VerticalStack is building one payments platform for software businesses that serve a single trade. They license it, their customers’ card payments run through it, and the payments that already flow through their software become a source of revenue for the software business, not only for the processor.
Specialist software sits at the centre of how thousands of small businesses run, yet the card payments flowing through it usually earn their money for a processor. VerticalStack is building one payments platform, with FCA authorisation in progress, so that revenue can stay with the software.
Onboarding, KYC and KYB, underwriting, settlement and reconciliation are built once and run for every software partner on the platform.
Software businesses license the platform. Their customers’ card payments run through it from day one, on established partner infrastructure while our own regulated core is built.
Where it suits the founder, we also buy software businesses, or back them to keep building. The product, the brand and the team carry on.
Choose the path that fits you. Both lead to a direct conversation with the founders.
See what working with VerticalStack could look like for you, your team and your customers, whether you want to keep building with our backing or step back.
For software founders →Read the thesis, the model and the opportunity, then ask us for investor materials.
For investors →Our founders have built merchant services businesses, scaled processors and run regulated payments operations across the UK, the US and Ireland.
Whether you own a software business, invest in payments, or would like to work with us, we would be glad to hear from you.
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