Two world-class investors helping accelerate PS27 portfolio company Payall’s mission to modernize cross-border payments for regulated institutions: Ventura Capital and BAT-VC.
Ventura Capital is a growth-stage investment firm that backs high-growth technology companies such as Spotify, Coursera, and Xiaomi. At the helm is Mo El Husseiny, with a track record of deploying over $1B into high-growth tech, and who brings deep experience in identifying transformative fintech opportunities and delivering value without requiring core system changes.
BAT VC, an early-stage fund founded by fintech and AI veterans, including Ravi Metta (Finastra), Aditya Mishra (Yahoo!, Accenture), and Manish Maheshwari (Twitter India), helps companies scale across borders, especially between India and the U.S., bringing both technical depth and market experience.
Their decision to invest in Payall reflects a shared belief: Banks, EMIs, and PSPs deserve better cross-border payment infrastructure—compliant, profitable, real-time, and easy to deploy.
About Payall. Founded in 2018 and based in Miami Beach, Florida, Payall is the world’s first provider of infrastructure for financial institutions to make cross-border payments safe, efficient, transparent, and inclusive. Inspired by first-principles, the company developed proprietary tech for an end-to-end, modular suite of adaptable capabilities that elevate and harmonize counterparty risk management, digitize multi-jurisdictional compliance workflows, intelligently orchestrates multi-currency and pay-out channels globally, delivers unprecedented consent managed transparency and real-time transaction surveillance and intervention. Correspondent banks, the backbone of cross-border payments, have declined by 25% over a decade under the weight of investigations, fines, excessive costs and face pressure to exit. But now, Payall’s purpose-built software overcomes these challenges.
Payall’s technology enables easy, low-cost access to alternatives or complements to correspondent banking, such as Mastercard Move creating never before possibilities for originating institutions. By partnering with Payall, regulated financial institutions around the world can quickly, securely and seamlessly implement and execute cross-border payments—enabling market-specific opportunities for financial institutions to compete with or drive fintech solutions.
About Ventura Capital. Founded in 2012, Ventura is a global investor in fast growing technology companies which are approaching a public market exit. Previous investments total approximately $1 billion into companies such as Upgrade Inc, Coursera, Spotify, Zilch and Tekever. Ventura’s realized IRR stands at 61% across 14 years, representing an average exit of 3.5X money multiple with an average investment hold period of 3.5 years. Ventura offers its investments to its institutional and family office LPs on a deal-by-deal basis with no annual management fees. www.ventura.ae
About BAT-VC. BAT-VC is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on providing hands-on partnerships with founders during their critical product-market fit journey. The fund offers a unique value proposition of shared U.S.-India market access, helping startups scale across both ecosystems. They take an AI-first approach and primarily invest in AI, Fintech, and Enterprise SaaS startups with global ambitions. Their model emphasizes active involvement with portfolio companies rather than passive investment, positioning themselves as strategic partners for visionary founders looking to expand internationally between the U.S. and Indian markets. www.bat-vc.com