PA

PayPal Ventures

VC
San Jose, CAWebsite
Stage

Seed, Series A

Check Size

$1.0M – $5.0M

AUM

$850M

Portfolio

3+ companies

Team

14 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Corporate venture arm investing in payments, fintech, and commerce enablement technologies.

Meet the Team

IC

Ian Cox

Managing Partner

fintech
consumer finance
banking-as-a-service
embedded payments
commerce

Ian has deep fintech experience in the U.S. and Latin America and has been pivotal in shaping PayPal Ventures’ investment strategy. He returned to PayPal in 2022 after leading the corporate venture arms of Synchrony Financial and BBVA. Ian is active in supporting the growth of the LATAM fintech ecosystem.

YH

Yasmin Hosseinzadeh

Director of Communications

AC

Aditya Chandak

Senior Director of Product Management

RC

Ravi Chandrasekaran

Director of Engineering

SB

Sabine Brown

Youth Director

CT

Craig Tucker

Director of Credit Risk Management

VS

Viral Sura

Director of Product Management

IS

Irina Schneider

Technology Director

BH

Baptiste Heupel

Enterprise Sales Executive

TR

Tom Rae

Senior Partner Manager

AB

Amman Bhasin

Partner

fintech
crypto
commerce enablement
enterprise SaaS

Amman co-founded a lending company and originated $10M+ of loans across small businesses. He previously worked at Propel Venture Partners and started his career in investment banking at KBW. Amman is passionate about disruptive tech and has been experimenting with launching businesses since a young age.

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Ashish Aggarwal

Partner

B2B fintech
software
payments
financial infrastructure
regtech
SMB tools

Ashish focuses on fintech investments across EMEA, India, and Southeast Asia. He joined PayPal Ventures in 2017 after five years at Deutsche Bank advising payments companies. He is excited by founders building products to replace the legacy guts of financial services and payments value chains globally.

AB

Alexandros Bottenbruch

Partner

fintech
insurtech
infrastructure
consumer platforms

Alexandros leads fintech and insurtech investments across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. He has experience in investment banking, early-stage venture, growth investing, and product leadership. He is passionate about democratizing access to insurance and financial services.

RZ

Rachel Zabronsky

Principal

fintech
commerce enablement
consumer ecosystems

Rachel brings over a decade of experience as an operator, with expertise in marketing, M&A, and product strategy. She is committed to amplifying underrepresented voices and has worked on initiatives to deploy $100 million to minority-led venture capital funds.

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Fintech

Portfolio Companies (3)

Other

TA

Tala

Emerging markets fintech
AC

Acorns

Fintech platform
CA

Cambridge Mobile Telematics

Insurtech adjacent (not payments)

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