Portrait of Matthias Leyendecker

building products and the orgs that ship them_

Fifteen years in fintech, I’ve seen payments from every angle: sold it at Bertelsmann, built it at Paysafe, merged platforms at Unzer – and now as co-founder and CPO at Payla, where I own product, design and engineering.

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// open to

  • PSPs, banks and marketplaces doing something new in payments: new rails, markets, tech or regulation.
  • Start-ups and scale-ups taking on a challenge or hard problem: fintech, SaaS, AI or any other data-heavy corner of tech.
  • Speaking at conferences, internal events, podcasts: on the future of payments and BNPL, building tech orgs and the impact of AI.
  • Networking with tech leaders in payments and fintech – or anyone building interesting things. Let’s swap book recommendations.
  • Advisory for payments in-housing, embedded-finance strategy, investment due diligence, or helping founders stand up tech orgs from scratch. For the right social cause, pro bono.
  • Fractional or interim product and tech leadership: embedding into the team to build the org, ship the platform, or support during a transition between hires.

languages: german, english, serbian, croatian – all native · tz: europe/berlin

// contact

Email is the safest bet, and I actually respond. If you need a private channel, we can exchange Signal usernames.