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Finix Funding, Investors & Competitors
Finix has raised $201M across 7 funding rounds, most recently a $75M Series C in October 2024.
Last Finix funding round
$75M
Series C · Oct 2024
Cumulative funding Finix raised
$201M
across 7 funding rounds
Key investors in Finix
Homebrew
Inspired Capital Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Insight Partners
Bain Capital Ventures
Precursor Ventures
Acrew Capital
Cap Table Coalition
About Finix
Finix is a San Francisco-headquartered developer of a B2B payments platform enabling businesses to issue virtual cards, manage underwriting, and route transactions. Its API supports push payments over debit rails, data aggregation from multiple processors, and revenue sharing from interchange fees. Finix serves fintechs, banks, and enterprises like Bench and Melio, processing billions in volume annually. Launched in 2018, the platform offers SOC 2 compliance and real-time fraud detection through modular workflows. It partners with Visa and Plaid for global reach.
Founded
2015
HQ
Website
Status
Privately held
Customer focus
B2B
Revenue model
Usage-based
Finix Funding History
Finix has raised a total of $201M across 7 funding rounds.
Finix's first fundraising round was a $4M seed round in October 2017. The most recent completed round was a $75M Series C in October 2024.
Finix funding rounds
| Date | Stage | Investors | Raised | Deal Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2024 | Series C | Acrew Capital (lead); Alumni Ventures (lead); LEAP Global Partners (lead); Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead); Ringside Ventures; Tribeca Venture Partners; Homebrew; Citi Ventures; Insight Partners; Cap Table Coalition; Inspired Capital Partners | $75M | Finix is a San Francisco-based full-stack payment processor that enables software platforms, marketplaces, and businesses to own their payment stack, including onboarding, processing, and payouts, with no-code/low-code tools for omnichannel (online and in-store) payments, real-time payouts, recurring billing, and cross-border capabilities. It differentiates from Stripe via a cost-plus pricing model with transparency, targeting businesses without developer teams (e.g., those with $1M-$100M annual payment volume), serving vertical SaaS, marketplaces, and companies processing billions in volume and over 400M transactions daily across U.S. and Canada. Finix became a payment facilitator and full-stack acquirer in 2023, supporting growth from over 12,000 merchants in 2022 to record deals in 2024, potentially doubling that base, with 130 employees as of the round. On October 24, 2024, Finix raised $75M in a Series C round led by Acrew Capital and co-led by LEAP Global Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from new investors Citi Ventures and Tribeca Venture Partners, plus existing backers like Homebrew, Insight Partners, Inspired Capital Partners, Cap Table Coalition, and others including Alumni Ventures and Ringside Ventures. This brings total funding to over $208M since a prior $30M tranche over two years earlier, described as an up-round from Series B, though valuation was not disclosed. The investor list matches the query exactly. CEO Richie Serna highlighted quadrupled revenue over the past year as a key driver, fueled by processor status and product expansions, but declined to share specific figures, merchant counts, or ARR. Funds will expand the team beyond 130, enhance product capabilities (e.g., no-code tools used by 60% of customers), and enter new markets/countries to capture share in the embedded payments space against Stripe Connect, Adyen, PayPal Braintree, and others. Finix processes 432M transactions daily and focuses on tens of millions of U.S. SMBs needing flexible, transparent payments. |
| Aug 2022 | Series B | Acrew Capital; Putnam Premier IT; American Express; Amex Ventures; Precursor Ventures; Lightspeed Venture Partners; Homebrew; Gaingels; Bain Capital Ventures; Insight Partners; Cap Table Coalition; Inspired Capital Partners | $30M | Finix is a payments infrastructure platform that enables software companies, platforms, and marketplaces to own their payment experiences, including onboarding, processing, and payouts, positioning itself as an alternative to Stripe by offering flexible software and direct payment facilitation capabilities. In August 2022, Finix raised $30 million in a new venture capital round, bringing its total funding to $133 million, with participation from new and existing investors including The General Partnership (TheGP), Franklin Templeton, Acrew Capital, American Express Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Cap Table Coalition, Homebrew, Insight Partners, Inspired Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Precursor Ventures, PSP Growth, and Vamos Ventures. The company noted this round occurred at an increased valuation compared to prior rounds amid a challenging funding environment, driven by strong growth including its best-ever Q2 2022 for new deals closed. This 2022 tranche followed Finix's earlier $35 million Series B in 2020 led by Sequoia Capital (with participation from Acrew Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, and Inspired Capital) and a $30 million Series B extension roughly two years prior, as well as a $3 million SPV led by LatinX and Black investors 18 months earlier. The funding supported Finix's strategy shift toward becoming a direct payments facilitator, competing in embedded payments against incumbents like Stripe Connect and Adyen for Platforms. Finix continued its growth trajectory post-2022, achieving certification as a payments processor with direct connections to major card networks like Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and Visa, and later raising a $75 million Series C in October 2024 led by Acrew Capital, Leap Global, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Citi Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Homebrew, Insight Partners, Inspired Capital, and Cap Table Coalition, bringing total funding to $208 million. While 2024 reports mentioned quadrupled revenue year-over-year and support for over 12,000 merchants (potentially doubling since). |
