Ellie Horvath
At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Payments companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Payments Companies & Startups (London)
Weavr
| Founders | Adrian Mizzi, Alex Mifsud |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Weavr is an online platform that creates, integrates, deploys, and runs digital payment flows.
Soldo
| Founders | Carlo Gualandri |
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Soldo is a multi-user expense account helping companies manage their budgets.
Token
| Founders | Marten Nelson, Steve Kirsch, Todd Clyde, Yobie Benjamin |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Token is an open banking payments platform driving the shift from traditional payment methods to bank payments.
Rapyd
| Founders | Arik Shtilman, Arkady Karpman, Omer Priel |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Rapyd is a payments platform that inserts fintech services into any app and simplifies the complex offering of local payment methods.
Form3
| Founders | Michael Mueller |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
DNA Payments
| Founders | Arif Babayev, Nurlan Zhagiparov |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
DNA Payments is committed to build a transparent business model, so that customers can easily track their money at each stage.
Zepz
| Founders | Catherine Wines, Ismail Ahmed, Richard Igoe |
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Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
Nous
| Founders | Greg Marsh |
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Nous is a software company that deals with household utilities.
Repay Solutions
| Founders | George Robbins |
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Over The Top payment platform connecting businesses to the latest real-time payments innovations without changing bank.
Kwanji
| Founders | Leslie Onyesoh, William Lorenz |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Online FX Comparison Platform Bridging Emerging & Traditional Markets
Trussle
| Founders | Ishaan Malhi, Jonathan Galore |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Trussle is a free online mortgage broker that works with much-needed transparency.
Cryptopay
| Founders | Dmitry Gunyashov, George Basiladze |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Cryptopay is a digital currency firms, offering crypto-wallets, debit cards, B2B payments, & investments.
dopay
| Founders | Frans van Eersel |
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dopay provides a cloud-based payroll service that allows employers to calculate salaries and make payments electronically.
Percent
| Founders | Henry Ludlam |
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Percent is the API-first fintech powering purpose worldwide.
Vyne Technologies
| Founders | Adam Rowland, Damien Cahill, Karl MacGregor, Nick Daniel |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
Baanx Group
| Founders | Garth Howat, Mark Evans, Sean Salloux |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
BaaS (Banking as a Service), white label, mobile digital asset friendly: wallets, cards, payment gateways, IBANs, for communities
DigiDoe
| Founders | Alexandra VIdyuk, Avigail Slavin, Pavel Guzminov |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
DigiDoe is a UK-based fintech which has redesigned the world’s payments infrastructure for the 21st century.
APEXX Global
| Founders | Peter Keenan, Rodney Bain, Toreson Lloyd |
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APEXX consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
Glint
| Founders | Ben Davies, Jason Cozens |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Glint is a FinTech with an app and debit card that enables clients to save, exchange, spend and send multi-currencies and physical gold.
Omnio
| Founders | Scott Lanphere |
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Omnio Group is a market leading provider of cloud-based banking and payment services.
Mode
| Founders | Alex Ryvkin, Jonathan Rowland |
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Mode is building the next-gen financial ecosystem allowing consumers and businesses to connect in ways that have never before been achieved.
Flexion
| Founders | Jens Lauritzson, Per Lauritzson |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
inai
| Founders | Anantharaman Pattabiraman, Karthik Narayanan |
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Inai allows vendors to set up their payment stack with a single integration.
Monitise
| Founders | Alastair Lukies CBE |
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Monitise is a technology and services company that delivers mobile banking, payments, and commerce networks.
YayPay
| Founders | Anthony Venus, Eugene Vyborov, Saul Frank |
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YayPay is intelligent accounts receivables automation
Applied Blockchain
| Founders | Adi Ben-Ari |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Applied Blockchain builds private and secure business applications
KodyPay
| Founders | Jack Howell, Joshua Roel, Morgan Hammans, Yoyo Chang |
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Revolutionising in-person payments to grow your business with a trustworthy and innovative solution.
Ben
| Founders | David Duckworth, Sebastian Fallert |
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Supercharge your benefits, save time and money
AEVI
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
AEVI provides a platform for merchant-facing businesses that enables them to upgrade to more agile, more data-driven propositions.
Onvi
| Founders | Jon Clarke, Prask Sutton, Richie Stote |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The mobile-first POS system for hospitality
Adhara
| Founders | Edward Budd, Julio Faura, Peter Munnings |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Real time global liquidity management, FX and international payments on CBDCs and tokenized money for banks and central banks
Yumpingo
| Founders | Andy Walker, Gary Goodman, George Wetz |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Judopay
| Founders | George Karibian, Jan Farrarons |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
GoCardless
| Founders | Hiroki Takeuchi, Matt Robinson, Tom Blomfield |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
GoCardless is a payment company that makes collecting payments by direct debit easy for everyone.
