Spade is a data infrastructure company that builds a unified data layer linking payments transaction data to real-world context for financial institutions. Founded in 2021 and backed to Series B, the firm focuses on transaction data enrichment, delivering what it describes as unmatched accuracy and speed. Its work sits at the intersection of payments data, financial data analytics, and AI/ML.
The company sells to banks, fintechs and payments businesses. Its customer base includes FIS, Bilt, Mercury, Stripe, PayPal and Citizens. The product is a single data layer designed to give these institutions cleaner, more contextual payment records at scale.
Spade operates as a lean, fast-growing team with a hybrid work model. It describes itself as execution-oriented, offering autonomy and ownership over work, and states values of empathy, curiosity and passion. It looks for people interested in data who care about quality.
