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Payrails: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Payrails is a cloud-native payment operating system that streamlines payment acceptance. The company enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally. It allows enterprises to build, operate, and scale payment acceptance and embed financial services without the need for a costly and complex in-house infrastructure. Payrail was founded in 2021 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

www.payrails.com LinkedIn Berlin, Germany 11-50 employees
Developer APIs Enterprise Software Financial Services Mobile Payments Payments
Total raised
$52.7M
Rounds
3
Latest
Series A
Jun 2025

Payrails has raised $52.7M across 3 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Series A of $32.0M announced in Jun 2025.

That round is above the $14M median round size for Financial Services companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Payrails Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$52.7M
across 3 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
3
Latest funding round
Series A
$32.0M in Jun 2025
Employees
11-50
reported band
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany

Latest funding round on record: Jun 2025.

Payrails Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series A
$32.0M
Seed
$14.4M
Seed
$6.3M

Payrails raised $6.3M in a Seed announced in Mar 2022.

1.3 years later, a Seed of $14.4M was announced in Jun 2023.

2 years later, a Series A of $32.0M was announced in Jun 2025.

Payrails Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Emre Talay
Founder
Locked
Nicolas Thouzeau
Founder
Locked
Orkhan Abdullayev
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the Payrails team: 3 of 3 have an email address on file.

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Payrails Funding Compared to Other Financial Services Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
1,812
$6.5M
8,352
$15M

Payrails' latest round of $32.0M is above the median round in Financial Services. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Payrails Funding FAQs

What does Payrails do?

Payrails is a cloud-native payment operating system that streamlines payment acceptance. The company enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally. It allows enterprises to build, operate, and scale payment acceptance and embed financial services without the need for a costly and complex in-house infrastructure. Payrail was founded in 2021 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

How much funding has Payrails raised?

Payrails has raised $52.7M across 3 rounds on record. The most recent is a Series A of $32.0M announced in Jun 2025.

When did Payrails last raise funding?

Payrails' most recent funding round on record is a Series A of $32.0M, announced in Jun 2025.

Who founded Payrails?

FundedIQ lists Emre Talay (Founder), Nicolas Thouzeau (Founder) at Payrails.

Who is the CEO of Payrails?

Orkhan Abdullayev is listed as CEO at Payrails.

Where is Payrails headquartered?

Payrails is based in Berlin, Germany.

How many employees does Payrails have?

Payrails is in the 11-50 employee band.

How does Payrails' funding compare to other Financial Services startups?

Payrails' latest round of $32.0M is above the $14M median round size for Financial Services companies on FundedIQ across 5,745 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Payrails Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Payrails is left off this page rather than filled in.

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