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SumUp

Fintech · London, United Kingdom · Founded 2012

A leading financial technology company, operating across 34 markets on three continents

Talent graph

SumUp's talent

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Employees mapped 4,362 incl. 34 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 14 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

21 investors on SumUp's cap table

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

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
Series A 5 investors entered at this stage
Cusp Capital
RI Digital Ventures GmbH
Shortcut Ventures
b2venture
TA Ventures
Series B+ 15 investors entered at this stage
VI Partners
Sentinel Dome Partners
Crestline Investors
Milano Investment Partners
Sixth Street Growth
BBVA
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities
BBVA Ventures
Fin Capital
Life.SREDA
BlackRock
Liquidity Group
Groupon
Centerbridge Partners
American Express Ventures

Global footprint

Where SumUp has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
46 countries with
team presence
🇧🇷 Brazil28.7%
🇩🇪 Germany24.2%
🇧🇬 Bulgaria11.8%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.8%
🇺🇸 United States5.6%
Top 5 of 46 shown
Web traffic by country
7.2M monthly visits
across markets
🇬🇧 United Kingdom19.4%
🇫🇷 France18.6%
🇮🇹 Italy16.9%
🇧🇷 Brazil10.5%
🇩🇪 Germany9.7%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$4M patent portfolio · 5 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$4M
0.04% of valuation · 12.9× smaller than top peer Stripe ($46M)
5 active patent families
Where SumUp innovates Financial transactionPoint of saleUser interfaceCard readerCredit card

Where SumUp concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across SumUp 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.

Capital deployed

SumUp's 9 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where SumUp appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2016–2021. 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

9 deals across SumUp's capital deployment.

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

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    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where SumUp deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        SumUp'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
        9 of 9 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about SumUp

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