BR-DGE Banks £10m From Bettor Capital — and Now Has 100 Million Monthly Transactions in Its Sights

Key Points

• BR-DGE raised £10m on 30 June 2026, with Bettor Capital joining as a new backer alongside the company’s existing Scotland-based family office investor.
• Platform volumes have grown 15-fold in under two years; monthly transactions are on course to exceed 100 million before year-end.
• Perry Blacher, a University of Cambridge and Harvard graduate with over 25 years in technology and financial services, has been appointed chairman.

Edinburgh payments firm BR-DGE pulled in £10m on 30 June 2026, with US gaming investor Bettor Capital stepping in as a new backer to fuel the company’s push into international markets. The round keeps BR-DGE’s existing Scotland-based family office investor in place, a backer that has stood behind the business from day one. Capital from the raise will fund platform development, sharpen go-to-market activity, and push geographic reach, with new market and product launches locked in for the second half of 2026.

Platform Volumes Up 15-Fold, Monthly Transactions Set to Cross 100 Million

BR-DGE’s numbers do most of the talking. Platform volumes have climbed 15-fold in under two years, and the company expects monthly transaction counts to breach 100 million before the year closes. That is the kind of growth rate that makes an investor’s phone ring, and it did.

The pay rise comes at a time when BR-DGE is making greater inroads into the world of highly-regulated and high-volume sectors where the failure to pay has costs attached. The company’s orchestration engine consolidates all of routing, tokenisation, intelligence and controls in one place, and according to BR-DGE, improves merchant acceptance rates and tightens the customer experience. William Hill, LiveScore Bet, Betfred and Tombola all sit in its gaming client base. More recently the company has moved into adjacent enterprise sectors, picking up The Hut Group as a customer.

Gillan: Payment Infrastructure Is Now a Strategic Priority, Not a Back-Office Cost

CEO Thomas Gillan placed the raise squarely in the context of what enterprise merchants now demand from payment infrastructure. “Payments have become a much bigger strategic priority for enterprise merchants, particularly in complex, regulated sectors where resilience, competitive advantage, customer experience and compliance are critical to success,” he said. Where that used to sound like boilerplate, the 15-fold volume jump gives it weight.

Gillan went further on what that actually means operationally. “The next generation of payment infrastructure is not about moving money; it’s about optimising every transaction. We are building the intelligence and optimisation layer that enables merchants to maximise the performance of every payment. This new funding will enable us to further develop our platform, power our growth plan and help more merchants solve the payment infrastructure problems that matter most in large-scale businesses.”

Perry Blacher Steps in as Chairman With 25 Years Across Fintech and Financial Services

Alongside the raise, BR-DGE brought in Perry Blacher as chairman. He carries more than 25 years across technology and financial services, working variously as a founder, investor, adviser and board member, and holds degrees from both the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. His arrival adds institutional weight at a moment when BR-DGE is making serious international moves.

Blacher’s read on why the role made sense was direct. “Merchants need infrastructure that helps them make better decisions, use data more effectively and respond quickly as markets, providers and customer expectations change,” he said. “BR-DGE has the technology, sector knowledge and customer focus to solve those problems at scale, and is well positioned to help define the next generation of enterprise payments.”

Bettor Capital’s Bet: Core Infrastructure Over Consumer Hype

For Bettor Capital, BR-DGE is not a departure from strategy; it is the strategy. The US firm has consistently backed infrastructure sitting deep inside the gaming stack. Its prior positions include reactivation provider Enteractive, which it backed as a strategic investor in May 2024, and in-game engagement start-up BeyondPlay, which FanDuel acquired in February 2024 after Bettor Capital had led the start-up’s previous funding round. The payments infrastructure serving operators in regulated markets sits in exactly the same bracket.

Partner Jake Kleiner put the investment logic plainly. “We invest in core infrastructure that powers the gaming industry, and BR-DGE is a clear example of that strategy,” he said. “BR-DGE gives operators a smarter way to manage payment performance, resilience and data-driven decisions across a highly complex provider and regulatory landscape. Its growing positioning in gaming, combined with significant opportunity in adjacent verticals, made this a highly attractive investment opportunity, and we’re excited to partner with the BR-DGE team to power their next stage of growth and global expansion.”

BR-DGE Vault Handles Tokenisation Across Providers in a Single PCI-Compliant Environment

Founded in Edinburgh in 2018, BR-DGE built its name on giving enterprise merchants a single integration point for managing payment flows across multiple providers, connecting to networks and partners that include Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Trustly and Kount. For gaming operators, the BR-DGE Vault product goes further. Betfred’s deployment of BR-DGE Vault at the 2026 Cheltenham Gold Cup put the product under its first major live test, processing over one million transactions across four days while handling interoperable tokenisation across network tokens and PSP-issued tokens within a single PCI-compliant environment. Betfred described it as its most successful Cheltenham to date.

The company’s single-integration model connects merchants to a network that includes Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Trustly and Kount. For enterprise merchants managing payment flows across multiple geographies and provider relationships, the alternative, managing those integrations individually, is expensive and slow.

What This Round Actually Signals for Gaming Payments?

BR-DGE has closed a raise that is modest in absolute terms but sharp in its targeting. Bettor Capital does not invest broadly. Its portfolio is deliberately narrow, backing companies that sit inside the operational core of gaming businesses. The BeyondPlay exit via FanDuel showed the firm can time these plays. Backing BR-DGE at the moment its transaction volumes are compounding, while simultaneously appointing a chairman with Blacher’s institutional profile, suggests the company is building towards something larger than its current footprint. The H2 2026 market and product launches will be the first real test of whether the £10m accelerates the trajectory or merely sustains it. Either way, Bettor Capital wrote the cheque because it believes payment infrastructure in regulated gaming is still undervalued relative to the problem it solves. That is a thesis worth watching.