Plata Revenue, Valuation, Funding & Investors

Klarna is the largest pure-play in the buy now, pay later space. The company operates a two-sided network with a payment method at its core, but it is ultimately a lender. Merchants sign up with Klarna to increase turnover in their stores. Primarily, Klarna can provide merchants with higher conversion rates and average order values relative to other payment methods. Some merchants enter a symbiotic relationship with Klarna, advertising its brand on the product page to drive conversion and to benefit from Klarna’s brand value in the merchant’s sales funnel. Customers use Klarna for its ease of use, quick access to credit, zero-interest financing, and lower reminder fees.

Upgrade is a San Francisco-headquartered fintech company delivering personal loans, home improvement financing, auto loans and refinancing, plus credit cards that convert to fixed-rate installment plans. Its offerings extend to high-yield savings and rewards checking accounts, credit monitoring services, and educational resources for credit management. Upgrade Shopping provides cashback rewards at participating retailers to complement card benefits. Founded in 2017, the platform targets mainstream consumers with accessible banking and credit products.

Ualá is an Argentine fintech company offering a mobile-based financial ecosystem that includes Mastercard prepaid and debit cards, credit cards, savings accounts, personal loans, investment products, insurance, and merchant payment services. Founded in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri and headquartered in Buenos Aires, the platform originally launched as a prepaid card provider and has since expanded into a full-service digital banking operation. Ualá serves over 11 million customers across Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, with roughly one in five Argentine adults holding an account. The company acquired Mexican bank ABC Capital, granting it a local banking license to offer deposit and lending products in that market. Backed by investors including Allianz X, SoftBank, Tencent, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Soros Fund Management, Ualá reached a valuation of $3.2 billion following a $195 million funding round in March 2026.

CRED is a members-only platform in India for managing credit card bills with rewards for timely payments. Users access an app that tracks spending across multiple cards, sends reminders, and offers exclusive deals from luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and Mercedes-Benz. Bengaluru-headquartered and launched in 2018, CRED processes billions in bill payments monthly. It partners with over 200 banks including HDFC and ICICI, providing cashback and premium membership perks.

Sezzle Inc is a financing institution that offers technology-driven payment platform. It allows customers to split their purchase into four installments and pay over 6 weeks with only the first payment due at the time of purchase. Companies operations comprise one reportable segment, the majority of which derives revenue from payment processing platform in North America.

Wealthsimple is a Toronto-headquartered neobank offering automated investing, commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies, plus chequing accounts with 2.75 percent interest. Users build managed portfolios from $1 with 0.4-0.5 percent fees, file taxes via SimpleTax, and access credit cards. Serving 2 million Canadians, it holds banking licenses from major regulators.

Varo Bank is a San Francisco-headquartered digital bank offering fee-free checking and high-yield savings accounts through its mobile app. Launched in 2020 after receiving a national bank charter, it provides cash advances, credit building tools, and FDIC-insured accounts up to $250,000 via The Bancorp Bank partnership. Founded in 2015, Varo serves over 5 million users nationwide.

Greenlight is a financial technology company offering a debit card and app for family money management. The platform enables parents to set spending limits, assign chores with automated allowances, and facilitate investments in stocks and ETFs for children. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and launched in 2014, Greenlight partners with Visa for its Level 1 debit cards and provides cash back rewards up to 3 percent on purchases. The service covers earning, saving, spending, gifting, and investing features tailored for parents and kids across the United States.

CloudWalk is a São Paulo-headquartered financial technology platform that operates InfinitePay for payment terminals and Jim.com for digital banking services across Brazil. The company delivers point-of-sale devices, digital wallets, loans, and e-commerce tools powered by artificial intelligence to serve over 1 million small businesses and individuals. CloudWalk processes billions in transactions annually through its payment gateway and offers instant credit lines based on transaction data analysis. Founded in 2019, it has expanded to Mexico and Colombia, partnering with major retailers and banks to facilitate cashless payments in underserved markets. The platform's AI-driven fraud detection and dynamic pricing models enhance operational efficiency for merchants handling daily sales volumes.

Zip is a credit provider operating two segments: Australia and New Zealand, and the US. Founded in Australia in 2013, it has over 6 million active customers and partners with over 85,000 merchants. In Australia, Zip positions itself as a credit card alternative, with several revolving credit products. Customers can carry the balance over time with a monthly fee and set their own repayment schedule. The US and New Zealand offering is a far more vanilla BNPL offering: Pay-in-4 in New Zealand and Pay-in-Z in the US, where customers pay back in fixed instalments. The US segment is built on the 2020 acquisition of QuadPay and has recently become Zip’s largest and fastest-growing segment.

Wave Mobile Money is a mobile financial services provider enabling savings, transfers, and loans through its app across multiple African countries. Dakar, Senegal-headquartered, it operates a fee-free network accepted at millions of agents, targeting unbanked populations with instant transactions via USSD and smartphone interfaces.

Kredivo Group is a Jakarta-based fintech conglomerate formerly FinAccel, providing digital credit services across Southeast Asia through Kredivo, KrediFazz, and Krom brands. Its flagship Kredivo app delivers buy-now-pay-later options for e-commerce platforms like Tokopedia and Shopee in Indonesia and Vietnam, with limits up to IDR 30 million based on real-time AI underwriting. The group processed over USD 2 billion in transactions in 2022.

Jio Financial Services Ltd is a core investment company, non-deposit taking, systemically important (CIC-ND-SI). Along with its subsidiaries, joint ventures, and associates, it is engaged in the business of Investing and Financing, mainly Leasing, Insurance broking, Payment Bank, Payment Aggregator, and Payment Gateway services.

Tyme Group is a Johannesburg-based digital banking group operating embedded finance platforms in South Africa, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia. The company delivers mobile-first banking services to consumers and small businesses through partnerships with retail chains like Pick n Pay and Robinsons.

Kaspi.kz JSC is the payment, marketplace, and Fintech ecosystem in Kazakhstan. The firm provides interconnected technologically seamless products and services that help people to pay, shop and manage their finances. Its operating segment includes the Payments Platform that connects its customers, which consist of both consumers and merchants, to facilitate cashless, digital transactions, the Marketplace Platform, which derives maximum revenue, connects merchants and consumers enabling merchants to increase their sales and consumers to buy a broad selection of products and services offered by a variety of merchants, and Fintech Platform that enables customers to manage their personal finances online and access consumer finance and deposit products through the Kaspi.kz Super App.

Mynt is a Philippines-based digital finance super app from Globe Telecom, Ayala Corporation, and Ant Financial. Launched in 2017 as GCash operator via Mynt, it provides payments, remittances, microloans, business tools, and open platforms. Manila-headquartered, Mynt serves 80 million users with GSave deposits, GInsure policies, and GCredit lending. It leads Southeast Asia's mobile wallet market through QR payments and biller networks.

C6 Bank is a São Paulo-headquartered digital bank offering checking accounts, credit cards, investments, loans, and multi-currency wallets exclusively through its mobile app. Launched in 2019, the bank serves over 20 million Brazilian customers without physical branches, integrating services like free toll payments and global transfers. C6 Bank partners with Mastercard and holds a full banking license from Brazil's central bank.

Qonto is a digital banking platform for European SMEs, freelancers, and startups, offering business accounts, cards, invoicing, and expense management via mobile app and web. It supports multi-currency transfers, SEPA payments, and integrations with accounting software like Xero and QuickBooks. Paris-headquartered, Qonto operates in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Belgium, holding banking licenses through partnerships with Solarisbank and Trees. Founded in 2017, the neobank serves over 450,000 businesses with real-time notifications and automated reconciliation.