What BR-DGE does

BR-DGE is an independent payment orchestration platform that provides enterprise merchants, payment providers, and digital platforms with a single API integration to access a global ecosystem of payment service providers, alternative payment methods, and fraud tools. Founded in 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland (legal entity Comcarde Limited), the company operates a modular product suite comprising BR-DGE Integrate (API gateway), BR-DGE Vault (PCI-compliant centralised tokenisation), BR-DGE Connect (ecosystem access), BR-DGE Insights (unified reporting), BR-DGE Optimise (transaction routing engine), and BR-DGE White Label (reseller capability). The platform connects merchants to 400-500+ payment endpoints and is built on a multi-cloud, multi-region architecture with PCI Level 1 and SOC 2 certifications, targeting enterprise customers with complex multi-PSP requirements.

The company generates revenue through transaction fees on orchestrated payment volume and subscription-based pricing for tokenisation and security services, sold via direct enterprise sales, partner-led distribution, and self-serve API onboarding. Its customer base spans enterprise gaming operators (Betfred, William Hill), e-commerce platforms (THG Ingenuity, covering 250+ online stores), and travel businesses (Travel Counsellors). Strategic partnerships with Mastercard, Visa, TrueLayer, and Vyne extend its network tokenisation, Click to Pay, and open banking capabilities. Named customers have reported measurable outcomes, including authorisation rate improvements, PCI scope reduction, and the recovery of nearly 200,000 transactions worth over £4.7M for a single merchant via the platform's retry engine.

BR-DGE has raised approximately $20.8M across disclosed funding rounds (2020 seed from Gloag Investment Group, 2022 institutional round) and operates with 101-250 employees. The company has positioned itself as a category-defining independent orchestration layer, evidenced by its MPE Awards 2025 win for Best Payment Orchestration Solution and ongoing research initiatives such as the Enterprise Payments Resilience survey and the Big Bet Barometer franchise covering major UK sporting events.

Name

BR-DGE

Legal name

Comcarde Limited

Website

https://br-dge.to

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

BR-DGE is an independent payment orchestration platform, founded in 2018 in Edinburgh, that gives enterprise merchants, payment providers, and platforms single-API access to 400+ PSPs, APMs, and fraud tools via its modular Integrate, Vault, Connect, Insights, and Optimise products.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Payment Orchestration Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (522320), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Smart Routing, Cascading & Payment Optimization (FSAMACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Payment Gateways & Orchestration (BPAMAFAA), Merchant Payment Gateways (API/Hosted Checkout) (FSAMACAA), Embedded Payments (Pay-ins, Pay-outs, Wallets) (FSAGALAB)

Keywords

• Payment orchestration
• Transaction routing
• PCI tokenisation
• PSP integration
• Payment infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Edinburgh

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Payment Orchestration Platform Fees: Revenue generated from providing payment orchestration infrastructure to enterprise merchants, platforms, and payment providers. Platform enables customers to consolidate multiple payment providers through a single integration with access to routing, tokenisation, and analytics capabilities.
2. Tokenisation and Security Services: Revenue from BR-DGE Vault tokenisation services, including network token management and PCI compliance tooling that reduces merchant compliance scope.
3. Routing and Optimisation Services: Revenue from intelligent routing and transaction optimisation services that help merchants improve authorization rates and reduce costs through dynamic routing across multiple PSPs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

BR-DGE provides an independent, vendor-agnostic payment orchestration platform that enables enterprise merchants, payment providers, and platforms to connect to over 400 payment service providers, alternative payment methods, and fraud tools through a single API. Its product suite includes integration gateway, PCI-compliant tokenisation vault, intelligent transaction routing, unified analytics, and white-label capabilities. The platform is designed to reduce payment outages, improve authorisation rates, lower PCI compliance scope, and enable cross-border payment expansion.

Product overview

BR-DGE is an independent payment orchestration platform built on a modular architecture. The core platform consists of BR-DGE Integrate (the API gateway for all connections), BR-DGE Vault (PCI-compliant tokenisation), BR-DGE Connect (ecosystem access), and BR-DGE Insights (unified reporting). The platform is complemented by BR-DGE Optimise (intelligent transaction routing engine) and BR-DGE White Label (white-label offering). Together, these products enable enterprise merchants, financial institutions, payment providers, and platforms to access over 400-500 connections across the payments ecosystem through a single integration, optimise costs, manage payment performance, and reduce PCI compliance scope.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BR-DGE Integrate Integration gateway that provides a single API connection to the full BR-DGE platform, enabling enterprise merchants, payment providers, and platforms to access the global payments ecosystem of PSPs, acquirers, alternative payment methods, and fraud tools through one integration.
• BR-DGE Vault PCI Level 1 compliant centralised tokenisation platform that treats tokens as portable assets, combining acquirer and network tokens behind a BR-DGE token. Enables multi-PSP routing, rules-driven failover, and merchant-controlled governance while reducing PCI-DSS compliance scope.
• BR-DGE Connect Ecosystem connectivity product that gives merchants, payment providers, and platforms easy access to BR-DGE's payments ecosystem, connecting them to payment providers, alternative payment methods, and additional capabilities through a marketplace of third-party providers.
• BR-DGE Insights Unified payment data reporting and analytics module that provides real-time visibility across payment providers, markets, and transaction types, enabling merchants to make data-driven decisions on failures, authorisation rates, and optimisation opportunities.
• BR-DGE Optimise Market-leading transaction routing engine that dynamically directs transactions to the provider most likely to secure the highest authorisation rate, based on region, card attributes, and issuer response. Includes intelligent retry and rules-driven failover to maximise acceptance and reduce cost.
• BR-DGE White Label White-label payment orchestration solution that enables acquirers, PSPs, and platforms to offer BR-DGE's payment services under their own branding, helping partners stay relevant and extend their service portfolio without building the technology in-house.

