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PIONEERING THE PAYMENTS FUTURE

A better way to pay

We are anchored by our origins as merchants, and driven by an unwavering pursuit to enable large enterprises & organisations to freely devise innovative payment experiences.

An unlikely origin

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"Before we founded Zepto, we'd been merchants ourselves. We knew that simply delivering incremental change would deliver massive benefits to businesses in areas of efficiency and process. We also knew that the real-time opportunity that was just over the horizon would deliver seismic, once-in-a-generation change, and we were determined to lead from the front."
Matt Cheers CEO & Co-Founder
"Before we founded Zepto, we'd been merchants ourselves. We knew that simply delivering incremental change would deliver massive benefits to businesses in areas of efficiency and process. We also knew that the real-time opportunity that was just over the horizon would deliver seismic, once-in-a-generation change, and we were determined to lead from the front."
Matt Cheers CEO & Co-Founder

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Matthew Cheers

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Chris Jewell

President & Co-Founder

Trevor Wistaff

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer

Mariana Paun

Chief Business Resilience Officer

Rich Miller

Chief Technology Officer

Rebecca Michael

Chief of Staff

BOARD MEMBERS

Ian Lennie

Board Chair & Co-Founder

Matthew Cheers

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Trevor Wistaff

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer

Chris Jewell

President & Co-Founder

James Cameron

Independent Non-Executive Director

Tom Hordern

Independent Non-Executive Director

We can’t realise our dream without the right people.

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MAJOR MILESTONES & AWARDS

2025

Zepto places 4th at the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards in the Banking, Superannuation & Financial services category.

2024

  • Finalist: InnovationAus Awards
  • Finalist: Finnies Awards
  • Announces marquee customer: Red Energy
  • Membership: DSPANZ - the non-profit industry association representing world class business software in Australia and New Zealand

2023

  • Announces marquee customer: Wpay
  • Partners with Ozedi to deliver Australia's first real-time superannuation fund payments
  • Fintech Organisation of the Year at the Finnies Awards

2022

  • Zepto becomes the first non-bank fintech approved to connect directly to the New Payments Platform as a Connected Institution [CI] for PayTo
  • Secures Series A investment from Airtree Ventures and Decade Partners
  • Named Business NSW's Business of the Year 2022
  • Named runner-up on LinkedIn's Top Startups List 
  • Best Innovation in Payments at the 7th Annual FinTech Awards
  • Zepto CEO presents to the RBA's Payments Systems Board

2021

  • Company rebrands as Zepto 
  • Launches Enterprise PayID solution
  • Zepto attains status as the first non-bank payments provider to become an Accredited Data Recipient [ADR] in the Consumer Data Right [CDR]
  • Runner-up: Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category at the Australian Financial Review / BOSS Most Innovative Companies Awards
  • Membership: Tech Council of Australia

2020

  • Split Payments becomes a BECS [Direct Entry] Tier 2 participant
  • Named ‘Australia’s Most Innovative Technology Company for 2020’ at the annual Australian Financial Review / BOSS ‘Most Innovative Companies’ awards

2019

  • Split Payments connects to the New Payments Platform via Cuscal 
  • Fintech Innovation in Payments [Start Up] award at the 4th Annual FinTech Awards 

2017

  • Company founded in Byron Bay as Split Payments

Acknowledgement

We acknowledge our privilege and fortune to be creating and innovating on the lands of the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung nation in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales—the traditional custodians of this country.