| Aug 2020 | Series B | Amex Ventures (lead); Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead); Chingona Ventures; Rodrigo Garcia; Cap Table Coalition; Bossa Invest | $30M | Finix is a San Francisco-based payments technology company that provides white-label software enabling software platforms and businesses to process payments in-house, acting as their own payment processors and capturing margins typically taken by middlemen. The company offers a payments-as-a-service model, allowing SaaS companies to embed flexible payments infrastructure without building it from scratch, positioning it as a competitor to Stripe in the embedded payments space. In August 2020, Finix raised a $30 million extension to its Series B round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and American Express Ventures (Amex Ventures), bringing the total Series B to $75 million and cumulative funding to around $96 million since inception in 2016. Other prior investors included Bain Capital Ventures, Insight Partners, Visa, Homebrew, Activant Capital, and Precursor Ventures. The funds were earmarked for international expansion beyond the US, hiring to double headcount from 85 employees by mid-2021, and scaling operations amid rising demand for embedded payments accelerated by COVID-19. Around the round, Finix reported payment volumes on its platform more than quadrupling from Q2 2019 to Q2 2020, reflecting strong growth in digital payments adoption. Later 2022 updates noted doubled total annual payments volume from 2020 to 2021, support for over 12,000 active sub-merchants monthly, billions of API calls with 99.999% uptime, and top-50 ranking among US merchant acquirers by volume and merchant count per Nilson data. The market context highlighted integrated payments growing at 2x the overall market rate, with only ~10% US penetration in 2020 per J.P. Morgan. Post-2020, Finix continued fundraising, including a $3 million SPV in early 2021 led by LatinX and Black investors, and another $30 million in August 2022 from a broad syndicate including The General Partnership, Franklin Templeton, Acrew Capital, and repeats like Amex Ventures and Lightspeed, bringing total funding to $133 million at an increased valuation. Sequoia Capital led the initial Series B in February 2020 but exited a month later, returning its investment due to overlap with Stripe. Finix's traction emphasized high uptime, scalability for software platforms, and enabling better user experiences by letting businesses retain 50-100 basis points in payments margins. |
| Mar 2020 | Series B | Inspired Capital Partners (lead); PSP Growth | $10M | - |
| Feb 2020 | Series B | Sequoia Capital (lead); Acrew Capital; Bain Capital Ventures; Activant Capital; Inspired Capital Partners | $35M | Finix is a San Francisco-based payments infrastructure platform founded in 2015 that enables software companies to build and manage their own payments stacks in-house, akin to AWS for fintech, avoiding costly third-party processors or building from scratch. The company targets businesses processing over $50 million in transactions annually and helps them integrate customizable payment processing without taking a percentage cut of transactions. It positions itself as an alternative to Stripe and Square, focusing on embedded payments for B2B software providers. On February 4, 2020, Finix announced a $35 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Acrew Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, and Inspired Capital Partners. This doubled its prior $17.5 million Series A from July 2019 (led by Bain Capital Ventures) and brought total funding to over $55 million, including a 2017 seed. Finix did not disclose valuation or growth metrics, but stated plans to hire engineers, accelerate product development, expand internationally (supporting countries like Canada, Mexico, UK, Costa Rica, Colombia), and scale operations to meet customer demand. Shortly after the round, Sequoia withdrew due to a conflict of interest with portfolio company Stripe, leaving behind its approximately $21 million investment without reclaiming funds, returning its board seat and shares. Finix then raised an additional $10 million from Inspired Capital and PSP Growth, with Penny Pritzker joining the board, boosting total funds to over $60 million. No revenue, ARR, EBITDA, or valuation figures were shared in announcements or coverage. |
| Jul 2019 | Series A | Bain Capital Ventures (lead); Insight Partners (lead); Visa (lead); Kairos Angels; Precursor Ventures; Aspect Ventures; Homebrew; Act One Ventures | $18M | Finix is a payments infrastructure platform that enables businesses to build and control their own payments stack using APIs and dashboards, becoming payment facilitators in months rather than years at a fixed price model, avoiding costs up to $5 million for in-house development. The company, founded by former executives from First Data, PayPal, and Worldpay, launched with a $17.5 million Series A funding round on July 16-17, 2019, led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Insight Partners, Visa, Aspect Ventures, and existing investors Homebrew, Precursor Ventures, Act One Ventures, and Village Capital. This brought total capital raised to over $20 million. Finix plans to use the funding to accelerate product development and global sales expansion. The platform is SOC I, SOC II, PCI-Level 1, and GDPR compliant, targeting software companies processing over $50 million in transactions annually. Early traction includes partnerships like Lightspeed, which integrated Finix to launch Lightspeed Payments and increased its take rate from 0.25% to 0.65% on transactions. |
