We make payday the calmest day of the month

Payday started when our founders spent a Friday night paying a team in nine countries by hand. Today more than 9,000 companies pay their people with Payday.

Colleagues working together around a desk in a bright office

Why we startedNobody should dread payday.

Before Payday, Theo ran finance at a startup with people in nine countries, and Clara built payment systems at a bank. Every payday meant spreadsheets, bank portals, exchange rates and a different tax calendar for every country.

The tools they tried handled one country well and the rest badly. So they built one that treats every country the same way: local pay, local taxes and local payslips, all from a single pay run.

That is still the whole company. Everything we ship has to get people paid correctly and on time, or make it easier for a finance team to prove it.

Founded in Lisbon
2022
Companies paid monthly
9,000+
Countries supported
140
People in 24 countries
210

What we believeThree rules we don't bend.

How we got here

  1. 2022

    First pay run

    Twelve people in Portugal, paid from a kitchen table.

  2. 2023

    Seed round

    $14M to build pay runs and tax filings for Europe.

  3. 2024

    40 countries

    Contractor payments and our first teams in Asia.

  4. 2026

    Series B

    $60M to reach 140 countries and open an office in New York.

The people behind Payday

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