Company · Fintech

seQura

www.sequra.com ↗ ·Barcelona ·Other

seQura is a Barcelona-founded fintech (2013) offering flexible payment technology for merchants, including Buy Now Pay Later, Pay in 3, and installment options, serving retail and education verticals across Southern Europe and Latin America. The company is profitable, processes over €1B in annual transactions across 5,000+ merchants and 2M+ shoppers, and has raised €410M+ in combined debt and equity financing (2024) to expand into the US, UK, and Germany.

Founded
2013
Founders
5
News
10
Rounds
1
Investors
6
SectorsFintech, BNPL, Payments, E-commerce Start-up MapFintech › Payments & merchant checkout

Profile updated 26 Jul 2026

Founders

David Bäckström
Co-Founder & CEO
David Vrensk
Co-Founder (former CTO, 2013-2018)
Iván Párraga García
Co-Founder (former CIO/CTO)
Joaquim Ferrer
Founding Partner & Growth Manager
Luis Miguel Oyaga Vidaurreta
Co-Founder & Financial and Operations Director

Global models 5

Klarna
The dominant global BNPL/flexible-payments platform seQura is directly modeled after, offering pay-later and installment checkout for merchants.
$4.5BComparable
Affirm
United States · www.affirm.com ↗
Major US point-of-sale installment lender competing in the same pay-later merchant-financing category before its 2021 IPO.
$1.5BComparable
Tabby
United Arab Emirates · tabby.ai ↗
Fast-growing BNPL provider for e-commerce merchants in a similar underbanked/growth-market segment, combining equity and debt like seQura.
$700MComparable
Scalapay
Southern-European BNPL competitor with the closest geographic and product overlap to seQura's core Spain/Italy markets.
$700MComparable
Zilch
United Kingdom · www.zilch.com ↗
VC-backed direct-to-consumer BNPL/flexible-payments platform in the same installment-financing business model.
$460MComparable

Investors 6

Chenavari Investment Managers
Investor United Kingdom
Investor United States
Grupo Intercom
Investor Spain
Investor United Kingdom
Optimizer Invest
Investor Malta
Svea Ekonomi (Svea Bank)
Investor Sweden

Funding rounds 1

Other · €410M
Barcelona-based buy-now-pay-later fintech seQura secured a record €410M in funding led by returning investor Citi, structured as a mix of de…
2024-11-12

News & media 10

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