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In this episode I’m chatting with Marc Winitz, Chief Marketing Officer at Rapyd. Marc has experience as a senior marketing leader working with multi million dollar budgets and a background in enterprise software, SaaS and systems integration markets.

What’s Rapyd? Rapyd is a fintech as a service platform, which lets businesses collect and disburse money locally through preferred payment methods. Rapyd offers 900 alternative payment methods ranging from cash, e-wallets, local card networks and a lot more. They currently operate in over 100 countries, hit $100 million in revenue in 2020 and were valued at $2 billion earlier this year.

In this episode, Marc and I talk about his experience with SaaS and fintech companies, who Rapyd’s target market is and how Rapyd is building a developer community.

This episode is brought to you by VC Innovations. 

VC Innovations is a full-stack marketing services agency dedicated to innovation industries with a special focus on Fintech. They work with businesses across 3 key areas of marketing infrastructure, demand generation campaigns and event properties including the must-attend Fintech Talents Festival. Check out www.vcinnovations.co.uk to find out more. 

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We’re back on this lovely Saturday with a bonus episode!

Again!

There is enough going on that to avoid failing to bring you stuff that we think matters, we are back yet again for more. This time around we are not talking Roblox, we're talking about ecommerce, and a number of rounds -- big and small -- that have been raised in the space. Honest question: do y'all plan to release news on the same week? Are trends a social construct?

From Natasha, Grace, Danny, and your humble servant, here's your run-down:

• Webflow raised $140 million in a round that it says it did not need. This is not a new thing. Some startups are doing well, and don't burn much. So investors offer them more at a nice price. In this case $2.1 billion. (Webflow does no-code
• Checkout.com raised $450 million. The rich really do get richer. In this case the founders of Checkout.com, whose company is now worth around $15 billion Checkout.com does, you guessed, online checkout work. Which as Danny explains is complicated and critical.
• We also talked about this Bolt round, for context.
• And sticking to the ecommerce theme, Rapyd raised $300 million at around a $2.5 billion valuation. There is infinte money available for late-stage fintech.
• Early stage as well, it turns out, with Tradeswell raising $15.5 million to help businesses improve their net margins.
• Finally, ending with a chat on infrastructure, Nacelle closed an $18 million Series A. 

Credits: Equity is hosted by TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm and Mary Ann Azevedo. We are produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.

Rapyd has built the largest local payments network and its FinTech-as-a-service platform makes it simple to integrate local payment and fintech capabilities into any application.

Listen to the podcast to find out:

• Hyper-localized payments in a global infrastructure
• The main challenges that merchants are dealing with expanding globally
• What kind of questions should merchants be asking their payment providers?
• How Covid-19 is accelerating change?
• Vinay's view on the future of Payments
• Even more!

If you’re curious to find out more about how Rapyd can assist you to scale globally, please reach out to Vinay Shiriwasaw (Rapyd) for a conversation.

About PaymentGenes's "Voices In Payments" - The Future of Payments podcast:

The “Voices in Payments” Podcast, is an initiative launched by PaymentGenes to positively impact the payments community, by educating and connecting the market with vertical-specific industry expertise.

PaymentGenes Empowers Business growth by providing expertise-driven Recruitment, Contracting, Business Strategy Consult, and Data Strategy Services. These services all resolve and intersect around payments. Learn more about how we can help your business here.