What does PayPal Ventures invest in?
PayPal Ventures invests most often at Series B and Series A (68% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Biotechnology, Cannabis and Market Research.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Mar 2026; 34 cheques on record.
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3 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Series B and Series A: 68% of its rounds
Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $3.5M
1 exits from the portfolio
Send and request payments securely, shop online, and manage your payments in one place with PayPal.Translated from Arabic, from their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first34 appearances
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
The investors most often in the same rounds as PayPal Ventures. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies PayPal Ventures put money into.
Episodes that name PayPal Ventures in their description, not their title.

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PayPal Ventures invests most often at Series B and Series A (68% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Biotechnology, Cannabis and Market Research.
34 investments on record, 3 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 9. The most recent was in Mar 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Cart.com (Growth, Mar 2026), Xflow (Series A, Feb 2026) and EFEX (Seed, Feb 2026).
The median round it joins is $24M.
Yes: it led 9 of its 34 investments on record (26%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (42%), India (13%) and Mexico (6%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 3 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Venrock (4 rounds together), Y Combinator (4 rounds together) and Alumni Ventures (3 rounds together).
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