have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . march 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message gocardless gocardless logo type private industry financial technology founded january 2011 2011 01 in london england founders tom blomfield matt robinson and hiroki takeuchi headquarters london england number of locations 1 area served united kingdom sweden eurozone key people hiroki takeuchi ceo harry marr cto revenue usd 1 billion 2015 number of employees 100 website gocardless.com gocardless is a uk online direct debit provider founded in january 2011 . the company was funded by y combinator in the summer of 2011 . 1 as of july 2015 gocardless were handling 1bn worth of transactions per year . 2 history edit gocardless was founded by tom blomfield matt robinson and hiroki takeuchi after they had met at oxford university . hiroki and matt had previously worked together at mckinsey . 3 the project started out as an attempt to facilitate group payments by making it easier for groups of friends and small organisations to make payments between each other . at the time the business was called grouppay . after settling on direct debit as the best means to achieve this the three realised that they had built a product with significant enterprise demand and the business pivoted to become gocardless . the three were accepted into y combinator s summer batch in 2011 and shortly thereafter secured 1.5 m investment from accel partners and passion capital . this was followed by a further 3.3 m in april 2013 4 from their existing investors and in january 2014 they secured a further 7m funding round from balderton capital . 5 after y combinator they moved back to london due to its strength in the fintech sector 3 and their desire to focus on the european market where direct debit payments are much more common . references edit start up q & a how gocardless yc s11 are giving the credit card companies a run for their money . y combinator posthaven . retrieved 2015 11 04 . https gocardless.com blog 1 billion dollars a b http techcrunch.com 2014 01 28 yc alum gocardless raises another 7m aims to be the stripe of direct debit payments http techcrunch.com 2013 04 18 u k online payments platform gocardless raises 1 5 million series a plans to expand across europe http news.techworld.com sme 3499220 london fintech start up gocardless raises 7m in funding round led by balderton external links edit official website v t e y combinator companies 7 cups of tea 80 000 hours 9gag airbnb algolia buttercoin canopy labs cleartax codecademy cofactor genomics coinbase creative market cymmetria disqus dropbox easypost fullstack academy futureadvisor gigster gocardless goldbely gusto heroku hipmunk homejoy icracked instacart justin.tv kickback lendup loopt lumi meadow newsblur octopart omgpop one month optimizely ownlocal pebble podium.co product hunt quartzy reddit renthop scribd smartasset songkick standard treasury streak strikingly stripe survata swiftype true link upverter urx voat watsi webflow weebly wepay workflowy wufoo xobni zenefits zerocater category full list retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gocardless & oldid 737387511 categories y combinator companiestechnologyonline paymentsfinancial services companieshidden categories wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from march 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 september 2016 at 12 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view