Gavin Dein
Gavin has spent more than two decades building products around the payment event itself. He backs SettleMate as an investor, drawn by the same thesis: rules attached to money.
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Strategic backing from people who have spent decades building around the payment event.
Founder of Reward. Investor, SettleMate.
Founder of Reward. Investor in SettleMate.
Gavin Dein is a fintech founder focused on one persistent idea: the transaction can do more.
He founded Reward in 2001, first in football loyalty and later in bank-linked rewards and merchant-funded offers, helping build a category that connected financial institutions, retailers and scheme operators around the payment event itself. Over two decades, Reward grew into a 250-person platform operating across three continents. Gavin transitioned from CEO to Founder and Deputy Chairman in 2023, Experian took a strategic stake the following year, and in 2026 the business was acquired by Rezolve Ai for approximately $230 million.
Gavin is an investor in SettleMate. The attraction is the same conviction that ran through Reward: the payment event should carry more of the commercial logic that sits around it. SettleMate applies that thinking to settlement itself, so royalties, rent, supplier payments, platform commissions, cashback, and similar obligations can be calculated and settled from the sale.