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Joel Yarbrough

Managing Director, Rapyd Ventures

About

Joel Yarbrough is a venture capital investor at Rapyd Ventures who combines deep fintech operating experience across PayPal, Grab, and other major platforms with hands-on leadership as CEO of Moment, where he's directly building payments infrastructure across 40+ African countries. As Rapyd's VP Asia Pacific, he focuses specifically on investing in capability providers and embedded finance infrastructure rather than consumer apps, bringing both product innovation expertise (including multiple US patents) and a mission-driven approach to solving real problems for gig workers and underserved markets. Joel Yarbrough is a venture capital investor at Rapyd Ventures who combines deep fintech operating experience across PayPal, Grab, and other major platforms with hands-on leadership as CEO of Moment, where he's directly building payments infrastructure across 40+ African countries. As Rapyd's VP Asia Pacific, he focuses specifically on investing in capability providers and embedded finance infrastructure rather than consumer apps, bringing both product innovation expertise (including multiple US patents) and a mission-driven approach to solving real problems for gig workers and underserved markets.

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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