Basis Theory
Founded 2020 · 57 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors
Basis Theory provides a payment vault platform that tokenizes and routes payment data across payment service providers while maintaining PCI compliance. The service targets merchants and platforms seeking to improve payment authorization rates, reduce churn, and consolidate payment processing without disrupting their existing tech stack.
Investors · 6
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Competitors · 9
by search overlapStripe1343 shared keywordsStripe provides financial infrastructure for businesses to accept payments, offer financial services, and implement custom revenue models across international markets in 135+ currencies.
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Capital One1088 shared keywordsCapital One is a financial services company that offers credit cards, checking and savings accounts, auto financing, and business banking products to consumers and small businesses. The company provides digital banking tools, rewards programs, and credit monitoring services.
Experian923 shared keywordsExperian offers consumers tools to access their credit report and FICO Score, build credit, and manage money, including credit card matching, bill and subscription negotiation, car insurance comparison, and a digital checking account with debit card. It serves individual U.S. consumers through its app and financial products.
Checkout835 shared keywordsCheckout.com offers Flow, a hosted payment page that businesses can deploy with a low-code, one-time integration to accept payments online. The page can be customized to match a site's branding for a consistent checkout experience.
Helcim834 shared keywordsHelcim is a payment processing platform for small businesses, offering in-person, online, and phone card payments plus ACH, invoicing, payment links, and 40+ integrations. It uses Interchange Plus pricing with no monthly fees and provides APIs and embeddable payment forms for merchants.
American Express Supplies809 shared keywordsAmerican Express is a financial services company that provides payment solutions, credit cards, and business services to customers and businesses since 1850.
Jetlore716 shared keywordsJetlore was a Palo Alto AI startup that turned unstructured retail product data into structured attributes so merchants could personalise what each shopper saw. Founded by Stanford researchers, it raised from Sierra Ventures, Alsop Louie Partners, Fenox Venture Capital, BRM Capital and Mercury Fund, and PayPal acquired it in 2018.
Qonto704 shared keywordsQonto provides an all-in-one business account combining banking, invoicing, bookkeeping, spend management, and cash flow tools for businesses of all sizes. It offers tiered plans aimed at everything from small day-to-day finances to enterprise finance workspaces.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Basis Theory do?
- Basis Theory provides a payment vault platform that tokenizes and routes payment data across payment service providers while maintaining PCI compliance. The service targets merchants and platforms seeking to improve payment authorization rates, reduce churn, and consolidate payment processing without disrupting their existing tech stack.
- Who are Basis Theory's investors?
- Basis Theory's investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Conversion Capital, Good Friends, Kindred Ventures, Moneta VC.





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