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.
Latest round closed August 2020.[10]
Round size, post-money valuation, and the full investor list are not publicly disclosed.
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]
Increase · Oct 2026[1]
Increase CEO on FedNow and RTP: Real-Time Payments Adoption · Oct 2026[9]
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]
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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.
Ask for one referenceable production customer.
Not a recommendation. The first thing this ledger cannot answer.