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SumUp
A leading financial technology company, operating across 34 markets on three continents
At a glance
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning SumUp.
Investors
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
- CCCusp Capital
- RGRI Digital Ventures GmbH
- SVShortcut Ventures
b2venture
TA Ventures
Series B and later15 investors entered at this stage
- VPVI Partners
- SPSentinel Dome Partners
- CICrestline Investors
- MPMilano Investment Partners
- SGSixth Street Growth
- BBBBVA
- BOBain Capital Tech Opportunities
- BVBBVA Ventures
- FCFin Capital
- LILife.SREDA
BlackRock
Liquidity Group
Groupon- CPCenterbridge Partners
American Express Ventures
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former SumUp employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
STStarkEst. 2024
Johannes SchabackGermany
Ticiano VieiraBrazil
ATAtomicEst. 2020
Marco Alban-HidalgoUnited States
MAMartaEst. 2021
Jan Markus HoffmannGermany
AVAVEAEst. 2021Global footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
5 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
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.
9 deals across SumUp's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
Market sentiment
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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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.