Developer of a cross-border mobile payments software designed to offer processing, clearing, and settlement services for mobile wallets. The company's software includes regulatory cover, technical integration, foreign exchange, and mobile-focused remittance services, enabling customers to send money quickly, safely, and affordably.
Tarabut Gateway is the MENA region’s first and largest regulated Open Banking platform that connects a regional network of banks and FinTechs via a universal application programming interface (API). Tarabut Gateway's platform provides connectivity for data to flow between banks & fintechs, enabling collaboration and accelerated innovation, better products, services, and experiences for consumers.
Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively.
Sardine specializes in providing risk management solutions primarily for the financial services sector. They focus on using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help enterprises manage risks associated with fraud, credit, and compliance. The company aims to serve businesses in the digital economy by offering tools and services that enhance operational efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance.
Elevate Pay is a financial technology company that offers financial services and products. They also provide local and dollar cards, as well as a feature that allows them to receive free remittances.
Elevate Pay is a financial technology company that offers financial services and products. They also provide local and dollar cards, as well as a feature that allows them to receive free remittances.
KARTY is a Fin-tech platform based in Msheireb, it allows customers to spend, save and manage all of their finances from one-app. It has raised $ 1.2 million in a pre-seed round from Visa, Qatar Development Bank (QDB), Qatar Foundation & Qatar based angel investors. KARTY aims to revolutionize the daily financial experiences for it’s customers by leveraging cutting-edge technology and transaction data. KARTY is working closely with strategic partner "Visa" to deliver full digital payment solutions for both consumer and business expenses.
The climate action solution from ecolytiq guides banks and financial service providers in channeling consumer demand for sustainability into new business growth. The ecolytiq product suite enriches traditional banking with embedded transaction-based footprinting, personalized climate insights, and access to environmental projects. This inspires more top of wallet behavior, resulting in more positive environmental impact for banks and their customers. ecolytiq is partnered with leading financial institutions globally, including Visa, TSYS, Worldline, Tink, Rabobank, and Vancity. ecolytiq is also a member of the Visa Fintech Partner Connect Programme, enabling banks to seamlessly implement comprehensive sustainability strategies.
Tipping Point Community is a clearinghouse for charitable donations. The company provides funds and infrastructure support to organizations that address and deal with the issues of education and youth development; employment and asset building; child and family wellness; and homelessness and housing assistance. It also provides legal expertise, technology upgrades and database implementation; fundraising; communications training; and strategic planning services. Tipping Point Community was founded by Daniel Lurie in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Cart.com is the leading provider of comprehensive commerce and logistics solutions that unify commerce operations across channels and capabilities, enabling B2C and B2B companies to operate seamlessly across channels and sell and fulfill anywhere their customers are. Cart.com drives powers digital and physical commerce operations for over 6,000 customers, including some of the most beloved consumer brands and most complex B2B organizations. With over 1,000 employees, a team of AI and data scientists and 14 warehouses nationwide, our scale allows us to support middle market and enterprise level companies across industries.
TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies detect and investigate crypto-related financial crime and fraud. Our products are trusted by leading companies including PayPal, Visa, FTX, Uniswap, Anchorage, and federal agencies such as the FBI and IRS. Every day, we tackle challenges in data engineering, data science, and threat intelligence to advance our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people. To accomplish our mission, we have raised over $79M from JPMorgan Chase, Visa, Citi, PayPal, Block, Tiger Global, and Bessemer. Our team is made up of world class experts from the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, US Treasury Department, McKinsey, Coinbase, and top-tier tech companies. TRM is a remote-first workplace, with hubs in San Francisco, Washington, DC, and London.
Belvo is the open finance API platform that enables users to connect their accounts to an app. The platform lets financial innovators to access and interpret data from their end-users in an easy and scalable way. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
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Crowded's digital banking platform provides membership groups with an easy way to collect, spend, and manage money online. Our platform includes tools for quick online officer handovers, group expense management, payment collection, and donation collection. With our unique embedded finance platform, Crowded eliminates the need to constantly transfer funds between multiple platforms, making financial transactions safer and giving group leaders ultimate control over their funds.
Basiq is an aggregation platform for acquiring financial data. It provides access to financial institutions through APIs. Its platform utilizes financial solutions that inculdes personal financial management software, account verification services, credit scoring, credit risk assessment, and wealth management. Basiq was founded in 2016 and headquartered in South Wales, Australia.
Winrock International is a development with a focus on social, agricultural and environmental issues.
