BR-DGE, the breakthrough payment orchestration provider, is celebrating a significant transaction volume uplift and spate of new senior hires in 2024 as the company scales rapidly to meet unprecedented demand in 2025 for its pioneering modular services. 

After breaking its revenue record in 2023 with an incredible 600% growth, BR-DGE’s impressive momentum has continued to gather pace throughout 2024, setting the company up for an even more successful 2025. Since June 2024, BR-DGE has recorded 10x growth in transaction value and nearly 30x growth in the volume of transactions, due to its merchant clients in the travel, gaming and digital goods industries. Significantly, BR-DGE has achieved more than 200x in the number of transactions through its platform since 2023. Around 1% of this volume has been driven by successful ‘retries’ or optimised routing; recovering millions of pounds of otherwise lost revenue for BR-DGE's merchants.

This impressive trajectory highlights BR-DGE’s success in the enterprise merchant space, particularly for gaming and platform-based businesses, with the company having empowered its clients with agile and customisable modular tech to stand out in a fiercely competitive market. In 2024, the company also signed three tier-one merchants, adding c700m annual transactions to BR-DGE’s platform over the course of 2025.

Another landmark achievement for BR-DGE in 2024 was the launch of its white-label orchestration solution, designed to empower acquirers and PSPs with the freedom to combine the best components of their own offerings with BR-DGE’s modular payment connectivity, routing, tokenisation, and data reporting capabilities.

The second half of 2024, also saw BR-DGE expand its senior leadership team and wider employee base, to position itself for huge growth in 2025 and beyond. Over the last 12 months, BR-DGE saw a 33% increase in employee headcount, several new C-suite appointments made, including a new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Revenue Officer, as well as forming a new business-wide senior leadership team, with Vice President appointments being made across finance, engineering, commercial, product, and marketing. In total, the company now employs a team of over 100 people, with more appointments due to be announced in 2025.

Thomas Gillan, CEO of BR-DGE, commented: “Building a top-tier team has been a priority for us as BR-DGE builds on the incredible momentum of 2024 to position us for rapid scaling and traction in 2025. The impressive growth we’ve registered in 2024 is a credit to the commitment everyone at BR-DGE has to solving payment problems and driving success for our customers. We’re also delighted to have promoted several exceptional individuals during the year in recognition of their outstanding contributions to our continued success, along with hiring the brightest and best industry talent as we continue to redefine the payments ecosystem.

“As we solidify our market-leading position this year, it’s incredibly important to everyone at BR-DGE that our dedication to our values, culture and customer focus remain unchanged. Ultimately, our success is down to our commitment to consistently deliver best-in-market technology to suit the unique and divergent needs of businesses, wherever they are in the payments value chain. As a completely independent and vendor-agnostic company, we have the freedom to be flexible and grow in line with what our customers and the wider industry needs. There are only good things in store for BR-DGE’s future, and I am excited for the world to see what we will bring to the market in 2025 and beyond.”

Bringing together over 400 payment technology solutions in one place, BR-DGE works as an independent, trusted, and vendor-agnostic partner for the whole ecosystem, creating value and driving better outcomes for payment providers, their merchants, and consumers.

Founded in Edinburgh in 2018, BR-DGE now processes millions of transactions monthly on behalf of high-volume customers spanning travel, ecommerce, gaming,g and other sectors. With an emerging large order book already in the pipeline, BR-DGE is positioned to become the go-to source and distribution outlet for payments connectivity, routing, and data services.