We closed our Pre-Seed round with a clear conviction: a business should be able to collect, hold, and pay out globally from a single entity, without needing a banking partner in every new geography.
After spending months working closely with merchants and gathering feedback, one insight became impossible to ignore. The core answer wasn't stablecoins. It was accepting all payment methods, from anywhere. The first step was card acceptance. And the only way to do that at scale was through card acquiring banks, which give access to Visa and Mastercard networks.
We spent six months negotiating with card acquiring banks, understanding their underwriting structures, and signing our first partnerships.
After closing agreements with our first acquiring banks, we integrated them into the platform, enabling us to start collecting card payments. Growth accelerated immediately, reaching ~100% month-over-month for six consecutive months.
We're processing €1.5M in monthly volume, at a 1.5% average take rate and 50–80% net margins. We have 18 months of runway with ~€32k monthly burn. All this with zero marketing spend, and every single merchant came through word of mouth.