OnlinePajak (http://www.online-pajak.com/id/) is all in one application to handle corporate taxes & administration faster & easier. OnlinePajak has a mission to increase tax collection & remove corporate administration and taxes burden with 3 simple steps: prepare, pay & file taxes online in seamless integrated application.
JUMO is a fintech company. They enable their partners to provide loans, savings, and financial choices. They use artificial intelligence and machine learning to build credit scores and financial products. They provide money and banking partners with reporting, analytics, and insight they need to offer financial services to customers.
Deserve Inc. is a leading mobile-first credit card platform built on a cloud-native and API-enabled architecture, which allows partners to offer superior personalized experiences for cardholders. We partner with financial institutions, fintechs, lenders, and merchant co-brands.
Plant Squad is an online platform that offers plant-based foods.
Currencycloud is a global payments platform built on smart technology that takes the complexity out of moving money. Developers use their API building blocks to build customized payment solutions. Whether you want to embed their payments infrastructure into your products or services, or build on top of it, they will fit into your business in a way that works for you. They take care of all the intricacies and regulatory hurdles involved with cross-border payments, giving you the tools to globalize your business.
BNS is a biotech company focused on the food sector that develops patented technologies based on the reuse of fresh organic waste. The company has a commercial presence in more than 10 countries globally and has the purpose of transforming the Agri-Food industry and optimizing the management of organic waste to improve the quality of life of consumers globally, with chemical-free alternatives, effectives and economically accessible.
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ClearLeaf uses patent-pending technology, organic certified in the EU and Japan, to provide a line of nox-toxic fungicides and bactericides for agricultural use. ClearLeaf currently has pre and post-harvest solutions for coffee, banana, pineapple, multiple vegetables, tubers, sugar cane, melons, papaya, coconut, strawberries, flowers, and many more. GotaBlanca® is currently sold in Costa Rica and ClearLeaf expects to start commercializing its products in Central America no later than the end of 2021. ClearLeaf recently secured an exclusive commercial agreement with Colono Agropecuario, the biggest agrochemical distributor in the Central American Region. Since going to market through this new distribution partner in 2021, ClearLeaf has been able to quadruple our sales.
Nium is a payments services company. It provides banks, payment vendors, and businesses with access to payment and card issuance services. Their platform, network, and APIs work together to accelerate business growth. They serve travel, marketplaces, financial institutions, payroll industries, and more. For more information, visit: https://www.nium.com
Tink is a cloud-based open banking platform that provides the infrastructure and value-adding data products that are enabling the future of financial services. Tink offers products such as account aggregation, payment initiation, data enrichment, and personal finance management that can be used to develop standalone services or be integrated into existing banking applications. Its partners include ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas Fortis, Nordea, Klarna, and SEB. Tink was founded in 2012 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
TAG is a mobile application that allows users to access an e-money account through a debit card. They provide a money transfer feature that helps to transfer money to any bank or wallet. They specialize in digital wallets and payment services.
LoginID is a cybersecurity company that adds biometrics security features to websites, applications, and eCommerce platforms. The company aims to be the global leader in protecting user identity, providing users secure control over personal information through a compliant decentralized network. LoginID’s solution solves these privacy and compliance issues with three key pillars: Strong Customer Authentication, Data Privacy, and Tokenization of PII. LoginID provides a wide range of APIs and SDKs which give enterprises the ability to integrate FIDO-certified authentication in as little as 15 minutes. With LoginID, companies can integrate and scale strong authentication at low costs, while ensuring compliance with PSD2 and GDPR regulations.
Remitly is a mobile payment service that enables consumers to conveniently make person-to-person international money transfers from the United States. Its online service is disrupting the $588 billion a year industry by using the latest technology and mobile devices to eliminate unnecessary forms, codes, agents, extra time, and fees tied to the traditional money transfer process. As a licensed money transmitter, Remitly currently operates in 49 states and Washington, D.C., and spends millions of dollars to thousands of customers each month. Remitly is backed by Stripes Group, DFJ, Vulcan Capital, QED, Trilogy Equity Partners, DN Capital, Founders Co-Op, Bezos Expeditions, and TomorrowVentures.
NOW Money uses mobile banking technology to bring accounts and remittance to the unbanked population of the Middle East. It provides a solution for those currently excluded from the financial system, bringing full access to the financial system, and significant savings on remittance.
