Best Payments Companies in Denmark
The 66 best Payments companies in Denmark in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CardLab.
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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 Denmark
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CardLab Platform offering biometric identification solutions | $5.1B | 60 mo ago | 1 | 2006 | — | Google MapsBootstrapNginx+10 | — |
| 2 | Pleo 🦄 Provider of spend management platform with virtual and physical card options | $434M | 25 mo ago | 1,422 1,422 → 939 (-34%) · sector median +1% | 2015 | Thorbjorn Fink COO | PrismicApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+31 | 1 launch |
| 3 | Clearhaus Merchant acquiring solution for the payment industry | $96M | 132 mo ago | 58 58 → 59 (+2%) · sector median +1% | 2011 | Claus Methmann Christensen Advisor & Co-Founder | HugoYouTubeGSAP+21 | 1 partnership |
| 4 | Flatpay POS payment acceptance solution for businesses | $64M | 7 mo ago | 11 | 2022 | Sander Janca-Jensen Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowBootstrapAmazon Web Services+27 | — |
| 5 | Samlino.dk Financial products comparison platform | $46M | 113 mo ago | 4 | 2014 | Kristian Pitzner Jorgensen Co-Founder & MD | JavaBootstrapOpenSSL+18 | — |
| 6 | Bancore Payment gateway solution for businesses | $17M | 135 mo ago | 10 | 2005 | Brian Larsen Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 7 | Pie VAT VAT refund management system | $16M | 6 mo ago | 2 | 2018 | — | Framer SitesReactHubSpot+13 | 1 partnership |
| 8 | Shopbox Provider of cloud-based POS and checkout solutions for businesses | $8M | 65 mo ago | 16 | 2011 | Ramy Selim Co-Founder | HubSpot CMS HubBootstrapTikTok Pixel+25 | 1 partnership |
| 9 | MobilePeople Payment processing solutions for businesses | $8M | 212 mo ago | 7 | 2002 | Ulrik Kannegaard CEO | UmbracoMicrosoft ASP.NETYouTube+12 | — |
| 10 | Mazepay Accounts payable and receivable solutions for businesses | $6M | 42 mo ago | 12 12 → 24 (+100%) · sector median +1% | 2018 | Thomas Dragsbaek Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 11 | Vibrant Mobile application for merchants to accept payment | $6M | 47 mo ago | 30 | 2020 | Kare Sorensen Co-Founder & CPO | Framer SitesInstatusReact+16 | — |
| 12 | ZTLment Smart contract-enabled payment solutions for cross-border trades | $5M | 24 mo ago | 3 | 2020 | Mads Larsen Co-Founder | — | — |
| 13 | ANYDAY Payments splitting solution for consumers | $4M | 27 mo ago | 9 | 2020 | — | WebflowAzureSwiper+16 | — |
| 14 | Young Money Prepaid payment cards for children | $3M | 60 mo ago | — | 2012 | Lasse Nyby CEO | Node.jsVue.jsNuxt.js+8 | — |
| 15 | Softpay.io Mobile-based POS solution for businesses | $2M | 65 mo ago | 26 26 → 47 (+81%) · sector median +1% | 2019 | — | WordPressBetterDocsZendesk+21 | 1 partnership |
| 16 | NewBanking Blockchain-based identity and access management solution | $2M | 61 mo ago | 7 | 2016 | Hamed Sattari CTO & Co-Founder | — | — |
| 17 | Wallmob mPOS solution for offline retailers | $1M | 125 mo ago | 1 | 2012 | — | — | 1 partnership |
| 18 | MyMonii App-based expense management platform for children | $1M | 54 mo ago | 6 | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 19 | Reepay Cloud-based subscription billing and payment gateway solution for businesses | $1M | 84 mo ago | 8 | 2014 | — | Cart FunctionalityTypeScriptTailwind CSS+13 | — |
| 20 | Substairs Online bill management platform for homeowners | $680K | 71 mo ago | 3 | 2017 | Kim Hansen Co-Founder | — | — |
| 21 | Hugin Expert Enterprise fraud and risk analysis solutions | $381K | 190 mo ago | 6 | 1989 | Anders Madsen CEO | — | 1 partnership |
| 22 | Cryptera POS and mPOS hardware and software | $349K | 68 mo ago | 73 73 → 40 (-45%) · sector median +1% | 2002 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | 2 partnerships |
| 23 | PensoPay Payment solution for webshops | $187K | 121 mo ago | 5 | 2014 | — | HubSpot CMS HubBootstrapGSAP+22 | — |
| 24 | ScreenTicket Ticket buying platform for movies | $131K | 180 mo ago | — | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Payments companies in Denmark
#1
Series C · Herlev, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2022 · 11 employees$64.1Mraised▾
POS payment acceptance solution for businesses. Simplified card payments for small and medium-sized merchants enabling businesses to accept card payments with a POS payment terminal and POS system, card swipes, and contactless payments.
- Nov 2025Series C$168.5M
- Nov 2025Angel—
- Apr 2024Series B$47.8M
- Jun 2023Series A$16.3M
#2
Series A · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2018 · 2 employees$15.5Mraised▾
PIE VAT provides an online VAT refund management system. It enables users to claim a refund through QR code scanning. It offers an app-based platform for Android and IOS platforms.
