QED Fund V

QED Fund V, managed by QED Investors, is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Alexandria, Virginia. Established in 2008, it focuses on investing in high-growth companies primarily within the fintech sector, including mortgage technology, real estate technology, software, and financial services. The firm targets its investments across various regions, including Latin America, the United States, and the United Kingdom. QED Investors is dedicated to supporting its portfolio companies by providing both capital and operational expertise, fostering a close partnership that emphasizes the importance of information in driving business success. The fund aims to nurture innovative startups that leverage technology to enhance competitive advantage in the financial services landscape.

Tommy Blanchard

COO

Laura Bock

Partner

Ciara Burnham

Partner

Matt Burton

Partner

Bill Cilluffo

Partner & Head of Early Stage Investments

Adams Conrad

Principal

Amias Gerety

Partner

Jamie Loving

Chief Financial Officer

Greg Mazanec

Partner

Lauren Morton

Partner

Mike Packer

Partner

Chuckie Reddy

Partner

Miles Reidy

Partner

Matt Risley

Partner

Yusuf Özdalga

Partner

Past deals in Payments

Wagestream

Series C in 2022
Wagestream allows your employees to have complete control over when they get paid. It effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans and employee stress suffered from short term, unplanned financial obligations. Mission 1#: Provide Financial Freedom to UK workers. Mission 2#: Destroy the Pay Day Loan industry. Ahmee.

Payhawk

Series B in 2022
Payhawk Limited offers a comprehensive spending software designed to streamline expense management, payments, and corporate card usage for businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Sofia, Bulgaria, the company focuses on simplifying the entire spending lifecycle for financial officers and business owners. Its platform automates the collection and analysis of receipts, invoices, and card transactions, allowing businesses to maintain budget control without the need for paperwork. Payhawk's innovative solution includes a paperless corporate card that integrates seamlessly with existing banking services, offering real-time expense tracking, automated data extraction, and reporting features to enhance financial oversight.

Wayflyer

Series B in 2022
Wayflyer is a revenue-based financing platform for eCommerce brands.

Shakepay

Series A in 2022
Shakepay Inc. is a technology company based in Montreal, Canada, that offers financial applications aimed at helping users build wealth through digital currencies. Founded in 2015, Shakepay enables Canadians to buy and sell Bitcoin and facilitates peer-to-peer payments among users. Additionally, the company provides a VISA debit card that allows cardholders to load and spend Bitcoin for various transactions, including point of sale purchases, ATM withdrawals, and online orders. Through its mobile app, Shakepay aims to simplify the process of engaging with cryptocurrency for its users.

Fairplay

Debt Financing in 2022
Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.

Fairplay

Series A in 2022
Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.

Payhawk

Series B in 2021
Payhawk Limited offers a comprehensive spending software designed to streamline expense management, payments, and corporate card usage for businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Sofia, Bulgaria, the company focuses on simplifying the entire spending lifecycle for financial officers and business owners. Its platform automates the collection and analysis of receipts, invoices, and card transactions, allowing businesses to maintain budget control without the need for paperwork. Payhawk's innovative solution includes a paperless corporate card that integrates seamlessly with existing banking services, offering real-time expense tracking, automated data extraction, and reporting features to enhance financial oversight.

Plug

Seed Round in 2021
Plug is an API to accept payments with multiple payment providers. Plug gives digital businesses access to multiple payments services through a single integration, and the ability to change between them on a transaction-to-transaction basis without writing code.

Hash

Series C in 2021
Any company that wants to offer payment services faces numerous regulatory and technological barriers in Brazil. Through Hash, any B2B company can offer its customers payments services by eliminating these initial issues with our white-label platform, reducing the initial investment and operating costs by up to 95%. João Miranda is the founder and CEO of the company. He was part of the initial team at Pagar.me, fintech acquired by Stone, and served as a software engineer and large account manager.

Weavr

Seed Round in 2021
Weavr provides an open publicly-accessible cloud-based platform that connects payment networks and financial providers, and tools for innovators to define, deploy and consume digital payment flows. Businesses need to master payment flows to realize the full benefits of digitization, but as payment capabilities - such as open banking, new payment card transactions, real-time bank payments, DLT-based value transfers - proliferate and compliance burdens grow - PCI DSS, but also Secure Customer Authentication and new AML directives - complexity is an increasing barrier for innovators. Weavr addresses these challenges in practical ways, simplifying how digital payments are purchased, delivered and consumed.

Wayflyer

Series A in 2021
Wayflyer is a revenue-based financing platform for eCommerce brands.

