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Thursday, January 21 2021 - 22:00
AsiaNet
Volopay raises $2.1m USD seed funding, expands into Australia
SINGAPORE, Jan. 21, 2021/PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

Volopay has raised $2.1 million USD in seed round funding to provide businesses 
and startups in the Asia Pacific region with a powerful control center for all 
their financial needs.

The investment round was led by Tinder founder Justin Mateen. Other investors 
joining the round were Soma Capital, CP Ventures, Y Combinator, VentureSouq, 
the founders of Razorpay, and other prominent angel investors.

Volopay's origin story

The company was founded in 2019 by CEO Rajith Shaji and CTO Rajesh Raikwar. The 
founders met while working at a leading financial services comparison platform 
based in Singapore. Whilst there, Rajith and Rajesh experienced how challenging 
it was to track different company spending like 
subscriptions[https://www.volopay.co/au/subscription-management ], vendor 
payments[https://www.volopay.co/au/vendor-payouts ], and employee 
reimbursements[https://www.volopay.co/au/employee-reimbursement ].

"The whole process is broken. I would spend hours noting down each individual 
spend and then have to reconcile it with receipts. Once submitted through the 
company's expense platform, I would wait a whole month before being reimbursed 
the funds," said Volopay CEO Rajith Shaji.

Integrating Airwallex's APIs to better serve customers

"To fast track our customer offering, we've chosen to integrate with fintech 
giant Airwallex's API suite. We were impressed by how easy Airwallex's API 
technology integrated with Volopay, providing us with robust payment and 
issuing capabilities," said Volopay CEO Rajith Shaji. 

"We are excited to be Volopay's chosen API partner at such a significant stage 
of the company's growth. Airwallex's purpose is to empower businesses like 
Volopay to grow without borders and as a result, contribute to the growth of 
the global economy," said Dave Stein, Head Of Corporate Development at 
Airwallex.

Customer growth at 70% M-o-M

Since the launch of the product in June 2019, more than 100 companies have 
started using the product in Singapore including some companies like InVideo, 
Dathena, Medline, Sensorflow, Beam, etc. 

About Volopay:

Volopay[https://www.volopay.co/au ] is a Singapore-based company on a mission 
to build a financial control center for modern businesses. Volopay combines 
business accounts, corporate cards, bill payments, expense reimbursements, 
credit, cashback, and accounting automation into one single platform. Since 
launching in Singapore the startup has been on a strong growth trajectory, 
growing at 70% month on month. They are now stepping into the Australian 
market, starting in late January, and prior to the launch, Volopay already has 
a waiting list of Australian businesses wanting to sign up.

Source Volopay