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Request Finance is a technology company.
Request Finance offers a global spend management platform for businesses using digital assets. It provides global USD accounts, business cards, and stablecoin payments. The platform streamlines financial operations with crypto-to-fiat conversions and automated accounting for invoicing, payroll, and expenses, powered by its blockchain-agnostic Request Network protocol.
Christophe Lassuyt, co-founder of Request Network since 2017, launched Request Finance in 2020 as its flagship application. His CFO background and prior Bitcoin transfer experience revealed the complexities businesses faced with compliant crypto transactions, inspiring this simplified cross-currency solution for the web3 ecosystem.
The platform primarily serves businesses, decentralized autonomous organizations, and freelancers in the web3 sector managing cryptocurrency finances. Request Finance aims to be a foundational financial infrastructure, enabling asset requests and payments without traditional intermediaries. Its vision includes widespread tokenized fiat adoption and deeper Web3 integration into corporate finance.
Request Finance has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round.
Request Finance has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Request Finance has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $6.0M Seed in June 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2022 | $6M Seed | Rory Stirling | Animoca Brands, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Motier Ventures, Penny JAR Capital, Resonance VC, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven SIX, Talis Capital, TWO Sigma Ventures, XAnge, Paul George, Sebastien Borget, Steve Aoki, Andrew Nutter, Julien Bouteloup, Michael Kong, Stani Kulechov, Maxime LE Dantec, Firstminute Capital, Semantic Ventures | Announced |
Request Finance is a financial management platform that enables businesses to handle invoicing, bill payments, payroll, expenses, and accounting for both cryptocurrency and fiat transactions in a secure, compliant manner.[1][2][3] It primarily serves freelancers, small to medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and DAOs, solving the challenges of managing mixed crypto-fiat operations by streamlining workflows, ensuring audit-readiness, and integrating with wallets, banks, and accounting software.[1][2][3] The platform has demonstrated strong growth momentum, processing over $1 billion in total payments by March 2025, with record highs like $36.6 million across 5,278 payments that month and continued expansion to $1.1 billion by August 2025, trusted by leaders such as The Sandbox, OpenZeppelin, Arbitrum, Aave, Ledger, and Near Foundation.[2][4][5]
Request Finance was founded in 2020 in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France, by a global team of finance leaders dedicated to building an all-in-one platform for crypto and fiat financial operations.[1][2] The idea emerged from recognizing the need to accelerate adoption of open financial technologies amid rising programmable money use cases like bill payments, subscriptions, salaries, and service fees, eliminating manual processes for finance, operations, and HR managers.[2] Early traction built quickly, powering payments for innovative companies and investors, with pivotal growth marked by crossing $900 million in volume by December 2024 and hitting $1 billion in March 2025, alongside product enhancements like vendor matching and duplicate bill detection.[4][5]
Request Finance rides the trend of stablecoin and crypto mainstreaming in business finance, bridging digital assets with traditional fiat amid rising enterprise adoption for efficient, borderless payments.[1][2][4] Timing aligns with post-2024 crypto market maturity, regulatory clarity pushes, and Web3 growth, where businesses face complexities in mixed-asset operations—Request simplifies this, powering $1B+ volumes as firms like Near and Arbitrum integrate it for secure, scalable workflows.[3][5] It influences the ecosystem by standardizing compliant crypto accounting, fostering stablecoin use in AP/AR/payroll, and enabling global payouts, which accelerates open finance while reducing manual drudgery in a $trillion+ digital asset economy.[2][4]
Request Finance is poised for accelerated expansion through stablecoin dominance, with recent funding, acquisitions, and features like full finance stack automation (invoicing to book closing) positioning it as the go-to for enterprise crypto-fiat ops.[4] Trends like multi-chain growth, private on-chain payments (e.g., Aleo), and fiat off-ramps will shape its trajectory, potentially doubling volumes as more DAOs and firms adopt amid regulatory tailwinds.[5] Its influence may evolve from niche Web3 tool to standard infrastructure, empowering CFOs worldwide—much like how it transformed Near's invoicing, Request will redefine global finance flows for the programmable money era.[3]
Request Finance has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Request Finance's investors include Rory Stirling, Animoca Brands, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Motier Ventures, Penny Jar Capital, Resonance VC, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven Six, Talis Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, XAnge, Paul George.