Our Story

Built by Engineers
Who Felt the Pain

MyCardLiaison started when our founders spent three months integrating 14 different gift card networks for a retail client — and decided there had to be a better way.

Mission

Making Gift Card Data Universally Accessible

Gift cards represent over $700 billion in global transactions annually, yet the infrastructure for checking, validating, and analysing them remains fragmented, unreliable, and developer-hostile. We're changing that — one API call at a time.

Every business that handles gift cards deserves reliable, fast, and secure access to card data — regardless of whether they have the budget for a team of network integrators.

500+
Companies using MCL
2B+
Checks processed/year
2,000+
Card networks
2021
Founded
Our Values

What We Stand For

🎯

Developer First

We build every feature by asking what a developer integrating at 2am needs. Documentation, error messages, and SDKs are first-class products.

🔒

Security Always

Card data is sensitive. We treat security not as a feature but as a foundation — PCI DSS, SOC 2, end-to-end encryption by default.

Reliability is a Promise

99.99% uptime isn't a marketing claim — it's an SLA backed by financial credits if we miss it. Reliability is non-negotiable.

🤖

AI Should Earn its Seat

We don't add AI for the sake of it. Our fraud model is deployed because it measurably improves outcomes for our customers.

🌍

Global by Default

Gift cards are global. Our infrastructure, network coverage, and currency support are built for a world that doesn't stop at borders.

💬

Transparent & Honest

Our status page is always public. When we have incidents, we post thorough postmortems. Customers deserve the truth.

The Team

Who Builds MCL

🦁
Alex Rivera
Co-Founder & CEO
Former Head of Payments at Stripe. 12 years in fintech infrastructure.
🦊
Maya Chen
Co-Founder & CTO
Ex-Google. Built fraud detection systems at scale. ML/systems architect.
🐺
James Porter
VP Engineering
Former Principal at Square. Led gift card API work for 3 major retailers.
🦋
Sophie Grant
Head of Product
Previously at Plaid. Card network integrations and developer tooling specialist.
🦅
Rajan Patel
Head of Fraud Science
PhD in ML from CMU. 8 years building fraud models for financial institutions.
🌺
Lisa Tremblay
Head of Sales
10 years in enterprise SaaS sales. Fintech and retail technology specialist.
🧩
Omar Hassan
DevRel Lead
Open source maintainer. Passionate about developer experience and great docs.
⚙️
Yuki Tanaka
Lead Infrastructure
Ex-Cloudflare. Designs the global edge network that powers MCL.
History

Our Journey

2021

Founded in London

Alex and Maya start MCL after a frustrating 3-month gift card integration project. First 50 customers within 90 days.

2022

Seed Round & First API Version

Raised $4M seed. Launched API v1 with 200 card networks. First enterprise customer: a UK loyalty platform.

2023

AI Fraud Engine Launched

Rajan joined as Head of Fraud Science. First ML-based fraud scoring model reduced fraud by 78% across the platform.

2024

White-Label Platform & Series A

$18M Series A. Launched white-label portal. 150+ companies on platform. Expanded to 1,200 card networks.

2025

2,000 Networks & Global Expansion

Reached 2,000+ card networks. Opened APAC edge nodes. 400+ companies. API v3 launched.

2026

Today

500+ companies. 2B+ checks/year. API v3.0 with real-time network anomaly sharing. Growing fast.

Join Us

We're always looking for exceptional people to join the team.

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