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    Mastercard

    Purchase, New York, United StatesFounded 1966
    www.mastercard.comLinkedIn
    FintechCrypto & Web3AIData & AnalyticsCybersecurity

    Mastercard is a global payments technology company that operates a corporate venture capital arm (Mastercard Start Path / Mastercard Ventures) investing in fintech, blockchain, and AI startups. Through its Start Path program, it partners with later-stage startups and makes strategic investments to support its global payments ecosystem.

    56% of their portfolio is in Fintech. Average disclosed round size is $55.2M (across 64 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    55

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Series A

    Last 12 Mo

    2

    Team

    AJ

    Ann Johnson

    Executive Vice President, Security Solutions

    BC

    Beatrice Cornacchia

    Executive Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Europe

    BV

    Brice van de Walle

    Executive Vice President, Core Payments

    CG

    Cheryl Guerin

    Executive Vice President, Global Brand Strategy & Innovation

    ED

    Eglantine Delmas

    Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer for Europe & Regulated Entities

    ES

    Eric Schneider

    Executive Vice President, Services Business Development

    JE

    Jennifer Erickson

    Executive Vice President, Communications

    JT

    Jess Turner

    Executive Vice President, Global Head of Open Finance & Developer Experience

    JG

    Johan Gerber

    Executive Vice President, Network Products and Real Time Payments

    JA

    Jorge Arbesu-Cardona

    Executive Vice President, Market Development, Europe

    KA

    Ka-Wai Au

    Executive Vice President, Global Customer Delivery & Care

    KB

    Katia Bulgarelli

    Senior Vice President, People & Capability Lead for Mastercard Europe

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    71 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    FFidelUnknown$3.8MMay 2026
    Complyance logoComplyanceSeries A$20MFeb 2026
    Astrada logoAstradaSeed$3.8MJan 2026
    Synctera logoSyncteraSeries A$15MMar 2025
    Form3 logoForm3Series C$160MSep 2024
    Doconomy logoDoconomySeries B$37MMay 2024
    Hello Alice logoHello AliceSeries C—Apr 2024
    UbiRider logoUbiRiderUnknown—Jan 2024
    PaySend logoPaySendGrowth$65MNov 2023
    Lupiya logoLupiyaSeries A$8.3MOct 2023
    FFabrickUnknown—May 2023
    TomoCredit logoTomoCreditGrowth$122MJul 2022
    TomoCredit logoTomoCreditSeries B$22MJul 2022
    Enveil logoEnveilSeries B$25MApr 2022
    Jeeves logoJeevesSeries C$180MMar 2022
    RegGenome logoRegGenomeSeed$6MJan 2022
    AAIRTEL NETWORKS KENYA LIMITEDUnknown$550MJan 2022
    TomoCredit logoTomoCreditSeries B$22MJan 2022
    Wowzi logoWowziSeed$2MDec 2021
    AtoB logoAtoBSeries B$75MNov 2021
    Stride logoStrideSeries C$47MOct 2021
    SStride HealthSeries C$47MOct 2021
    Bilt Rewards logoBilt RewardsUnknown$250MSep 2021
    Synctera logoSyncteraSeries A$33MJun 2021
    ConsenSys logoConsenSysUnknown$65MApr 2021
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    Top Co-Investors

    Partnership Fund for New York City6 shared
    Evolution Equity Partners6 shared
    Gaingels5 shared
    Visa4 shared
    PayPal Ventures3 shared
    Salesforce Ventures3 shared
    Khosla Ventures3 shared
    American Express Ventures3 shared
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.3 shared
    Bloomberg Beta3 shared
    Oak HC/FT3 shared
    Radicle Impact3 shared
    CommerzVentures3 shared
    QED Investors3 shared
    Kibo Ventures3 shared
    Amazon Alexa Fund3 shared
    Portugal Ventures3 shared
    Hyphen Capital3 shared
    Elevate Ventures3 shared
    Citi Ventures3 shared

    Last updated: 7 October 2026