What does MasterCard invest in?
MasterCard invests most often at Venture and Grant (55% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as FinTech, Intelligent Systems and Information Technology.

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Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 100 cheques on record.
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9 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Venture and Grant: 55% of its rounds
Sole investor in 31 rounds, median $1.6M
2 exits from the portfolio
Every round we can evidence, newest first100 appearances
7 rounds
14 rounds
22 rounds
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Funds they back
Every fund on record that it has committed money to, and the managers who invest it.Source: fund news.
Managers it backs most
Most recent commitments
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed2 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
Acquisitions by the firm itself
The investors most often in the same rounds as MasterCard. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies MasterCard put money into.
MasterCard invests most often at Venture and Grant (55% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as FinTech, Intelligent Systems and Information Technology.
100 investments on record, 9 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 1. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Vectorial AI Inc. (Seed, Oct 2026), Trust Stamp (Undisclosed round, Jun 2026) and Astrada (Seed, May 2026).
The median round it joins is $3.9M.
Sometimes: it led 1 of its 100 investments on record (1%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (56%) and the United Kingdom (19%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 9 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Google for Startups (5 rounds together), Visa (5 rounds together) and Plug and Play (4 rounds together).
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