Post by Lukas Steiner

Guess this is one of the very proudest days of my life, and it shows what never giving up can lead to. We have the absolute frontier payout infrastructure in our hands, together with the best investors one could wish for, and a team we can truly call family. It started with NOIA Capital, BFC, and Cambrena Capital. They are one-of-a-kind investors, some of the very first believers who saw that things were getting super vertical on the B2B side of our business, and they initiated the round by doubling down even before there was actually a round. When I met Philippe Teixeira da Mota from Shapers through a good friend, I knew right away he was so beyond special. Philippe comes out of Hedosophia and has backed many of our friends who have become unicorns. I have never met anyone with a network this amazing, many of whom ended up in this oversubscribed round, too. Lots to build, proud to have you on board, Phil, Inês Melo e Castro, and Thomas Teixeira da Mota. All of this kinda happened at the same time, and then we met Oliver Sjöstedt and Guillermo Forteza, the one established Swiss fintech hub that works at the exact intersection that got us here in the first place. They truly know the power crypto rails bring to financial infrastructure, and together with their finance and banking partners, it is simply the absolute best fit to build on values we truly believe in — welcome to the table. And it basically took one call to bring in Christophe Morbee from NewSchool.vc and Inovia Capital, the global multi-stage firm with $2.5B under management. Through them, we have Patrick Pichette, the former global CFO of Google and former chair of Twitter, and Raif Jacobs, the former CFO of Deliveroo, on board. There is nothing more to say than that it's an absolute honor to have you. Mark Ransford is a name that speaks for itself — former Managing Director at Apax Partners, and an angel in Payhawk, Wayflyer, and Zego. Ultimately, the round was led by Redstone. Richard Würl, thank you for these unbelievably good sessions that will ultimately define the future of payouts. We are scaling, we are hiring, and we are obsessed with payouts.