# Fortis

> Fortis is a privately held payments technology company that embeds card, ACH, mobile-wallet, invoicing, recurring-billing, and reconciliation tools inside business software. Its customers are software platforms, ERP ecosystems, marketplaces, and mid-market businesses, particularly in B2B, healthcare, hospitality, specialty retail, distribution, manufacturing, and field services. The company makes money from payment processing and platform relationships, while helping software partners earn a share of processing revenue and helping merchants reduce manual work, speed collections, and keep payment data inside the systems they already use.

- **Founded:** 2010
- **Headquarters:** Plano, Texas, United States
- **Founders:** Jimmy Nafso (Co-founder and former CEO), Nirav Shah (Co-founder and former president), Timothy Nafso (Co-founder and former EVP), Samir Pimputkar (Co-founder and former COO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 660 employees in the supplied third-party record. Lovell Minnick publicly reported more than 325 employees through 2025, while LinkedIn lists a 201-500 company-size band; the precise current count is not publicly confirmed.
- **Products:** Fortis embedded payments platform and API, Elements, Paylinks and digital invoicing, Cloud EMV and Tap to Pay on iPhone, ERP payment integrations
- **Notable:** Grew revenue and adjusted EBITDA by more than 13x from Lovell Minnick's 2019 investment through 2025, according to the investor's portfolio review., Built a workforce of more than 325 employees by 2025, according to Lovell Minnick Partners., Expanded from the United States into Canada in 2023 with support for credit cards, Interac Debit and planned EFT capabilities.

## Products & services

- **Fortis embedded payments platform and API** — A single integration for online, in-person and mobile payment scenarios, aimed at software platforms, developers and ERP ecosystems.
- **Elements** — A customizable hosted payment interface for card, ACH and mobile-wallet acceptance inside websites or back-office software.
- **Paylinks and digital invoicing** — Embedded payment links for branded email and text billing notifications, with invoicing and collections workflows.
- **Cloud EMV and Tap to Pay on iPhone** — Cloud-connected card-present terminals plus support that lets software providers enable contactless acceptance through iOS apps without added hardware.
- **ERP payment integrations** — Embedded processing, tokenization, AR automation and reconciliation for NetSuite, Sage, Acumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and related ecosystems.
- **FortisPay for Adobe Commerce** — An Adobe App Assurance-certified extension supporting card, eCheck, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, recurring commerce and B2B Level 2/3 data.
- **Fortis for BigCommerce** — Integrated checkout, reconciliation, next-day funding, tokenized APIs, fraud controls and support for more than 135 currencies through the 2025 partnership.
- **Payment facilitation and partner monetization** — Merchant onboarding, multi-merchant support, split settlement and revenue-sharing models for software platforms and marketplaces.

## Achievements

- Grew revenue and adjusted EBITDA by more than 13x from Lovell Minnick's 2019 investment through 2025, according to the investor's portfolio review.
- Built a workforce of more than 325 employees by 2025, according to Lovell Minnick Partners.
- Expanded from the United States into Canada in 2023 with support for credit cards, Interac Debit and planned EFT capabilities.
- Won TSG recognition for API and gateway performance, including account-boarding ease and subsequent uptime metrics.
- Completed a sequence of acquisitions spanning gateway technology, PayFac capability, AR software, ERP channels and B2B processing.
- Earned Adobe Commerce App Assurance certification for its FortisPay extension in 2025.
- Added Tap to Pay on iPhone support for software-platform customers in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Fortis appointed Brent Coles as CFO and Sharat Shankar as chief risk and operations officer.
- **2025-09** — Fortis added Tap to Pay on iPhone support and announced a BigCommerce payments partnership.
- **2025-08** — The company launched an Adobe Commerce extension with App Assurance certification.
- **2025-07** — Fortis acquired Serve First Solutions to deepen B2B processing expertise in wholesale, distribution and manufacturing.
- **2025-04** — Fortis expanded native payment capabilities for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and added strategic C-suite leaders.
- **2025-03** — Audax Private Equity joined Lovell Minnick Partners in a growth-oriented recapitalization; financial terms were not disclosed.

## Links

- Website: https://fortispay.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortispay/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/FortisPay
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrzsKtR5V3GRVa0fEVhNrfg
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortispay/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FortisPay/

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Last updated: 2026-08-15