Payments startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Slash

San Francisco

Slash is a fintech company building industry-specific business banking, backed by YC, NEA, Stanford University, and others; it powers over three billion dollars a year in business purchasing and is among the fastest growing fintechs.

Infinite

San Francisco

Infinite is a stablecoin payment processor whose founding team previously built and scaled products at Coinbase and Sardine, bringing category-leading fintech experience to deliver stablecoin payments backed by recognized fintech leadership

Crescent

San Francisco

Crescent is a US fintech building the future of business financial services, serving startups to $1B+ enterprises. It has raised over $10M from JP Morgan Chase, BNY Mellon executives and unicorn leaders, with an Elon Musk company as a custo

Slope

San Francisco

Slope partners with large companies to offer AI-enabled credit to businesses via strategic financing partnerships; it has raised $252M from notable investors including Sam Altman, JP Morgan Chase, Union Square Ventures, and Y Combinator to

Aspire

San Francisco

Aspire is a leading fintech delivering an all-in-one financial operating system for growing APAC businesses; it has raised over USD 300 million, partnered with Visa and Wise, serves 50,000+ clients (15,000+ in APAC), and has won multiple fi

AtoB

San Francisco

AtoB modernizes payments infrastructure for trucking and logistics, enabling instant, reliable, and fair capital movement in supply chains. Backed by over $125M from General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Mastercard, it's a Forbes Next Billion-Dol

Cardless

San Francisco

Cardless enables brands to launch a fully integrated credit card experience in weeks. As a nimble startup in a highly regulated space, it delivers integrated credit card capabilities within a regulated framework.

Stripe

South San Francisco

Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet, serving startups and public companies from San Francisco. Notable for raising $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation in March 2023.

Routable

San Francisco

**Simplifying payouts at scale** Routable’s secure B2B payments platform helps finance teams automate and simplify the payables process from invoice receipt to settlement. With support for your existing workflows and the flexibility to sca

Promise

Oakland

Promise modernizes government payments by delivering better payment systems for governments and communities, helping agencies recover revenue while offering residents flexible, humane ways to pay. Replacing broken systems with scalable tech

Atlas

San Francisco

Atlas Card is a San Francisco-based fintech delivering modern spend management and concierge services. Founded in 2022 with 25 employees, its founders are Patrick Mrozowski, Sid Parihar, and Kenan Pulak; the company lists Tom Blomfield as a

Forage

San Francisco

Forage builds payment technology to expand access to government benefits, helping SNAP EBT shoppers stretch grocery budgets and feed 42 million Americans. Backed by Nyca and PayPal Ventures, it aims to become a $1B+ business in a $100B+ mar

Mercoa

San Francisco

Mercoa is an embedded B2B payments platform that enables B2B fintechs to add BillPay and Accounts Payable to their products, serving accounting firms, neobanks, and vertical SaaS across construction, e-commerce, and home services.

Modern Treasury

San Francisco

Modern Treasury builds payments operations solutions, focusing on payment operations as core to business. Described as a lean team, this positions the company as a focused provider in the payments operations space for businesses.

Oxygen

San Francisco

Oxygen is a San Francisco-based modern financial platform offering banking services for digital natives, creators and entrepreneurs. Backed by Runa Capital, Y Combinator and other fintech investors, its banking services are provided by The

JustPaid

Mountain View

JustPaid offers B2B billing automation from Mountain View, CA, with about 20 employees. Led by CEO/cofounder Daniel Kivatinos and cofounders Anelya Grant and Vinay Datta Pinnaka; Daniel co-founded DrChrono (acquired 2021) and Vinay ran DrCh

OneText

San Francisco

OneText, founded by former PayPal Checkout leaders, is a payments, AI, and marketing platform enabling payment via a phone number. Backed by Y Combinator, Coatue, Citi Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and founders of Warby Parker, Allbirds, Harry

Kontigo

San Francisco

Kontigo is a USDC-based neobank for Latinos building a globally accessible, stable currency platform. By combining neobank services with USDC technology, it aims to provide stable, accessible financial infrastructure for its Latino communit