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Spade

Provider
Transaction Enrichment

Embedded-finance provider tracked in the Embedded Finance Index — disclosed by 4 companies across 1 category.

spade.com ↗Also analysed as a company — its own stack →Open Banking Tracker profile ↗
CategoriesTransaction Enrichment
Rank#4 of 12 in Transaction Enrichment
Buyers4 companies
HeadquartersNew York, NY
Founded2021
FoundersOban MacTavish, Tess Bloch, Cooper Hart
Raised~$50M+

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Founders & story · from Spade’s own dossier

Spade started in 2021 as a transaction-enrichment API — cleaning raw card descriptors into merchant names, categories, and geolocations. It has since positioned itself as the 'data layer for financial services,' explicitly targeting banks, fintechs, and AI companies. Its 2026 Series B narrative reframes the company as an AI-native platform: enriched transactions as ground-truth training data for financial AI agents.

Latest round: Series B, 2026
Recent developments
  • 2026-03$40M Series B led by Oak HC/FT with a16z, Flourish, Gradient, NAventures, and YC participating. source ↗
  • 2025-02Stripe Issuing partnership announced — Spade selected as Stripe's merchant intelligence provider. source ↗
  • 2026-10-07Integrated with Increase: every card transaction on Increase now carries a Spade enrichment record (merchant identity, location, category) matched against Spade's Merchant Graph in real time, used in authorization decisions, dispute resolution and fraud/analytics. source ↗
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Who uses Spade
4 companies disclose Spade in their stack
CitizensMercuryIncreaseCorpay Fuelman
Buyer mix · 4 of 4 classified
Bank / National · 1Fintech / SMB banking · 1Infrastructure / BaaS · 1Vertical SaaS / Fleet & Fuel Management · 1
US · 3
What the disclosures say
Citizens
“openbankingtracker.com/embedded-finance/spade publicly lists Citizens as a Spade customer (TIER 1 known_customer_listings).”
Mercury
“Open Banking Tracker (openbankingtracker.com/embedded-finance/spade) publicly lists Mercury as a Spade customer — this is a known_customer_listing (TIER 1).”
Increase
“The enrichment field is optional by design, so an authorization never depends on it. https://www.financialcontent.com/article/bizwire-2026-10-7-increase-adds-real-time-merchant-data-from-spade-to-card-transactions”
View source · financialcontent.com ↗
Corpay Fuelman
“Spade customer listing at spade.com/customers/ and detailed case study at blog.spade.com/customers/corpay-fuelman/ explicitly name Corpay/Fuelman as a customer. 'Corpay integrated Spade to support Fuelman's resettlement workflows.' This is TIER 1 evidence.”
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Alternatives to Spade

Other Transaction Enrichment providers in the index, by the number of companies that disclose them. A count of public disclosures, not a ranking of the products.

MX14 buyers →Dateio8 buyers →Astrada6 buyers →Plaid3 buyers →Bud Financial2 buyers →Fidel API2 buyers →Ntropy2 buyers →Salt Edge2 buyers →
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Spade — frequently asked

Which companies use Spade?

4 companies disclose Spade in their stack in the Embedded Finance Index 2026, including Citizens, Mercury, Increase and Corpay Fuelman.

What does Spade do?

Spade is an embedded-finance provider in Transaction Enrichment. It ranks #4 of 12 Transaction Enrichment providers by disclosed buyers.

What are the alternatives to Spade?

The most-disclosed Transaction Enrichment alternatives to Spade are MX (14 buyers), Dateio (8 buyers), Astrada (6 buyers), Plaid (3 buyers), Bud Financial (2 buyers) and Fidel API (2 buyers).

Who founded Spade?

Spade was founded by Oban MacTavish, Tess Bloch and Cooper Hart and is founded in 2021, headquartered in New York, NY.

How much funding has Spade raised?

Spade has raised ~$50M+ in total.

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