Nayan Behal

Managing Director and Country Head, United Kingdom & Ireland at Pliant

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2016
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2016
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2024
Managing Director and Country Head, United Kingdom & Ireland
Aug 2024
Customize everything you need to make payments, control spend, and optimize finance operations using one credit card platform. Pliant is a European fintech specializing in B2B payment solutions. Our modular, API-first platform helps businesses streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into their financial workflows. Designed for industries with complex payment needs, such as travel and fleet, Pliant enables greater efficiency, control, and profitability. We serve two primary customer segments: - Companies looking to optimize operational processes through intuitive apps and APIs, gaining control, automation, and financial flexibility through extended credit lines. - Companies such as financial software platforms, ERP providers, and banks that want to launch or enhance their credit card offerings using Pliant’s embedded finance and white-label solutions. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant supports over 3,500 businesses and more than 20 partners globally. As a licensed e-money institution (EMI), we issue Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, helping companies streamline and simplify payments. Learn more at http://www.getpliant.com/
2022
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & GM, Marketplace
Feb 2022
Nitra’s mission is to overhaul the healthcare industry with radically efficient and transparent solutions. Nitra empowers providers to find the right balance between supporting their patients and running their practice – starting with tools that deliver a simpler, smarter way to manage their spending. Nitra solutions integrate seamlessly with the complex business processes of the industry. Our goal is to provide an ecosystem that helps doctors better manage their practices, so they can focus on their patients. Starting with the first business card built specifically for doctors, Nitra will expand to bring physicians and medical clinics around the country the loans, accounts, payments, and expense management products they expect, in an all-in-one platform powered by machine learning and blockchain technologies. The company was created by unicorn founders who have successfully scaled to thousands of customers. They are joined by an ambitious and experienced team from Amazon, American Express, Citi, Dropbox, Facebook, Mastercard and PayPal. The team is supported by an expert group of Advisors such as the cofounders of Square and Xendit, executives from Intuit, Governors and White House senior staffers, and has raised $200 million+ from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sazze Partners, Pantera, KB Financial Group (South Korea’s largest bank), Jerry Yang, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC, Dunamu & Partners (associated with Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit), Coventure and others. www.nitra.com. Interested? We are growing fast and actively building our team. Look at our job postings and let us know where you fit!
2021
Senior Vice President, Consumer Bank Business Development & Partnerships
Mar 2021
Citis mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients. We have over 200 years of experience helping our clients meet the worlds toughest challenges and embrace its greatest opportunities. We are Citi, the global bank – an institution connecting millions of people across hundreds of countries and cities. For information on Citi’s commitment to privacy, visit on.citi/privacy.
2020
Director, Enterprise Strategic Partnerships
Feb 2020
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly striving to uphold our powerful backing promise to our customers and each other every day. These beliefs have been our North Star for 170 years as our business transformed – from helping evacuate travelers during World Wars, to ensuring the safety of our customers’ funds during the Great Depression in the U.S., to creating the Shop Small® movement to help small businesses recover from the Financial Crisis, to providing aid to communities impacted by many natural disasters and so much more. For generations, the key to our success has been the determination and resilience of our American Express colleagues. Now, as a globally integrated payments company, we work together to provide customers with access to products, insights and world-class experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Join us and let’s lead the way together. Learn more about us at: https://www.americanexpress.com/careers https://www.americanexpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AmericanExpressUS https://www.instagram.com/americanexpress/ https://twitter.com/americanexpress https://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanExpress See our community guidelines at: https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/community-guidelines/ If you have a customer service issue or question, please visit www.americanexpress.com/contactus
2016
Angel Investor
2016
Various board memberships