Top Payments Startups in 2024

At Metal, we are shaping digital money and revolutionizing the way people transact by building the decentralized financial infrastructure of the future. To date, we have launched and operate Metal Pay (digital banking and crypto wallet) and Proton SDK a distributed ledger for identity and interaction with the card and banking payments settlement layer. Metal is the future of money. The future is now.

Highline operates a payment network with a proprietary payment method, Pay by Paycheck, focused on enabling consumers to make bill payments directly from their paychecks

LaunchPass is the best, and fastest way to launch a private paid community. We handle invites, permissions, and payments so you can focus on creating great content and growing your community.

We are going to transform how NGOs collect donations, both online and offline. We aim to significantly improve the experience that donors today have while making a donation.

DERA is a first-mover startup on a mission to unlock trapped value in closed ecosystems. We help companies to enter digital economies by providing them with the infrastructure to create digital assets. Our payment currency DERA is built to be the robust and solid backbone that powers all interest-bearing assets across various digital economies.

Momentum builds a behavioral science-based fundraising platform for nonprofits and progressive organizations improving the world. People want to give more than twice what they currently do and organizations want to raise more money. We put power in the hands of small-dollar donors by making it easier (and fun) to make a difference, and we help all sorts of organizations increase their impact. We focus on recurring donations: people give based on what they do and love. For example, when you get gas, automatically donate to offset it. Or when Trump tweeted, people gave to build Black political power (for example, see DefeatByTweet.org, Ushahidi.com, and CancelCorona.org).

Tank Payments is building modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry. We offer payables automation software for logistics businesses that make hundreds of payments to trucking businesses every day. For trucking businesses, we provide a best-in-class banking platform, designed to meet the unique financial needs of the trucking sector.

PayHub is building a payment processing platform tailored for small, service-based businesses. Our solutions focus on simplifying payment processes, reducing fees, and providing local, transparent support that big corporate providers often overlook. By offering services like Dual Pricing, mobile and text invoicing, e-invoicing, and recurring billing, we help small businesses manage payments more efficiently, ultimately increasing cash flow and savings. The problems PayHub solves include: - High Processing Fees: Our Dual Pricing model allows businesses to offer discounts for cash payments, effectively removing credit card fees. - Lack of Personalized Service: We’re locally based and committed to providing personalized, onsite customer support, and building long-term relationships with our clients. - Fragmented Services: PayHub combines invoicing, billing, and mobile processing into one seamless platform, making it easy for business owners to track and manage payments from one place. In short, we’re giving small business owners more control, lower costs, and stronger support in their payment processing needs.

Enter VEON, a revolutionary internet platform that integrates powerful data analytics and artificial intelligence to finally put the user in control. With zero-rating as a fundamental component of the service, VEON allows users to stay connected for free, no matter the status of their data plan — even when they are out of credit. VEON’s fresh take on messaging capabilities enables users and communities to connect by voice, text, picture and video through a stunning designed interface. We are are already live in Italy and we are building the future. We also announced exciting partnerships with MasterCard, Deezer and i.am+ (by Will.i.am) and more very famous names are coming. (From our CDO: "We have location data. We would know that in London, a football match ends at 10pm. Out of 50,000 attendees, over 11,000 have the Uber app installed. We provide that data to our partners, and imagine the awesomeness and magic that can happen").