Taptap Send
| Founders | Michael Faye |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Taptap Send is an app that lets immigrants send money back home.
Lendable
| Founders | Jakob Schwarz, Martin Kissinger, Paul Pamment, Victoria van Lennep |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Fiat Republic
| Founders | Adam Bialy, Martyna Lewinska, Sophie Guibaud |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Fiat Republic provides banking API unlocking mainstream fiat services for crypto platforms.
Vitesse PSP
| Founders | Paul Townsend, Phil McGriskin |
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Vitesse is the smart way to make secure global money transfers.
Cashplus
| Founders | Andre AUGUSTUS, Richard Wagner |
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Cashplus is a digital challenger to UK banks and has served more than 1.6m customers since launching in 2005
Rvvup
| Founders | David Nunn |
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Bridging the 3 Generations of Payments
Comma
| Founders | Tom Beckenham |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Comma is a platform that makes it easy for businesses to pay salaries, taxes, and invoices by revolutionizing the payments system.
TruRating
| Founders | Georgina Nelson |
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TruRating offers businesses with a POP rating system that analyses customer satisfaction.
Groupay
| Founders | Hiroki Takeuchi, Matt Robinson, Tom Blomfield |
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Groupay is an online platform for web design.
sync.
| Founders | Azahara Egea, Ricky Lee |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.
Paycast
| Founders | Peter Janes, Tom Squire |
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Paycast is a new type of payment engine for marketplaces, with a bold ambition to facilitate a new era of trust online.
FNA
| Founders | Kimmo Soramaki |
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FNA is a deep technology analytics company that offers financial system services.
trustshare
| Founders | Joe Harlow, Nick Fulton |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Escrow infrastructure as a service. We allow brands that consumers trust to go live with a fully branded escrow solution in 5 lines of code.
Cake Technologies
| Founders | Charlotte Dales, Michelle Songy |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
CAKE is revolutionizing the way restaurants and bars engage with their customers.
Rizq
| Founders | Dennis Nemerov, Peter Trebelev, Shahid Amin, Yerkebulan Razdykov |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Rizq is the first fully digital sharia-compliant, ethical account in the UK.
Kapaga(by Finadvant)
| Founders | Katya Dorofejeva, Leonid Prujanski |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Banking Ecosystem for SMEs trading internationally
Nomod
| Founders | Omar Kassim |
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Nomod creates a financial operating system for forward-thinking companies in emerging countries.
PawaPay
| Founders | Unknown |
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PawaPay is a payments company that provides mobile payment solutions to African consumers or businesses.
Crezco
| Founders | Igor Pikovsky, Ralph Rogge |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Crezco provides instant, innovative payment solutions.
Hammock
| Founders | Manoj Varsani MBE, Marco Ferrari |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Hammock is a technology platform that helps landlords reconcile transactions on the go.
Uncapped
| Founders | Asher Ismail, Piotr Pisarz |
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Uncapped is a provider of revenue-based financing that enables founders to raise growth capital without interest or equity.
Freemarket
| Founders | Alex Hunn |
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Freemarket accelerate’s businesses growth by giving them access to cross-border payments and currency exchange optimized for their needs.
Payosu
| Founders | Noam Nevo |
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Osu provides businesses and consumers with a fast, simple, and safe push-payment solution.
Trilo
| Founders | Hamish Blythe |
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Building the simplest way for people to pay people
Paddle
| Founders | Christian Owens, Harrison Rose |
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We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Wise
| Founders | Kristo Kaarmann, Taavet Hinrikus |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
Upstream
| Founders | Alex Vratskides, Marco Veremis, Nikos Iatropoulos |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Upstream is leading the mobile internet revolution in high growth markets.
Ebury
| Founders | Juan Lobato, Salvador Garcia |
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Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally.
Ixaris
| Founders | Alex Mifsud |
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Ixaris is a payment optimization company that helps businesses make smarter payment choices.
Citizen
| Founders | James Neville |
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Citizen uses open banking to simplify payments for businesses and consumers.
Primer
| Founders | Gabriel Le Roux, Paul Anthony |
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The automation platform for payments. End-to-end payment flows with no code.
pepperhq
| Founders | Charles Hall, Matthew Scott, Simon Kelton, Stuart Hall |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Pepper platform supports white label apps for mobile payment, discovery, digital loyalty, social media marketing, and actionable data.
PayDo
| Founders | Sergey Zakharov |
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Merchant provider for online merchants with 300+ payment methods to make global business.
Everything
| Founders | Unknown |
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Everything is a UK-based Fintech firm focused on reinventing premium bonds with a social spin.
XPO
| Founders | Franck Ndame, Lotanna Ezeike, Tomi Aiyeola |
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We pay creator invoices, crazy fast.
