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

London, United KingdomFounded 2012Fintech
Valuation $10–50B Last recorded · 2026
Revenue $100–500M Latest reported FY
Headcount 2–5k Current team size
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At a glance

Founded
2012
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Sector
Fintech
Power Law
Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News SumUp raises $135M to fund receivables advances for small businesses in Brazil Oct 5, 2026 Analysis UK fintech has raised $64B since 2016, second only to the United States Sep 30, 2026 Market map European Fintech Landscape

Investors

21 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed1 investor entered at this stage

Series A5 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later15 investors entered at this stage

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.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former SumUp employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

StarkEst. 2024
Johannes SchabackGermany
Signal score95
FacioEst. 2017
Ticiano VieiraBrazil
Signal score91
AtomicEst. 2020
Marco Alban-HidalgoUnited States
Signal score87
MartaEst. 2021
Jan Markus HoffmannGermany
Signal score85
AVEAEst. 2021
AWAlessandra Caroline (Faisst) WagnerSwitzerland
Signal score84
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
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

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$4M

5 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where SumUp was the 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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        Where SumUp deploys vs peers

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        SumUp's portfolio, mapped.

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        9 of 9 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about SumUp on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

        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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