Funding · Financial Services
Fin.com raises $20M seed from Expa and Garrett Camp
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- Date
- Company
- Fin.com
- What it does
- Cross-border payment infrastructure
- Kind
- Funding
- Amount
- $20M
- Stage
- seed
- Based in
- New York
- Founded
- 2025
- Sector
- Financial Services
What they do
Fin.com provides white-label payment infrastructure for businesses to collect, convert, and distribute money using stablecoins and local banking rails
What happened
The company raised a $20M seed round led by Expa and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others
Why it matters
The platform supports 40+ currencies and payouts across 51 countries
The details
- Fin.com emerged from stealth on 15 September 2026.
- It raised a $20M seed round that closed in August 2026.
- The round was led by Expa and Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber.
- Participants included Coinbase Ventures, Tenet Fund, founders of Figure, Mesh founder Bam Azizi, Second Sight Ventures, and sovereign and royal family offices from the Gulf and Africa.
- Expa founding partner Vitor Lourenço joined the investment after Mustafa Dar moved from prospective investor to co-founder.
- The company plans to use the funds to expand corridors, continue acquisitions, and pursue a bank acquisition within six months.
- Fin.com has already completed seven acquisitions and targets 12 by the end of 2026.
The bigger picture
- The stablecoin market cap is approximately $305B, with USDT holding 60.1% and USDC as the second-largest.
- The US Genius Act (July 2025) established a federal regulatory framework for dollar-pegged stablecoins.
- Competitors include Bridge (acquired by Stripe), Yellow Card, and Mural.
- Similar startups like TransFi ($19.2M in March 2026), El Dorado ($9M Series A in June 2026), and Latitude ($35M Series A in Sep 2026) have also raised funds recently.
About the business
- Fin.com provides white-label payment infrastructure for businesses to collect, convert, and distribute money using stablecoins and local banking rails.
- It offers a single API for bank transfers, international wires, and stablecoins, with payouts to bank accounts, mobile wallets, and local payment networks.
- The platform supports 40+ currencies and payouts across 51 countries.
- Settlement assets are USDC and USDT.
- Local payment methods include ACH, SEPA, Faster Payments, PIX, and UPI.
- Mobile money services supported are M-Pesa, GCash, and Airtel Money.
- Routing technology selects payment paths based on speed, cost, and availability.
- Most transfers settle in under 60 minutes compared to 2–5 business days for conventional banking.
- Crypto service supports BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT with auto conversion to fiat and external wallet payouts.
- The platform performs wallet screening, transaction monitoring, and Travel Rule processing.
- Supported crypto exchanges include Crypto.com and Kraken.
- Focus regions are South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
- Offices are located in New York, Las Vegas, Dubai, Dhaka, Bangalore, and Lahore.
- Fin Inc. is a Delaware holding company; regulated activities go through separate entities and payment partners.
- Wind Technologies holds a Dubai Financial Services Authority Innovation Testing Licence (limited testing, not full-scale).
- Advisory board includes Michael Tannenbaum (Figure), Imran Ahmad (Bitso), Matt Heiman (Mercury), Bruce Wallace (Revolut), Christy Choi (former Binance board), and Bam Azizi (Mesh founder).
What happens next
- Use funds to expand corridors, continue acquisitions, and pursue a bank acquisition within six months.
- Use seed capital to build cross-border network and payment infrastructure in selected markets.
The deal
- Type
- seed
Investors
- Expa (lead) — Expa is a venture capital firm; founding partner Vitor Lourenço joined the investment.
- Garrett Camp (lead) — Garrett Camp is the co-founder of Uber.
- Coinbase Ventures (participated) — Coinbase Ventures is the investment arm of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
- Tenet Fund (participated)
- Founders of Figure (participated) — Figure is a fintech company.
- Bam Azizi (participated) — Bam Azizi is the founder of Mesh.
- Second Sight Ventures (participated)
- Sovereign and royal family offices in Gulf and Africa (participated)
Founders
- Nabeel Alamgir, Co-founder
- Mustafa Dar, Co-founder
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