Greenwood Bank is a digital banking platform for Black and Latinx people and business owners. It features best-in-class digital banking services and innovative ways of giving back to the community. The company's initial products are savings and spending accounts that come with a stunningly designed black metal debit card for customers who sign up by the end of the year. Greenwood Bank was founded in 2020 and is based in Atlanta, GA, USA.
Klarna is an e-commerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers. The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. The company also offers direct payments, pay-after-delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model, offering shoppers interest-free financing on retail purchases throughout installments. The Klarna app enhances the shopping experience by providing top retailers with flexible payment options and cashback rewards.
Minna Technologies specializes in subscription management services. They connect banks and fintech with subscription businesses to give consumers subscription management in-app. Their applications find and display subscriptions that switched to alternatives switch energy, mobile, and broadband services. They enable users to manage monthly payments for subscriptions.
YellowPepper is Latin America’s pioneer in mobile banking and payment solutions. Founded in 2004, the growing company provides services in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and soon Brazil employing the best and brightest in the tech space with more than 60 team members throughout its regional footprint. YellowPepper brings innovative payment solutions to dynamic countries across the hemisphere. The company is backed by Visa and is also the recipient of the IFC (World Bank) first equity investment for a Latin America mobile financial company, merging unmatched market knowledge with the latest in payments technology. For more information, please visit www.yellowpepper.com.
Global Processing Services is a provider of a platform that processes payments and manages credit, debit, or prepaid card transactions. The platform enables enable the payments industry to deliver innovations through a combination of proprietary technology. It's offering, the GPS Apex is an issuer processing platform that enables integration with clients, issuers, Program Managers, card manufacturers, and other service providers. GPS Apex helps transactions to be processed securely and reliably while enabling some of the innovations in the payments sector. Craig Dewar and Tony Kerr established GPS in Douglas, Isle of Man in 2007.
MagicCube is the Software Defined Trust (SDT) category with its software TEE-based platform. The technology enables large-scale deployment and management of IoT and mobile- secure solutions to consumers.
Since 2001, Volante has been focused on addressing the challenges of financial message integration and payments on-boarding, processing and orchestration. With a broad range of over 85 financial institutions and corporates as clients in 26 countries they provide the business agility needed to be competitive and thrive in the digital payments age by quickly dealing with the complexities of change, and taking advantage of business opportunities as they arise. All Volante products are born from a heritage of payments and financial message integration, and are rich with innovative functionality as a result of best practice driven R&D over the past 16 years. This means that their products coupled with their growing and maintained library of hundreds of international and domestic message standards plugins and transformations enable projects to be completed in months not years, or weeks not months, while insulating core systems from change.
MagicCube is the Software Defined Trust (SDT) category with its software TEE-based platform. The technology enables large-scale deployment and management of IoT and mobile- secure solutions to consumers.
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Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.
Nium is a payments services company. It provides banks, payment vendors, and businesses with access to payment and card issuance services. Their platform, network, and APIs work together to accelerate business growth. They serve travel, marketplaces, financial institutions, payroll industries, and more. For more information, visit: https://www.nium.com
Railsr is a financial services company. They provide the creation of digital ledgers, connecting digital ledgers to bank accounts, receiving money, sending money, converting money, issuing cards, and managing credit through the API that enables banks and corporate customers to transact digitally.
Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs As entrepreneurs our businesses are always in motion: starting from an idea, to making a first sale, to expanding globally. We need a financial experience that evolves with us – an experience that’s still stable and secure, but adaptive too. Banks were built for a different era of business, not for the new economy – where borders are disappearing and it’s easier than ever to start a global business. Neat believes in making international business a reality for entrepreneurs around the world. Today, Neat is a modern alternative to a bank, designed to support you wherever you go. Tomorrow, we’re a platform for doing business: building a dynamic and frictionless economy.
Gojek is an app that providing a variety of services from payments, food delivery, transportation, and logistics. The app is used for food ordering, commuting, digital payments, shopping, hyper-local delivery, getting a massage, and other services. It aims to create a positive socio-economic impact on customers, driver-partners, business, and MSMEs. Gojek is backed by investors including Google, Facebook, PayPal, Sequoia Capital, and Tencent Holdings. The company was founded in 2009 in Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia by Kevin Aluwi, Nadiem Makarim, and Michaelangelo Moran.