- Nov 2025Series A$15.5M
#3
Pleo 🦄Series C · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2015 · 1422 employees$434Mraised▾
Provider of spend management platform with virtual and physical card options. The platform offers tools for business cards, expense management, accounts payable, and reimbursements. It provides features such as spend limitations and vendor cards for managing recurring payments. The platform also integrates with other business tools to streamline workflows.
- May 2024Conventional Debt$42.7M
- Nov 2021Series C$200M
- Jun 2021Series C$150M
- May 2019Series B$56M
#4
Series B · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2006 · 1 employees$5.1Braised▾
Platform offering biometric identification solutions. It is a technology company featuring in biometric smart cards and digital access solutions for businesses and governments. It focuses on fingerprint-based biometric authentication stored on the card, enabling password-free and offline user verification that manages security, privacy, and convenience. Its products are designed to integrate with existing infrastructure and offers tokenization features to minimize cyber risks and ensure GDPR and PCI DSS compliance.
- Jun 2021Series B$10M
- May 2017Series A$181.9K
- Feb 2017Grant (prize money)$981.3K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$953.2K
#5
Seed · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2020 · 3 employees$4.7Mraised▾
Smart contract-enabled payment solutions for cross-border trades. It provides solutions for invoicing and accounting processes. It features automated payments with a digital signature on the order.
- May 2024Seed$2.6M
- Oct 2023Seed$1.4M
- Jul 2022Seed$703.8K
#6
Seed · Aarhus, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2020 · 9 employees$4.4Mraised▾
Payments splitting solution for consumers. It enables the online merchants to set up payment splitting methods during checkout which allows shoppers to make payments on an installment basis. It integrates with multiple e-commerce platforms to provide a wide range of online shopping marketplace for customers.
- Mar 2024Conventional Debt$43.8M
- Sep 2023Grant (prize money)—
- Mar 2022Seed$4.4M
- Oct 2021Seed$10.5K
#7
Series B · Aarhus, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2011 · 58 employees$96.4Mraised▾
Clearhaus provides Merchant acquiring solution for the payment industry. It features solutions for a merchant account, multi-currency payment processing, chargeback management, account reconciliation, online payment, recurring transactions, and more. It also offers tools for fraud management and transaction monitoring.
- May 2015Series B$1.5M
- Mar 2014Series A$5.5M
- Dec 2011Seed$353.5K
#8
Series A · Aarhus, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2018 · 12 employees$6.4Mraised▾
Accounts payable and receivable solutions for businesses. It ables businesses to make online payments to suppliers and accept online payments from customers. It features automated supplier onboarding, invoice management, cash flow management, virtual cards, spend management, audit trail, and more.
- Dec 2022Series A$4.1M
- May 2021Seed$1.8M
- Mar 2019Seed$419.7K
#9
Series A · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2014 · 4 employees$45.9Mraised▾
Financial products comparison platform. Users can search and compare car loans, credit cards, consumer loans, payroll accounts, savings accounts, and insurance products. They can also compare broadband service providers.
- Jan 2017Series A$21.2M
- Aug 2016Series A$22.5M
- Aug 2015Seed$2.2M
#10
Seed · Aarhus, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2020 · 30 employees$5.8Mraised▾
Mobile application for merchants to accept payment. Enables to receive contactless card payment through the online device. NFC is enabled with a tap-to-phone option, without any extra hardware involvement. Provides tracking of transactions and payout. Transaction fees apply to every transaction made.
- Jun 2022Seed$4.2M
#11
Series A · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2005 · 10 employees$17Mraised▾
Bancore provides a payment gateway solution for businesses. It offers an API-based payment platform for transaction processing, currency exchange, and settlement. It also offers multiple solutions for prepaid card management, digital banking, payroll processing, and more. It provides a value-added marketplace for consumer products, insurance, P2P financial services, utility bills, and more.
- Mar 2015Series A$70.9K
- Jul 2013Series A$7.8M
- Jun 2011Series A$3.2M
- Oct 2009Series A$3.2M
#12
Series A · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2011 · 16 employees$8.1Mraised▾
Shopbox provider of cloud-based POS and checkout solutions for businesses. The solution allows merchants to manage their sales, inventory, employee management, and payments. The software is compatible with various hardware to carry out the payment issues. Its additional features include a customer loyalty program, reporting, and more. It can be integrated with multiple e-commerce platforms such as Woocommerce, Magento, Shopify, etc.
- Dec 2020Unattributed$275K
- May 2020Angel$1.5M
- Nov 2015Series A$2.3M
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 Denmark
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 41 Denmark-affiliated papers.
- Copenhagen Business School15
- Aarhus Business College7
- Aalborg University5
- Roskilde University4
- Aarhus University4
- Mobile payment4
- Competition (biology)3
- Competitive advantage2
- Architecture1
- Value network1
- Mobile payment9
- Financial inclusion3
- Financial services3
- Mobile phone3
- Key (lock)2
- Mobile payment6
- Payment system4
- Competition (biology)2
- Payment service provider2
- Digital ecosystem2
Where digital payments is researched across Denmark
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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