CP Group fintech founded in 2013 that operates the TrueMoney e-wallet, serving 50m+ users across six Southeast Asian markets. Became Thailand's first fintech unicorn at a US$1.5bn valuation after a US$150m round (Bow Wave, CP Group, Ant Group) in 2021.

Founders: Suphachai Chearavanont

Digital wallet and payments platform founded in 2017 and launched in December 2018; valued at US$1.13bn in 2022 and serving more than 200 million users.

Founders: Vince Iswara

End-to-end event ticketing and management platform founded in Bangkok in 2015, with in-event cashless payments; 3,000+ events by 2017. Raised a US$2m+ Series A led by InVent with Beacon VC.

Founders: Pattaraporn Bodhisuwan

Deals, cashback and payments platform founded in 2015 as KFit, which absorbed Groupon's Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian businesses in 2016–17; acquired by Pine Labs in April 2021 and still operates as an independent brand.

Founders: Joel Neoh, Yeoh Chen Chow

Business payments, treasury and credit platform formed in 2021 when Indonesia's Payfazz (founded 2016, agent-banking network) combined with Singapore's Xfers; both are Y Combinator alumni. Raised a US$100m Series C in 2022 (Tiger Global, Insignia, B Capital). Runs dual headquarters in Jakarta and Singapore.

Founders: Hendra Kwik, Jefriyanto, Ricky Winata, Tianwei Liu

Southeast Asia's largest SME digital financing platform (Modalku in Indonesia), founded in Singapore in 2015 by two Harvard Business School classmates; licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Raised a US$144m Series C+ led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (2022), later backed by Khazanah and Maybank.

Founders: Kelvin Teo, Reynold Wijaya

PLDT-backed fintech behind the Maya e-wallet (formerly PayMaya), the Smart Padala agent network and Maya Bank, one of six Philippine digital-bank licensees (2021). Became a unicorn at about US$1.4bn after a US$210m round led by SIG in 2022, with KKR, Tencent and IFC.

Vietnam's largest e-wallet, operated by M_Service JSC. Valuation passed US$2bn after a US$200m round led by Mizuho in December 2021.

Founders: Nguyen Manh Tuong

Parent of GCash, the Philippines' largest finance super app; founded 2015, valued at US$5bn in 2024, and filed for a Philippine Stock Exchange IPO in July 2026.

Founders: Globe Telecom

Cross-border B2B payments platform (payouts, local accounts, card issuance) and Southeast Asia's first B2B payments unicorn, after a US$200m+ Series D led by Riverwood Capital in 2021. A 2024 US$50m Series E from Brunei Investment Agency, a down round per company filings, valued it at US$1.4bn.

Founders: Prajit Nanu

Payments company founded in Bangkok in 2013 as Omise, later SYNQA, now operating from Tokyo and Bangkok. Valued at about US$1bn after a US$120m Series C+ in 2022 (MUFG, JIC); clients include Toyota and King Power. Acquired US payments firm MerchantE.

Founders: Jun Hasegawa, Ezra Don Harinsut

Payments fintech operated by Digital Payments Holdings; raised US$44.5m in a Series A, per regulatory filings.

Manila payments platform launched in June 2019 so SMEs can accept cards, e-wallets and over-the-counter payments; the first Philippine fintech backed by Y Combinator. Stripe led its US$12m Series A; a US$31m Series B in 2022 took total funding to about US$46m.

Founders: Francis Plaza, Luis Sia, Jaime Hing III, Edwin Lacierda

Hanoi-based fintech group behind VNPay, which powers mobile banking for 40+ Vietnamese banks and the VNPay-QR network (22m users, 150,000+ merchants), plus travel and retail-tech units. Became Vietnam's second tech unicorn after a US$250m Series B in 2021 co-led by General Atlantic and Dragoneer, following ~US$300m from GIC and SoftBank Vision Fund in 2019.

Founders: Le Tanh, Tran Tri Manh, Mai Thanh Binh, Tran Van Ky

Payment infrastructure provider for Southeast Asia; became a unicorn after a US$150m Series C led by Tiger Global in 2021.

Founders: Moses Lo, Tessa Wijaya, Bo Chen, Juan Gonzalez