ChargeAfter is the global multi-lender network for point-of-sale financing. Our platform connects retailers and lenders to offer responsible, personalized financing options for every consumer — all from a single application. Powered by a data-driven decisioning engine and network of global lenders, ChargeAfter delivers the most relevant financing offers to consumers from multiple lenders based on credit type – resulting in approvals for up to 100% of customer applications. ChargeAfter streamlines the distribution of credit into a single platform that retailers can implement rapidly both online and in-store. The company’s growing lender network offers seamless integration to lenders seeking to grow their customer base while expanding into new retail markets.
Currencycloud is a global payments platform built on smart technology that takes the complexity out of moving money. Developers use their API building blocks to build customized payment solutions. Whether you want to embed their payments infrastructure into your products or services, or build on top of it, they will fit into your business in a way that works for you. They take care of all the intricacies and regulatory hurdles involved with cross-border payments, giving you the tools to globalize your business.
Flutterwave provides a payment service for global merchants and payment service providers.
It provides technology, infrastructure, and services to enable global merchants, payment service providers, and helps banks and businesses build secure and seamless payment solutions for their customers by smoothening the exchange of funds.
The company was founded in 2016 by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Olugbenga Agboola and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
NovoPayment accelerates financial innovation globally via API-enabled banking as a service platform. It enables digital financial and transactional services in support of varied use cases. NovoPayment utilizes APIs and other flexible delivery models to help banks, financial institutions, merchants, networks, marketplaces, neo banks, and other financial service providers to leverage their existing systems to generate new deposits, transaction streams, and customer experiences.
Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis. The company started operations in 2002 as a transaction switching and electronic payments processing company that builds and manages payment infrastructure as well as deliver innovative payment products and transactional services throughout the African continent.
PayMate is a leader in B2B payments for Enterprise and SME across supply chains. The PayMate platform provides a comprehensive digital workflow tied to payments which enable greater control and transparency along with better cash flows and an end to end reconciliation for a superior experience for Enterprise and SME in closed-loop supply chains. PayMate works with leading Visa commercial card-issuing banks to facilitate credit for both payables and receivables across supply chains moving traditional cash, cheque and EFT to card streams with several built-in risk-mitigating benefits for banks and extended days payables for buyers. Platform features include Procure to Pay automation, credit evaluation, discount marketplace along with APIs for integration into existing accounts/ERP for minimal friction-based deployment. It is cloud-based and accessible across all form factors. PayMate has a presence in South Asia (India) and UAE and is actively expanding across CEMEA.
Finix is a developer of a B2B payment processing platform designed to let businesses own, manage and monetize their payments. Their platform uses modular, workflow-driven architecture and a real-time interface to track transactions, consolidate disparate payment processor data and underwrite merchant accounts, enabling banks, acquirers, and enterprises to send money anywhere in the facilitate push payments over debit cards.
Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. With the only federally chartered crypto bank in the US, as well as Anchorage Digital Singapore, which offers equivalent security and service standards, Anchorage Digital provides institutions an unparalleled combination of secure custody, regulatory compliance, product breadth, and client service. Founded in 2017, Anchorage Digital is valued at over $3 billion with funding from leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC—Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital is remote-friendly with offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on Twitter @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
Payworks is the provider of a next generation Point of Sale payment gateway technology. With Payworks technology, developers of Point of Sale solutions for merchants can quickly and cost-efficiently integrate card payment functionality into their applications, and securely process EMV, contactless and mobile wallet transactions at the Point of Sale. With headquarters in Germany and offices in the UK, the US and Poland, Payworks provides its technology to leading acquirers and payment providers globally. Payworks was acquired by Visa in July 2019.
Verifi is a leading provider of global electronic payment and risk management solutions for card-not-present merchants. The highly customizable payment and real-time reporting platform serves as a foundation for Verifi's suite of fraud solutions and risk management strategies. With a commitment of reducing risk while increasing profitability for clients, Verifi's multi-layered approach enables transaction risk management and mitigation, business optimization strategies, cardholder authentication and chargeback representment for all major credit card brands. Verifi is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PCI Level 1 certified and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Bell ID develops chip lifecycle management software that provides mobile payments software for issuing and managing credentials on smartphones, smart cards, and connected devices. Bell ID was founded in 1993 and it is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The company was acquired by Rambus on January 25, 2016.
Rambus - Payments and Ticketing are at the forefront of tokenization technology.
El Zatona is a cloud-based retail management system that is designed to help merchants manage their businesses and increase their profits. Their platform integrations and continuous technical support to their customers will allow them to leverage offline stores and the exposure of e-commerce with efficient and synchronized stock management.
Netsahem is a donation network platform.
