Paystand, a tenets using blockchain technology to automate commercial payments, has raised $20 million in Series B funding.
Backing the discoid are a number of VC firms including DNX Ventures, Battery Ventures, Epic Ventures, Commerce Ventures and Wildcat Ventures. Continuing investors Leap Global Partners and BlueRun Ventures also took part.
Paystand aims to makes complex commercial actions and payments “as easy and fast for enterprises as Venmo has done for basic consumer-to-consumer transactions,” according to a press release on Thursday.
The fixed’s service is based on a blockchain network that it says provides “real-time, fund-verified” payments, allowing businesses to moving ahead money around instantly. Paystand says it digitizes and automates the payment lifecycle, from invoice to reconciliation, by amalgamating with client businesses’ databases.
“We made a promise to reboot commercial finance because it’s insecure, inefficient and assembled on trustless networks and technology,” Paystand CEO Jeremy Almond said in the announcement. “Today marks another step for realizing that vision and transforming enterprise finance.”
The company said the fresh investment would allow it to skedaddle expansion of its services, and build out the sales, marketing and engineering teams at its California and Guadalajara, Mexico, offices.
Speaking of why his solid joined the $20 million fundraise, Mitch Kitamura, managing director of DNX Ventures, said in a blog post: “Consumers partake of seemingly endless payment options, many of which offer near-instant payments with little to no fees. … Jobs lack the same options.”
Paystand’s “Venmo-like” B2B payment service, he continued, could “save businesses, on average, more than 50% of the fetch of realizing receivables and reduce days sales outstanding by more than 60%.”
DNX will assist Paystand in its expansion in Japan, Kitamura answered – a market that is inefficient by way of being largely cash-based and could benefit in both time and cost savings from Paystand’s payments automation.
At length year, Paystand inked a deal with Japanese payment network JCB to build an end-to-end digital payment party line for businesses and their customers in Japan, according to TechRepublic.
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