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GoCardless

Fintech · London, United Kingdom · Founded 2011

Simple and cheap way to take payments online: no merchant account, no credit card fees, no hassle

Valuation $1–2.5B
Revenue $100–500M
Headcount 500–1k
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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors

18 investors on GoCardless's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 5 investors entered at this stage
Start Fund
Y Combinator
Accel
Passion Capital
SV Angel
Series B+ 13 investors entered at this stage
Ergo Partners
Bain Capital Ventures
BlackRock
Notion Capital
Balderton Capital
Future Fifty
GV
Permira
Salesforce Ventures
Adams Street Partners
Salesforce
Black Pearls VC
Nyca Partners

GoCardless mafia

Startups founded by GoCardless alumni

Former GoCardless employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Monzo BankEst. 2015
Tom BlomfieldUnited Kingdom
Signal score96
incident.ioEst. 2020
Pete HamiltonUnited Kingdom
Signal score93
NestedEst. 2015
Matt RobinsonUnited Kingdom
Signal score91
DuffelEst. 2017
Tom BatesUnited Kingdom
Signal score88
CariqaEst. 2023
Tamara CiulloGermany
Signal score88
Bluenote HealthEst. 2022
KNKatsuya NoguchiUnited States
Signal score87
PermutiveEst. 2013
Joe RootUnited Kingdom
Signal score73
LunosEst. 2024
Duncan BarriganUnited States
Signal score70
ShipamaxEst. 2016
Jenna BrownUnited Kingdom
Signal score65
PropfloEst. 2021
DMDaniel MoyoUnited Kingdom
Signal score56
Thrust CarbonEst. 2019
KBKit BrennanUnited Kingdom
Signal score54
CUE LabsEst. 2021
Paul JollySwitzerland
Signal score52

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Global footprint

Where GoCardless has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
17 countries with
team presence
🇬🇧 United Kingdom68.4%
🇱🇻 Latvia19.2%
🇫🇷 France6.3%
🇺🇸 United States2.3%
🇦🇺 Australia1.7%
Top 5 of 17 shown
Web traffic by country
1.9M monthly visits
across markets
🇬🇧 United Kingdom52.5%
🇫🇷 France7%
🇺🇸 United States5.3%
🇦🇺 Australia3.9%
🇩🇪 Germany3.7%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of GoCardless's talent

Dealroom maps GoCardless's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

10 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
15 AI specialistsincl. 2 core researchers
849 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Capital deployed

GoCardless's 6 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where GoCardless appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2021–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

6 deals across GoCardless's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        GoCardless's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        6 of 6 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about GoCardless

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about GoCardless 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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