Youspital is a developer of a digital healthcare platform for scheduling in advance medical exams. The platform provided by their business streamlines and automates customer booking, onboarding, and payment processes, allowing both patients and hospitals to provide better care at lower costs.
At Fawaterak, we believe that everyone should have access to tools that can help them run their business effectively. That's why we offer a range of services that can help merchants of all sizes get paid faster, manage their operations, and grow their businesses. With Fawaterak, merchants can: Accept credit and debit card payments quickly and securely Keep track of sales and inventory in real-time Manage customer relationships and create loyalty programs Access funding and other financial services to help them grow Comply with tax and eInvoice regulations Our Solutions include: Payment Terminals Point of Sale Systems Online Checkout (Payment links, invoices, and product links) Mobile App Administration eInvoice and eReceipt Systems
Neqabty offers a mobile application that digitalizes society by linking organizations with its members in the field of healthcare.
Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.
Minna Technologies specializes in subscription management services. They connect banks and fintech with subscription businesses to give consumers subscription management in-app. Their applications find and display subscriptions that switched to alternatives switch energy, mobile, and broadband services. They enable users to manage monthly payments for subscriptions.
LISNR® powers transactions across the customer journey globally with the most advanced Ultrasonic Data Platform. Today, companies like Jaguar Land Rover, Ticketmaster, and Visa use this solution to create secure & frictionless moments for consumers around the world. Founded in 2012, LISNR is located in Oakland, CA and Cincinnati, OH. Major investors include Intel, Jump Capital, Mercury Fund, R/GA, and Synchrony Financial.
Bankable is an architect of innovative payment solutions for corporates, banks, and retailers. Their solutions – including e-wallets, m-wallets, remittance services, P2P money transfers, and prepaid card programs – are available in the form of white-label self-service platforms as well as via APIs.
Branch delivers world-class financial services to the mobile generation. With offices in San Francisco, Lagos, Mexico City, Mumbai and Nairobi, Branch is a for-profit socially conscious company that uses the power of data science to reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. We believe that everyone, everywhere deserves fair financial access. The rapid spread of smartphones presents an opportunity for the world's emerging middle class to access banking options and achieve financial flexibility. Branch's mission-driven team is led by founder and former CEO of Kiva.org. The company presents a rich opportunity for our team members to drive meaningful growth in rapidly evolving and changing markets. Most recently, Branch announced its Series C and has garnered more than $100M in funding with investments from leading Silicon Valley firms.
Earthport plc is a global financial services company providing a cross border payments service in over 50 countries and territories worldwide.
Plaid is the technology platform providing the tools and access needed for the development of a fully modern, and digitally-enabled financial system. Plaid makes it easier and safer for developers from the smallest startups to the largest financial institutions to build innovative financial services and applications. Plaid offers beautiful consumer experiences, developer-friendly infrastructure, and intelligence tools that give everyone the ability to build the future of financial services. Plaid was launched by William Hockey and Zach Perret in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
BillDesk develops an integrated technology platform and unified APIs to make digital payments easy and accessible. BillDesk was created to help consumers leverage on the potential of electronic medium to better organize and manage their payments, while escaping some of the pitfalls of traditional bill payment services.
Dock is a provider of modern financial technology infrastructure in Latin America. Dock unlocks business value, innovation, and scalability for its customers by integrating card issuing and core banking services on one comprehensive platform. Dock’s modular solutions enable mission-critical processes that accelerate a company’s ability to bring new digital payments and banking services to market. The end result is a wider array of innovative products, greater consumer access to financial services, and improved customer experiences. Dock’s cloud-based platform reduces the operational and regulatory burden on clients while offering other valuable tools through its partner ecosystem.
Paystack lets businesses in Africa accept payments by anyone, anywhere in the world via credit card, debit card, money transfer, and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps. It specializes in the fields of financial services, the internet, and payments. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Ikeja, Lagos.
Behalf offers automated payment solutions, including financing and net terms, to merchants and their customers. Behalf integrates seamlessly into a merchant's b2b sales and invoicing process or into an online checkout, and provides access to financing regardless of invoice or transaction size. Behalf pays merchants on day one, increasing sales and improving cash flow for both merchants and their business customers. To find out more about how Behalf is transforming the way businesses buy and sell, visit www.behalf.com.
