Name: Zepto Payments Pty Ltd
Price range: $

After successfully scaling and exiting their Byron Bay-based skydiving business, Zepto's founders set about solving their biggest business frustration: Payments.

"We didn't start out as bankers trying to solve a merchant problem. We had been merchants ourselves. Our approach to creating a better payments platform at the time was about squeezing as much as we could out of existing systems. We went deep into the payment infrastructure of the time, broke it down and thought about how to deliver it most effectively for complicated payment flows in a seamless, simple and accessible API."

Ian Lennie Zepto Co-Founder

"When we set out, we barged our way into this industry pretty naively. We knew there was a problem, we had an idea of how to solve it, but we didn't anticipate all the roadblocks that would be put in front of us. We didn't really understand the shortcomings of the payment rails that existed at the time. As entrepreneurs and ex-merchants, we've never let someone saying 'that can’t be done' stop us."

Trevor Wistaff Zepto CPO & Co-Founder

"We didn't start out as bankers trying to solve a merchant problem. We had been merchants ourselves. Our approach to creating a better payments platform at the time was about squeezing as much as we could out of existing systems. We went deep into the payment infrastructure of the time, broke it down and thought about how to deliver it most effectively for complicated payment flows in a seamless, simple and accessible API."

Ian Lennie Zepto Co-Founder

"When we set out, we barged our way into this industry pretty naively. We knew there was a problem, we had an idea of how to solve it, but we didn't anticipate all the roadblocks that would be put in front of us. We didn't really understand the shortcomings of the payment rails that existed at the time. As entrepreneurs and ex-merchants, we've never let someone saying 'that can’t be done' stop us."

Trevor Wistaff Zepto CPO & Co-Founder

01Evolution

FROM SPLIT TO ZEPTO

Split Payments was founded in Byron Bay in 2017. In 2020, 'Split' was named 'Australia's Most Innovative Technology Company’ at the annual AFR / BOSS 'Most Innovative Companies' awards. In 2021, Split Payments became Zepto.

02Opportunity Knocks

TIMING IS EVERYTHING

Accelerating expectations, technology advances and regulatory change have delivered a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine payments. Anchored by our origins as merchants, we are driven by our search for the ultimate enablers of payments innovation.

03Split Seconds

WHAT'S A ZEPTO?

A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second, or a decimal point followed by 20 zeros and a one. It’s ten-to-the-minus-21. The smallest unit of time ever measured. Speed and precision personified.