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Investor profile

Arik Shtilman

CEO, Rapid, Rapyd Ventures

About

Arik Shtilman is a serial entrepreneur turned investor who co-founded and scaled Rapyd into one of Israel's first decacorns before joining Rapyd Ventures, giving him rare pattern-recognition experience across company-building cycles from early global expansion through hypergrowth stages. He focuses on infrastructure-first investments in foundational platforms and APIs rather than simple fintech apps, with particular conviction around solving complex, unsexy payment problems that others avoid and enabling non-financial companies to embed financial services into their products. Arik Shtilman is a serial entrepreneur turned investor who co-founded and scaled Rapyd into one of Israel's first decacorns before joining Rapyd Ventures, giving him rare pattern-recognition experience across company-building cycles from early global expansion through hypergrowth stages. He focuses on infrastructure-first investments in foundational platforms and APIs rather than simple fintech apps, with particular conviction around solving complex, unsexy payment problems that others avoid and enabling non-financial companies to embed financial services into their products.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
FinTech
Web3
Crypto
InsurTech
Cybersecurity
HR Tech

Investment details

Avg check size$1M - $10M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
India
Europe