Growsel is an award-winning nonprofit agricultural crowdfunding organization that connects underserved Base of the Pyramid smallholder farmers with lenders around the world to alleviate poverty. A nonprofit agricultural technology organisation connecting under financed smallholder farmers with lenders through crowdfunding to alleviate poverty Founded in 2017, Growsel has vigorously pursued its mission of "changing lives and creating opportunities" for financially excluded smallholder farmers who cannot reconcile their economic realities with the enormous potentials in their local communities, thereby helping them upscale their subsistence agriculture, a feat which saw it win the 2018 Visa Everywhere Initiative Award for Financial Inclusion and The Problem There are estimated 500 million smallholder farming households globally, (representing 2 billion people) relying to various degrees on subsistence agricultural production for their livelihoods. This group represents the largest proportion of the world's poor living on less than $2 a day. The solution An agricultural crowdfunding platform that connects underserved Base of the Pyramid smallholder farmers in developing economies with lenders around the world to alleviate poverty. Mission Statement Passionately using technology and peer-to-peer micro-lending towards changing lives and creating opportunities for financially excluded and underserved Base of the Pyramid smallholder farmers across developing world. Our Vision Alleviate poverty with small seeds, big impact Our Our Mission Changing lives, creating opportunities Global Award & Recognition Sub-Saharan African Financial Inclusion Award by Visa Everywhere Initiative Farmers Life Changer Award by Joint Farmers Community Initiative NetSuite Social Impact Software Donation for Growing Social Enterprises by Oracle Lend as little as $20 to to alleviate poverty today. Visit www.growsel.org to learn more Remember its alway small seeds, big impact!
MOOKH Enabling seamless and hassle free payments from consumers directly to their favorite merchants, with direct plugins for website and social media integration.
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Liuv is an app that integrates payment and loyalty programs making it easier for consumers, guarantying that merchant’s loyalty campaigns are more efficient and promotions reaches the desired customers. It increases revenue and optimizes the costs of establishments besides generating consumption profile information.
Paidy is a software platform that allows consumers to buy online without a credit card or pre-registration. It is optimized for mobile and instant-checkout, Paidy allows consumers to buy online and does not require a credit card or pre-registration. Paidy's payment service allows users to make purchases online, and then pay for them each month in a consolidated bill. The company uses proprietary technology to score creditworthiness, underwrite transactions and guarantee payment to merchants. Since many Japanese consumers prefer not to use credit cards for online payments, Paidy’s service can help vendors increase their conversion rates, average order values and repeat purchases.
Briskly is a technological platform for unmanned trading. The company produces smart refrigerators in its own Briskly factory, develops B-Pay app for scanning and paying for goods and provides technology for autonomous trading. As of June 2021 Briskly sold more than 1000 autonomous micromarkets and entered Kazakh, Belarusian, Ukranian and German markets. B-Pay app users made more than 1 million purchases using the app.
YellowPepper is Latin America’s pioneer in mobile banking and payment solutions. Founded in 2004, the growing company provides services in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and soon Brazil employing the best and brightest in the tech space with more than 60 team members throughout its regional footprint. YellowPepper brings innovative payment solutions to dynamic countries across the hemisphere. The company is backed by Visa and is also the recipient of the IFC (World Bank) first equity investment for a Latin America mobile financial company, merging unmatched market knowledge with the latest in payments technology. For more information, please visit www.yellowpepper.com.
Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform. As a technology company with a full German banking license, Solarisbank enables other companies to offer their financial services. Via APIs, partners integrate Solarisbank's modular banking services directly into their product offerings. The platform offers digital bank accounts and payment cards, identification and lending services, digital asset custody as well as services provided by integrated third-party providers. To date, Solarisbank has raised more than EUR 160 million from a bluechip shareholder base, including ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund, BBVA, finleap, Global Brain, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Lakestar, Samsung Catalyst Fund, SBI Group, Storm Ventures, Visa, Vulcan Capital, and yabeo Capital.
Payworks is the provider of a next generation Point of Sale payment gateway technology. With Payworks technology, developers of Point of Sale solutions for merchants can quickly and cost-efficiently integrate card payment functionality into their applications, and securely process EMV, contactless and mobile wallet transactions at the Point of Sale. With headquarters in Germany and offices in the UK, the US and Poland, Payworks provides its technology to leading acquirers and payment providers globally. Payworks was acquired by Visa in July 2019.
Fraedom specializes in developing transaction management services that enables banks to maximize the value of their commercial card programs. Fraedom is a wholly owned subsidiary of Visa Inc.
