Our First Investment Round

After just a few months of full operation, we are beyond excited to announce our first investment round of 10M USD led by Underscore VC and Point72 Ventures alongside prominent investors and visionary executives including Bill Ready, Billy Chen, Amit Jhawar, Rich LaBarca, and others with backgrounds from Braintree, Venmo, PayPal, Google, AddThis, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle. 

We are grateful for the support, thought leadership, and advice of such a fantastic group of people. This is invaluable to accomplishing our mission to deliver the payment intelligence infrastructure we’ve heard business after business request. Now it’s time to scale the team and empower companies to accelerate business growth, create long-term customer relationships, and be the creators of completely new business models. 

After many years in the payment industry, we have heard the same questions, needs, and operational limitations expressed over and over by so many businesses. The payment landscape is getting more complex and companies need to execute in an environment that is increasingly dynamic when building, keeping, and transacting with their customers. Payments shouldn’t be part of these challenges. 

Pagos provides data-driven API building blocks and tools allowing companies to understand, manage, and maximize revenue, making it easy and possible for payments excellence to be implemented alongside existing payment partners. Services being developed in the short term include immediate payment data visualizations, automatic notifications on payment trends or problems, and up-to-date bank identification number (BIN) details to manage customers and track costs. Network Tokenization and Account Updater services are planned for the near future.

Customer behavior is changing and moving to a growing number of digital channels, requiring companies to change their infrastructure and the way they allow their customers to pay and interact with their goods and services. Companies shouldn’t have to build an in-house team of experts on all dimensions of the payments environment to thrive. Our platform helps companies better understand their payments environment, enable them to execute on strategies, and unlock new revenue more quickly than ever before without having to change the providers they work with. 

Contact us to join our pilot or discuss partnership opportunities and help build a robust community of learning and growth in commerce best practices and innovation. And if you’re a payments nerd and/or technologist who wants to tackle complex challenges with us, please apply.

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Pagos Raises $10M to Scale Platform Helping Companies Understand and Optimize Payments Performance

Seed round fuels scaling of the team building data driven APIs to maximize revenue for their customers

[Los Angeles], [October 15, 2021]—Pagos, a data and insight SaaS platform tailored to drive better performance and optimization of their customers’ existing payments infrastructure, today announced $10M in new Seed funding. The investment round was led by Underscore VC and Point72 Ventures alongside prominent investors and visionary executives including Amit Jhawar (former GM of Venmo), Bill Ready (President of Commerce, Payments & Next Billion Users at Google), Billy Chen (VP, Financial Partnerships at Finix), and Rich LaBarca (GM Dynamics 365 Customer Insights at Microsoft).

Payment processing is fundamental to customer relationships, revenue, and the bottom line, yet most companies do not have the tools, data, knowledge, or support to develop and execute an optimized payment strategy. This results in higher operating costs, lost revenue, and unnecessary friction, making execution of business strategy a lot harder than it should be.

The funding will be used for scaling Pagos’ data platform and API-driven microservices which can integrate with any payment stack. Services being offered in the short term include: immediate payment data visualizations, automatic notifications on payment trends or problems, and up-to-date bank identification number (BIN) details to manage customers and track costs. Network Tokenization and Account Updater services are planned for the near future.

CEO and co-founder Klas Bäck expressed that “This funding is invaluable to accomplishing our mission to deliver the payment intelligence infrastructure we’ve heard business after business request. Now it’s time to scale the team and empower companies to accelerate business growth, create long-term customer relationships, and be the creators of completely new business models.”

“At Underscore, we’re always excited to support founders that intimately understand their customer's biggest pain points," said Chris Gardner, Underscore VC Partner. "The Pagos team has decades of experience solving thorny payments challenges for some of the largest merchants in the world, and their API-based toolset for optimizing payment performance and decision making will be a game-changer for their customers.”

“As commerce becomes increasingly digitized, merchants’ payment stacks have become more complex and difficult to manage,” said Dave Matter, Operating Partner, Point72 Ventures. “Pagos is led by two of the most accomplished payments product experts in the business, and their relationships, domain expertise and first-hand experience with these pain points is incredibly valuable. We are thrilled to support their vision of building the first ‘payments intelligence’ platform that helps merchants of all sizes better understand and optimize their payments environment to increase revenue, reduce cost, and better serve their customers.”

Investor Billy Chen, VP of Financial Partnerships at Finix and former Director of Payments at Uber stated “If Pagos was around when I was running payments at Uber it would have saved us so much time and resources. We spent too much time learning the ‘trade secrets’ of managing auth performance and payments costs when it should be standardized. Instead we could have focused on unique issues tied to Uber’s business.”

Customer behavior is changing and moving to a growing number of digital channels, requiring companies to change their infrastructure and the way they allow their customers to pay and interact with their goods and services. Companies shouldn’t have to build an in-house team of experts on all dimensions of the payments environment to thrive. Pagos’ platform will help companies better understand their payments environment, enable them to execute on strategies, and unlock new revenue more quickly than ever before without having to change the providers they work with. 

About Pagos Solutions:

Pagos builds intelligent API-driven microservices delivering the payments data and insights companies need to optimize more easily, scale better and faster while still focusing on what is unique to them and their business.

About Underscore VC:

Underscore VC is a Boston-based venture capital firm backing bold entrepreneurs from Seed to Series A with an aligned community designed to fit each startup's unique needs. Learn more: https://underscore.vc/.

About Point72 Ventures:

Point72 Ventures is a global venture capital strategy led by a diverse set of domain experts with the capital and mandate to lead rounds through all stages of a company's growth, from idea to IPO. The team invests in founders with bold ideas who use the latest technologies to drive transformational change across industries. Point72 Ventures offers entrepreneurs access to expertise and insights, executive and technical talent, and hands-on support. With offices in the U.S. and Europe, Point72 Ventures is an affiliate of Point72, the global asset manager founded by Steven A. Cohen. For more information, visit p72.vc.

Press Contacts:

Pagos

Klas Bäck
(310) 245-3591
klas@pagos.ai

Underscore

Devin Nash
(781) 258-0460
devin@underscore.vc

Point72

Tiffany Galvin-Cohen
(203) 890-2052
tiffany.galvin-cohen@point72.com