Record year 2023: bezahl.de impresses with innovation and growth
- About two thirds of Germany's top 100 car dealerships Already put on bezahl.de, in the record year 2023, the platform has already receivables volume of over 2.5 billion euros managed
- In just five financial years, the former start-up now counts instead of eight over 110 employees and expands with new headquarters in the heart of Cologne.
- Growth has doubled compared to the previous year: New partnerships and financing rounds point to a positive future.
In 2018, Cologne-based FinTech NX Technologies With a team of just eight payment experts, the cornerstone of the success story bezahl.de. Within a very short period of time, the scale-up was able to establish itself as the first point of contact for digital payment management in the German automotive trade and now has over 110 employees from nine different countries.
This year, celebrate bezahl.de Not only is it celebrating its five-year anniversary, but is also recording a new record year after just the second quarter. The steady growth was able to double compared to the previous year, with over 270 new locations opened up in the first half of the year alone. With it, build bezahl.de continues to strengthen its position as a leading payment management system: More than two thirds of Germany's top 100 car dealerships are already convinced and have signed their cooperation agreement with the payment expert.
Through selected partnerships, such as with Vereinigte Volksbank Raiffeisenbank eG, open up exciting prospects for the joint development of innovative embedded finance solutions. Strategic integrations, including with CARDIS Reynolds GmbH or BMW on the other hand, ensure the expansion of the platform and a seamless user experience. So can BMW-Customers since February 2023, for example, from digital payment processes in My BMW app profit.
In the latest financing round in March, the Cologne-based company was able to raise eleven million euros under the leadership of Motive Ventures. The funds are intended to support the company's further growth, including by expanding the platform, expanding the team and preparing for expansion into other regions.
About NX TechnologiesDie NX Technologies GmbH is a specialist in innovative payment solutions. In 2018, the FinTech start-up based in Cologne was founded by Lasse Diener and Ulrich Schmidt with the mission to redefine payment management in the automotive industry — and other vertical markets in the near future.
With its main product bezahl.de With a market share of around two thirds in the top 100 segment of German automotive retail, the young company has already become the leading partner for modern payment management. The team of now 110+ employees is continuously optimizing the bezahl.de product to create a new standard for digital payment management in Europe.