Payload Raises $9M Series A
Summary
Payload raised $9 million in a Series A round led by Fifth Third Bank. The company builds an embedded payments platform that lets software vendors add payment acceptance, payouts, risk monitoring, and customer verification through a unified API. Payload plans to hire more engineers and go-to-market staff, deepen payment-rail integrations, and expand into new software ecosystems and verticals. The raise supports its goal of making payments invisible inside business software.
Funding
Amount
$9.0M
Total raised
Date
August 19, 2026
Announcement date
Investors
Fifth Third Bank
Lead investors
Company
payload.co
Funded company
AskAI Classifications
Sectors
Fintech, Banking and Payments
Payment Processing
General FinTech
Functions
Developer and IT Infrastructure
Development Platforms
Linked Companies
Payload
$1M to $5M