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Increase

Increase is an API-first banking core that lets technology companies move, store, and lend money over ACH, wires, checks, real-time rails, and cards.

increase.com · Bend

CALL NO.CS·INCREASE·26
StageLatest roundAugust 2020[10]
Raisednot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2020[1][2][4]
Money

Latest round closed August 2020.[10]

Round size, post-money valuation, and the full investor list are not publicly disclosed.

People

Darragh Buckley, Founder and CEO[2][4][1][8]

Warren Brown, GM of Cards[1][4][8]

Jack Flintermann Reed, Head of Product[1][4][8]

Headcount: sources disagree
32as of Oct 2026

Increase · Oct 2026[1]

Increase CEO on FedNow and RTP: Real-Time Payments Adoption · Oct 2026[9]

Signals
Oct 7 2026newsIncrease adds real-time merchant data from Spade to card transactions — Increase company claim, not independently confirmed[6]
Sep 9 2024launchUpdates — Increase company claim, not independently confirmed[18]
Comps

Column · column.com · Named head-to-head against Increase in a direct comparison: both skip BaaS aggregators and give direct bank rail access, and the same buyer choosing between a programmable ledger and a programmable bank weighs Column on margin capture versus compliance...[21][20]

Marqeta · marqeta.com · Appears both in Increase's competitor landscape and in the credit card program management market analysis alongside Increase, so a buyer building a card program evaluates it for the same issuing job to be done.[20][22]

Stripe · stripe.com · Named in Increase's competitor landscape and in the credit card program management market analysis; the same technology-company buyer weighing where to run payments and money movement would compare it against Increase.[20][22]

Modern Treasury · moderntreasury.com · Listed in the same competitive landscape for Increase; the same engineering and finance buyer evaluating programmatic money movement and reconciliation would weigh it as a substitute for the payment operations layer.[20]

Lithic · lithic.com · Listed as an Increase competitor; the same developer buyer building card issuance would evaluate it as an alternative API for the card program workflow.[20]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[6]

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Increase

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Increase is an API-first banking core that lets technology companies move, store, and lend money over ACH, wires, checks, real-time rails, and cards.

increase.com · Bend

StageLatest round
Raisednot publicly disclosed
Headcount32
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2020
CompsColumn +4

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