Quantifiable outcome

• Network tokenisation reduces average fraud rates by approximately 26% and increases authorisations by 3-13% depending on region
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and supporting.

• BetfredflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 March 2026BR-DGE partnered with Betfred to provide payment processing infrastructure for the betting operator's pay-in and pay-out operations across the UK and Ireland. The partnership went live with its first major test at the 2026 Cheltenham Gold Cup, where BR-DGE processed over one million transactions. Betfred benefits from simplified connectivity to multiple PSPs, reduced PCI-DSS compliance scope through BR-DGE Vault, and scalable transaction processing during peak sporting events.
• THG IngenuitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 November 2025BR-DGE partnered with e-commerce group THG Ingenuity to launch BR-DGE Vault, a PCI-compliant tokenisation platform used across more than 250 online stores. The platform aims to improve payment performance, reduce compliance overheads, and support high-volume trading during events like Black Friday.
• MastercardcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2025BR-DGE partnered with Mastercard to simplify payments and boost security through network tokenisation. The partnership enables merchants to access Mastercard's network token capabilities through the BR-DGE orchestration layer, delivering higher conversions, supporting complex account updates, and enabling unified customer views across channels.
• Visa (Click to Pay)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2025BR-DGE partnered with Visa to integrate Click to Pay capabilities into the BR-DGE payment orchestration platform. This partnership enables merchants to offer frictionless, secure checkout experiences without heavy infrastructure changes, reducing cart abandonment and enhancing security.
• TrueLayersupportingTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2025BR-DGE partnered with TrueLayer to offer pay-by-bank and open banking payment capabilities through the BR-DGE platform. The partnership enables merchants to access TrueLayer's open banking APIs for payment personalisation and alternative payment methods.
• VynesupportingTechnology or IntegrationBR-DGE partnered with Vyne to provide merchants convenient and swift access to multiple Open Banking providers via the BR-DGE platform, enabling merchants to keep up with the latest consumer payment trends while providing additional visibility for security-focused consumers.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Stripe: Stripe is a global payments infrastructure provider with a broad portfolio including Stripe Connect, Stripe Terminal, and increasingly embedded orchestration and routing capabilities. While not a pure-play orchestrator, Stripe represents a major incumbent that merchants and platforms may default to instead of using independent orchestration.
• Adyen: Adyen is a global unified payments platform serving enterprise merchants with acquiring, processing, and increasingly routing and orchestration capabilities through its platform. It competes with BR-DGE for large enterprise merchants and is well-capitalised with global reach across the same sectors BR-DGE targets (retail, travel, gaming, e-commerce).
• Checkout.com: Checkout.com is a global payment service provider offering unified payment processing with routing, fraud, and orchestration features. It competes head-to-head with BR-DGE for enterprise merchants and PSP-style customers, particularly across European markets.
• Worldpay: Worldpay is a global payments processor and acquirer offering omnichannel processing, gateway, and increasingly orchestration-adjacent services. As one of the largest PSPs, it is both a potential partner and a competitor for BR-DGE's payment provider and merchant customers.

Direct peers

• Spreedly: Spreedly is an independent payment orchestration and vault platform providing a single API to connect to multiple payment gateways and services. It is the most direct comparable to BR-DGE, with similar tokenisation vault, multi-PSP routing, and PCI scope-reduction capabilities targeted at enterprise merchants and platforms.
• Primer: Primer is a payment orchestration platform headquartered in London that provides unified payment infrastructure including routing, retries, vaulting, and analytics through a single API. It is a directly comparable UK-based competitor targeting enterprise merchants with similar orchestration and resilience use cases.
• Cellpoint Digital: Cellpoint Digital is a payment orchestration and optimisation platform focused on travel, retail, and digital goods. It offers multi-acquirer routing, tokenisation, and analytics, making it a direct competitor to BR-DGE in vertical use cases like travel (Travel Counsellors) and retail/e-commerce.
• Gr4vy: Gr4vy is a cloud-native payment orchestration platform offering no-code orchestration, vault, and routing-as-a-service for merchants and platforms. It targets similar enterprise and platform use cases to BR-DGE with a developer-friendly, cloud-based deployment model.
• Routable: Routable is a payment orchestration platform providing smart routing, fallback logic, and unified reporting across multiple acquirers. It serves enterprise merchants and PSPs with similar orchestration functionality to BR-DGE, particularly in EMEA markets.
• Akurateco: Akurateco is a white-label payment orchestration and gateway platform serving PSPs, acquirers, and platforms. It overlaps with BR-DGE's white-label offering and routing-as-a-service propositions, making it a comparable peer for partners looking to resell orchestration.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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