# Payn

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/payn

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
- Website: www.payn.io
- Total disclosed funding: $2.3M
- Latest round: Series A (Feb 16, 2026)
- Investors on record: 5

## About

Based in Tokyo, Japan, and founded in 2022 by CEO Kyohei Yamashita, Payn, Inc., d.b.a Payn provides a digital billing tool to support businesses that have established cancellation policies for billing management and easy cancellation processing across hotels, stores, and restaurants.  In February 2026, Payn, Inc. raised JPY 250 million in series A funding from  Apollo Capital, NCB Venture Capital, Carbon Ventures and Gazelle Capital.

The company provides a digital billing tool that automates invoicing, sending messages, reminding and collecting of billing and more that occur in the billing of cancellation fees. The tool offers a wide range of features, such as sending messages, claims management, auto reminders, a variety of payment methods, automatic clearing, multilingual billing, coupon issuance, lawyer request, system linkage, and more.  

Payn plans to use its proceeds from October 2022 funding to promote product development, sales, and recruitment of human resources for building a support system for the official release.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Feb 16, 2026, $1.6M — NCB Venture Capital, Gazelle Capital, Carbon Ventures, Apollo Capital
- Seed, Oct 5, 2022, $0.6M — Genesia Ventures, Gazelle Capital

## Investors

- Genesia Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/genesia-ventures) — Seed
- Gazelle Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/gazelle-capital) — Seed, Series A
- NCB Venture Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/ncb-venture-capital) — Series A
- Carbon Ventures — Series A
- Apollo Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/apollo-capital) — Series A