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Consumers that are financially vulnerable, overstretched but aspire for better have a need to better manage their finances. At Qpal we believe strengthening financial health and wellbeing can be achieved through an automated digital assistant. We're going to make managing money that little bit easier with our Open Banking powered tool, launching in 2021. Founded in 2016, Qpal has previously designed, developed and deployed mobile payment, merchant acceptance and AI-driven analytics solutions internationally.
Bridg is a customer data platform that empowers marketers to better understand and reach customers using SKU-level insights.
Klarna is an e-commerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers. The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. The company also offers direct payments, pay-after-delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model, offering shoppers interest-free financing on retail purchases throughout installments. The Klarna app enhances the shopping experience by providing top retailers with flexible payment options and cashback rewards.
Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.
CardinalCommerce is the pioneer and global leader in authenticating consumer payments online. They operate the largest interoperable authentication network in the world which spans across various card network protocols, merchants, and Financial Institutions.
Visa Europe is a payment technology business that enables millions of European consumers, businesses, and governments to make electronic payments. Its members are responsible for issuing cards, signing up retailers, and deciding cardholder and retailer fees. Almost 80% of Visa Europe’s business is on debit cards. There are 466 million Visa cards in Europe while 1 Euro in every 6.75 Euros spent in Europe is on a Visa card. Despite the challenging economic climate, total spend by Visa cardholders grew by 8.0% to 1.3 trillion Euros. Visa Europe employs 1,700 people on a permanent basis. It is able to respond quickly to the specific market needs of European banks and their customers, cardholders and retailers, and to meet the European Commission’s objective to create an internal market for payments. Visa Europe has invested over 1 billion Euros in technology and infrastructure over the past six years, building a European payments platform from which to deliver the next generation of payment technologies. All its transactions are based on the international EMV chip standard, which provides cryptographic security for payments today. Visa Europe is owned and operated by member banks and other payment service providers from 36 countries across Europe. Founded in 2004, it is based in London, the U.K.
Thumbzup Offers your merchant customer base an affordable, secure and fully certified MPOS solution.
Chain, Inc. is an enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2012. It specializes in developing cryptographic ledger systems designed to enhance the security and efficiency of financial services. The company's key offerings include the Chain Open Standard, an open-source blockchain protocol for large-scale financial applications, Chain Core, an enterprise-grade production node, and Chain Sandbox, a prototyping environment. Chain's technology allows organizations to securely track and transfer financial assets in a token format across both private and public networks, facilitating programmatic and peer-to-peer transfers of digital assets. Its clientele includes major financial institutions such as Visa, Nasdaq, and Citigroup, as well as emerging startups focused on innovative financial products.
MagicCube is the Software Defined Trust (SDT) category with its software TEE-based platform. The technology enables large-scale deployment and management of IoT and mobile- secure solutions to consumers.
Stripe, Inc. is a global technology company that provides application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools designed to facilitate online payment processing for businesses. Its comprehensive platform includes solutions for payments, subscriptions, fraud detection, and data analytics, among others. Stripe's offerings, such as Stripe Connect for routing payments, Stripe Radar for fraud prevention, and Stripe Checkout for seamless transaction processes, cater to a diverse clientele ranging from startups to established enterprises. The company also addresses financing challenges faced by online businesses through Stripe Capital, which offers fast and flexible funding options. With operations in multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore, Stripe aims to simplify financial infrastructure and support the growth of internet-based businesses, thereby contributing to the overall economic landscape of the digital economy. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Stripe has established partnerships with leading technology firms to enhance its service capabilities.
TrialPay enables customers to pay for one item by trying or buying something else. Their system is used by merchants like Skype to provide users with free trials in exchange for participating in deals from their advertising partners.
DocuSign, Inc. is a cloud-based software company that specializes in electronic signature solutions, enabling users to prepare, execute, and manage agreements digitally. Its platform automates various manual and paper-based processes, facilitating identity management, authentication, digital signatures, and workflow automation across multiple devices. The company offers a range of services, including DocuSign CLM for automating agreement workflows, Intelligent Insights for analyzing legal documents, and tailored industry-specific solutions such as Rooms for Real Estate and FedRAMP for U.S. federal agencies. Additionally, DocuSign provides training and support to its clients, which span small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and individual users across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, and government. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, DocuSign has expanded its operations internationally with offices in cities such as London, Sydney, and Dublin.
