CES - Consumer Electronics Show 2025German Exhibitors Starfish GmbH & Co. KG

Starfish GmbH & Co. KG

Booth number: HALL A - 50339-16
hellgate.io

About us

Starfish emerges as a pioneering force in the fintech sector, introducing a full-stack payments boutique dedicated to transforming 21st-century payment landscapes. At the heart of Starfish's innovative thrust is Hellgate, a flagship product that epitomizes the fusion of technology and finance by offering a programmable infrastructure designed to elevate payment processing capabilities. Hellgate embodies Starfish's relentless pursuit of modernizing the payments industry through cutting-edge automation, optimized checkout experiences, and significant operational cost reductions, while simultaneously offering an unprecedented level of choice and flexibility.

With the advent of Hellgate's technology, businesses are empowered to seamlessly integrate any payment service of their choosing, thereby ensuring expansive global reach and secure data interchange across a myriad of providers. Hellgate further distinguishes itself by offering Network Tokens and Compliance-as-a-Service, features that not only accelerate the attainment of PCI/DSS compliance but also uphold a company's unique brand identity through customizable, headless SDKs.

Starfish and Hellgate together represent an unparalleled partnership in unshackling the potential of payment solutions, delivering a platform that is at once streamlined, secure, and highly efficient. They stand poised to revolutionize the payment processing domain by facilitating a seamless, user-friendly interface that caters to the diverse needs of businesses worldwide. As Starfish prepares to exhibit its innovative payment solutions, it invites industry stakeholders to explore the future of payments, where efficiency, security, and flexibility converge to create unparalleled value for businesses and their customers. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, Starfish is not just redefining payments; it is setting the standard for the future of financial transactions.

Address

Starfish GmbH & Co. KG
Marktplatz 8
89073 Ulm
Germany

E-mail: contact@starfish.team
Phone:  +49 731 80159780
Internet: hellgate.io

Contact person:

Jens Kohnen
Managing Director
E-mail: jens.kohnen@starfish.team
Phone: +49 151 64957297

Products & Services

Hellgate offers a programmable infrastructure for modernizing payment experiences, featuring solutions for automation, optimized checkouts, cost savings, and compliance. It facilitates the design and automation of complex payment flows, provides headless SDKs for design flexibility, leverages network tokens for efficiency, and ensures PCI/DSS compliance with minimal effort. Hellgate also supports secure storage of card data, network tokenization for secure transactions, and offers a scalable gateway architecture for handling massive payment volumes. Its products and services are designed to simplify merchant integration and payment orchestration, providing a seamless checkout experience across all platforms.

Hellgate: Programmable Payment infrastructure for automation and orchestration

Hellgate offers a programmable infrastructure for modernizing payment experiences, featuring solutions for automation, optimized checkouts, cost savings, and compliance. It facilitates the design and automation of complex payment flows, provides headless SDKs for design flexibility, leverages network tokens for efficiency, and ensures PCI/DSS compliance with minimal effort. Hellgate also supports secure storage of card data, network tokenization for secure transactions, and offers a scalable gateway architecture for handling massive payment volumes. Its products and services are designed to simplify merchant integration and payment orchestration, providing a seamless checkout experience across all platforms.

For detailed information on these services, visit the website directly at hellgate.io.

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In-Car Payment Platform: Enabling In-Vehicle Commerce

Hellgate® In-Car Payment Platform is the comprehensive technology platform designed for Android Automotive OS.

It provides:

  • OEM and provider specific payment experiences, for instance OEM onboard stores or 3rd party app stores (like faurecia aptoide and others).

  • ICP SDK is an Android® Automotive OS ready development toolkit with a pluggable authenticator architecture, that converts cars, apps, and marketplaces into wallets.

  • Hellgate® Core is an optional extension to the platform powering sophisticated orchestration scenarios like multi-party app-stores and global acquiring.

  • Hellgate® Wallet is a cloud-based wallet solution, which acts as FIDO2 relying party and coordinates with the various authentication and payment protocols.

  • Hellgate® Token Master is Starfish's enabling service that adds a mobility-specific abstraction layer to the world's payment networks.

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Token Master: Network Token and PCI DSS compliance as-a-service

Hellgate's PCI DSS compliant and card data vault services ensure the highest level of security for card transactions. Their infrastructure minimizes merchants' PCI compliance scope by securely storing and tokenizing card information. This service not only enhances security but also simplifies the payment process for both merchants and customers, offering a seamless and secure transaction experience.

For detailed information on these services, visit the website directly at hellgate.io.

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Headless: Merchant Integration and Customer Authentication

Hellgate allow for best possible styling and comes with delegated authentication capabilities for the best checkout-experience while enabling a full strong customer authentication.

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Hellgate: Payment orchestration

Payment Augmentation is our way of injecting solutions into large and complicated environments - and filling the gap plain vanilla payment solution provide.

Hellgate® orchestrates and automates payments: Accept e-commerce payments, integrate a broad range of processors, automate even the most complex payment processes and extend your product where you need it to make a difference.

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