Skipify

Skipify

Automates online checkout with auto-fill

Overview

Skipify provides a digital checkout platform that speeds up online shopping by automatically entering payment, billing, and shipping details for customers. It integrates with loyalty rewards and coupon systems, allowing shoppers to apply points and discounts during checkout. The service is offered to online retailers and e-commerce platforms as a SaaS, with partnerships (notably with Google) enabling features like completing transactions directly from an email inbox. This helps merchants reduce cart abandonment and boost sales by making the checkout process faster, more secure, and easier for customers. Unlike many competitors, Skipify emphasizes seamless checkout from multiple channels (including email) and strong integration with rewards programs to maximize savings for shoppers. Overall, the goal is to simplify and accelerate online purchases for both shoppers and merchants, driving higher conversion rates and smoother commerce experiences.

About Skipify

Simplify's Rating
Why Skipify is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Enterprise Software

Fintech

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$11.1M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2018

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What believers are saying

  • Mind Over Media partnered January 27, 2026, expanding Skipify into conversational commerce.
  • Aeropay partnership on October 28, 2025 adds pay-by-bank checkout and merchant diversification.
  • Discover integration in March 2025 strengthens tokenization, authorization rates, and card coverage.

What critics are saying

  • Skipify last disclosed financing dates to October 2023; runway pressure intensifies in 2026.
  • Visa, Mastercard, and Discover own checkout rails; they can commoditize Skipify’s wedge.
  • If merchants adopt native wallet flows, Skipify loses checkout ownership and becomes replaceable.

What makes Skipify unique

  • Skipify’s Commerce Identity Cloud recognizes shoppers in real time, not just cards.
  • January 27, 2026 Checkout-in-Chat keeps purchases inside Instagram, WhatsApp, SMS, and webchat.
  • Visa Click to Pay and Discover partnerships give Skipify issuer-network distribution.

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Funding

Total Funding

$11.1M

Below

Industry Average

Funded Over

1 Rounds

Series A funding typically happens when a startup has a product and some customers, and now needs funding to scale. This money is usually used to grow the team, expand marketing, and improve the product. Venture capital firms are frequently the main investors here.
Series A Funding Comparison
Below Average

Industry standards

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$11.1M
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$15M
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$30M
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Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

2%
Associated Press
Jan 27th, 2026
Mind Over Media and Skipify enable checkout within chat apps, eliminating redirects in $2T social commerce market

Mind Over Media and Skipify have partnered to enable checkout-in-chat, allowing consumers to complete purchases entirely within conversational threads without redirects. The system works across Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS and webchat. Skipify's commerce identity layer recognises up to 62% of shoppers in real time using email, phone and device signals, then retrieves payment credentials directly from financial institutions. This eliminates manual card entry and delivers a 99% authorisation rate on completed transactions. The integration uses Skipify's Agentic Module, a Model Context Protocol enabling AI agents to securely manage commerce actions. Mind Over Media's agentic commerce platform automates the customer lifecycle from discovery to checkout within a single conversation, targeting the estimated $2 trillion social and conversational commerce market in 2026.

PR Newswire
Mar 5th, 2025
Skipify and Discover Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance Tokenization & Streamline Digital Payments

SAN FRANCISCO, March 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Skipify, a leading financial technology company redefining the checkout experience, today announced its partnership with Discover(R) Global Network, a leading global payment network connecting millions of merchants and cardholders across more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

PR Newswire
Jan 8th, 2025
Skipify Appoints Worldpay Chief Product Officer Cindy Turner as Board Observer and Growth Advisor

Skipify has been recognized as a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, Top 100 Financial Technology Company, The Future of Payment Infrastructure by Money20/20, and a CB Insights Retail Tech 100 honoree.

FF News
Jan 8th, 2025
Skipify Appoints Worldpay Chief Product Officer Cindy Turner As Board Observer And Growth Advisor

Skipify, a leading fintech company pioneering identity-powered payments, announced today that Cindy Turner has joined the board as a strategic advisor and observer. With a distinguished career spanning Fortune 500 companies and private equity, Turner is an expert on digital transformation with an exceptional track record of helping companies drive operational excellence and growth at scale. Her insights and leadership will help propel Skipify’s mission of reimagining the checkout experience.Currently the Chief Product Officer at Worldpay, Turner is helping lead a growth-focused transformation of the high-scale industry player. Previously, she held the role of General Manager and Vice President of the Enterprise Merchant (PayPal Braintree) business at PayPal, where she oversaw a fintech payments portfolio generating over $9 billion in gross revenue, catering to leading ecommerce and technology companies globally. Turner’s extensive career includes senior leadership positions at JPMorgan Chase, Visa, and KKR, where she managed large-scale payment operations, launched transformative products and supported both major global retailers and hundreds of thousands of SME merchants worldwide.“It’s our great honor to have Cindy’s guidance and expertise as Skipify continues to redefine checkout with our Commerce Identity Cloud,” said Ryth Martin, CEO and founder at Skipify. “What we’re building is not just a better and faster way to pay, but an entirely new and connected payment infrastructure

FF News
Oct 25th, 2024
Mastercard is Expanding Its US Installments Program to Provide More Payment Flexibility at Checkout

Mastercard will be working with partners from across the issuing and digital payments industry, including Global Payments, Skipify and Splitit, to support this continued evolution.

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