LoopPay is a widely accepted mobile payment provider, empowering consumers to finally leave their physical wallets at home, today. LoopPay’s patented Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) technology turns existing mag stripe readers into mobile contactless readers without any charge or cost to merchants or their payment processors, enabling secure mobile payments at more than 10 million locations in the U.S. Consumers can select from an array of devices that match their phones and fit their lifestyles, including the LoopPay Fob, ChargeCase, CardCase, and Card. In addition, all cards, including payment, gift, loyalty, reward and IDs, can be stored in one place via the LoopPay app, which offers utmost convenience and security, as all data is password and PIN-protected. LoopPay also encrypts and stores all card track data in secure memory within any device and is a Level One PCI Certified Payment Provider.
Yub is the world’s first offline affiliate network. Yub enables retailers and restaurants to effortlessly track consumers from online clicks through to actual purchases, harnessing the power of the online affiliate model to drive in-store purchases on a massive scale. With no integration or upgrades needed from merchants and simple and easy to use offers for consumers, Yub is on the way to revolutionize the way brick-and-mortar stores reach more shoppers!
For online services that require privacy and security, SecureKey is the identity and authentication service provider that gives consumers secure and convenient access to critical online services. Its services allow organizations to build or subscribe to an identity network that connects consumers with online services where both privacy and security are paramount. SecureKey is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Boston, Washington D.C., and San Francisco. The company is backed by a world-class group of venture and corporate investors that include strategic investments from Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Rogers Venture Partners, and Intel Capital.
TrialPay enables customers to pay for one item by trying or buying something else. Their system is used by merchants like Skype to provide users with free trials in exchange for participating in deals from their advertising partners.
Fundamo (Proprietary) Limited provides mobile financial solutions for banks, financial organizations, and mobile network operators in South Africa and internationally. It offers Fundamo Enterprise Edition, a mobile financial services enterprise platform; Fundamo Mobile Wallet that provides transformational mobile financial services; and Fundamo Mobile Banking that enable banks and financial institutions to provide mobile banking as an electronic channel to access existing accounts. Fundamo (Proprietary) Limited also provides Fundamo Mobile Remittance connecters that offer consumer remittance options for the Fundamo Enterprise Platform owners; mobile commerce modules that provides configurable integrated payment and purchasing options; and mobile debit card modules, which provide facilities to issue a debit card using the Fundamo Mobile Account. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. Fundamo (Proprietary) Limited operates as a subsidiary of Sanlam Ltd.
PlaySpan™ is the global leader in monetization solutions for over 1,000 online games, virtual worlds, and social networks. PlaySpan's patent-pending in-game digital goods commerce and micropayment platform enables game publishers and developers to generate new revenues, acquire new users, and extend the loyalty of existing users. PlaySpan also provides global payment solutions through its UltimatePay product which enables users to make safe, convenient, and friendly in-app purchases using over 85 global payment methods in 180 countries. UltimatePay includes PlaySpan’s ULTIMATE GAME CARD, which is a pre-paid card available in over 45,000 retail locations across North America and growing rapidly worldwide. PlaySpan is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Ohio, Virginia, and Mumbai. Investors include Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures. The company won the 2009 OnHollywood Category Award for Best Gaming Company.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) (formerly Square, Inc.) is a technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy.
Inside Secure (formerly INSIDE Contactless S.A.), a fabless company, provides open-standard contactless payment and near field communication (NFC) semiconductors and software for payment, transit, identity, and access control applications. It offers contactless reader Interface Chips, service enabling NFC interface circuit, contactless payment platform, contactless memory chips, USB desktop contactless readers, and proximity and long range couplers. INSIDE Contactless also provides professional integration and adoption services, such as application development, packaging services, pre-personalization and personalization, and system integration. The company offers its products for use in smart cards, key fobs, mobile phones, handheld devices, POS, and PC peripherals. It serves payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions. Inside Secure was formerly known as INSIDE Contactless S.A. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Aix en Provence, France. It has offices in Shanghai, China; Singapore, Singapore; Warsaw, Poland; Seoul, South Korea; San Francisco, California; and Boston, Massachusetts.
CyberSource is a global payment gateway and merchant services provider that specializes in electronic payment solutions for businesses. The company offers a comprehensive platform that manages the entire payment process, from acceptance and order screening to reconciliation and payment security. With a focus on maximizing sales and enhancing operational efficiency, CyberSource helps merchants simplify and automate their payment operations while effectively mitigating fraud and securing payment data. Operating internationally, including a presence in Tokyo, Japan, CyberSource aims to deliver industry-leading payment and risk management solutions tailored to the needs of merchants worldwide.