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We think acceptance is the real problem

Payments spent a decade making money move faster. Speed was never the bottleneck — spending what you already have is.

Our approach

Four decisions that shape everything else

Most of what Accept² is — and most of what it refuses to be — follows from these.

Sell to institutions, never to merchants

The moment a model needs merchants to adopt something, it inherits the distribution problem that keeps closed loops closed. Using acceptance that already exists is the whole idea.

Leave the issuer in charge

The credential, the authorisation decision and the cardholder relationship stay with the institution. Infrastructure that quietly accumulates control is infrastructure that eventually fails a regulator's review.

Work inside the authorisation, not around it

Deciding which balance pays is only useful at the moment of payment. Anything that happens afterwards is reconciliation, and reconciliation is not a product.

Be precise about what we are

We are early-stage, selling into a conservative buying process. Overstating maturity is the fastest way to lose the room.

Where the idea came from

A wallet balance is not a payment method

Israel makes this easy to see. Domestic wallets move billions a year, and almost none of it spends at a merchant.

The pattern repeats in every market with a successful domestic wallet: huge peer-to-peer volume, negligible merchant reach.

That connection is what Accept² builds — and why it is sold to institutions, not to merchants.

Working with us

What a first engagement looks like

01

A briefing, not a pitch

An hour with the people who will own this — payments, risk, architecture. Blocking objections surface first, not fifth.

02

Your data, your baseline

Sizing is done against your withdrawal and transfer behaviour, not against a market model. If the leak is not big enough to matter, that is worth finding out cheaply.

03

A scoped pilot

One segment, one policy, measurable against the baseline. Nobody should be asked to commit a portfolio to an architecture they have not watched run.

Team

Built by global payments leaders

Proven experience building and scaling global financial technology platforms.

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Max Attias

Founder & CEO

14+ years building and scaling mission-critical financial technology platforms. Former CTO at Nuvei, leading the global executive technology role. Integrated 12 mergers.

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Co-Founder & COO

To be announced as we advance.

Stealth Mode

Co-Founder & CRO

To be announced as we advance.

Advisors

The bench behind the build

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Idan Cohen

Business Strategic Advisor

CEO of Reflectiz. Entrepreneur and executive with deep experience building startups.

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Daniel Gorlovetsky

Business Strategic Advisor

Entrepreneur and payments expert. Co-founder of PayKey, sold to Nayax.

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Edi Kadashev

Technology Strategic Advisor

Former CIO at Nuvei. Expert in scaling global technology organisations and payment platforms.

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Phil Atherton

Compliance Strategic Advisor

Former Chief Compliance Officer at Nuvei. Payments veteran across card schemes, banks and fintech.

NuveiBarclays
Built to execute. Deep payment expertise. Global scale experience.

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Bring your payments, risk and architecture people. We will bring the parts that usually break.