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Airwallex was founded in 2015 in Melbourne, Australia by Jack Zhang, Lucy Liu, Max Li, and Xijing Dai.
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ComplyAdvantage was founded in 2014 by serial entrepreneur Charles Delingpole, who previously co-founded MarketFinance and served as its Money Laundering Reporting Officer.
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Dwolla was founded in 2008 in Des Moines, Iowa by Ben Milne with a distinctly practical mission: to make bank-to-bank payments as accessible and developer-friendly as accepting a credit card, but at a fraction of the cost.
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Paysafe is one of the most historically layered companies in global fintech — built through decades of acquisitions, ownership changes, and strategic pivots that have made it simultaneously one of the most experienced and most complex payments businesses in the world.
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Worldpay’s history is one of the most complex and eventful in global payments — a company that has been bought, sold, merged, spun out, and re-acquired more times than almost any other in its industry, each transaction reshaping the global payments landscape.
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Remitly was founded in 2011 in Seattle by Matt Oppenheimer, Josh Hug, and Shivaas Goel with a singular mission: to make international money transfers faster, cheaper, and more reliable for the world’s immigrant communities.
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TerraPay has built the global digital wallet interoperable network, driving financial inclusion even in the most remote markets.
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Twilio was founded in 2008 in San Francisco by Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, and John Wolthuis.
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Braintree markets its services primarily to e-commerce merchants, subscription-based businesses, and merchants that key in all of their credit card transactions.
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