalo's clientele includes notable organizations across various industries, such as technology and fashion, allowing them to enhance their operational efficiency and improve the overall experience of working with external teams.

Kalo

Seed Round in 2015
Kalo is a company established in 2015 that specializes in streamlining the onboarding, management, communication, and payment processes for external workers. The platform offers businesses a user-friendly solution to eliminate the complexities of spreadsheets and invoice emails, facilitating seamless collaboration with freelancers and vendors. Kalo's clientele includes notable organizations across various industries, such as technology and fashion, allowing them to enhance their operational efficiency and improve the overall experience of working with external teams.

Wise

Series C in 2015
Wise is a company that specializes in international money transfer services, facilitating easy and low-cost transactions for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, Wise offers a core money transfer product and a borderless account designed for expats, freelancers, and travelers, which currently holds over £2 billion in deposits. The company also provides a mobile application that allows users to track their transfers and initiate new transactions conveniently. With additional offices in Tallinn and New York, Wise aims to simplify the process of sending money abroad swiftly and affordably.

Wise

Series B in 2014
Wise is a company that specializes in international money transfer services, facilitating easy and low-cost transactions for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, Wise offers a core money transfer product and a borderless account designed for expats, freelancers, and travelers, which currently holds over £2 billion in deposits. The company also provides a mobile application that allows users to track their transfers and initiate new transactions conveniently. With additional offices in Tallinn and New York, Wise aims to simplify the process of sending money abroad swiftly and affordably.

Wise

Series A in 2013
Wise is a company that specializes in international money transfer services, facilitating easy and low-cost transactions for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, Wise offers a core money transfer product and a borderless account designed for expats, freelancers, and travelers, which currently holds over £2 billion in deposits. The company also provides a mobile application that allows users to track their transfers and initiate new transactions conveniently. With additional offices in Tallinn and New York, Wise aims to simplify the process of sending money abroad swiftly and affordably.
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