Top Payments Startups in 2024

Recurly is the subscription and billing platform trusted by leading brands to grow their recurring revenue faster, smarter, and stronger. Too many subscription businesses are struggling to grow simply because their platform won’t let them anticipate and respond to customer demand. They can’t see where their most profitable customers come from. And they can’t iterate and update their offerings accordingly. To keep a good thing growing, they need an easy-to-use platform that lets them adapt quickly, data-driven insights to capture and keep more business, and an experienced partner to help them manage subscriptions at scale. That’s why everyone from Paramount+ to TIME to BarkBox all turn to Recurly. It’s also how we support over 50M subscribers and $10B in payment volume annually – 98% customer retention five years in a row.

OfferUp is changing how people buy and sell locally by making it as easy as taking and sharing a photo from your phone. We are not just about connecting buyers and sellers; we are about creating a simple and safe marketplace that changes people’s lives. OfferUp is a top 10 shopping app on Google Play and a top 20 app in the Lifestyle category on iTunes.

Xendit provides payments infrastructure for South East Asia. We help tech companies thrive via suite of APIs that allows them to accept and send payments.

Forage is an online payment solution for government subsidies— the Stripe of government payment systems. Our first software offering helps online grocery stores accept EBT payments online. EBT is like the Visa of government money, and it currently distributes over $80 Billion in food subsidies a year. finsmes.com/2022/08/forage-raises-22m-in-series-a-funding.html

Ripple is the leading provider of crypto solutions for businesses. Founded in 2012, our vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. As a leading enterprise blockchain company with products in commercial use by hundreds of customers across 50+ countries, our unique crypto solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost effective than traditional financial services – solving inefficiencies that have long defined the status quo.

Riskified is the AI platform powering the eCommerce revolution. We use cutting-edge technology, machine-learning algorithms, and behavioral analytics to identify legitimate customers and keep them moving toward checkout. Merchants use Riskified to increase revenue, prevent fraud, and eliminate customer friction. Riskified has reviewed hundreds of millions of transactions and approved billions of dollars of revenue for merchants across virtually all industries, including a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Stripe is a software platform for starting and running internet businesses. Millions of businesses rely on Stripe’s software tools to accept payments, expand globally, and manage their businesses online. Stripe has been at the forefront of expanding internet commerce, powering new business models, and supporting the latest platforms, from marketplaces to mobile commerce sites. We believe that growing the GDP of the internet is a problem rooted in code and design, not finance. Stripe is built for developers, makers, and creators. We work on solving the hard technical problems necessary to build global economic infrastructure—from designing highly reliable systems to developing advanced machine learning algorithms to prevent fraud.

The world’s first checkout experience platform, Bolt offers a lightning-fast, one-click checkout, and connects millions of shoppers to retailers through a unified, cross-brand network. Hundreds of forward-thinking retailers like Forever 21, Badgley Mischka, Milk Makeup, and more rely on Bolt to convert, retain, and delight shoppers.

Ascend is revolutionizing the financial operations of the insurance industry. Insurance accounts for a staggering 7.2% of global GDP but more than 40% of payments still reliant on paper checks. We automate the financial tasks associated with selling and buying insurance from end-to-end — from online customer payments, premium financing, to the distribution of commissions and carrier payables. We help digital distributors sell more insurance by simplifying operations, reducing payment friction and delivering the modern checkout experience customers expect. 

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