Best Payments Companies in Switzerland
The 79 best Payments companies in Switzerland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Bluecode.
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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 Switzerland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bluecode Provider of technology enabling mobile payment processing through various partner applications | $52M | 57 mo ago | Series C | Christian Pirkner Chief Executive Officer | 2017 | WebflowThree.jsAmazon Web Services+23 | — | 1 launch · 1 expansion |
| 2 | NetGuardians Fraud/risk mitigation based on behavioral insights across bank systems | $35M | 66 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+32 | — | — |
| 3 | Sonect Provider of platform enabling cash withdrawals, deposits, and transfers at retail | $14M | 56 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | 7 patents Digital payment processing systems enabling peer-to-peer and merchant financial transactions. | — |
| 4 | Imburse Payments Payments solutions for businesses | $14M | 60 mo ago | Acquired | Carl Strempel Co-Founder | 2017 | Cart FunctionalityEnvoyReact+8 | — | — |
| 5 | Echovox Provider of mobile payment solutions, SMS messaging, authentication, and voice services | $12M | 232 mo ago | Series B | — | 2000 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Blowfish Provider of fraud detection solutions for web3 wallets | $12M | 44 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2021 | Framer SitesReactPriority Hints+5 | — | — |
| 7 | Amnis Provider of payments and foreign exchange platform offering cross-border payment solutions, treasury… 50Tech top 26%Growth top 35%Funding top 43%Product top 46% All 6 signals ▾Techtop 26% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 43% Producttop 46% Globalbottom 43% Marketbottom 34% Tech: 54 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $9M | 15 mo ago | Series B | — | 2014 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+37 | — | — |
| 8 | Rivero Payment processing solution provider | $7M | 29 mo ago | Series A | — | 2019 | TurbopackNode.jsReact+14 | — | 1 partnership |
| 9 | iKentoo Platform offering solution provider for restaurants, food trucks, and grocery stores | $5M | 107 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Payrexx Online payment gateway solution provider. | $3M | 29 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | SquarespaceCart FunctionalitySquarespace Commerce+31 | — | 1 partnership |
| 11 | Avance Pay Ticket Payment & Transaction Services | $2M | 151 mo ago | Public | Peter Danz CEO | 2011 | — | 10 patents Secure mobile payment processing and passive RFID near‑field transaction technologies. | — |
| 12 | wearonize Offers platform to develop wearable payment solutions | $2M | 53 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Cerchia Escrow-based payment solutions | $1M | 41 mo ago | Deadpooled | Oliver Banz Co-Founder | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 14 | Biowatch NFC-enabled smartwatch for contactless payments and authentications | $1M | 108 mo ago | Deadpooled | Joe Rice Co-Founder | 2015 | — | 17 patents Wearable biometric authentication sensors and secure fastening mechanisms for smart wrist devices | — |
| 15 | Billte Invoice management solutions for businesses | $454K | 90 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | — | — | 1 partnership |
Top 12 Payments companies in Switzerland
#1
Series B · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2014 · 43 employees$8.6Mraised▾
Provider of payments and foreign exchange platform offering cross-border payment solutions, treasury management tools, and multi-currency account services for businesses.
- Feb 2025Conventional Debt$2.2M
- Feb 2025Series B$11.2M
- Jun 2022Series A$8.6M
#2
Series A · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2019 · 21 employees$7Mraised▾
Rivero is a payment processing solution provider to financial institutions. It provides consulting services to issuers and banks. It enables banks to retain the customer interface while making payment processes.
- Jan 2024Series A$7M
#3
Series C · Lachen, Schwyz · founded 2017 · 82 employees$52Mraised▾
Provider of technology enabling mobile payment processing through various partner applications. The technology integrates into bank and retail applications, allowing users to make payments. It facilitates transactions between users, banks, and merchants, without intermediary card institutions. The system uses transaction codes, ensuring data remains with the user’s bank.
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$59K
- Apr 2021Series C$24.2M
- Dec 2019Series B$13.4M
- Oct 2019Series A$2.1M
#4
Series A · Thun, Canton of Bern · founded 2014 · 15 employees$2.9Mraised▾
Payrexx is an online payment gateway solution provider to merchants allowing them to accept payments for their online goods. Payrexx allows multiple payment network cards to be accepted along with 20 third party payment gateways services as well. The pricing ranges from $9 - $159, while $49 pricing being the most prominent one. The payment gateway solution can be implemented either as hosted pages or as a modal window.
