Best Payments Companies in Delaware, United States
The 47 best Payments companies in Delaware, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SumUp.
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.
Ranked: Best Payments companies in Delaware
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SumUp 🦄 Provider of card payment terminals and point of sale systems 83Funding top 17%Tech top 17%News top 20%Global top 25% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 17% Techtop 17% Newstop 20% Globaltop 25% Customerstop 26% Talenttop 26% Moattop 28% Growthtop 34% Producttop 37% Markettop 43% Innovationtop 43% Patentsbottom 31% Funding: Raised $994M across 12 rounds · 12 rounds over 14 yrs (0.9/yr) Tech: 78 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Ses rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 83/100 | $994M | 14 mo ago | Series E | Petter Made Co-Founder | 2012 | Amazon WebstoreContentfulSentry+34 | 6 patents Secure, modular point‑of‑sale hardware and software for mobile payment transactions | — |
| 2 | Passport Cloud-based mobile payment platforms for parking and transit operators | $212M | 62 mo ago | Series E | Khristian Gutierrez Chief Executive Officer | 2010 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+25 | 33 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 3 | Pagos AI Provider of AI-powered platform optimizing payments data for higher conversions | $44M | 42 mo ago | Series A | Daniel Blomberg Co-Founder | 2021 | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+17 | — | 1 launch |
| 4 | Chargeflow Provider of payment management software solutions to e-commerce businesses 69AI top 30%Funding top 32%Growth top 35%Talent top 38% All 9 signals ▾AItop 30% Fundingtop 32% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Techtop 39% Moattop 39% Marketbottom 46% Newsbottom 38% Globalbottom 36% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-based Funding: Raised $14.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 3 yrs (1.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $14M | 8 mo ago | Series A | Ariel Chen Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | WebflowGSAPPayPal+37 | — | — |
| 5 | Afriex Provider of international money transfer, global accounts, and virtual cards | $11M | 51 mo ago | Series A | Tope Alabi Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | WebflowFacebook LoginSwiper+22 | — | — |
| 6 | Quavo Cloud based fraud detection solutions for card transactions | $11M | 12 mo ago | Series A | Richard Jefferson Co-Founder | EVP | BOD | 2016 | WordPressZohoSalesforce+36 | — | 1 internship · 1 partnership |
| 7 | Cauridor Connecting businesses to Africa through seamless, digital payment solutions 40Growth top 25%Funding top 35%News top 36%Moat top 39% All 8 signals ▾Growthtop 25% Fundingtop 35% Newstop 36% Moattop 39% Talentbottom 48% Globalbottom 38% Techbottom 34% Marketbottom 32% Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $5.5M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $6M | 3 mo ago | Series A | Abdoulaye Bah Chief Technology Officer and co-founder | 2022 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | 1 job opening · 2 partnerships · 4 awards |
| 8 | Topkey Banking and expense management platform for property managers | $5M | 37 mo ago | Seed | Jonathan Sukhia Co-Founder and CEO | 2020 | HoneybadgerRubyTrix+19 | — | — |
| 9 | Akua Cloud-based platform offering online payment solutions for businesses | $4M | 10 mo ago | Seed | Carlos Mario Arroyave Co-Founder & CEO | 2024 | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+14 | 2 patents IoT-based tracking systems for shipping containers and logistics management | — |
| 10 | BlindPay Fintech company that offers a stablecoin API infrastructure for global payments | $4M | 12 mo ago | Seed | Gabriel Lyra Co-Founder & CTO | 2024 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+8 | — | — |
| 11 | Tuna Payments API-integrated omnichannel payment platform with fraud detection solutions | $3M | 60 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | Node.jsDebianHeadless UI+26 | — | — |
| 12 | Tuna Payments Provider of online payment solutions for businesses | $2M | 22 mo ago | Seed | Guillermo Apollonia Co-Founder | 2020 | Node.jsDebianHeadless UI+27 | — | — |
| 13 | Integration Labs Platform for building and managing SaaS integrations | $2M | 38 mo ago | Seed | Parth Shah Co-Founder | 2022 | — | 7 patents Operating system security filtering and secure image file naming, plus thermosetting tape application. | — |
| 14 | Miden Debit card issuing platform for businesses | $500K | 26 mo ago | Seed | Ini-obong Udoh Co-Founder | 2023 | Node.jsAnimate.cssTailwind CSS+14 | — | — |
| 15 | Bridgecard Provider of card issuing APIs for physical or virtual cards | $440K | 51 mo ago | Seed | Owumi Festus Co-Founder & CTO | 2021 | SentryNode.jsFirebase+17 | — | — |
Top 12 Payments companies in Delaware
#1
SumUp 🦄Series E · Wilmington, Delaware · founded 2012 · 7 employees$994.3Mraised▾
Provider of card payment terminals and point of sale systems. These hardware and software tools facilitate transaction processing for merchants. The offerings include mobile card readers, self-service kiosks, and digital invoicing capabilities. Merchants utilize these tools to accept contactless payments and manage financial records. The system integrates with mobile applications to support business operations and order processing.
- May 2025Conventional Debt$60M
- May 2024Conventional Debt$1.6B
- Dec 2023Series E$306.6M
- Aug 2023Conventional Debt$100M
#2
Series A · Lewes, Delaware · founded 2022$5.5Mraised▾
Connecting businesses to Africa through seamless, digital payment solutions. The company builds payment rails in Africa, enabling businesses to process money transfers and payments to, from, and within Africa via a single API integration. It offers international money transfer aggregation, cross-border payments, payment collection, and bulk disbursement services. The company partners with global money transfer firms, mobile networks, banks, and local fintech companies to digitize financial services and equip organizations with technology for global digital payments. It focuses on helping African customers go digital, ensuring payments are sent and received instantly. The company aims to empower the unbanked and drive a new era of a cashless Africa by developing payments technology in an African context, merging mobile money operators, banks, and merchants in a single platform to enable interoperable local and cross-border transactions.
