Partnering with the Mastercard team will help us accelerate our mission to help every company be successful users of SaaS". Start Path is Mastercard's award-winning startup engagement program that brings together a network of innovators from across the globe to shape the future of commerce together. Mastercard's highly selective program immerses hand-picked later-stage startups like Cledara in Mastercard's global ecosystem. Launched in 2014, startups that joined Start Path have gone on to raise over $3.8B in capital investment post program. Cledara's acceptance into Mastercard Start Path represents a pivotal moment for Cledara, which recently closed the largest seed round in 2020 for a female-founded fintech in the UK.