Portfolio
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companies
Payr
Payr provides a flexible card payment platform for rental transactions.
Ryft
Ryft provides payment infrastructure designed to split transactions among multiple parties.
Gresham House Ventures led the Series B round, with participation from existing backers Pembroke VCT and Ingenii Capital.
"This round of investment means we can take what we’ve built in the UK into new European markets and compete on the global stage. Payments have been dominated by a small number of incumbents for a long time. We want to provide a powerful and efficient alternative to businesses, not just in Europe, but globally,"
Ingenii Capital led the seed round with backing from Haatch, British Business Bank, and Velocity Capital.
"The rent payment experience has long been outdated and inflexible. Payr has identified a clear market inefficiency and developed a solution that meets the evolving financial habits of modern renters. Their early traction and approach to distribution made this an easy decision for us to support."
Ingenii VC and Pembroke VCT provide follow on funding to support the rollout of Ryft's unified omnichannel payment infrastructure.
"Since launching our automated online payment solutions, we’ve had repeated calls to bring the same simplicity and speed to integrated payments. Businesses processing both in-person and online payments – whether they’re marketplaces, franchises, or acquirers – have lacked a truly competitive solution, leaving too many relying on cumbersome and unnecessarily complicated end-of-month reconciliations and reporting. With the launch of our omni-channel payment platform, Ryft will enable businesses operating online and in-store to efficiently process, manage, and monetise payments at scale in a secure and compliant way. In turn, allowing them to maximise the value of every transaction."
The Series A round was led by EdenBase to accelerate technology development for acquiring banks and drive international expansion.
"Acquiring banks and most businesses were built for the one-to-one transactions of Commerce 1.0. However, in the era of Commerce 2.0, where transactions within a single marketplace involve numerous parties, financial institutions are struggling to deliver payment operations that meet the evolving needs of their customers. As a result, they’re unable to compete with the likes of Stripe Connect and Adyen whose solutions currently dominate the payments ecosystem despite high fees, complicated integrations, poor support, and prolonged payment wait times. At Ryft, we have the technology that allows acquiring banks to overcome these hurdles and we’re actively exploring several strategic partnerships to solve this issue in the payments industry."
