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This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Debit Cards startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Debit Cards industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Debit Cards Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Mozper
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Mozper is a developer of a debit card and app designed for kids and parents in Latin America. Its application enables parents to give their kids an allowance and set spending rules so they can’t blow it all on video games, it also allows them to assign chores, and track savings goals, thereby, enabling its users to let their children get a hands-on, real-world financial education appropriate for the digital era.
The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.. .
Klar
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Klar is a FinTech challenger bank that provides deposit and credit services for Mexican customers. Using the Klar card rewards users with cash of up to 4% cashback for each purchase, not points without confusing conversions or expiration dates.
Clients can also send and receive payments and collections money instantly to Klar accounts and other banks. The Klar card is linked to an app where users can see all their movements in real-time.
Stefan Moller, Daniel Autrique, Jeronimo Riefkohl, and Gianluigi Davassi established the company in Mexico City, Distrito Federal in 2018.. .
Transak
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Transak is a single integration for applications to accept fiat-to-crypto deposits and withdrawals from a global user base. It does this by aggregating fiat on-ramps from around the world and abstracting away the complexity of local compliance, payment methods, and operations.
The Transak product is a widget integration that can be integrated into an app in just a few lines of code. It provides a fiat on-ramp for the UK, Europe, and India for the app’s end-user without leaving their site..
Zenus Bank
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Zenus is an independent, American digital bank, using technology to provide customers globally easy, intuitive, secure, and competitive ways to get more from their money. Zenus aims to give those doing business in emerging economies an alternative to using local traditional banks by offering a new, transparent, and digital banking experience on par with other banks of the world.
The company was founded in 2019 by Mushegh Tovmasyan and is based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.. .
TreeCard
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TreeCard is the free top-up debit card that reforests the planet with your everyday payments.
Bold
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Offers financial services to SMBs in Colombia
ZeFi
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ZeFi develops a neobanking platform that provides a permission less financial ecosystem without a central authority.
SWIPEDOM
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SWIPEDOM is a spend management and corporate card platform that prevents overspending & improves cashflow. It prevents overspending by allowing business to issue employee cards that are directly tied to budgets.
It improves cashflow by giving its clients a Free 90-day cash float with no credit check or personal guarantee. It saves time by funding cards on the go via its Text-To-Fund technology..
Spiral
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Spiral is a neobank that rewards its members for supporting charitable causes that better their communities and the world.
YPay Card
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YPay Card is the new way to manage your money.
Coverflex
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Flexible compensation easy to manage, made for you
Purple
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Mobile banking and financial services for people with disabilities. Open a Purple bank account to receive your Social Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) payments up to two days early.
No hidden fees. No minimums..
PayRequest
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Simple, fast payment links via Stripe and Mollie
Sumotrust
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SumTrust (Formerly SumoBank) is an automated personal savings and investment platform that helps you save, send, receive and plan your finances effectively while making better business decisions. SumoTrust is a product of Sumo Tech Global Limited which is registered as a financial service company with Cooperate affairs commission (CAC) with the RC NUMBER: 1524989.
In partnership with Entrepreneur Platform, Nigeria largest business and enterprise blog which have been read millions of times across the globe to build a free business academy for entrepreneurs on the Sumotrust platform. With Sumotrust, you can choose to save and raise money for something or invest your money to earn profit returns annually.
Mission: To give people the power to easily save and manage their finances through automation while taking the right action their money. Vision: We want to see more successful people in the economy with projects executed without much hassle as regards financing.
The more people save, the more the have money to carry out projects when the time comes, this is why Sumobank is in Partnership with Entrepreneur Platform to raise business leaders across various sectors using Edutech. Aside from other factors, having money somewhere for emergency with good financial education is one of the major things that Africa needs to understand and from what our partner stand for at Entrepreneur Platform, we want to see people Happy with enough money to operate while guided.
Easy saving platform at user’s comfort. Transparent Solution to saving and investing.
Cashless policy brought to the grass root. Better and automated savings decisions towards goals..
Penny Pinch
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Penny Pinch Inc. is an award-winning, financial technology company that was established in St.
Lucia in 2019 and is licensed under the Money Services Business Act and regulated by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of St. Lucia.
It is the most advanced consumer mobile application in the Caribbean, offering digital coupons, loyalty rewards, cash back, and more centered around a powerful digital wallet that consumers use to make cashless payments to merchants as well as instant person-to-person (P2P) transfers. Think RetailMeNot meets Cash App! Despite being established in St.
Lucia, Penny Pinch does not intend to limit its growth to the subregion. Making prodigious strides in the Caribbean fintech industry, Penny Pinch is determined to impact the world during this pandemic and beyond.
The Penny Pinch mobile application enables users to simply top up their digital wallets using their debit/credit cards, then make physical purchases using their smartphones at any of the Penny Pinch partner merchants without any direct physical contact. Payments are made by a cashier simply scanning a QR code on a customer’s Penny Pinch digital wallet.
“We are proud to be one of the few companies that present both an innovative and safe way for people to make payments. However with the Penny Pinch app, they still get to enjoy the physical experience of shopping but with a major Covid-19 high exposure risk eliminated which is the direct contact with cash or credit card to make payments when they’re physically at a merchant” explains the Founder and CEO of Penny Pinch, Martin Hanna.
