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Funding and backers

Total raised
$163.6M
6 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Venture round · Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
Team
257
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +9% in a year
Hiring now
6
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Costanoa, GMO VenturePartners
The money's age
Due for its next round
13 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
32/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 9 Acquisition PayNearMe acquires Marr Labs to 'help shape the future of payments' · Auto Remarketing 2025 Team of 257 was 235 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Sep 16, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $50M · PRNewswire May 6, 2024 Partnership PayNearMe Partners With Trustly to Enhance Open Banking Technology · businesswire.com Apr 18, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $45M · SEC Form D Aug 16, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $22.8M · SEC Form D Sep 24, 2019 Raised a round Venture round $6.2M · SEC Form D Apr 30, 2018 Raised a round Venture round $19M · SEC Form D Dec 21, 2016 Raised a round Venture round $20.5M · SEC Form D Jun 2010 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.09%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Sep 2025 $50M — PRNewswire
Venture round Apr 2023 $45M — SEC Form D
Venture round Aug 2021 $22.8M — SEC Form D
Venture round Sep 2019 $6.2M — SEC Form D
Venture round Apr 2018 $19M — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2016 $20.5M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity PayNearMe, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Kristina CampbellExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Daniel ShaderExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Allison AmadiaExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Lauren BrownExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Mirna DaoukExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Visa sponsorship

#2,585 of 8,228 sponsors
4 ▲ 100%
H-1B filings in 12 months
3
Green card filings
$171k
Median offered salary
Who they sponsor
Software developers
2
Sales engineers
1
Software quality assurance analysts and testers
1
The salary offered for each occupationVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as PayNearMe, Inc. t/a FKA Handle Financial, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (+1 more)
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Overview

PayNearMe is the modern payments platform that simplifies bill payments for businesses, Lower the total cost of payment acceptance with PayNearMe.

Connections

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Shared investors3
CostanoaVia a fund
20 portfolio companies: Shepherd, Vannevar Labs, SGNL and 17 more
MaveronVia a fund
82 portfolio companies: Opendoor, Ro, Ark PES and 79 more
128 portfolio companies: GMO Internet Group, Qihoo 360, NOTA and 125 more

News

Blog 1 month ago
Building the Future of AI in Payments: A Conversation With Danny Shader and Dave Grannan
Throughout our recent series on AI in payments, we've explored how AI is already being used across payment experiences, where we believe agentic AI can take the industry next and how PayNearMe is approaching that opportunity. One theme has remained consis
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Blog 1 month ago
Agentic AI: The Future of AI in Payments
In our previous blog post, we discussed the current state of AI and automation in the payments industry, where automated systems can often tell your customers why their payment failed but are unable to fix it. A good starting point, but one that is limite
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Blog 1 month ago
What AI Looks Like in Payments in 2026
If you're in the payments world, you're likely hearing from the top down that you need to be using AI in your business and workflows. Then again, who isn't these days? But it makes particular sense in payments and collections due to the high volume of rep
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Blog 1 month ago
How a Top 20 Bank Transformed Payments Into a Strategic Advantage
Introduction The bank is one of the nation's largest auto finance companies, serving more than three million customers across the full credit spectrum. The bank has a straightforward business model: lend money and make it easy-and reliable-for borrowers t
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Podcast Auto Remarketing 2 months ago
PODCAST: PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor on intersection of payments & technology
PayNearMe recently shared new research, explaining that hidden costs sustained by auto lenders can show up as failed payments, borrower support calls, late paym
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Blog 2 months ago
Why Payment Experience Management Will Determine Which Credit Unions Win the Next Generation
We've all seen it happen: A member logs in to make a loan payment, but forgets their credentials. After a few frustrating minutes, they finally get in, only to realize their preferred payment method isn't an option. What should have been a quick, self-ser
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Blog 2 months ago
Spotlight Series: A Conversation with Carley Parker
When Carley Parker, Technical Support Manager, joined PayNearMe more than seven years ago, the company was just beginning its transition from cash-only payments to electronic payments. Since then, she's grown alongside the business-taking on new challenge
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at PayNearMe over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
26
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL
LookML
Python
Databases
Apache Iceberg
Snowflake
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
Looker
Datadog
AWS
Amazon S3
AI & ML
ChatGPT
Claude
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Full PayNearMe tech stack 26 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$120k – $245k
Open positions
4
4 Jobs
Senior 25%
Staff 50%
Architect 25%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 1 $170k $170k
Staff 2 $175k $120k – $230k
Architect 1 $245k $245k
Highest paying role Director, Data Engineering $245k
Normalized to USD per year

People

Kristina Campbell
Executive Officer
Daniel Shader
Executive Officer, Director
Allison Amadia
Executive Officer
Lauren Brown
Executive Officer
Mirna Daouk
Executive Officer
Mark Britto
Director
Jon Callaghan
Director
Bill Clerico
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
6
2 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 36% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
22% ▼
Product
11% ▼
Support
11% ▲
Administrative
11% ▲
Finance
11% ▼
Marketing
11% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States Oct 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack Oct 2026
Added Design Controls to stack Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack Oct 2026
Added Confluence to stack Sep 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack Sep 2026
Added Cursor to stack Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack Sep 2026
Added ChatGPT to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
0
Countries
2
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Sunnyvale United States
HQ
Mexico City Mexico
Regional office
Mexico City
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Guadalajara Mexico
Regional office
Guadalajara
careers board
Dallas United States
Regional office
Dallas, TX
careers board
Holmdel United States
Regional office
Holmdel, NJ
careers board

Jobs

$190k – $230k per year · Equity · Remote (United States) · 15+ years exp
Confluence
MedTech
Design Controls
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$80k – $120k per year · Equity · Remote (United States, PT hours) · 7+ years exp
Cursor
Claude
ChatGPT
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
Datadog
Analytics
Looker
Management
Jira
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$200k – $245k per year · Equity · Remote (United States) · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
Python
SQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Apache Iceberg
LookML
AI/ML
dbt
AI Agents
Feature Store
Recommender Systems
Machine Learning
DevOps
Terraform
OpenTofu
Datadog
AWS
GitLab
Amazon S3
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
GDPR
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Fivetran
Looker
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Financials

Total raised
$163.6M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
6
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $50M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $45M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $22.8M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $6.2M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $19M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2016 $20.5M Details