SatoshiPay
| Founders | Alexander Wilke, Henning Peters, Meinhard Benn |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Connecting the world through instant payments
Pillar Project
| Founders | David Siegel, Michael Messele, Robert Gaskell, Tomer Sofinzon, Vitor Py |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Platform to contextually manage your identity and transact with the services of the emerging web3 digital economy.
TRASTRA
| Founders | Roman Potemkin |
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Easy and fast banking for cashing out crypto
Lumio Technologies
| Founders | Adrian Shedden, Charlie Richardson, Tom Richardson |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Lumio is you Intelligent wealth mentor. With the simple aim to maximize your money around your lifestyle
Tipjar
| Founders | James Brown |
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Tipjar is a cashless and contactless tipping platform.
MONI
| Founders | Antti Pennanen, Jani Kajala, Lauri Sommarberg, Martti Malmi |
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MONI – a micro-banking platform for the Millennials
Nook
| Founders | Henry Arnold, Joseph Lines |
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Nook offering is geared towards delivering simplified SME payments and invoicing solutions.
Corefy
| Founders | Denys Kyrychenko, Denys Melnykov, Dmytro Dziubenko |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Payment Platform & Payments Hub
Cybertonica
| Founders | Ilya Bezrukov, Joshua Bower-Saul, Sergey Velts |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Cybertonica uses Machine Learning and AI to manage risk and fraud, increasing trust and growing frictionless banking and m/e-payments.
acasa
| Founders | Nick Katz, Paddy Allen, Vasanth Subramanian |
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acasa is a household management tool and bill splitting package that helps students, sharers and couples.
Loot Financial Services
| Founders | Filip Jakubowski-Drzewiecki, Ollie Purdue |
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Loot Financial Services is a banking and money management app for students.
Transak
| Founders | Sami Start, Yeshu Agarwal |
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Web2-to-web3 conversion funnels for the next generation of apps.
Ravelin
| Founders | Leonard Austin, Mairtin O’Riada, Martin Sweeney, Nick Lally, Stephen Whitworth |
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Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
PayQin
| Founders | Fabrice Amalaman, Pierre-Antoine Sesque |
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Making online payment simple for Africa
Yordex
| Founders | Erik De Kroon, Hardeep Nagi |
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Smart Spend Management Software, SaaS, B2B Payment Service
Easy Payment Gateway
| Founders | Alejandro Betancourt, Alex Capurro |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Easy Payment Gateway is quite possibly the worlds best online payment gateway.
InPlayer
| Founders | Elena Draganovska, Jack Thorogood, Nenad Cubrinovski |
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InPlayer is a video and digital asset monetization platform.
Manigo
| Founders | Stevan Bajic |
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Manigo is a full stack Banking as a Service (BaaS) provider
fena
| Founders | Faiz Rasool, Gosia Furmanik, Stefan Binder |
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Democratising Open Banking access
Bukit
| Founders | Daniel Shoar, Raghad Mukhaimer, Segundo Cadainggan, Segundo Cadainggan |
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Bukit is an aggregator that connects service providers to people, offers a SaaS to businesses.
Telleroo
| Founders | Andrew Cookson, Fabian Flatz, Michael Riedler, Miguel Castro |
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Telleroo is one unified way for accountants & bookkeepers to make payments on behalf of clients
Propoly
| Founders | Edward Gazelle, Matt Varughese, Pawel Zbros, Ray Kyrson |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Propoly is a digital platform that enables letting agents to use the latest technologies to reduce on admin. (Acquired in 2021 by LFL)
Tab
| Founders | Chris Wood, Mark Datta |
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We’re revolutionising the way travellers discover, plan and book a trip.
Kantox
| Founders | Antonio Rami, John Carbajal, Philippe Gelis |
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Kantox is a leader in Currency Management Automation software that enables businesses to automate their end-to-end FX workflow
Cuvva
| Founders | Freddy Macnamara, James Billingham |
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Radically better insurance, fit for the future.
Verto
| Founders | Anthony Oduu, Ola Oyetayo |
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We power cross‑border payments for the world’s fastest‑growing startups and enterprises.
Curve
| Founders | Anna Mostyn-Williams, Shachar Bialick, Tom Foster-Carter |
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Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.
Sonovate
| Founders | Damon Chapple, Richard Prime |
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Sonovate solves cash flow and admin headaches for users and suppliers of global contingent workforce solutions
VitraCash
| Founders | Florian Winkler, Koray Koska |
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Tired of carrying all your debit and credit cards without even knowing which one to use for which kind of payment? Try VitraCard!
AstroPay
| Founders | Sergio Fogel |
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AstroPay is a Latin America-based payment solutions provider for online transactions.
LoyalT®
| Founders | Animesh Ghosh, Ivy Roy, Rajib Ghosh |
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LoyalT® is a reward points distribution network on blockchain, making it profitable for businesses and rewarding for customers
Paymob Smart Payments
| Founders | Grigoriy Gurbanov, Kosta Du |
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Paymob is a payment rail for mobile business apps
