Joel Yarbrough

Managing Director, Rapyd Ventures
Joel Yarbrough pairs PayPal and Grab fintech experience with CEO leadership building payments infrastructure across 40+ African countries, focusing on capability providers and embedded finance and holding multiple US patents.
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India, Europe
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About Joel Yarbrough

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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Rapyd Ventures

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Fintech, Web3 / Crypto, Insurtech, Cybersecurity, HR Tech
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Seed - Series B+
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$1M - $10M

Rapyd Ventures is a strategic corporate VC that prioritizes startups already building on Rapyd's fintech infrastructure, focusing on "capability providers" that build core fintech infrastructure and embedded-finance tools in underdeveloped financial markets rather than consumer-facing fintechs. Led by Joel Yarbrough, who also serves as Rapyd's VP for Asia Pacific, the fund leverages Rapyd's payments rails and compliance infrastructure across over 100 countries to accelerate portfolio companies' global go-to-market and embedded-payments deployment.

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