San Francisco Startups List

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in San Francisco.

41 payments Startups View all

Parser.run

Data as a service.
Simple, custom web scraping tools for researchers, growth hackers, marketing & sales teams.

CoinBeyond - payments mobile payments point of sale bitcoin

CoinBeyond

All-in-One Bitcoin POS
CoinBeyond delivers a 'WOW' experience at Point-of-Sale with an all-in-one platform that integrates cash, credit & debit seamlessly with Bitcoin payments. Introducing an EMV compatible cloud-based POS system that allows merchants to make the transition to a secure ...

Traxian - enterprise software cloud computing payments small and medium businesses

Traxian

making integration viral, just as Facebook made friendships viral
Traxian’s Intercloud Gateway solution enables major business solution providers to interconnect their own and others’ proprietary cloud platforms for the exchange of invoices, payments and other data. For their end users, connecting systems to sync data becomes ...

Stripe - payments developer tools cloud infrastructure credit cards

Stripe

Web and mobile payments, built for developers.

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

BitPagos - financial services payments emerging markets bitcoin

BitPagos

The fastest growing bitcoin company in LATAM
BitPagos is helping merchants and consumers transact in a region were 90% of the population doesn’t have credit cards, 65% is unbanked, several countries have high inflation and poor payments and financial infrastructure. For merchants we help process international ...

Kraken - payments financial exchanges banking bitcoin

Kraken

FOREX for Bitcoin, Ripple and other Digital Assets
Kraken.com is Payward's exchange for arbitrary assets with support for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Namecoin, Dogecoin, Ripple, Stellar and Ven. Those familiar with forex will enjoy the service's margin trading and advanced order types. Payward is servicing customers globally ...

Coingram - payments mobile payments bitcoin

Coingram

Ex-Apple & ex-Morgan Stanley build Venmo for Bitcoin
Coingram is a decentralized consumer-to-consumer payments platform. Users can: * Fund transactions using their bank or bitcoin wallet * Send and receive money over Facebook and Twitter * Cashout to a bank or bitcoin wallet --- Coingram is committed to transparent ...

Vingd - digital media payments big data

Vingd

Mathematical breakthrough that eliminates piracy.
Helping media companies to monetize and protect digital content. Usually we increase their conversion rates from 1-3% to 15-20% and for some niches we can completely eliminate piracy. We are doing that by enabling people to pay with money or with less time than ...

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Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

ChangeCoin - payments social commerce bitcoin

ChangeCoin

Creators of ChangeTip, building a Micropayment Infrastructure for the Web
ChangeCoin is building a micropayment infrastructure for the web. Our first product, ChangeTip, integrates payment processing with social media, Bitcoin, and the web at large to transform the idea of a “like” into a method of financial appreciation, redefining ...

Qwikwire - financial services e-commerce payments billing

Qwikwire

Qwikwire empowers people who live and work overseas to be able to pay their bills back in the Philippines. We allow enterprises to collect payments from anywhere in the world. We go beyond basic remittance and provide recurring billing, invoicing, customer dashboards, ...

Clinkle - financial services payments mobile payments finance technology

Clinkle

Modernizing the way people transact
Founded in 2011, Clinkle is working to modernize how people transact and we will be rolling out our mobile wallet for all day-to-day transactions across college campuses in the U.S this year. Our mobile wallet engages consumers with a delightfully easy and convenient ...

Roomeo - payments social commerce finance mobile payments

Roomeo

We make living with Roommates easy!
Roomeo has a super targeted shared living demographic with a GIANT itch and we have the CURE! We focus heavily on BillPay and P2P transactions while providing tools that make it easy to live with roommates. Share Calendars, Assign Chores, Discuss Issues, Checkout ...

PayTango - payments small and medium businesses accounting

PayTango

Simple, modern invoicing
PayTango provides biometric identification for payments and access control applications. The PayTango terminal transmits fingerprints as card data that existing systems already understand. Registration takes mere seconds — place two fingers on the fingerprint ...

Chec - e-commerce payments developer apis finance technology

Chec

Sell anything, anywhere. Stripe/Parse for eCommerce. AngelPad S11.
Chec (AngelPad) is a beautiful decentralized ecommerce platform that is extendable. We're building lego blocks for ecommerce, and letting merchants build whatever they want.

