Tukios
“Can a beloved funeral-home vertical SaaS quietly become the payments and ecommerce OS for the death-care industry?”
Founded2010
HQOgden, Utah, United States
FoundersCurtis Funk
IndustryVertical SaaS / Funeral Services
The story
Tukios launched in 2010 as a tribute-video creator for funeral homes and has expanded into a full vertical SaaS suite — websites, AI-generated obituaries, ecommerce, event manager, payments, and memorial crowdfunding. Embedded finance is a peripheral but growing surface: card/ACH/wallet acceptance for family payments to funeral homes, invoicing, and crowdfunding payouts, all powered by Stripe. The company remains bootstrapped-feeling and PE-backed per PitchBook (parent company noted as an operating subsidiary).
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2010
Founded by Curtis Funk as a tribute video tool for funeral homes.· launch
2024
Expanded AI Suite (Obituary Writer, Photo Engine, Guestbook Moderation, Info Extractor).· product
2026
Serving 10,000+ funeral homes with websites, videos, AI, ecommerce, payments, crowdfunding.· product
The stack
5 layers disclosed in Tukios’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Money movement
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
KYC
in the full report
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: significant
7 more providers across 4 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.