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# Kikapay
- URL: https://entrepreneurplus.co.uk/graveyard/kikapay/
- Published: 2026-10-27T14:46:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-31T05:28:07.000Z
- Description: Open-banking payments start-up; voluntary liquidation, Jan 2024
- Author: Editorial Desk
- Tags: #ep-grave

✝ Startup · Creditors' voluntary liquidation · 16 January 2024 

Open-banking payments start-up; voluntary liquidation, Jan 2024

Companies House

[11216750](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11216750?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk) · Dissolved on 27 August 2025

How it ended

Creditors' voluntary liquidation

Ended

16 January 2024

Founded

2018

Sector

Fintech

Based in

London

Funding raised

Undisclosed

Last known website

[kikapay.com](https://kikapay.com/?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)

Last checked

26 October 2026

## What happened

Kikapay Limited was incorporated in early 2018 by Chris Moore and Philip Godden as one of the first British open-banking payment initiation services, letting merchants and charities take account-to-account payments instead of card payments. It raised seed money, including a 2021 round promoted through angel networks, but never reached the scale needed to compete with larger open-banking platforms. In January 2024 the founders announced on LinkedIn that the company's journey had come to an end, and on 16 January 2024 Douglas Pinteau and Dermot Coakley of WSM Marks Bloom LLP were appointed joint liquidators after shareholders resolved to wind the company up voluntarily. The company was dissolved on 27 August 2025.

## Why

- Macro / market conditions

## What happened to the assets, customers and team

Joint liquidators from WSM Marks Bloom LLP were appointed on 16 January 2024 in a voluntary winding-up; the service closed and the company was dissolved on 27 August 2025.

## Sources

1. [find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11216750?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)
2. [fintechfutures.com](https://www.fintechfutures.com/open-banking/uk-open-banking-fintech-kikapay-winds-down?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)
3. [finextra.com](https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/43635/another-one-bites-the-dust-kikapay-goes-under?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)

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