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Modern card issuing platform for building customized payment cards. Oakland CA, publicly traded (MQ), processes $170B+ in payment volume annually for Block, DoorDash, and Affirm.
Marqeta is a modern card issuing platform that enables companies to create, issue, and manage customized payment card programs. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Marqeta went public on NASDAQ in 2021 under the ticker MQ. The company processes more than $170 billion in total payment volume annually and counts major technology and fintech companies including Block (formerly Square), DoorDash, Affirm, and Goldman Sachs among its customers.\n\nMarqeta's open API platform gives customers fine-grained control over card authorization logic — a capability it pioneered called Just-in-Time (JIT) funding. Rather than pre-loading a fixed balance onto a card, JIT funding allows the card issuer to make a real-time decision about whether to approve each transaction and how much to fund at the moment of authorization. This capability enables use cases like expense management cards that only work at approved merchants, installment payment cards that draw from loan credit in real time, and delivery driver cards that fund only when a courier has a specific delivery in progress.\n\nMarqeta serves a diverse range of card issuing use cases including buy now pay later card programs, corporate expense cards, disbursement cards, and digital wallets. The company's global issuing capabilities cover multiple currencies and payment networks across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Post-IPO, Marqeta has continued expanding its platform with token management, fraud controls, and card lifecycle management tools that enterprise issuers need for large-scale card programs.
Financial technology platform for card issuance and payment processing. Salt Lake City UT, acquired by SoFi for $1.2B in 2020, powers 100M+ accounts across leading fintech companies.
Galileo Financial Technologies is a financial technology platform providing card issuance, payment processing, and account management APIs that power some of the largest fintech companies in the United States and Latin America. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Galileo was acquired by SoFi Technologies for $1.2 billion in 2020, remaining a standalone platform serving third-party fintech customers. Galileo's APIs power more than 100 million accounts across customers including Chime, Robinhood, Monzo, and Transfers.\n\nGalileo's platform covers the full card lifecycle: account provisioning, debit and credit card issuance, real-time authorization, transaction processing, dispute management, and program analytics. Its processing infrastructure handles billions of transactions annually with high-availability architecture built for the uptime requirements of consumer fintech applications. The platform also provides ACH and direct deposit capabilities that have become foundational for neobank products competing on early paycheck access.\n\nAs part of SoFi, Galileo has expanded its platform with additional capabilities including lending infrastructure, account verification, and fraud management tools — enabling fintech customers to build more comprehensive financial product suites on the platform. Galileo's Latin America presence, serving customers like Ualá and Nubank partners, positions it as one of the few infrastructure providers with scale across both US and LATAM embedded finance markets.
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