Airwallex

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Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform aimed at businesses operating across borders, offering business accounts, corporate cards, FX, treasury, expense management, and embedded finance APIs. Founded in 2015 with roles including Jack Zhang as CEO, Lucy Liu as president, Max Li as head of design, Xijing Dai as chief technology officer, and Ken Wong as principal architect, the company was built to lower costs for cross-border payments and has since expanded into a full-stack suite that includes global business accounts, corporate cards, treasury, embedded finance, and expense management . This launch marks the company's move from rails to reasoning. Alongside the funding, Airwallex is announcing two new products: T:0, an AI-native financial platform designed to run the full finance function of a business end to end , and Airi, which the company plans to evolve into broader wallet infrastructure for agentic commerce, including delegated agent payments, spend limits, permission controls, and multi-currency balances . The pitch is aimed at finance leaders at globally distributed, AI-heavy teams who want software agents handling reconciliation, payments, and reporting rather than human ops staff. The timing matters because Airwallex is layering this on top of meaningful scale. Revenue hit $1.3B annualised in March 2026, up 74% year-on-year , and the round, led from a $8 billion valuation just six months earlier , gives the company capital to compete with both incumbent treasury providers and a new wave of AI-finance startups. Recent moves underline the direction, including the June acquisition of Leapfin, a revenue-recognition and reconciliation platform , which slots directly into the T:0 vision.

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