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Payments infrastructure for founders selling worldwide

FintechFundraiseSingapore
Active users
1.9K
Paying customers
620

The problem

Online businesses in Southeast Asia stitch together five payment providers to accept local wallets, cards and bank transfers across the region.

The solution

Relay offers one integration for 40 local payment methods in nine countries, with settlement in a single currency and one reconciliation report.

Who it's for

Online merchants and marketplaces selling across Southeast Asia.

Market

Bottom-up: about 60,000 customers like this in Singapore and nearby, worth roughly $200 million a year at our prices.

Competition and edge

What people use today

Mostly spreadsheets, phone calls and doing nothing. The established suppliers sell to large organisations and are too expensive and too slow to set up for the customers we serve.

Why this team wins

Wei built payment integrations for a regional marketplace for six years, so the team knows the buyers by name. Aisha built the core technology, and the first customers came by referral.

Headline metric

1,900 active users, growing 17% a month

The team

Wei knows the customer and has sold to them before; Aisha has built this kind of system at scale. We have worked side by side since before Relay had a name.

Worked together
6–12 months
Hiring
A senior engineer and our first customer-success hire.

About the founder

Wei Jie Tan

Founder & CEO · Singapore, Singapore · 6 years of experience

Wei built payment integrations for a regional marketplace for six years. Started Relay in 2024 and works on it full-time from Singapore.

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