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.