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Best Payments Companies in Colorado, United States

The 66 best Payments companies in Colorado, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: BillGO.

66companies tracked
$604.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
19have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · PAYMENTS × COLORADO

Our analysis of 50 Payments companies

$20.7b in tracked funding; 100% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

50companies analysed
100%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
15unicorns
2017median founding year
57kcombined LinkedIn audience
56%of audience held by top 3
2companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Payments companies in Colorado

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1BillGO
Provider of bill payment processing solutions for businesses and consumers
$177M29 mo agoSeries CScott Miller
Co-Founder
2015HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailReact+2014 patents
Enterprise transaction processing, ledger management, and workflow automation systems
2 job openings
2PaySimple
Online Payment and Invoicing for small business
$137M116 mo agoSeries B—2006WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+27——
3Moov
Provider of payment infrastructure enabling businesses to accept, store, send, and spend
37Funding top 21%Moat top 31%Growth top 35%Talent top 38%
All 11 signals ▾
Fundingtop 21%
Moattop 31%
Growthtop 35%
Talenttop 38%
Producttop 46%
Patentsbottom 39%
Globalbottom 37%
Techbottom 35%
Marketbottom 33%
Innovationbottom 33%
Newsbottom 22%
Funding: Raised $125M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 6 yrs (1.2/yr)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 11 patents
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100
$125M8 mo agoSeries BRobert Smith
Co-Founder & President
2016Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceSalesforce+911 patents
Personalized fitness coaching platforms leveraging motion sensor data and dynamic web content delivery
—
4QRails
Card issuer processing solutions
$43M43 mo agoAcquiredNaseer Nasim
Board Advisor
2016WordPressMySQLPHP+25——
5Tilled
Provider of payment facilitation platform for software vendors and SaaS companies
45Funding top 22%Moat top 39%Market top 48%Talent bottom 49%
All 7 signals ▾
Fundingtop 22%
Moattop 39%
Markettop 48%
Talentbottom 49%
Techbottom 42%
Globalbottom 32%
Newsbottom 18%
Funding: Raised $36.7M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 6 yrs (1.5/yr)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · 9 curated direct competitors tracked
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100
$37M3 mo agoSeries BCaleb Avery
Founder & CEO
2005———
6Infinicept
Payment facilitator solutions for merchants
$23M49 mo agoSeries ATodd Ablowitz
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
2014———
7Reserve Trust
Escrow payment solutions
$18M58 mo agoDeadpooledJustin Guilder
Co-Founder & CEO
2016———
8Payman AI
Developer of an AI platform for banking transaction automation
$14M19 mo agoSeries APrashanth Reddy
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
2024WebflowApple iCloud MailRive+18——
9Dakota
Provider of a stablecoin platform for storing and moving money
$12M11 mo agoSeries ARyan Bozarth
Co-Founder & CEO
2022SentryNode.jsThree.js+1210 patents
Fluorescence-based optical analysis instruments for sediments, nucleic acids, and target analytes
—
10Mocapay
Online platform for mobile marketing and payments
$9M60 mo agoSeries B—2006WordPressUptimeRobotProton Mail+2629 patents
Secure offline mobile payment processing and targeted marketing messaging for mobile commerce platforms.
—
11Prism
Provider of bill payment processing solutions for businesses and consumers
$3M132 mo agoAcquired—2011Microsoft ASP.NETKestreljQuery+325 patents
AI-driven software development platforms and secure gaming/transaction hardware systems
—
12Mercury
Platform providing merchant payment services
$2M170 mo agoAcquired—2001—7 patents
Cybersecurity solutions for vehicle power systems and protected 3D‑printing data management
—
13Shelfx
Provider of self-checkout and shelf management solutions for micro markets
$2M161 mo agoSeed—2011———
14Straddle
Financial infrastructure company that offers a unified platform for bank payments
$1M22 mo agoSeedKeith Raphael
Co-Founder & CEO
2023Framer SitesSalesforceReact+7——
15Phood
Online payment solution for schools
$1M44 mo agoSeedAlex Parmley
CEO
2018———
16Locus
Provider of payment infrastructure and policy enforcement for autonomous agents
$500K8 mo agoSeedCole Dermott
Co-Founder
2025Tailwind CSSReactReact Router+7556 patents
Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials
1 launch
17Inspire Commerce
Provider of online payment solutions for businesses
$500K165 mo agoSeedMark Fischer
CEO
2008———

