Ashish Aggarwal

About

Fourteen years in fintech, on both sides of the table. Five years at Deutsche Bank advising the sector's largest names on M&A, debt raising, and IPOs, including Nets, Worldline, Nexi and Network International. Nine years at PayPal Ventures, where I led investing across EMEA and APAC, built the international platform and was promoted to Partner. Along the way: $300M+ invested across 20+ start-ups, with board and observer roles spanning payments infrastructure, B2B payments, embedded finance, and consumer. Realized DPI through exits including Tink (acquired by Visa) and Pine Labs (IPO), plus a number of undisclosed partial exits via secondary sales. Key themes I have backed: Payment processing: Klearly (Europe), Paymob (MENA), Stitch (South Africa), PPRO (Europe) Financial infrastructure: Tink (UK/Europe), Modulr (UK/Europe), Formance (US/UK) B2B payments: Aspire (Singapore), Pliant (Europe, US) Consumer: Tabby (UAE/KSA), Raisin (Europe) Commerce enablement: Mintoak (India/Middle East)

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