ScaleFactor Funding, Investors & Competitors

Intuit serves small and midsize businesses with accounting software QuickBooks and online marketing platform Mailchimp. The company also operates retail tax filing tool TurboTax, personal finance platform Credit Karma, and a suite of professional tax offerings for accountants. Founded in the mid-1980s, Intuit enjoys a dominant market share for small-to-midsize business accounting and self-serve tax filing in the US.

Workday is a software company that offers human capital management, financial management, and business planning solutions for enterprises. Known for being a cloud-only software provider, Workday was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Ramp is a San Francisco-headquartered spend management platform that issues corporate cards, automates expense tracking, handles bill payments, and streamlines vendor management alongside travel booking and accounting reconciliation. It integrates directly with systems like NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, and Workday for real-time transaction syncing across 190 countries and multiple currencies. The service enforces spend policies through controls and approvals while automating invoice coding and month-end closes for finance teams worldwide.

Corpay Inc is a corporate payments company that helps businesses and consumers manage and pay their expenses. Its suite of modern payment solutions helps customers manage vehicle-related expenses, lodging expenses, and corporate payments. Its reportable segments are; Vehicle Payments, Corporate Payments, Lodging Payments, and Other. The group's geographic areas are the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Other.

JD Digits is a Beijing-based fintech arm of JD.com providing supply chain finance, consumer loans, insurance, payment gateways, and securities brokerage. The platform connects over 500,000 SMEs with funding exceeding 200 billion RMB annually through AI-driven risk assessment.

Rippling is a San Francisco-headquartered workforce management platform that integrates HR, payroll, IT, and finance in one system. Founded in 2016, the company automates onboarding, benefits, device management, expense tracking, and compliance for global teams at over 100,000 organizations including Shopify and DoorDash. Its API ecosystem connects with 500-plus apps for seamless operations.

The Sage Group is a U.K.-based provider of accounting and enterprise resource planning, or ERP, software, predominantly to customers in the U.S. and Europe. The company was founded in 1981 and historically sold on-premises software products with perpetual software licenses. However, the company is transitioning toward cloud connected and cloud native products, sold via software-as-a-service, or SaaS, contracts. Sage’s main cloud native products include Sage Accounting, for small businesses, and Sage Intacct, which Sage acquired in 2017, for midsize businesses.

N26 is a Berlin-headquartered mobile bank operating in 24 European countries since 2013. It offers current accounts, international transfers via SEPA, investments through N26 Invest, and cash deposits at 40,000 partner retailers. The app supports Spaces sub-accounts, overdrafts up to €10,000, and cryptocurrency trading for personal and business users.

Xero is a technology company originating from New Zealand, providing cloud-based accounting software, primarily for small and midsize enterprises, or SMEs, and accounting practices. As a first mover in the space for cloud-based accounting software, Xero has grown quickly to achieve dominant market share in New Zealand and Australia, displacing legacy providers. Xero has also expanded beyond its home region toward other English-speaking countries, primarily the United Kingdom and the United States.

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.

Pleo is a Copenhagen-headquartered spend management platform founded in 2015 for European businesses. The app automates expense tracking, reporting, and approvals for teams, integrating with accounting software like Xero and QuickBooks. Available in multiple countries including the UK, Germany, and France, Pleo issues corporate cards and handles reimbursements for SMBs.

Pennylane is a cloud-based financial operations platform automating accounting, invoicing, and expense management for European SMEs. Paris-headquartered since 2019, it integrates bank feeds, payroll, and tax compliance tools from providers like Stripe and Qonto, serving over 200,000 businesses across France.

BILL Holdings Inc is a provider of software-as-a-service, cloud-based payments and spend and expense management products, which allow users to automate accounts payable and accounts receivable transactions, enable businesses to easily connect with their suppliers or customers to do business, eliminate expense reports, manage cash flows and improve back office efficiency. Initial Public Offering and Follow-on Offering.

Totvs SA is a provider of information technology solutions to small and medium enterprises in the education, government, healthcare, and retail end markets. The Company's business purpose is to provide business solutions for companies of all sizes, through the development and sale of management software, productivity platforms, collaboration, and data intelligence, digital marketing, as well as the provision of implementation, consulting, advisory, maintenance services, e-commerce, and mobility. The Company operates in three reportable segments, which include the TOTVS Management segment, the RD Station segment, and the TOTVS Techfin segment. The majority of its revenues is generated from the TOTVS Management segment.

New York-headquartered Papaya Global delivers a unified global payroll platform that integrates payments, compliance, and workforce management for multinational enterprises, connecting seamlessly with HCM and ERP systems.

Chargebee is a San Francisco-headquartered subscription billing platform for SaaS and e-commerce companies. It handles recurring revenue through integrations with Stripe, Zuora, and Shopify, supporting dunning, usage-based pricing, and multi-currency invoicing for clients like Pretium and Calendly. Processing billions in annual transactions across 200 countries, Chargebee offers revenue recognition compliant with ASC 606. Founded in 2011 with roots in Chennai, it serves over 20,000 businesses worldwide.

HighRadius is a Houston-headquartered provider of cloud-based autonomous finance software for the Office of the CFO. Its platform automates accounts receivable, treasury, and record-to-report processes for industries including manufacturing, distribution, consumer products, and energy. HighRadius serves over 1,000 enterprises worldwide with AI-driven cash application and credit management tools.

Money Forward Inc provides money-related services for individuals and corporations. Its service portfolio comprises personal financial management services and MF cloud services. Its personal financial management services include economic media that conveys money related themes, automatic savings app and mirai talk channel where customers can resolve their financial concerns together directly with financial planners. Its MF Cloud services comprise cloud accounting software, cloud-based tax return, invoice preparation software, payroll calculation, and cloud-based payment reconciliation.