Swiipr
“Can a vertical payouts platform own airline disruption compensation globally?”
Founded2019
HQLondon, England, United Kingdom
Total raised$7.7M
IndustryVertical SaaS / Aviation
The story
Swiipr is a UK-based travel-tech focused narrowly on modernizing airline compensation and disruption payouts. The company issues instant flight delay, compensation, and operational payments directly to passenger and staff phones/wallets across 26+ airlines and 200+ airports. Its 2025 API release shifted positioning from a standalone product to embeddable payout infrastructure for airline IT systems.
Product timeline
2019
Swiipr founded in London as a travel-tech platform for airline disruption payments.· pivot
2025
Launched APIs to let airlines integrate compensation and disruption payments directly into legacy IT systems.· banking
The stack
Payments / PSP
Accounting gap: none