Spinwheel

Series A in 2021
Spinwheel is a fintech platform focused on assisting Americans in managing and repaying their student debt more effectively. The company offers a financial software solution that integrates with popular loyalty, payment, and banking applications, allowing users to easily connect and manage their student loans. Its features include the ability to make loan payments, compare interest rates, link accounts, and simplify the overall loan payment process. By enabling users to pay down their debt with each purchase, Spinwheel aims to provide a practical and efficient way for students to achieve their financial goals and reduce their debt burden.

Payhawk

Series A in 2021
Payhawk Limited offers a comprehensive spending software designed to streamline expense management, payments, and corporate card usage for businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Sofia, Bulgaria, the company focuses on simplifying the entire spending lifecycle for financial officers and business owners. Its platform automates the collection and analysis of receipts, invoices, and card transactions, allowing businesses to maintain budget control without the need for paperwork. Payhawk's innovative solution includes a paperless corporate card that integrates seamlessly with existing banking services, offering real-time expense tracking, automated data extraction, and reporting features to enhance financial oversight.

Hash

Series B in 2021
Any company that wants to offer payment services faces numerous regulatory and technological barriers in Brazil. Through Hash, any B2B company can offer its customers payments services by eliminating these initial issues with our white-label platform, reducing the initial investment and operating costs by up to 95%. João Miranda is the founder and CEO of the company. He was part of the initial team at Pagar.me, fintech acquired by Stone, and served as a software engineer and large account manager.

Provide

Series A in 2020
We're the modern practice finance company, innovating for dentists, veterinarians, and other healthcare professionals like you. Today, more than ever — as our country perseveres through a global pandemic — we recognize the importance of healthcare providers. We call ourselves "Provide" in tribute to you.

Weavr

Seed Round in 2020
Weavr provides an open publicly-accessible cloud-based platform that connects payment networks and financial providers, and tools for innovators to define, deploy and consume digital payment flows. Businesses need to master payment flows to realize the full benefits of digitization, but as payment capabilities - such as open banking, new payment card transactions, real-time bank payments, DLT-based value transfers - proliferate and compliance burdens grow - PCI DSS, but also Secure Customer Authentication and new AML directives - complexity is an increasing barrier for innovators. Weavr addresses these challenges in practical ways, simplifying how digital payments are purchased, delivered and consumed.

Wayflyer

Seed Round in 2020
Wayflyer is a revenue-based financing platform for eCommerce brands.

Zibo

Seed Round in 2020
Zibo Inc. develops a banking and payments platform for independent landlords. The company offers Zibo, a financial platform, which provides management of bank accounts, rent payments, rent collection automation, tax preparation, bank transfer, and credit card payment services. It also provides insurance services for residential rental properties. Zibo Inc. was formerly known as Project Pegasus Inc. and changed its name to Zibo Inc. in April 2019. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Wagestream

Series B in 2020
Wagestream allows your employees to have complete control over when they get paid. It effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans and employee stress suffered from short term, unplanned financial obligations. Mission 1#: Provide Financial Freedom to UK workers. Mission 2#: Destroy the Pay Day Loan industry. Ahmee.

Weavr

Seed Round in 2020
Weavr provides an open publicly-accessible cloud-based platform that connects payment networks and financial providers, and tools for innovators to define, deploy and consume digital payment flows. Businesses need to master payment flows to realize the full benefits of digitization, but as payment capabilities - such as open banking, new payment card transactions, real-time bank payments, DLT-based value transfers - proliferate and compliance burdens grow - PCI DSS, but also Secure Customer Authentication and new AML directives - complexity is an increasing barrier for innovators. Weavr addresses these challenges in practical ways, simplifying how digital payments are purchased, delivered and consumed.

Fairplay

Seed Round in 2019
Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.

YayPay

Series A in 2018
YayPay Inc. develops a cloud-based accounts receivable management software that automates payment workflows for finance, credit, and collections teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a range of solutions including dashboards for automated collections, payment predictions, and payer trends, as well as integration with popular platforms like Oracle NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Acumatica, QuickBooks, and Salesforce. YayPay's software utilizes data science and machine learning to improve the credit to cash process, facilitating credit assessments, invoicing, collections management, online payment processing, and cash application. The company targets mid-market and enterprise customers across various sectors, including manufacturing, wholesale, software, and consulting. As a subsidiary of Quadient S.A., YayPay has additional offices in Kyiv, Ukraine, and London, United Kingdom.

Health iPASS

Series A in 2018
Health iPASS is redefining the patient revenue cycle by improving the patient experience from appointment to payment. Health iPASS helps providers promote price transparency, build trust, and increase their operating income by simplifying the check-in process and streamlining both time-of-service and residual balance patient payments through an innovative, multi-channel software solution. Our patient friendly system supports 850+ payers, 90+ practice management systems and is payment processor-agnostic. Many providers have realized 90-95% patient net collection rates, slashed denials by over 50%, and have significantly reduced cost and time to collect.

