We're excited to share that Helcim has closed a $53 million Series C, led by BDC Capital's Growth Venture Fund, with new investment from Curql Collective and Gold House Ventures, alongside continued support from our existing investors.
It also comes at a moment when Helcim has quietly crossed some big milestones: we're now serving more than 22,000 active merchants, have crossed $150 million in annual revenue, and are on track to process nearly $10 billion in payments this year.
We know that when a company brings in more outside capital, some merchants brace for the worst. You've seen it happen before: a company raises money, gets bigger, and slowly stops feeling like the company you signed up with. But for Helcim, growth isn't a departure from who we are - it allows us to double down on the Helcim we strive to be. More resources mean more room to invest in the product, to scale the support that you deserve, and just as importantly, for us to stay true to our promise of transparent and affordable pricing.
Helcim everywhere
One of the strategic pillars behind how we're putting this capital to work is something we call Helcim Everywhere: the idea that Helcim's payments should show up inside the software, tools, and workflows you're already using, instead of asking you to adapt to us.
An important piece of that is our Payment Extension, which we launched earlier this year. We built it because merchants shouldn't have to choose between the software they love and payments they deserve. For too long, if your booking system or invoicing tool only worked with one built-in processor, you were stuck with whatever rate they handed you - take it or leave it. The Payment Extension breaks that lock-in. It lets you keep using the business software you already run on, while giving you the freedom to process payments through Helcim's transparent, volume-based rates instead. That freedom is the whole point: when merchants have a real choice of processor, rates have to stay fair and keep scaling with your business, instead of you being stuck as a captive customer.
We're adding new integrations every week, and if your software isn't supported yet, you can request it directly and we'll let you know as soon as it's ready.
Investing in what's next for you
Beyond Helcim Everywhere, this raise lets us keep pushing on the core of what we do: building better software, better tools, and better hardware for the merchants who run their businesses on Helcim every day. Whether that's our point-of-sale, invoicing, online checkout, or the Smart Terminal in your shop, we're continuing to invest in making the day-to-day of accepting payments faster, smarter, and easier.
We're also working on new ways to help you get paid, pay your vendors, and manage more of your everyday business finances. We take the trust you place in us to handle accepting your payments extremely seriously - it’s something we tried to build from day one and something we want to keep earning. Our hope is that by consistently showing up for you, Helcim becomes your natural payment and financial partner across more of your business, not just at checkout.
A simple promise
At the end of the day, none of this changes what Helcim actually is. We're still the same company that believes running a business is hard enough without your payment processor adding to the pile. We’re committed to never losing sight of who all of it is actually for - our merchants.
That means transparent pricing you can actually understand, without hidden fees or rate creep buried in the fine print. It means an open platform that gives you the tools and flexibility to run payments your way, instead of boxing you into one system. And it means real support from actual people who pick up the phone and care about your business, not a call centre script.
We started Helcim because we believed merchants deserved better than what the old guard was offering, and that hasn't changed. Our mission has always been to build the world's most loved payments company, and this raise doesn't change that mission - it just gives us more resources to chase it.
Thank you to our merchants. You trust us with something as important as getting paid, and we don't take that lightly. This raise, and every milestone before it, only exists because thousands of business owners chose Helcim, stuck with us as we grew, and told other business owners about us along the way. This is as much your milestone as it is ours, and we intend to keep earning that trust every single day.
Onwards and forward, together.
-Nic & The Helcim Team
