“Can a vertical SaaS platform built for construction and heavy materials become the embedded financial OS that eliminates margin leakage across payments, banking, and operations?”
Founded in 2017 as HadePay, a general digital payments platform, the company pivoted to become Sky Systemz — a vertical SaaS platform purpose-built for construction and heavy building materials operators. It evolved from a standalone payment processor into a full modular operating system (SkyOS) that embeds payments, banking (via SkyFi powered by Grasshopper Bank), invoicing, ACH, and business analytics. The embedded finance stack is central to the value proposition: Fractal handles the payment infrastructure and Sky wraps it in industry-specific workflows for ready-mix, quarry, precast, and asphalt operations.
Sky Systemz discloses Grasshopper Bank, N.A. as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Sky Systemz does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Grasshopper Bank, N.A..
Sky Systemz processes payments through Fractal.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 3 layers in Sky Systemz's stack: Payments / PSP (Fractal); Banking / BaaS (Grasshopper Bank, N.A.); Sponsor bank (Grasshopper Bank, N.A.).
Sky Systemz was founded by Brian Nichols and is founded in 2017, headquartered in Lexington, KY, USA.
Sky Systemz has raised $6.5M in total (latest round: Series A).
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