- May 2026Series A$2M
- Jan 2025Seed$3.5M
#3
Series A · Wilmington, Delaware · founded 2020 · 58 employees$14Mraised▾
Provider of payment management software solutions to e-commerce businesses. Its solutions include automation of processes from inquiry to claim, integration across e-commerce platforms, AI-based dispute responses, and more.
- Nov 2025Conventional Debt$10M
- Nov 2025Series A$25M
- Aug 2023Series A$11M
- Seed$3M
#4
Series A · Wilmington, Delaware · founded 2016 · 74 employees$11Mraised▾
Cloud based fraud detection solutions for card transactions. It offers solutions that enable automated reasonable investigation agents for fraud investigation, quantum fraud and disputes for fraud and disputes processing solutions, quantum accelerators for business growth development, and more. It also facilitates an automated fraud dealing process.
- Jul 2025PE$300M
- Apr 2023Series A$2M
- Jul 2022Series A$3M
- Dec 2021Series A$6M
#5
Seed · Dover, Delaware · founded 2024$4.3Mraised▾
Cloud-based platform offering online payment solutions for businesses. The platform provides solutions such as payment gateways, transaction processing, fraud prevention, compliance management, customized API integrations, and more.
- Oct 2025Seed$8.5M
- Oct 2024Seed$4.3M
#6
Seed · Dover, Delaware · founded 2024$3.8Mraised▾
Fintech company that offers a stablecoin API infrastructure for global payments. It enables instant settlements and expanding its clients' global reach while handling compliance and technology requirements. It allows users to convert stablecoins into fiat currency.
- Aug 2025Seed$3.3M
- 2025Seed$500K
#7
Series E · Wilmington, Delaware · founded 2010 · 237 employees$212.5Mraised▾
Passport builds cloud-based mobile payment platforms for parking and transit operators. Product offerings include a mobile payments platform for parking, a parking permits management solution, a cloud-based parking enforcement solution, a mobile ticketing solution for transit operators, a payments platform for electronic tolling, and a back-office/operations management solution. It operates for municipalities, private operators, universities, and others. The app is available for both Android and IOS devices.
- May 2021Series E$90M
- Dec 2019Series D$65M
- Dec 2017Series C$43M
- May 2016Series B$8M
#8
Seed · Dover, Delaware · founded 2020$2Mraised▾
Provider of online payment solutions for businesses. The platform provides payment splits, payment links, payment orchestration, payment integration, and more.
- Oct 2024Seed$2M
#9
Series A · Wilmington, Delaware · founded 2021 · 24 employees$44Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered platform optimizing payments data for higher conversions. The platform harmonizes, labels, enriches, and analyzes data across sources to generate actionable insights. It offers access to payments insights via server or dashboards, with export options to data warehouses. The platform provides tools for key metrics, anomaly detection, and benchmarking.
- Jan 2023Series A$34M
- Oct 2021Seed$10M
#10
Seed · Dover, Delaware · founded 2020 · 9 employees$5.3Mraised▾
Banking and expense management platform for property managers. It offers a platform that enables businesses to manage accounting, expense tracking, invoice digitization, transaction management, bookkeeping, and more. It also enables businesses to issue cards, manage expense approval, manage receipts, track spending by individual property, insights, and more.
- Jul 2023Seed$5.2M
- 2021Seed$125K
#11
Series A · Wilmington, Delaware · founded 2019$11.3Mraised▾
Provider of international money transfer, global accounts, and virtual cards. It facilitates international money transfers and currency conversion. The business provides global accounts and virtual cards. It offers tools for managing payments and transactions.
- Apr 2022Series A$10M
- Mar 2021Seed$1.2M
- Aug 2020Seed$150K
#12
Seed · Lewes, Delaware · founded 2023$500Kraised▾
Debit card issuing platform for businesses. Focused on issuing cards and other financial products to employees and customers. Empower businesses to seamlessly provide a range of financial products, including reconciliation, card programs, and more, in a matter of weeks rather than months, utilizing intuitive API. Streamlines B2B transactions, customizable limits, operational fraud services, and more.
- 2024Seed$500K
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 the United States
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 1,534 United States-affiliated papers.
- Film Independent35
- Community Partners26
- Tufts University24
- Federal Reserve22
- University of Washington21
- Payment system4→23
- Mobile payment18→28
- Payment service provider5→14
- Financial services1→8
- Financial transaction1→8
- Mobile payment62→120
- Financial inclusion10→54
- Payment service provider4→41
- Financial services10→45
- Database transaction9→34
- Financial inclusion23→46
- Financial services23→38
- Cryptocurrency8→19
- Transparency (behavior)1→11
- Database transaction11→20
Where digital payments is researched across United States
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.
Who's filing digital payments patents in the United States
United States digital payments patent filing is cooling — 1,412 filings from 1,167 assignees (2016–2025), led by Mastercard International, VISA INT Service ASS, Paypal; annual filings 189→106.
- Mastercard International310
- VISA INT Service ASS111
- Paypal81
- VISA USA63
- Intuit45
- EBAY45
- IBM44
- BANK Of America44
Common questions
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