Visa Everywhere Initiative

Visa Everywhere Initiative is an open innovation program that helps startups like yours unlock new opportunities—and gives you a global platform to demonstrate your ground-breaking solutions. The program first launched in the U.S. in 2015, and has since expanded to every corner of the world, recruiting startups from over 100 countries. Over the past five years, more than 7,000 startups have participated, and they’ve collectively raised more than $2.5 billion in funding.

The first step towards getting your startup worldwide attention is to join the Visa Everywhere Initiative network—the same network of startups that our product teams from all over the world access when searching for solutions. Apply now through the global application. That way, we can notify you about upcoming opportunities and invite you to participate in Visa Everywhere Initiative competitions in your region.

We are looking for products that deliver innovative payment and commerce solutions to consumers and businesses. These include but are not limited to:

Enablers of digital services and digital issuers

• Blockchain and cryptocurrency

• Crowdfunding

• Banking as a service

• BIN sponsors

• Issuer / processors

• Program managers 

Digital issuance

• Blockchain and cryptocurrency

• Alternative lending

• Personal financial management

• Money transfer and remittance

• Digital banking (aka neobanks)

• Digital wallets, P2P, and transfers

• Employee benefits

• Payables

• Corporate cards (aka expense management)

Value-add for merchants and/or consumers in regard to finance

• Data and analytics

• ID, authentication, and security

• Insurtech

• Loyalty

• Merchant services and tools

• Process and pay infrastructure

• Retail technology 

Small/medium-sized business recovery

• Money movement (disbursements, intra-account, P2P, payments)

• Acceptance (e-commerce, mobile acceptance)

• Risk management (chargebacks, etc.)

• Brand management (community building, etc.)

Prizes: