Payrails
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| Industry | Financial technology |
| Founded 📆 | 2021 |
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| Products 📟 | Payment software |
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Payrails is a financial technology company based in Berlin that develops payment software for enterprises and marketplaces.[1][2][3] It was founded in 2021 by Orkhan Abdullayev, Emre Talay and Nicolas Thouzeau.[4][5]
History
The founders previously worked together at food-delivery company Delivery Hero, where they were involved in building the group’s payments and financial infrastructure.[1] FAZ and Handelsblatt reported that Payrails was created to simplify payment processing for businesses operating across multiple countries with differing payment methods and regulatory requirements.[3][6]
In March 2022 the company announced a US$6.4 million seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.[1][6] In June 2023 Payrails raised a further US$14.4 million in a seed-extension round.[7]
In 2024 Business Insider listed Payrails among European fintech startups to watch.[8]
In February 2025 Mastercard and Payrails announced a partnership focused on payment acceptance for enterprise customers, initially focused on the Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) region.[9][3]
In June 2025 Payrails announced a Series A funding round of about US$32 million.[2][3][10] Tech.eu and Sifted reported that the round included participation from HV Capital, EQT Ventures, General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz, and that the funding would support product development and commercial growth.[2][10]
Products and services
Sources have described Payrails’ software as a payment operating system for enterprises, providing an integration layer between merchants and local and global payment service providers and related payment tools.[1][7][2] The platform has a modular architecture with components such as payment orchestration, payouts, tokenisation, analytics and automated reconciliation.[2][3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lunden, Ingrid (17 March 2022). "Payrails emerges from stealth with $6.4M led by a16z to build the OS for payments". TechCrunch. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Djurickovic, Tamara (12 June 2025). "Payrails raises $32M Series A to boost payment performance for global enterprises". Tech.eu. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Müller, Nina (12 June 2025). "Deutsches Fintech-Start-up erhält 32 Millionen Dollar". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in Deutsch). Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ↑ Burroughs, Callum (7 June 2023). "Andreessen Horowitz-backed fintech Payrails just raised $14.4 million from EQT and General Catalyst using this 11-slide pitch deck". Business Insider. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ↑ Varley, Laura (4 November 2025). "Payrails to create 50 jobs in new Dublin office". Silicon Republic. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Holzki, Larissa; Schwarz, Dennis (17 March 2022). "Payrails: Warum der berühmte Investor Andreessen Horowitz heiß auf dieses Fintech ist". Handelsblatt (in Deutsch). Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lunden, Ingrid (6 June 2023). "Payrails banks $14.4M for its OS for complex payments flows". TechCrunch. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ↑ Burroughs, Callum (8 April 2024). "These are the 32 most exciting European fintech startups to watch in 2024, according to venture capitalists". Business Insider. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ↑ "Mastercard and Payrails partner payments for large enterprises". Electronic Payments International. 5 February 2025. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Matsuda, Tom (12 June 2025). "Exclusive: Delivery Hero alumni raise $32m for 'all-in-one payments platform' from HV Capital, a16z, EQT and General Catalyst". Sifted. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
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