Best Payments Companies in Belgium
The 48 best Payments companies in Belgium in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Clear2Pay.
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Our analysis of 150 Payments companies
$44.9b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Payments companies in Belgium
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clear2Pay A payments technology vendor | $92M | 200 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2001 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Unifiedpost Group Provider of digital solutions for automating financial processes and tax compliance | $60M | 49 mo ago | Public | Julian Berry Founder & Director | 2001 | WebflowCart FunctionalityMicrosoft Advertising+15 | — | — |
| 3 | TopCompare.be Comparison platform for financial products | $22M | 119 mo ago | Series A | Elvedin Vejzovic Managing Director | 2015 | PHPJavaFacebook Login+17 | — | — |
| 4 | Twikey Direct Debit B2B payment platform | $1M | 126 mo ago | Public | — | 2013 | BootstrapNginxAmazon Web Services+17 | — | 1 job opening · 2 awards |
| 5 | Digiteal Provider of payment and invoicing solutions, including Peppol access point | $956K | 91 mo ago | Acquired | Cedric Neve Founder & CEO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | 2 job openings · 1 launch · 1 award |
| 6 | Sign2Pay Secure mobile payments using signature | $769K | 138 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Lipefi Provider of corporate cards and cash flow management solutions for startups | $20K | 37 mo ago | Seed | Christophe Sion Co-Founder | 2022 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Keyware Payment network service provider and platform | — | 239 mo ago | Public | — | 1996 | — | — | — |
Top 8 Payments companies in Belgium
#1
Public · La Hulpe, Wallonia · founded 2001 · 1318 employees$59.7Mraised▾
Provider of digital solutions for automating financial processes and tax compliance. The company offers services such as e-invoicing, payments, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and e-reporting. It also provides a global compliance checker to explore regulations. The company helps businesses transition to electronic invoicing processes and ensure tax compliance.
- Jul 2022Post IPO—
- Jul 2020Series C$11.4M
- Apr 2018Series C$30.4M
- Jan 2016Series B$10.8M
#2
Seed · Brussels, Brussels · founded 2022$20Kraised▾
Provider of corporate cards and cash flow management solutions for startups. It offers corporate cards designed to scale with business growth, coupled with real-time transaction insights and tools for cash flow optimization. The platform aims to simplify spending management for startups, providing a unified system for financial control. Features include advanced approvals and integrated views of bank accounts, assisting businesses in making informed financial decisions.
- 2023Seed$20K
#3
Acquired · Brussels, Brussels · founded 2001 · 2 employees$92.4Mraised▾
Clear2Pay is a Belgium based company providing payment solutions to financial institutions. It provides a variety of products and services like Bank Payment Hub (an umbrella payment solutions), Open Payment Framework (common reusable services like choreographed business payment processes) and other payment solutions like international payments, domestic payments and electronic banking. It also provides certain value-added-services like dispute management, remittances, maintenance of tax payment formats and bill presentment and payments. In September 2014 Clear2Pay was acquired by FIS, a US based provider of banking and payment technology solutions, for $492M. It counts 40 of the world's top 50 banks amongst its customers.
- Dec 2009Series C$73.5M
- Dec 2008Series B$8.3M
- Jan 2008Series B$10.6M
- Jan 2006Series A—
#4
Series A · Brussels, Brussels · founded 2015 · 6 employees$22.5Mraised▾
TopCompare.be is a comparison platform for financial products. Users can compare multiple consumer loans including personal loans, car loans, renovation loans, and mortgage loans. They can also compare credit cards, current accounts, term accounts, savings accounts, insurance products, etc.
- Sep 2016Series A$22.5M
#5
Acquired · Mont Saint Guibert, Wallonia · founded 2015 · 10 employees$955.8Kraised▾
Provider of payment and invoicing solutions, including Peppol access point. The company offers tools for electronic invoicing, payment processing, and open banking integration. Payment options include debit and credit cards, account-to-account transfers, QR codes, payment buttons, and payment links. It facilitates recurring payments, split payments, and buy now pay later options. The company also provides account information and payment initiation services.
- Jan 2019Seed$955.8K
- Jan 2019Conventional Debt$229.8K
- Apr 2018Grant (prize money)$1.2M
#6
Public · Bruges, Flanders · founded 2013 · 15 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Twikey enables SEPA direct debits through e-Mandates, between businesses, consumers and banks. It provides custom payment pages to its customers. Once the page is created, invites can be sent by the businesses to their customers to sign up and add their bank accounts. This will then enable seamless SEPA direct debits.
- Jan 2016Seed$1.1M
#7
Seed · Antwerp, Flanders · founded 2013 · 1 employees$769Kraised▾
Offers mobile payments by making it easier to pay with a regular debit card, simply using a signature. Unlike card readers, its ease of use provides high conversion and is highly suited for impulse and recurring purchases. An extensive risk analysis is done before the choice of payment method triggering a dynamic signature canvas to authenticate the payment. Signatures are real-time compared on 4 different security tiers.
- Jan 2015Angel$700K
- 2013Seed$69K
#8
Public · Brussels, Brussels · founded 1996 · 2 employees—raised▾
Keyware Technologies NV is a network service provider. The company works in the area of electronic payment solutions. The company operates in various business segments that are Terminals, which comprise the rental, the sale, and the installation of payment terminals; Authorisation, which relates to the revenues in connection with payment transactions, and authorisation services transaction; Corporate, which is involved in finance and administration, expenses in connection with the listing on the stock market; and Software, which includes activities of Magellan. The Terminal segment generates maximum revenue for the company. It offers its services to Netherlands, Germany, and France.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Payments coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Digital Payments is moving in Belgium
A read on the academic research around Digital Payments — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 62 Belgium-affiliated papers.
- KU Leuven13
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel10
- International Management Institute7
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies4
- Ghent University4
- Computer security3
- Cryptography2
- Cash2
- Construct (python library)1
- Implementation1
- Mobile payment8
- Payment system4
- Quality (philosophy)3
- Health care3
- Context (archaeology)2
- Mobile payment7
- Financial inclusion6
- Mobile banking5
- Payment system5
- Inclusion (mineral)4
Where digital payments is researched across Belgium
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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