| Oct 2017 | Seed | Homebrew (lead); Class 5 Global; Precursor Ventures; VilCap Investments; Act One Ventures; East Los Capital | $4M | Finix is a payments infrastructure platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payments stack, built by experts from First Data, PayPal, and Worldpay. The company offers a full-stack payment processing solution, including no-code tools for seamless integrations, recurring billing, tokenization, and real-time payouts. Headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Cincinnati, Finix targets software companies and merchants seeking to reduce payment processing costs by bringing operations in-house rather than relying on platforms like Stripe. In October 2017, Finix raised a seed round from investors including Homebrew, Act One Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Class 5 Global, and VilCap Investments, with Homebrew as the lead. This early funding preceded later rounds, such as a $17.5 million Series A in 2019 led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Insight Partners, Aspect Ventures, Visa, and existing investors, bringing total capital raised at that point to over $20 million. Subsequent rounds included a $35 million Series B in 2020 led by Sequoia and a $75 million Series C in 2024 led by Acrew Capital. Finix has demonstrated growth post-2017, processing 432 million transactions daily across the U.S. and Canada by 2024 and quadrupling revenue in the year prior to its Series C, while supporting over 12,000 merchants by 2022. The platform is SOC I, SOC II, PCI-Level 1, and GDPR compliant, positioning it as a scalable solution for businesses worldwide. |
Who has invested in Finix?
30 investors have backed Finix across its funding rounds, including Homebrew, Inspired Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Bain Capital Ventures and Precursor Ventures.
Lead investors include Acrew Capital, Alumni Ventures, LEAP Global Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Amex Ventures and 6 other investors.
Finix Investors
| Investor | HQ | Rounds | Role | First check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Lead | Oct 2017 | ||
| 4 | Lead | Feb 2020 | ||
| 3 | Lead | Feb 2020 | ||
| 3 | Participant | Oct 2017 | ||
| 3 | Lead | Aug 2020 | ||
| 3 | Lead | Jul 2019 | ||
| 3 | Lead | Jul 2019 | ||
| 3 | Participant | Aug 2020 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Aug 2020 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Oct 2017 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Aug 2020 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Oct 2024 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Aug 2022 | ||
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Start Free TrialFinix Competitors
Finix competitors include listed companies like Paymentus and Visa, and private ones like Airwallex, Tipalti, Razorpay and Billdesk.
| Company | HQ | Status | Revenue | EBITDA | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private | $1.3B | - | $11B | 8.5x | ||
| Private | $80M | - | $8.3B | - | ||
| Private | $159M | - | $6.5B | 40.9x | ||
| Publicly listed | $1.2B | $117M | $4.6B | 3.0x | ||
| Private | $99M | - | $1.8B | 18.2x | ||
| Publicly listed | $40B | $26B | $694B | 15.4x |
Finix Public Comps
Finix is still privately-owned, but its public comps include Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Shopify, MercadoLibre, PayPal, Corpay, Fiserv, Circle and Kaspi.kz.
| Last FY | EV/Revenue | EV/EBITDA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | EBITDA | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | |
| $40B | $26B | 17.6x | 15.4x | 27.1x | 22.0x | |||
| $33B | $20B | 15.5x | 14.1x | 24.9x | 22.3x | |||
| $72B | - | 3.1x | 2.9x | - | - | |||
| $12B | $1.2B | 13.9x | 11.3x | 132.9x | 61.9x | |||
| $29B | $3.7B | 3.5x | 2.6x | 27.2x | 25.1x | |||
| $33B | $7.2B | 1.4x | 1.4x | 6.6x | 6.9x | |||
| $4.5B | $2.4B | 7.6x | 6.8x | 14.1x | 12.7x | |||
| $21B | $8.9B | 2.5x | 2.8x | 6.1x | 6.4x | |||
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Common questions about Finix
| When was Finix founded? | Finix was founded in 2015. |
| Where is Finix headquartered? | Finix is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, United States. |
| Is Finix publicly listed? | No, Finix is a private, VC-backed company. |
| How much funding has Finix raised? | Finix has raised $201M across 7 funding rounds. |
| What was Finix's last funding round? | Finix's last funding round was a $75M Series C in October 2024, led by Acrew Capital, Alumni Ventures, LEAP Global Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. |
| Who are Finix's investors? | Finix's investors include Homebrew, Inspired Capital Partners, Acrew Capital, Precursor Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Insight Partners, Cap Table Coalition, Amex Ventures, Act One Ventures and 20 others. |
| Which companies are comparable to Finix? | Companies comparable to Finix include Airwallex, Tipalti, Razorpay, Paymentus, Billdesk and Visa. |
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