Paystand<\/a> wants to change that. The Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees.<\/p>\nThe company raised $50 million Series C funding led by NewView Capital, with participation from SoftBank\u2019s SB Opportunity Fund and King River Capital. This brings the company\u2019s total funding to $85 million, Paystand co-founder and CEO Jeremy Almond told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n
During the 2008 economic downturn, Almond\u2019s family lost their home. He decided to go back to graduate school and did his thesis on how commercial banking could be better and how digital transformation would be the answer. Gleaning his company vision from the enterprise side, Almond said what Venmo does for consumers, Paystand does for commercial transactions between mid-market and enterprise customers.<\/p>\n
\u201cRevenue is the lifeblood of a business, and money has become software, yet everything is in the cloud except for revenue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He estimates that almost half of enterprise payments still involve a paper check, while fintech bets heavily on cards that come with 2% to 3% transaction fees, which Almond said is untenable when a business is routinely sending $100,000 invoices. Paystand is charging a flat monthly rate rather than a fee per transaction.<\/p>\n
\nPaystand\u2019s platform. Image Credits:<\/strong> Paystand<\/p>\nOn the consumer side, companies like Square and Stripe were among the first wave of companies predominantly focused on accounts payable and then building business process software on top of an existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Paystand\u2019s view of the world is that the accounts receivables side is harder and why there aren\u2019t many competitors. This is why Paystand is surfing the next wave of fintech, driven by blockchain and decentralized finance, to transform the $125 trillion B2B payment industry by offering an autonomous, cashless and feeless payment network that will be an alternative to cards, Almond said.<\/p>\n
Customers using Paystand over a three-year period are able to yield average benefits like 50% savings on the cost of receivables and $850,000 savings on transaction fees. The company is seeing a 200% increase in monthly network payment value and customers grew two-fold in the past year.<\/p>\n
The company said it will use the new funding to continue to grow the business by investing in open infrastructure. Specifically, Almond would like to reboot digital finance, starting with B2B payments, and reimagine the entire CFO stack.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve wanted something like this to exist for 20 years,\u201d Almond said. \u201cSometimes it is the unsexy areas that can have the biggest impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of the investment, Jazmin Medina, principal at NewView Capital, will join Paystand\u2019s board. She told TechCrunch that while the venture firm is a generalist, it is rooted in fintech and fintech infrastructure.<\/p>\n
She also agrees with Almond that the B2B payments space is lagging in terms of innovation and has \u201cstrong conviction\u201d in what Almond is doing to help mid-market companies proactively manage their cash needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a wide blue ocean of the payment industry, and all of these companies have to be entirely digital to stay competitive,\u201d Medina added. \u201cThere is a glaring hole if your revenue is holding you back because you are not digital. That is why the time is now.\u201d<\/p>\n
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