Affirm - financial services payments credit

Affirm

Modern credit products that improve lives.
At Affirm we are using technology to re-imagine and re-build core parts of financial infrastructure to enable cheaper, friendlier and more transparent financial products and services that improve lives. We believe the financial industry is fundamentally broken. ...

Hyper - open source payments bitcoin FinTech

Hyper

Creators of Hyperledger
Hyperledger is a new technology to allow banks to clear and settle in real-time without the need for a central party via distributed ledgers. By removing the need for these intermediaries, Hyperledger reduces costs, delays, and settlement risk. For the first time, ...

Bold - SaaS enterprise software payments human resources

Bold

Programmatic money.
Bold is dedicated to make the financial system more accessible. We do this by offering a secure and convenient solution for instant, frictionless transacting. Why? Because we want payments to get out of the way of living life and building companies.

Standard Treasury - financial services payments developer apis banking

Standard Treasury

Building a platform to simplify commercial banking for developers.

Paymentwall - transaction processing payments mobile payments credit cards

Paymentwall

Global Payments Platform
Headquartered out of San Francisco, CA, Paymentwall is the leading Global Payments Platform uniting all payment types (12+ types), methods (100+ methods) around the world on one single platform. Developers can integrate Paymentwall and start processing payments ...

Hint Health - enterprise software payments health care information technology

Hint Health

The Membership Management Platform for Direct Care Providers
The US Healthcare system is in a state of transition and is undergoing tremendous change. Underlying this change are fundamental shifts in healthcare business models from (from fee for service to value based care) representing significant challenges and enormous ...

ZipZap - financial services payments p2p money transfer Remittance

ZipZap

ZipZap helps simplify and democratize payments.
ZipZap is a San Francisco based technology company with the mission to bring innovation to the money transfer industry. By leveraging mobile technologies and digital payment solutions, sending money through ZipZap will be as fast and easy as sending a text message.

PayByGroup - e-commerce payments social commerce group buying

PayByGroup

The PayPal button for groups.
PayByGroup is powering the social layer of commerce by enabling people to buy and rent things together online. Our client partners range from NBA teams to global, multi-billion dollar companies like HomeAway and VRBO. Consumers can start large purchases risk-free ...

SeatMe - payments local restaurants online reservations

SeatMe

Restaurant management software, online reservations & ticketing
Acquired by Yelp in July 2013. SeatMe is a complete restaurant management system and online reservation system. SeatMe's offering includes iPad software to manage their guests, floor, servers, free/paid reservations, waitlists as well as a guest-focused restaurant ...

Final - payments fraud detection finance technology credit cards

Final

A Credit Card for the 21st Century
Final is the only credit card that gives control back to the consumer. Rather than a single card number, Final enables users to generate multiple numbers in order to prevent fraud, and protect against merchant data breaches or card loss. When a retailer is hacked, ...

Monetsu - e-commerce payments finance technology bitcoin

Monetsu

Secure and compliant Blockchain technology and social payments
The Monetsu online banking app for digital currencies combines the security of online banking software with global digital currency networks and makes digital currencies as simple and easy to use as any social network. With our responsive and universal web application, ...

Coinbase - payments mobile payments virtual currency bitcoin

Coinbase

Making Bitcoin accessible to consumers, merchants, and developers.
Coinbase is a bitcoin wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with the new digital currency bitcoin. Bitcoin is the world's most widely used alternative currency with a total market cap of approximately $7.0 billion. The bitcoin network ...

SNAPCARD - e-commerce payments bitcoin

SNAPCARD

The easiest way to use your digital currency.
SNAPCARD offers a suite of products and services which are designed to make it easy for the average consumer or business to use Bitcoin and alternative decentralized digital currencies. Founded in 2013, SNAPCARD is focused to help bring liquidity to the digital ...

Shift Payments - payments personal finance

Shift Payments

Spend any store of value with a Visa card
Shift is making it easy for users to spend any 'store of value' - fiat currencies, bitcoin, precious metals and gold, loyalty points, etc - at existing credit card accepting merchants. Users connect their other 'store of value' accounts to their Shift Card. Users ...

