Pliant
Pliant, founded in Berlin in 2020 by Malte Rau and Fabian Terner, is an API-first B2B payments infrastructure company offering commercial card issuing (as a Visa and Mastercard principal member), payment accounts, FX and spend management under a European e-money licence, serving businesses, banks, fintechs and software platforms with cards in 13 currencies across 32 countries.
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Pliant, founded in Berlin in 2020 by Malte Rau and Fabian Terner, is an API-first B2B payments infrastructure company offering commercial card issuing (as a Visa and Mastercard principal member), payment accounts, FX and spend management under a European e-money licence, serving businesses, banks, fintechs and software platforms with cards in 13 currencies across 32 countries. It is opening its payment rails to third-party AI agents such as Claude and ChatGPT via the Model Context Protocol and building its own finance-automation agents. ARR has passed $100M, with 300+ employees.
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Company· 12
Investor· 5
Founders / team· 2
Funding history
- 2026-11-04Series C$80M
Investors · Seaya Nova, Speedinvest, Illuminate Financial, Motive Partners, Molten VenturesSource · getpliant.com ↗
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