Top 12 Payments companies in Colorado

#1
Series B · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2005 · 60 employees
$36.7Mraised
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Provider of payment facilitation platform for software vendors and SaaS companies. The platform offers tools and programs designed to enable revenue generation from credit card acceptance. It provides application programming interfaces for payment processing. The company focuses on providing payment solutions, allowing businesses to concentrate on their primary activities.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 45how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 22%
Moat
top 39%
Market
top 48%
Talent
bottom 49%
Tech
bottom 42%
Global
bottom 32%
Funding: Raised $36.7M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 6 yrs (1.5/yr) · Last round Series B (Mar 2026)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · 9 curated direct competitors tracked
Market: 60 employees (top 36% of Payments)
Audience (LinkedIn): 7k LinkedIn followers — 12.2% of this cohort's audience · 26 engagements/post (6.8× cohort median)
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2026Series B$1M
  • Oct 2025Series B$1.7M
  • Apr 2025Series B$1.2M
  • Jul 2024Series B$16.5M
Founders & team
Caleb AveryFounder & CEO
Investors
Abstract Ventures, Peterson Partners, Clocktower Ventures, Canvas Ventures, UPC Capital Ventures, G Squared
Tech stack
Node.JsReactVercelNext.JsPriority HintsHsts
#2
Series B · Golden, Colorado · founded 2016 · 19 employees
$125Mraised
▾

Provider of payment infrastructure enabling businesses to accept, store, send, and spend. The platform offers tools for card acceptance, bank payments, and virtual spending cards. It provides prebuilt payment user interfaces, a dashboard, and data synchronization capabilities. The infrastructure supports various use cases, including digital banking, construction, and fundraising.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 37how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 21%
Moat
top 31%
Growth
top 35%
Talent
top 38%
Product
top 46%
Patents
bottom 39%
Funding: Raised $125M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 6 yrs (1.2/yr) · Last round Series B (Sep 2025)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 11 patents
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Series B$4M
  • Nov 2024Series B$19.6M
  • Jun 2024Series B$7.5M
  • Jan 2023Series B$45M
Founders & team
Robert SmithCo-Founder & PresidentWade ArnoldCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Bain Capital Ventures, Canapi Ventures, Commerce Ventures, RRE Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Gradient Ventures
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle WorkspaceHsts
#3
Series A · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2022
$12.5Mraised
▾

Provider of a stablecoin platform for storing and moving money. This infrastructure enables the storage of digital assets and facilitates the transfer of funds. The system provides operational accounts for managing financial transactions and offers tools for developers to integrate these capabilities into other applications.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 4.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2025Series A$12.5M
Founders & team
Ryan BozarthCo-Founder & CEOGabe G'SellCo-Founder
Investors
CoinFund, 6MV, Digital Currency Group, Triton Capital
#4
Series C · Fort Collins, Colorado · founded 2015 · 288 employees
$176.5Mraised
▾

Provider of bill payment processing solutions for businesses and consumers. It offers a flexible bill pay technology platform and an open biller network accepting both consumer and business payments. This facilitates simple, efficient bill pay experiences, improving customer satisfaction and cash flow. The platform includes features for same-day payments, enhanced security measures to mitigate fraud, and a user-friendly portal for billers to process payments. The solutions are designed to streamline bill payment processes, reduce reliance on paper checks, and improve overall operational efficiency.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers — 16.2% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 4 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +4 · hiring: Director, Fraud Strategy & Operations, analyst
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2023Series C$2.5M
  • May 2023Series C$94.3M
  • Aug 2020Series C$60M
  • Jul 2020Series B$12.2M
Founders & team
Scott MillerCo-FounderDan HoltCEO
Investors
Commerce Ventures, USAA, BankTech Ventures, MVB Bank, Costanoa, Capital One Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsDatadog
#5
Series A · Durango, Colorado · founded 2024
$13.8Mraised
▾

