Best Payments Companies in Virginia, United States
The 35 best Payments companies in Virginia, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: KleerCard.
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 Virginia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KleerCard Online expense tracking and money management platform for individuals | $50M | 58 mo ago | Funding Raised | Owen Hill Co-Founder | 2021 | WebflowPostHogGoogle Analytics+10 | — | — |
| 2 | Privaris Provider of biometric fingerprint token-based authentication solutions | $39M | 186 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2001 | — | 58 patents Secure device authentication, biometric smartcards, and media subscription access control systems. | — |
| 3 | Paymerang AI-based invoice, payment, and accounts payable automation solutions for businesses | $36M | 68 mo ago | Acquired | Nasser Chanda CEO | 2010 | Apple iCloud MailTypeScriptAuth0 Lock+15 | — | — |
| 4 | Verituity Cloud-based platform for connecting banks, payers, and payees for digital payouts | $29M | 30 mo ago | Series B | Chris Smith Co-Founder & COO | 2020 | — | 2 patents Payment transaction verification and compliance for entity and payment‑rail validation | — |
| 5 | FrontStream Payments Payments solution provider and credit card processing | $27M | 200 mo ago | Series A | — | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Pacto Provider of QR-based digital menu solutions for restaurants | $6M | 42 mo ago | Seed | Rodrigo Kuri Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | Squarespace CommerceCart FunctionalitySquarespace+19 | — | — |
| 7 | Daon Developer of cloud-based multi-modal biometric systems | $5M | 145 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1999 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+39 | 35 patents Biometric authentication systems, liveness detection, and secure access control messaging | — |
| 8 | Blueswipe Provider of payment processing solutions, including in-person and online services | $450K | 106 mo ago | Seed | Tim Ryan Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
Top 8 Payments companies in Virginia
#1
Series B · Mclean, Virginia · founded 2020 · 31 employees$28.8Mraised▾
Cloud-based platform for connecting banks, payers, and payees for digital payouts. It provides modernization tools for bank treasury services. It unifies and automates identity verification, payment choice, payment account verification, and verified payment orchestration.
- Apr 2024Series B$19.8M
- May 2021Series A$10M
#2
Seed · Virginia · founded 2021 · 21 employees$6Mraised▾
Provider of QR-based digital menu solutions for restaurants. The platform offers solutions like digital menu customization, ordering solution, online payment solution, etc. The platform also allows restaurants to add photos of their dishes to the menu.
- Mar 2023Seed$4M
- Apr 2022Seed$2M
#3
Funding Raised · Suffolk, Virginia · founded 2021 · 7 employees$50Mraised▾
Online expense tracking and money management platform for individuals. It's an all-in-one platform for spend management, credit building, and automated accounting. It also offers solutions for expense management, bill payments, corporate cards, and credit solutions. It also offers solutions for expense approval and workflow management.
- Dec 2021Conventional Debt$50M
#4
Acquired · Richmond, Virginia · founded 2010 · 55 employees$36Mraised▾
AI-based invoice, payment, and accounts payable automation solutions for businesses. It provides B2B electronic payments and money transfer services while allowing its clients to keep using the existing accounting software. Payment processing partners of The Payments Company include VISA, The Bancorp Bank, and CSI. Supports VISA card, ACH, and check payment options. The vendor need not install any new software, only upload all transaction details into the cloud, and the transaction is completed in the selected method.
- Feb 2021Series B$10M
- Mar 2018Series B$26M
- Jan 2014Seed—
#5
Deadpooled · Charlottesville, Virginia · founded 2001 · 11 employees$38.9Mraised▾
Provider of biometric fingerprint token-based authentication solutions. It provides key-fob-sized, personal, mobile devices that authenticate the identity before interacting with their existing security systems used for granting access to computers, networks, and websites. It extends its support to physical security POS terminals by biometrically authenticating credit card transactions.
- Apr 2011Conventional Debt$3.2M
- Feb 2011Conventional Debt$3M
- Jun 2010Conventional Debt$2.7M
- Nov 2009Conventional Debt$2.1M
#6
Series A · Reston, Virginia · founded 2007 · 76 employees$26.7Mraised▾
Frontstream is the payments solution provider and credit card processing solutions provider for merchants, home health care, franchises, for charity, schools, and businesses and home services. It also provides fundraising and donation processing solutions. The products and solutions that FrontStream offers are Secure ArgoFire Payment Gateway, POS Terminals and Equipment, Virtual Terminals, Hosted Payment Pages, ACH Processing, and Level 2 and Level 3 Processing.
- Feb 2010Series A$10.7M
- Apr 2008Series A$16M
#7
Funding Raised · Reston, Virginia · founded 1999 · 49 employees$5.4Mraised▾
Developer of cloud-based multi-modal biometric systems. It offers a biometric authentication platform that can verify face, fingerprint, voice, iris, behaviour, palm, and liveliness. Product IdentityX is a framework-based mobile SDK for biometric authentication. Its features include risk-based security levels to dynamically choose among various modalities, FIDO certification to optionally deploy a FIDO standards-based solution, hardware-agnostic, and the option to extend any new modalities.
- Sep 2014Grant (prize money)$2.7M
- Oct 2012Grant (prize money)$2.7M
#8
Seed · Richmond, Virginia · founded 2015 · 10 employees$450Kraised▾
Provider of payment processing solutions, including in-person and online services. The company delivers in-person payment services, online integration, and gateways. It offers integrations for various systems, including shopping carts, gateways, and point-of-sale systems. The company provides equipment and access to in-person processing capabilities, along with apps and tools for business value.
- Dec 2017Conventional Debt$200K
- Nov 2017Grant (prize money)$20K
- Aug 2017Seed$450K
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
What Virginia researches in digital payments
- University of Virginia6
- Virginia Tech2
- Virginia State University2
- West Virginia University2
- Virginia Commonwealth University1
Common questions
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