Best Payments Companies in New Zealand
The 36 best Payments companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Dosh.
- ResearchAndMarkets.com
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 New Zealand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dosh App-based wallet platform for individuals | $9M | 53 mo ago | Seed | James Mceniery Co-Founder Dosh NZ | 2021 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowEmotion+21 | — |
| 2 | Akahu Payment management and verification solutions for businesses | $3M | 35 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | WebflowHubSpotcore-js+13 | — |
| 3 | LatiPay Payment acceptance solutions for New Zealand merchants targeting Chinese customers | $3M | 115 mo ago | Series A | Fong Gan Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryElementor+26 | 1 award |
| 4 | Centrapay Network connecting commerce systems to digital wallets, tokens, and alternative payments | — | 21 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | — |
| 5 | Smartpay POS software and hardware solution provider for businesses | — | 75 mo ago | Public | — | 1986 | — | — |
| 6 | WiGroup International Publisher and seller of illustrated books | — | 103 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | — | — |
| 7 | EFTPOS New Zealand POS payment solutions. | — | 351 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1997 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+30 | — |
| 8 | AMLU Online solution to manage AML & CFT compliance | — | — | Deadpooled | Tracey Kellett CEO & MD | 2019 | — | — |
Top 6 Payments companies in New Zealand
#1
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2020 · 7 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Payment management and verification solutions for businesses
- Oct 2023Seed$1.4M
- 2020Seed$2M
#2
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2021 · 9 employees$9.4Mraised▾
App-based wallet platform for individuals. The platform lets users pay, send and receive money from anywhere and anyone. Users can add internal notes to payments or transactions they make within the platform. Users can also check their account balance, payment transactions, and more on the platform. The app is available on both Android and iOS platforms.
- Apr 2022Seed$5M
- Mar 2022Seed$1M
- 2021Seed$3.4M
#3
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015 · 25 employees$3Mraised▾
LatiPay is a cross-border payment acceptance solutions provider, offering merchants in New Zealand with the facility to accept payments from 3 major Chinese wallets, thereby targeting a large potential customer base. It offers payment gateway API for online transactions and QR-code payment facility for in-store payments (including WeChat pay)
- Jan 2017Series A$3M
#4
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2017 · 23 employees—raised▾
Network connecting commerce systems to digital wallets, tokens, and alternative payments. The network provides infrastructure connecting businesses to emerging payment methods. It offers solutions for retailers and asset issuers. The network’s infrastructure supports integration of digital assets and loyalty programs.
- Dec 2024Conventional Debt—
- Sep 2020Seed—
#5
Public · Auckland, Auckland · founded 1986 · 127 employees—raised▾
POS software and hardware solution provider for businesses. They design, develop and implement EFTPOS for card payments. Enables contactless payments through QR-code mobile payments. They also offer payment gateway solutions, Alipay and WeChat pay solutions to the merchants.
#6
Acquired · Coromandel, Waikato · founded 2007 · 120 employees—raised▾
Publisher and seller of illustrated books. The company offers a selection of books, primarily focusing on illustrated works, including cartoon books and those with a focus on visual storytelling. Their catalog features titles in multiple languages, suggesting a diverse range of subject matter and artistic styles. The business model appears to be direct-to-consumer sales through their online store.
- Jan 2018Series A—
- Aug 2015Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
How research on Digital Payments is moving in New Zealand
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 49 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- Auckland University of Technology15
- Victoria University of Wellington8
- Ministry of Health7
- University of Canterbury5
- Ministry of Education3
- Mobile payment2
- Anonymity2
- Database transaction2
- Blind signature2
- Scheme (mathematics)2
- Mobile payment4→5
- Mobile payment8
- Mobile business development4
- Health care2
- Revenue2
- Point (geometry)2
Where digital payments is researched across New Zealand
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
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.