Acquisition
Dec 2024Malga acquired Drip (a Pix parcelado / installment payments startup) to expand into credit and installment capabilities.
SourceMalga is an API to accept payments with multiple payment providers
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Malga is a Brazilian payment orchestration and intelligent payment infrastructure company founded in 2020. Its platform lets digital businesses connect multiple payment providers through one integration to improve approval rates, reduce costs, and manage checkout, antifraud, tokenization, split payments, and payment links.
Primary product
Intelligent payment infrastructure / payment orchestration platform
Founded
2020
Headquarters
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Team size
40-50 employees
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Financial Services
Sub-industry
Payment orchestration / payments infrastructure
Offices
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Distributed across Brazil, United States, and Portugal
Business model
B2B SaaS
API platform
transactional payments infrastructure
white-label software
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$8.4M
Latest round
Series A · Feb 2025
Latest amount
$5.5M
Feb 2025 · iDEXO and Costanoa Ventures
Mar 2023
Nov 2021
Sep 2021
People & investors
Leadership
Cofounder and CEO
Co-founder and COO
Head of Marketing / Diretora de Marketing e Geração de Demanda
Head of Engineering
Head of Engineering
Platform Lead (SRE & DevOps)
Work & culture
Public company messaging emphasizes an adaptive, diverse, inclusive culture; distributed teams; close customer listening; and simplifying complex payments for digital businesses.
Work style
Flexible
Product & market
Differentiators
- —Single integration to multiple payment providers
- —White-label and provider-agnostic architecture
- —Automatic routing / fallback to improve approval rates
- —Real-time dashboards and payment analytics
- —3DS, antifraud, tokenization, and vault features
- —Split payments / multi-party payment flows
- —Multi-currency support (BRL, USD, EUR)
Technology
Python
Kubernetes
Argo CD
GitHub Actions
Prometheus
New Relic
PagerDuty
Amazon ECS
Amazon EKS
Terraform
Helm
React
GraphQL
Elasticsearch
RDS
Java
MongoDB
Linux
GitHub
Postman
Customers
Petlove
Privalia
Ingresse
Sobrancelhas Design
Mercado Diferente
B2B platforms
E-commerce businesses
Fintechs
Competitors
MoneyHash
BridgerPay
Primer
DEUNA
Spreedly
CellPoint Digital
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Estimated at roughly US$10M-US$14M ARR (public third-party estimates)
Estimated monthly visits
24.3K
Signals & risks
Latest news
Malga release notes · May 2026
Adds final-beneficiary support for NuPay and launches beta on-demand receivables advance, showing continued product expansion.
Malga release notes · May 2026
Introduces multi-payment payment links and configurable expiration, extending the checkout / payment-link product.
LatamList · Mar 2025
Reports Malga's $5.5M Series A, led by iDEXO and Costanoa, with participation from IGNIA, Citrino Ventures, Gaingels, QED, Norte Ventures, and Y Combinator.
IGNIA · Feb 2025
IGNIA explains its Malga investment, citing enterprise traction, founder background, and the company's role in reducing payment-failure losses in Latin America.
Brazil Journal · Feb 2025
Covers Malga's R$32M Series A led by iDEXO and Costanoa, and notes the acquisition of Drip in late 2024.
Jobs and careers at Malga
1 job at Malga
Banco de talentos
Remote
business
Remote
3y ago
Remote
Full-time