Wagestream

Corporate Round in 2018
Wagestream allows your employees to have complete control over when they get paid. It effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans and employee stress suffered from short term, unplanned financial obligations. Mission 1#: Provide Financial Freedom to UK workers. Mission 2#: Destroy the Pay Day Loan industry. Ahmee.

Tienda Pago

Series A in 2018
Tienda Pago is the merchant support platform that facilitates your weekly merchandise purchase to distributors. It is the result of years of experience of a team of experts whose objective is to promote ecosystems where all participants, both distributors and traders, benefit from the service and proactively motivate other participants to join the system.

YayPay

Venture Round in 2017
YayPay Inc. develops a cloud-based accounts receivable management software that automates payment workflows for finance, credit, and collections teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a range of solutions including dashboards for automated collections, payment predictions, and payer trends, as well as integration with popular platforms like Oracle NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Acumatica, QuickBooks, and Salesforce. YayPay's software utilizes data science and machine learning to improve the credit to cash process, facilitating credit assessments, invoicing, collections management, online payment processing, and cash application. The company targets mid-market and enterprise customers across various sectors, including manufacturing, wholesale, software, and consulting. As a subsidiary of Quadient S.A., YayPay has additional offices in Kyiv, Ukraine, and London, United Kingdom.

Remitly

Series B in 2015
Remitly Global, Inc. is a digital remittance company that facilitates international money transfers through its extensive global network, serving regions such as Africa, Asia, Central Europe, and South America. The company offers a mobile payment service that allows users to send money from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom using various digital devices. Remitly aims to disrupt the traditional money transfer industry, which is valued at $588 billion annually, by employing advanced technology to streamline the process and reduce fees. As a licensed money transmitter, Remitly operates in 49 states and Washington, D.C., generating revenue primarily from transaction fees and foreign exchange spreads. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Remitly also maintains offices in London, Manila, and Nicaragua.

Flywire

Series C in 2015
Flywire operates an online payment platform that facilitates both domestic and international transactions, catering primarily to the education and healthcare sectors. The platform enables users, including international students and patients seeking medical care abroad, to make payments in various currencies through familiar online and offline options. By leveraging vertical-specific insights and technology, Flywire streamlines the payment process and enhances operational efficiency while minimizing risks associated with invoicing and payment reconciliation. The company, which was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, has established partnerships with TRUE North and Adyen to bolster its offerings. With a significant portion of its revenue generated from the Americas, Flywire continues to expand its services to meet the needs of its diverse clientele.

GreenSky

Venture Round in 2014
GreenSky, Inc., a technology company, provides point-of-sale financing and payment solutions to merchants, consumers, and banks. It offers a proprietary technology infrastructure that supports the full transaction lifecycle, including credit application, underwriting, real-time allocation to bank partners, document distribution, funding, settlement, and servicing functions. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Remitly

Series A in 2014
Remitly Global, Inc. is a digital remittance company that facilitates international money transfers through its extensive global network, serving regions such as Africa, Asia, Central Europe, and South America. The company offers a mobile payment service that allows users to send money from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom using various digital devices. Remitly aims to disrupt the traditional money transfer industry, which is valued at $588 billion annually, by employing advanced technology to streamline the process and reduce fees. As a licensed money transmitter, Remitly operates in 49 states and Washington, D.C., generating revenue primarily from transaction fees and foreign exchange spreads. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Remitly also maintains offices in London, Manila, and Nicaragua.

Flywire

Series B in 2014
Flywire operates an online payment platform that facilitates both domestic and international transactions, catering primarily to the education and healthcare sectors. The platform enables users, including international students and patients seeking medical care abroad, to make payments in various currencies through familiar online and offline options. By leveraging vertical-specific insights and technology, Flywire streamlines the payment process and enhances operational efficiency while minimizing risks associated with invoicing and payment reconciliation. The company, which was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, has established partnerships with TRUE North and Adyen to bolster its offerings. With a significant portion of its revenue generated from the Americas, Flywire continues to expand its services to meet the needs of its diverse clientele.

Flywire

Series B in 2013
Flywire operates an online payment platform that facilitates both domestic and international transactions, catering primarily to the education and healthcare sectors. The platform enables users, including international students and patients seeking medical care abroad, to make payments in various currencies through familiar online and offline options. By leveraging vertical-specific insights and technology, Flywire streamlines the payment process and enhances operational efficiency while minimizing risks associated with invoicing and payment reconciliation. The company, which was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, has established partnerships with TRUE North and Adyen to bolster its offerings. With a significant portion of its revenue generated from the Americas, Flywire continues to expand its services to meet the needs of its diverse clientele.