Developer of an AI platform for banking transaction automation. The platform facilitates payments, transfers, and account analysis through voice or text. It integrates with existing banking systems and validates actions against defined policies. The platform provides audit trails, compliance readiness, and security controls for regulated institutions.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 5.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2024Series A$9.6M
  • Aug 2024Seed$3M
  • May 2024Seed$1.2M
Founders & team
Prashanth ReddyCo-Founder & Chief Technology OfficerTyllen BicakcicCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Visa, Coinbase-ventures.com, Boost VC, Deepwater Asset Management, Spartan Group, Untapped Capital
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsHttp/3
#6
Seed · Denver, Colorado · founded 2025
$500Kraised
▾

Provider of payment infrastructure and policy enforcement for autonomous agents. This system enables automated entities to execute financial transactions and access external application programming interfaces through a non-custodial wallet. Users define spending limits, budget thresholds, and vendor allowlists to govern agent activity. The infrastructure facilitates direct payments for services without requiring traditional bank accounts or credit cards. Every transaction is recorded to provide an audit trail of agent expenditures. The platform includes a software development kit for integrating payment capabilities into products and managing financial access for automated workflows.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 3.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Seed$500K
Founders & team
Cole DermottCo-Founder
Investors
Y Combinator
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsGoogle Analytics
#7
Acquired · Denver, Colorado · founded 2016 · 58 employees
$42.9Mraised
▾

Card issuer processing solutions. Features of the solution include omnichannel support, loyalty schemes, fraud management, and instant issuance. The solution works with both Mastercard and Visa networks and on closed and open-loop systems supporting all types of cards including credit, debit, and prepaid. Also supports various card types such as EMV, NFC-enabled cards, and instant issuance cards. Additional solutions offered include white-label mobile wallets and banking applications.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2022Series B$5M
  • Jul 2022Series B$8.2M
  • Feb 2021Series B$10.2M
  • Aug 2020Series A$5M
Founders & team
Naseer NasimBoard Advisor
Investors
EFM Asset Management
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpDiviContact Form 7Swiper
#8
Seed · Denver, Colorado · founded 2023
$1.2Mraised
▾

Financial infrastructure company that offers a unified platform for bank payments. It is a financial technology company that provides an all in one platform for bank payments, offering identity verification, open banking, and compliance in an API. It enables institutions to process payments.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 837 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2024Seed$1.2M
Founders & team
Keith RaphaelCo-Founder & CEOChad WillardCo-Founder
#9
Series B · Denver, Colorado · founded 2006 · 3016 employees
$137.3Mraised
▾

PaySimple provides SaaS online payment solutions targeted to small businesses. Key features include recurring billing, electronic invoicing, hosted online payments, telephone payments, ACH debits, credit card processing and echeck processing. The company differentiates itself by offering integrated invoicing and payment acceptance in one system. Typically these need to be integrated externally, often with two different companies. In addition, PaySimple offers hosted customizable features, such as online payment pages, that businesses can set up and customize without requiring technical experience or security certifications. Provides one view dashboard for merchants to view and manage all the payments and their customers. Has more than 10k small business merchants as their customers.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2016PE$115M
  • Sep 2011Series B$16M
  • Sep 2009Series A$4M
  • Apr 2008Series A$2.2M
Investors
Providence Equity Partners, Aurionpro, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Legend Ventures, Escalate Capital Partners, Costella Kirsch
Tech stack
Amazon AlbAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailBootstrapCart Functionality
#10
Series A · Denver, Colorado · founded 2014 · 77 employees
$23.2Mraised
▾

