Power Law company profile

Cayan

Fintech · Boston, United States · Founded 1998 Unicorn

Provider of payment and merchant services

Valuation

$1–2.5B

Latest valuation · 2026

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Headcount

100–500

Current team size

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Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026

Global footprint

Where Cayan has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

5 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States78.4%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom13%

🇰🇪 Kenya2.2%

🇨🇳 China2.2%

🇬🇭 Ghana2.2%

5 countries shown

Patent intelligence

$120k patent portfolio · 1 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$120k

0.01% of valuation · 12.3× smaller than top peer Mercury Payment Systems ($1M)

1 active patent families

Where Cayan innovates Point of saleAuthorizationPayment processorCustomer engagementConsumer engagement

Where Cayan concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Cayan and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Cayan

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Cayan on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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