TradeHill - mobile payments finance financial exchanges

TradeHill

Professional Digital Currency Exchange
Originally launched in May 2011. TradeHill is formerly the largest US based Bitcoin exchange and 2nd largest exchange globally. TradeHill is currently undergoing reorganization and will be relaunching with additional services for the Bitcoin and digital currency ...

Plastiq - e-commerce education payments small and medium businesses

Plastiq

Make payments for tuition, cars, and more on credit card
We have a simple idea – make payments easier for people by letting them use the credit cards they prefer, to pay for things they want, when they want to.

Ribbon - payments

Ribbon

The simplest way to send & receive money.
Ribbon is an online payments platform. Ribbon is a simple way to send and receive money online across all devices. Users create a payments profile page with a URL that anyone can access to pay them using a debit or credit card. The person paying the user is not ...

GoSkip - retail payments retail technology mobile payments

GoSkip

Turning your phone into a self-checkout kiosk.
GoSkip is a mobile checkout solution that lets store shoppers scan their own grocery items in the store as they shop and check out without waiting in line. We are a complete solution consisting of a mobile app, a dedicated GoSkip lane, and POS integration. We ...

Conekta - e-commerce payments developer apis Latin America

Conekta

Powering payments for Mexico and LATAM
Conekta helps businesses in Mexico and LATAM accept online payments using credit and debit cards, cash payments, and bank transfers. We offer an API that handles the complications of building a payment gateway such as security, anti-fraud, and scaling. Besides ...

Tiempo - mobile payments small and medium businesses freelancers

Tiempo

Tracking and Payments for the 1099 Economy (YC S14)
Tiempo is custom tracking, approval, and payments for your contract workers. Whether you pay by the hour, project, word, or widget, Tiempo's got you covered. Quickly look across your workforce to understand who's been working, what they’ve done, and what they’re ...

Balanced - payments marketplaces developer apis crowdfunding

Balanced

Payments for Marketplaces & Crowdfunding
Balanced is white-labeled payments API and web-based dashboard. Specifically, we offer two products: Balanced Payouts and Balanced Processing, which can be coupled. We really like working with marketplaces and ad networks, but Balanced can be used for any type ...

GoodLabs - e-commerce payments ventures for good crowdfunding

GoodLabs

Point of Sale & eCommerce Donations
GoodLabs is a SaaS platform that empowers micro-donations in all points of sale, both in-store and online. We're live on Clover (in-store/ owned by First Data) and on Shopify (e-commerce). We're partnered with a growing number of leading non-profits including ...

Groopt - mobile payments databases Fraternities

Groopt

Simplifying Operations for 20M Member Organizations
Tens of millions of member-based organizations are struggling to manage operations with a patchwork of 3rd party services, nasty data exports and painful, inaccurate spreadsheets. Groopt turns this operational nightmare and any spreadsheet into an elegant, single ...

tapviva - payments food and beverages mobile payments point of sale

tapviva

Next-generation restaurant technology with mobile ordering (AngelPad S11)
tapviva enables all types of restaurants, cafes and food trucks to streamline their ordering process and facilitate mobile ordering (a la Chipotle). We are an end-to-end solution, allowing orders from multiple ordering avenues to appear as virtual tickets on iPads ...

Copper - payments monetization independent music

Copper

Support online content creators with one click.
Copper is a tipping and appreciation service. We offer fans a one-click option to support content authors in their work. Fans can tip any URL on the web. We take care of finding and paying the author. Copper presents a model for monetizing the internet that is ...

Recurly - SaaS enterprise software payments billing

Recurly

Subscription Billing. Zen Simplicity.
Subscription Billing. Zen Simplicity. Enterprise-class recurring billing management for your business.

ReadyForZero - consumer internet financial services payments finance

ReadyForZero

Tackle any debt faster and track your credit online - automatically.
ReadyForZero.com creates award-winning online tools for tackling debt and managing credit - automatically. With $200 million in debt paid down, our tools are a proven way for consumers to make better financial decisions. ReadyForZero is the only platform that ...

Karmic Labs - SaaS payments credit cards Payment systems

Karmic Labs

Stripe for Card Issuance
Our technology makes your debit card programmable. We did this by building an API-based virtualization of existing payment networks. Primitive actions such as "move N dollars from card x1234 to card x9876" become complex operations such as "Taylor Salesperson ...

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