Most fintech companies started in the world's biggest markets and expanded outward.
Most were built in Silicon Valley, with Silicon Valley assumptions.
We started on the other side of the world, in a Melbourne coffee shop.
Outsiders, by every measure.
So we went deeper than anyone wanted to. Reimagining correspondent banking from first principles, not abstracting away the old system but replacing it.
Years of obtaining licenses, building infrastructure, and shipping every financial product a growing business needs including intelligent finance.
Bank accounts in 70+ countries. Treasury across 25+ currencies. Cards, spend management, bill pay, multi-entity, all on one platform.
Built so the whole world feels like your home market.
Now AI means the builders are everywhere.
Global financial infrastructure has always been the hard part.
Ours took eleven years to build, and it's ready for you on day one.
Build the Future ↓
Founders: You don't need to wait to operate globally. @Airwallex helps your speed of execution match your ambition.
Yield on idle cash. Full AP stack. Multi-entity transfers. 25+ currencies. 60+ countries.
A 3-person startup can run the same financial stack as a Fortune 500. Right now.
Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue.
Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR.
We could've died three times during this journey.
This is the story I've never told anyone before:
Moving your team from slides to long form writing is not just a process change. It is first and foremost a culture change.
A writing culture values comprehension over aesthetics, nuance over certainty, clarity over charisma, deliberation over impulse, and rigor over hierarchy.