Formance vs Spade
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Paris open-source fintech infrastructure with programmable ledger and payment orchestration at 10x revenue growth; YC $21M PayPal Ventures/Portage Series A serving Doctolib and Liberis competing with Modern Treasury for fintech ledger-as-a-service.
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Formance is a Paris, France-based open-source financial infrastructure company — backed by Y Combinator with $21 million raised in a Series A in January 2025 co-led by PayPal Ventures and Portage Ventures after 10x revenue growth, with prior investment from Hoxton Ventures and Axeleo Capital — providing fintech companies, vertical SaaS platforms, and financial institutions with programmable open-source ledger infrastructure (Formance Ledger), payment orchestration (Formance Payments), and transaction reconciliation automation, positioning as the "AWS for fintech infrastructure" with a developer-friendly platform that removes the need to build custom financial data management systems from scratch. Founded in 2021 and serving customers including Doctolib, Liberis, Booksy, and Btech, Formance is growing from 20 to 50 employees by end of 2025 and opening a New York office.
Financial transaction enrichment API converting raw bank strings to structured merchant data; merchant intelligence for fintech apps, neobanks, and embedded finance products.
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Spade is a financial data enrichment company that provides transaction metadata and merchant intelligence to banks, fintech companies, and financial services firms — transforming raw bank transaction strings (like "SQ*COFFEESHOP 8003847") into clean, structured data with merchant name, category, location, logo, and spending insights. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York City, Spade raised approximately $17 million to build a comprehensive transaction enrichment API that serves the growing demand for better financial data in embedded finance and banking-as-a-service applications.
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