Payment facilitator solutions for merchants. Provides merchant acceptance, underwriting, boarding, and back-office operations. Allows Payment Facilitators to easily integrate their platform with any sponsor, processor, gateway, and CRM. Provides access to reports with extensive data via webhook, API, or directly from the system. Users can hold, release, or reprocess ACH Rejects via a dedicated UI for ACH Reject workflow.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 12.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • May 2022Series A$23.2M
  • Nov 2020Seed—
Founders & team
Todd AblowitzCo-Founder & Co-CEODeana RichCo-FounderScott AgatepCo-CEO
Investors
MissionOG, Mastercard, Mastercard Start Path, Operator Stack, Team Ignite Ventures
#11
Deadpooled · Greenwood Village, Colorado · founded 2016 · 79 employees
$17.6Mraised
▾

Escrow payment solutions. It provides escrow payment services for businesses. It features solutions for payment collection, reducing costs, payment reconciliation, and customized online reporting. It offers solutions for e-commerce, supply-chain, crowdfunding, B2B services, and others.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2021Series A$12.6M
  • Oct 2019Seed$5M
Founders & team
Justin GuilderCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
QED Investors, FinTech Collective, Ardent Venture Partners, Financial Venture Studio, RCA Ventures
#12
Series B · Denver, Colorado · founded 2006 · 46 employees
$9.3Mraised
▾

Online platform for mobile marketing and payments. It allows merchants to mobilize their existing programs by integrating with payments, gift cards, loyalty, and other promotional platforms. It integrates with any POS, processor, wallet, or existing program. It offers white-labeled mobile applications for the merchant or integrates with an existing app or website.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 3.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2021Series B—
  • Oct 2020Series A$1.1M
  • Sep 2009Series A$3M
  • May 2009Series A$1.9M
Investors
Woodforest, Lacuna, EonCapital
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpAnimate.CssYoast SeoMonsterinsights

Funding & investor landscape

$604.8Mtotal disclosed funding
17companies funded
58disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Techstars3 rounds
UPC Capital Ventures3 rounds
Abstract Ventures2 rounds
Commerce Ventures2 rounds
Visa2 rounds
1st & Main1 rounds
43North1 rounds
6MV1 rounds
Alumni Ventures1 rounds
Andreessen Horowitz1 rounds

Notable founders

Caleb Avery
Founder & CEO · Tilled
Robert Smith
Co-Founder & President · Moov
Wade Arnold
Co-Founder & CEO · Moov
Ryan Bozarth
Co-Founder & CEO · Dakota
Gabe G'Sell
Co-Founder · Dakota
Scott Miller
Co-Founder · BillGO
Dan Holt
CEO · BillGO
Prashanth Reddy
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer · Payman AI
Tyllen Bicakcic
Co-Founder & CEO · Payman AI
Cole Dermott
Co-Founder · Locus
Naseer Nasim
Board Advisor · QRails
Keith Raphael
Co-Founder & CEO · Straddle
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,750,783 docs

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

RESEARCH FROM Colorado · institutions

What Colorado researches in digital payments

19 papersstance +0.020% breakthrough62% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
local research themes
Digital Platforms and EconomicsHealthcare Policy and ManagementICT Impact and PoliciesFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital FinanceInnovation and Socioeconomic DevelopmentTechnology Adoption and User Behaviour
top institutions
  • University of Colorado Boulder5
  • University of Colorado Denver4
  • Colorado College4
  • Children\'s Hospital Colorado2
  • University of Colorado System2

Common questions

How many Payments companies are there in Colorado, United States?
Radar tracks 66 indexable Payments companies headquartered in Colorado, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Payments companies in Colorado, United States?
The Payments companies in Colorado, United States on this list have raised a combined $604.8M in disclosed equity funding across 17 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Payments company in Colorado, United States?
BillGO is the highest-funded Payments company in Colorado, United States, with $176.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Payments companies in Colorado, United States are funded?
17 of the 66 Payments companies in Colorado, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Payments unicorns are there in Colorado, United States?
None of the Payments companies in Colorado, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Colorado, United States Payments companies?
The most active investors in Colorado, United States Payments companies on this list include Techstars, UPC Capital Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Visa.
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