- Dec 2023Series A$2.9M
- Jun 2017Seed—
- May 2016Seed—
#5
Acquired · Yverdon les Bains, Vaud · founded 2007 · 89 employees$35.4Mraised▾
NetGuardians is a software company that provides fraud and risk assurance solutions, leveraging Big Data to correlate and analyze behaviours across the entire bank system. It allows users to predefined controls correlate user behaviour activities from multiple sources and financial transactions. It enables users to identify fraud patterns and regulations change every day and keep these pre-defined controls up to date so the banks always stay compliant. Clients include Zenith, REYL, KWFT, Gonet and BCN.
- Dec 2020Series D$19.2M
- May 2017Series C$8.7M
- Oct 2014Series B$5.3M
- Oct 2011Series A$2.2M
#6
Acquired · Zug, Canton of Zug · founded 2021 · 9 employees$11.8Mraised▾
Provider of fraud detection solutions for web3 wallets. The company offers transaction analysis and machine learning to detect fraud from multiple angles. It helps users against malicious transactions, aggregates and verifies risk signals from multiple sources for digital asset wallets.
- Sep 2022Seed$11.8M
#7
Series A · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2016 · 34 employees$13.9Mraised▾
Provider of platform enabling cash withdrawals, deposits, and transfers at retail. The platform allows users to withdraw cash at retail stores without using ATMs. It also allows depositing physical cash into digital accounts at participating retail locations. The platform provides an application programming interface for cash disbursement to users across retail locations.
- Oct 2021Series A$5.4M
- Dec 2019Series A$8.5M
- Feb 2019Seed$17.2K
- Nov 2018Seed—
#8
Acquired · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2017 · 60 employees$13.7Mraised▾
Payments solutions for businesses. It provides functionality like push to card, real-time payments, cross-border payments, analytics, and more. It offers solutions for payment collections and payouts. It also offers an integrated platform for payments and reporting.
- Jun 2021Series A$12M
- Nov 2019Seed$1.7M
#9
Deadpooled · Zug, Canton of Zug · founded 2020 · 7 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Escrow-based payment solutions. It provides blockchain-enabled payment settlement tools. It enables the transfer of event risk between protection buyers and protection sellers. It applies distributed ledger technology allowing demand/ or supply-driven pricing through a decentralized marketplace.
- Jan 2023Seed$1.4M
#10
Series B · Geneva, Geneva · founded 2000 · 51 employees$12.5Mraised▾
Provider of mobile payment solutions, SMS messaging, authentication, and voice services. The company facilitates mobile payments through carrier billing for various partners. It processes SMS messages with safety and delivery standards. The company also provides SMS two-factor authentication tools via its API. Access to toll-free numbers, local landlines, and premium charge numbers are available.
- Feb 2007Series B$7.5M
- Jul 2005Series A$5M
#11
Deadpooled · Lucerne, Lucerne · founded 2019 · 22 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Wearonize is a fin-tech company that offers a platform to develop wearable payment solutions. The company focuses on driving customer loyalty and data harvesting through wearables and tokenization. Their application sectors include banks, manufacturing, and professional sports clubs.
- Jan 2022Seed$1.8M
#12
Acquired · Geneva, Geneva · founded 2011 · 10 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Platform offering solution provider for restaurants, food trucks, and grocery stores. It offers its PoS solution for iOS devices that serves as a mobile ordering interface for the waiters. Allows users to access secure "back-office" interface from any computer connected to the internet. Enables users to visualize the activity of their restaurant, change the menu, access statistics as well as daily reports, and others. Features include offline mode, multi-channel payments, remote ordering from customers, and integration with the hardware at the PoS.
- Jun 2017Series A$5.2M
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 Switzerland
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 78 Switzerland-affiliated papers.
- Bank for International Settlements14
- ETH Zurich7
- Victoria University6
- Università della Svizzera italiana4
- University of Lucerne4
- Computer security5
- Database transaction4
- Consistency (knowledge bases)2
- State (computer science)2
- Financial transaction2
- Mobile payment2→5
- Payment system4→5
- Payment service provider2→5
- Payment system4→5
Where digital payments is researched across Switzerland
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.