Reward Gateway
“Can the Edenred-owned Reward Gateway become the consolidated employee engagement, benefits and rewards platform across UK/US/AUS markets?”
Founded2006
HQLondon, United Kingdom
Latest roundAcquired by Edenred SE (2023)
IndustryHorizontal SaaS / HR & Employee Engagement
The story
Reward Gateway is a UK-headquartered employee engagement SaaS platform offering recognition, rewards, discounts (SmartSpending), wellbeing and employee communications. It was acquired by Edenred in 2023 and has since merged Edenred UK's employee benefits assets into the Reward Gateway entity. Its embedded finance surface is narrow: it acts as a merchant accepting consumer card payments for discount voucher purchases (via Checkout.com) and offers salary-deduction financing benefits like SmartTech and partner-provided products from Salary Finance.
Product timeline
2006
Reward Gateway founded in the UK as an employee engagement and discounts platform· founding
2023
Acquired by Edenred SE· acquisition
2024
Edenred (UK Group) Limited assets transferred to Reward Gateway (UK) Ltd; platform consolidation· integration
The stack
Payments / PSP
Lending
Salary FinanceSmartTech (0% interest salary-deduction tech/white-goods financing via Currys)Salary Finance Borrow (low-cost employee loans)Salary Finance Advance (earned wage access)Salary Finance Save
Accounting
Accounting gap: none